A Whole New World: Can Virtual Reality Help to Understand Non-Euclidean Geometries?

Maé Mavromatis, Ronan Gaugne, Rémi Coulon, Valérie Gouranton

2025

Abstract

With the democratisation of digital technologies, new pedagogical approaches are emerging that leverage these innovative media to enhance student engagement and promote different ways of learning. This article compares three learning modalities—slides, screen, and VR—in terms of knowledge acquired, time spent, and usability. The slides modality involves an illustrated slide presentation, the screen modality uses an onscreen simulation with navigation, and the VR modality shows the same simulation in virtual reality with a Head-Mounted Display (HMD). In this study, we investigated the impact of these modalities on students’ understanding of the essential properties of the unintuitive non-Euclidean geometries S3 and H3. All three modalities helped participants improve their answers to the mathematics questionnaire, though further research is needed to fully exploit the unique benefits of virtual reality.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Mavromatis M., Gaugne R., Coulon R. and Gouranton V. (2025). A Whole New World: Can Virtual Reality Help to Understand Non-Euclidean Geometries?. In Proceedings of the 20th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 1: GRAPP; ISBN 978-989-758-728-3, SciTePress, pages 231-238. DOI: 10.5220/0013150900003912

in Bibtex Style

@conference{grapp25,
author={Maé Mavromatis and Ronan Gaugne and Rémi Coulon and Valérie Gouranton},
title={A Whole New World: Can Virtual Reality Help to Understand Non-Euclidean Geometries?},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 20th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 1: GRAPP},
year={2025},
pages={231-238},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0013150900003912},
isbn={978-989-758-728-3},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 20th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 1: GRAPP
TI - A Whole New World: Can Virtual Reality Help to Understand Non-Euclidean Geometries?
SN - 978-989-758-728-3
AU - Mavromatis M.
AU - Gaugne R.
AU - Coulon R.
AU - Gouranton V.
PY - 2025
SP - 231
EP - 238
DO - 10.5220/0013150900003912
PB - SciTePress