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Experience the Energy

Experience the Energy: Take the Tour

Put on a virtual reality headset and see what it is like to be on multiple worksites in the energy industry. You can experience conventional and automated drilling, SAGD, mining, processing, natural gas and liquids pipelines. Get up close and see the careers and leading-edge technologies that are transforming the Canadian energy industry.

Experience the Energy: Take the Challenge

Experience the energy in a whole new way. Do you like working with big ideas, specialized machines or doing work that is physical? Take the challenge to see how your skills align with 10 exciting careers in oil and gas. Try your hand at drilling, adjust valves to maintain pressure, and send one-of-a-kind robot assistant, Appo into the field to look for hazards. Test yourself to find out which occupations are the best fit for you in the Canadian energy industry.

Curricular Connections

  • Energy Literacy
  • Career Explorations

Gameplay Length

  • Up to 30 minutes

Player Comfort Level

  • Moderate

Walkthrough of Program

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmUDXQISf6o&ab_channel=byteframe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZwxzIn6pg0

Website

Experience the Energy: Take the Tour on Steam (steampowered.com)

Experience the Energy: Take the Challenge on Steam (steampowered.com)

Cost

  • Free

The Body VR: Journey Inside a Cell

The Body VR: Journey Inside a Cell is an educational virtual reality experience that takes the user inside the human body. Travel through the bloodstream and discover how blood cells work to spread oxygen throughout the body. Enter one of the billions of living cells inside our body and learn how the organelles work together to fight deadly viruses.

Curricular Connections

  • Science 8: Life processes are performed at the cellular level
  • Biology: Understanding cell structure and human anatomy

Gameplay Length

  • Less than 30 minutes

Player Comfort Level

  • Moderate

Walkthrough of Program

Website

The Body VR: Journey Inside a Cell on Steam (steampowered.com)

Cost

  • Free

The Professor Presents: #GotHandles

Think you have what it takes to go head to head with one of the greatest ball handlers of all time? #GotHandles puts you on the court with streetball legend The Professor to see if you can match him move for move. Interact, dribble, and compete to see how many of The Professor’s moves you can complete in a race against the clock. If your game is tight, you’ll earn bonus time. When you run out of time, it’s game over!

Curricular Connections

  • Learning Basketball competencies with 1-1 guided support
  • Physical literacy and fitness contribute to our success in and enjoyment of physical activity

Gameplay Length

  • 30 minutes

Player Comfort Level

  • Moderate

Walkthrough of Program

Website

The Professor Presents: #GotHandles on Steam (steampowered.com)

Cost

  • Free

Realities

Realities brings real world locations into VR – interactive & with stunning photo-realism using photogrammetry. Too many amazing sites are too far away, too expensive to get to, closed off to the general public or too dangerous to visit. Explore those places and discover their stories.

Walk through the desolate vastness of Death Valley. Explore the eerie abandonned hospital Beelitz Heilstätten in the former GDR. Marvel at the amazing architecture of one of the largest cathedrals of the world, the Cologne Cathedral. Feel the confinement of a cell in Alcatraz. Set foot inside the ruins of an 800 year old Staufer castle. More experiences coming soon!

Curricular Connections

  • Social Studies: Global and regional conflicts have been a powerful force in shaping our contemporary world and identities.
  • Social Studies: Physical features and natural resources influence demographic patterns and population distribution
  • Geography: Incorporating data from a variety of sources allows us to better understand our globally connected world.

Gameplay Length

  • Up to 30 minutes to explore one scenario

Player Comfort Level

  • Moderate

Walkthrough of Program

Website

Realities on Steam (steampowered.com)

Cost

  • Free

The Book of Distance

In 1935, Yonezo Okita left his home in Hiroshima, Japan, and began a new life in Canada. Then war and state-sanctioned racism changed everything—he became the enemy. Three generations later, his grandson, artist Randall Okita, leads us on an interactive virtual pilgrimage through an emotional geography of immigration and family to recover what was lost.

The Book of Distance blends techniques from mechanical sculpture, film, and stage to redefine personal storytelling in virtual reality. Family archives add a haunting layer of realism. 2D and 3D hand-crafted sets reminiscent of Japanese woodblock prints, evocative character design, and seamless choreography combine with surprising moments of interaction to gently whisk us across the ocean and through the years.

Curricular Connections

  • Immigration Stories
  • Social Studies: Canada’s policies and treatment of minority peoples have negative and positive legacies.
  • Social Studies: Historical and contemporary injustices challenge the narrative and identity of Canada as an inclusive, multicultural society.

Gameplay Length

  • 30 minutes

Player Comfort Level

  • Moderate

Walkthrough of Program

Website

The Book of Distance on Steam (steampowered.com)

Cost

  • Free

The Dawn of Art

Humanity’s first masterpiece was created 36,000 years ago in Ardèche, France. Within Chauvet Cave lies thousands of drawings – traces of our past – enclosed forever. The Dawn of Art is a VR experience, including both an immersive film and a virtual visit of the cave that invites you to meet your prehistoric ancestors, the first humans who ventured in a deep subterranean world and left their marks preserved on the walls.

