Myanmar’s startups map past, shape future with virtual reality

In this photograph taken on August 6, 2017, Nyi Lin Seck looks at his 360?4K video camera while documenting the crumbling 700-year-old walls of the ancient city of Bagan. Few countries in the world have experienced such rapid discovery of technology than Myanmar which has leapfrogged from the analogue to digital era in just a few years. / AFP PHOTO / Ye Aung Thu / TO GO WITH Myanmar-technology-history-education-computers,FEATURE by Phyo Hein KYAW

YANGON: Gasps echo across the hall as the Myanmar school kids trial virtual reality goggles, marvelling at a device that allows some of Asia’s poorest people to walk on the moon or dive beneath the waves. 

”In Myanmar we can’t afford much to bring students to the real world experience,” beamed Hla Hla Win, a teacher and tech entrepreneur taking virtual reality into the classroom.