Virtual interactive learning environment

A non-transitory machine readable storage medium having stored thereon a computer program for designing a virtual learning environment, the computer program comprising a routine of set instructions for causing the machine to perform:

• reading a model defining visuospatial parameters of a simulated environment from memory;
• rendering the simulated environment, comprising one or more scene objects, for display within a Graphical User Interface (GUI) considering a point of view setting, the one or more scene objects comprising an interactive scene object;
• and
• at least once:
• a) defining an interactive node associated with the interactive scene object using the GUI, the interactive node defining an interactive action that, when received through the GUI, activates the interactive node;
• b) defining an action node associated with the interactive node using the GUI, the action node affecting a visuospatial representation of at least one of the one or more scene objects when the interactive node is activated;
• and
• c) during the designing of the virtual learning environment, updating the rendered simulated environment, comprising the one or more scene objects considering the point of view setting and the action node, for display into the GUI when the action node is defined.

A method for designing a virtual interactive learning environment comprising:

• i) rendering a Graphical User Interface (GUI) comprising at least a storyboarder portion and a viewport portion;
• ii) reading a model defining visuospatial parameters of a simulated environment, comprising one or more scene objects, from memory;
• iii) rendering the simulated environment, comprising the one or more scene objects, for display within the viewport portion of the GUI considering a point of view setting thereof, the one or more scene objects comprising an interactive scene object;
• iv) dragging a rendered image of the interactive scene object from the viewport portion into the storyboarder portion, wherein a corresponding node is thereby added to the storyboarder portion of the GUI, the corresponding node comprising at least one tag associated thereto;
• v) dragging and dropping the at least one tag, thereby causing a list of options to be displayed, the list of options comprising at least one interactive node option;
• and
• vi) selecting an interactive node from the at least one interactive node option for:
• vi.1) adding the interactive node to the storyboarder portion of the GUI;
• and
• vi.2) linking activation of the interactive node during execution of the virtual interactive learning environment to the rendered image of the interactive scene object as rendered during the virtual interactive learning environment.