TFO brings the VR LUV with new lab

By Linda Stuart

Uses gaming techTORONTO — To engage the newest generation of French language learners born in the digital era of smartphones and tablets, educational TV content producer Groupe Média TFO has launched its Virtual Universe Laboratory (or LUV, for Laboratoire d’univers virtuels), which uses video game technologies to create dynamic, virtual reality video content.Initially, Groupe Média TFO is using LUV to produce some of its short-form Mini TFO video content, posted to YouTube and the TFO.org website. Groupe Média TFO’s long-term plan is to offer LUV’s services to external video production companies as a way to commercialize the LUV environment.LUV was...