• Florida-based OptimaEd is enrolling students in virtual schools, The New Yorker reported.

• The company enrolled about 170 students in its academy this past school year, per the report.

• OptimaEd's cofounder Adam Mangana told The New Yorker a good student life is "more decentralized."

Back in 2015, Oculus founder Palmer Luckey predicted that — sooner or later — virtual reality headsets would find their way into the classroom and enable a new, more immersive future for education.

"Classrooms are broken. Kids don't learn the best by reading books," Luckey told the Dublin Web Summit that year.

"There's clearly value in real-world experiences: going to do things. That's why we have field trips. The problem is that the majority of people will never be able to do the majority of those experiences."

Now, an online school called Optima Academy Online seems to be answering those queries, and bringing Luckey's vision to fruition.

The school, which opened last year, is using the Meta Quest 2 headset to take students on "field trips" to far off locations such as a Mount Everest base camp, according to a recent report by The New Yorker.

OptimaEd, the Florida-based company behind Optima Academy, is helmed by conservative education activist Erika Donalds, wife of Republican Congressman Byron Donalds.

Erika Donalds is an adherent of the "classical school movement" that advocates a return to older, established learning traditions of the Western world, and OptimaEd labels its education as "classical."

"I see a huge and growing industry of à-la-carte education options — the ability to customize the experience both physically and geographically," she told The New Yorker.

Due to Florida's school choice program, which offers students vouchers to attend alternatives beyond their district's public school, students can elect to attend Optima over their local option. In April, Florida governor Ron DeSantis also signed a new law that eliminates financial eligibility restrictions in the state's voucher program.