Virtual labs: A new tool in the education: Experience of Technical University of Madrid

The Technical University of Madrid requires the use of laboratories which due to their dangerousness, duration or control of the developed processes are difficult to perform in real life. For this reason, we have developed several 3D laboratories in virtual environment. The laboratories are built on open source platform OpenSim. In this paper it is exposed the different laboratories of our University, we see small fragments of various laboratory practice, as well as the most representative parts of each practice. The laboratories selected are electronics, chemical experimentation, physical and topography.