Virtual reality (VR) has been shown to be beneficial for educationalpurposes and has emerged as a prevalent topic for teaching and learning.However, there is very little that is currently known about VR in the contextof learning from different fields. This research is a systematic literaturereview which intends to investigate the future trends of virtual reality forlearning by analyzing real-world data obtained from Google Scholar,Crossref, and Google Trends; the first pertinent publication discovered in thedatabase is included as the data of this study. In total, 451 relevantpublications from Google Scholar and 999 relevant publications fromCrossref have been identified by utilizing content analysis. Based on thefindings, VR is an immensely new and emerging worldwide topic thatinvolves authors and connections from various countries. Overall, thesignificant increase in publications on “virtual reality for learning” (as asource of knowledge) in recent years corresponds to the growing trend ofInternet searches on “virtual reality for learning” (as a practical demand).These findings contribute to a reference, to promote, to adjust and re-alignVR in workplace learning. This study only covers publication trends,including the number of publications per year and the source types ofpublications, as well as internet search trends from 2004 to 2022.
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