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- Florida-based OptimaEd is enrolling students in virtual schools, The New Yorker reported.
- The company enrolled about 170 students in its academy this past school year, per the report.
- OptimaEd's cofounder Adam Mangana told The New Yorker a good student life is "more decentralized."
Back in 2015, Oculus founder Palmer Luckey predicted that — sooner or later — virtual reality headsets would find their way into the classroom and enable a new, more immersive future for education.
"Classrooms are broken. Kids don't learn the best by reading books," Luckey told the Dublin Web Summit that year.