JACKSON, Tenn. (AP) – Tommy Lowe, 15, felt the heart pumping in his hand as he pulled it out of the screen in front of him. With a flick of his wrist, he turned the beating heart around, then clicked a button to make it beat faster, then faster – as if its owner had started to run.
A few feet away, a girl used her own stylus to pull a butterfly out of the screen toward her, making it come alive with 3-D glasses. When she released a button, the butterfly flew away, back into the green world on screen.
Students on board the bus could dissect a brain, pull apart a robotic limb, examine the body’s nervous system and more – all in immersive 3-D.
“I got to see a lot of things I’ve never seen before in 3-D, up close, without actually having to touch anything,” said Lowe, a student at Jackson Central-Merry Early College High School. “It was a lot of advanced technology that I’ve never experienced before.”
The zSpace Mobile Classroom stopped in Madison County on Tuesday, first visiting the Jackson-Madison County School System’s central office to be toured by principals and administrators, then heading to Early College High and Madison Academic Magnet High School.