Ed. Note: the following is a news release courtesy of the William S. Hart Union High School District. 

Google officials are bringing in teams to Valencia High School this Friday to provide “virtual reality” field trips with Google Cardboard hardware-software.

Students wear the virtual reality headsets and the teacher uses a tablet to narrate/guide them through a trip to the Great Barrier Reef, the Galapagos Islands, or even Mt. Fuji to name a few.

The headsets allow for a 360-degree full immersion experience. There are 108 different field trips a teacher is able to select.

Jerry Ostrove, a computer science teacher at Valencia High School, applied for the school to participate in the Google Expeditions Pioneer Program. Google selected Valencia High School as one of the few schools to be part of the program.

Only a few select teachers will use this technology on this day to teach their students. There will be three class sets of hardware. Three classes per period for six periods will take part.