Curricular Connections

  • Art: Individual and collective expression can be achieved through the arts.
  • Art: The visual arts provide opportunities to gain insight into perspectives and experiences of people from a variety of times, places, and cultures.

Gameplay Length

  • Approximately 20 minutes

Player Comfort Level

  • Comfortable

Walkthrough of Program

Website

The Dawn of Art on Steam (steampowered.com)

Cost

  • Free

CAPCOM GO! Apollo VR Planetarium

This Planetarium was constructed to celebrate the launch of Apollo 11, NASA’s first mission to land humans on the moon. It is a state-of-the-art facility with the latest opto-mechanical starball, film projectors and the first ever holoscope! Take a seat behind the control desk and use your VR controllers to explore each console.

Your planetarium comes equipped with the ability to watch eye-popping trailers and full-length immersive films, alongside enjoying a tour of the stars including themed constellation artwork slides.

Includes trailers for the following NSC Creative planetarium shows:

  • CAPCOM GO! The Apollo Story
  • We Are Stars
  • We Are Aliens
  • Astronaut 3D

3 full-length planetarium shows are available as DLC:

  • CAPCOM GO! The Apollo Story (Paid)
  • We Are Stars (Paid)
  • ISS 360° Tour with Tim Peake (Free)

Curricular Connections

  • Science Grade 6: The solar system is part of the Milky Way, which is one of billions of galaxies.
  • Science Grade 10: The formation of the universe can be explained by the big bang theory.

Gameplay Length

  • Under 30 minutes for 1 option
  • 30 minutes – 1 hour for extended viewing

Player Comfort Level

  • Moderate

Walkthrough of Program

Website

CAPCOM GO! Apollo VR Planetarium on Steam (steampowered.com)

Cost

  • Free

Microsoft Maquette

Microsoft Maquette is a general purpose mock-up tool for spatial prototyping within virtual reality. It was built from the ground up to empower anyone to create fully immersive concept sketches in VR from inside your headset. Maquette includes a set of tools for importing, creating, composing, and storyboarding content in 3D space, complete with a library of primitives and UI icons. Among many other features, Maquette has fast and approachable UX, a text tool for annotations and spatial UI mockups, and easy selection and nested-grouping of content. Maquette has a complimentary Unity addon for importing Maquette content into Unity, which preserves materials and grouping hierarchy.

Curricular Connections

  • ADST: Complex tasks may require multiple tools and technologies
  • Applying a design cycle to construct digital tools

Gameplay Length

  • Up to the player. Imagination is limitless.

Player Comfort Level

  • Comfortable

Walkthrough of Program

Website

Microsoft Maquette on Steam (steampowered.com)

Microsoft Maquette

Cost

  • Free

The VR Museum of Fine Art

Welcome to The VR Museum of Fine Art, one of Steam’s finest art galleries. Surround yourself with 1:1 scale sculptures and paintings! Feel free to explore the artwork however you see fit. Roomscale VR lets you walk around, duck under, and even hug the life-sized figures.

The initial release of The VR Museum includes 15 high-fidelity sculptures, and more are coming. In addition, two famous paintings are included, scanned and rendered in crisp detail. In future releases, both collections of sculpture and paintings are sure to expand. The artwork is arranged thoughtfully into four exhibits, each with its own theme.

Curricular Connections

  • Exploration of Art and History in a museum style
  • Identity is explored, expressed, and impacted through arts experiences
  • The arts provide opportunities to gain insight into the perspectives and experiences of people from a variety of times, places, and cultures

Gameplay Length

  • Students could choose a few art exhibits to examine in under 15 minutes
  • Students could freely explore the museum for up to an hour

Player Comfort Level

  • Comfortable

Walkthrough of Program

Website

The VR Museum of Fine Art on Steam (steampowered.com)

Cost

  • Free

Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft

Dagon is a 3D narrative experience in madness based on the cult short story of the same title by the master of cosmic horror and weird fiction, H. P. Lovecraft himself. It’s an interactive portal into the world of the controversial genius and his highly acclaimed Cthulhu Mythos, open to both newcomers and long-time devotees. Step into the shoes of a former ship officer and morphine fiend, and dive into the Stygian Abyss of a drug-addled mind. Uncover the unspeakable, long-drowned horrors on a distant eldritch island and wallow in Lovecraftian dread.

Curricular Connections

  • English Language Arts: The exploration of text and story deepens our understanding of diverse, complex ideas about identity, others, and the world.
  • Texts are socially, culturally, geographically, and historically constructed.
  • Language shapes ideas and influences others.
  • H.P. Lovecraft, Cthulhu Mythos: Discover the original story, the author, and the impact on culture

Gameplay Length

  • 30 minutes

Player Comfort Level

  • Moderate to Intense

Walkthrough of Program

Website

Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft on Steam (steampowered.com)

Cost

  • Free