From Coffee Machines To Copying Geniuses: How Tech Might Change What We Buy And How We Learn

Deep dive into PhD research on transferring expert skills through VR, wild implications for how we might actually learn in the future.

Antonio Perez is researching something that sounds like science fiction but isn't: using VR and AR to transfer expert skills directly to learners. Instead of traditional training, imagine stepping into a simulation where you absorb how a master craftsperson or surgeon actually thinks and moves. This is the first Schooners & Scholars event, a new series bringing researchers into pubs to talk about work that's genuinely changing things. You'll hear Perez explain where this tech actually is today, what the barriers are, and why the implications reach beyond training into how we fundamentally learn. Expect a relaxed crowd of people curious about the gap between what's possible now and what we assume is still decades away.