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O'Brien, Levy & Orich (2009) describe the viability of CAVE and PC technology as environments for assisting students to learn a foreign language and to experience the target culture in ways that are impossible through the use of other technologies.<ref>O'Brien, M., Levy R. & Orich, A. (2009) "Virtual Immersion: The Role of CAVE and PC Technology", ''CALICO Journal'' 26, 2: https://www.calico.org/memberBrowse.php?action=article&id=746</ref>
=== Virtual Worlds and Artificial Intelligence ===
Immersion brought by virtual worlds is augmented with [[artificial intelligence]] capabilities for language learning. Learners can interact with the agents in the scene using speech and gestures. Dialogue interactions with automatic interlocutors provide a language learner with access to authentic and immersive conversations to role-play and learn via [[Task-based language learning|task-based language learning]] in a new immersive classroom that uses AI and VR. <ref>{{Cite web|date=2018-09-07|title=Virtual learning: using AI, immersion to teach Chinese|url=https://apnews.com/article/3babfede5f6e4190ba5cebaa4eaebc81|access-date=2021-05-06|website=AP NEWS}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=A new immersive classroom uses AI and VR to teach Mandarin Chinese|url=https://www.technologyreview.com/2019/07/16/65550/ai-vr-education-immersive-classroom-chinese-ibm/|access-date=2021-05-06|website=MIT Technology Review|language=en}}</ref>
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