Field trips are a common activity for instructors to engage students and give them a first-hand understanding of a subject, especially in environmental chemistry. However, the planning and execution for a field trip is logistically challenging and demanding of human and material resources. Here, we demonstrate the conduct of a virtual overseas field trip for 74 students with the use of a web-based virtual reality (VR) application. From the feedback after the virtual field trip, students reported general receptiveness toward such use of VR technology.

With 360°cameras becoming increasingly available at affordable costs, 360°videos have been gaining momentum online as an exciting visual medium that engages viewers in an immersive 360°panoramic view. In this report, we share insights of our experience in using 360°c ameras to capture several laboratory techniques in an undergraduate organic chemistry course and raise pertinent issues regarding the 360°videos. In summary, we found that 360°videos add value in terms of its large field of view, but pose some potential problems in terms of disorientation and lack of focus.

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