EON Reality Podcast - AI and Immersive Technologies in Education · Dr. Renah Wolzinger, Chief Academic Officer at EON Reality

Role Play with Avatars that learn YOUR curriculum!

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Dr. Walzinger explains how AI avatars let you ask Shakespeare why a character did something, revolutionizing literature learning.

The question is practical. Can avatars quit giving generic answers and work from the guides, manuals, and course documents a class already uses? Reena and John use first-year students as the plain test case: in the first week, instead of digging through LMS logins, guides, documents, and course content, a student asks the avatar and gets the answer in context. Educators get the boring but important win too: fewer repeated semester-start questions when a large student population is stuck on the same basics. John brings the idea down to microphones. He describes uploading a Shure SM7B PDF so an avatar can answer from the manufacturer's guide, tied to material he already uses in Canvas and lecture. That is where the episode gets useful. The avatar is not just a talking character; it is a course answer tool that knows waveforms, microphone details, and information students can be tested on. Cost comes up fast. A listener asks whether this kind of scenario costs around a hundred thousand dollars, because custom experiences used to sound like that. Reena and John argue that current AI tools change the math: upload a PDF, and the work starts to look less like a custom build and more like something repeatable. Accessibility sits in the background, with John's crosswalk-navigation example for disabled students showing where older custom work used to live. The tone stays upbeat, maybe a little amazed, and ends on the feeling that curriculum-trained avatars are now practical enough to try.

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AI tutoring feels practical when avatars answer questions from uploaded course materials.

The episode focuses on AI role-play for education by grounding the idea in a practical use case: uploading manuals, guides, and course materials so people can ask direct questions when they need answers. Dr.

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