Category Archives: HTC Vive and Cosmos

Bodyswaps

Bodyswaps is a VR platform that brings realistic simulations and AI-enabled feedback to soft skills training. It uses VR and AI to help learners practice and develop their communication, teamwork and leadership skills through empathy and self-reflection.

People in an interview

Curricular Connections

  • Self-assessment to achieve goals that advance preferred career-life futures
  • Strategies for personal well-being and work-life balance

Gameplay Length

  • At least 15-30 minutes per module

Player Comfort Level

  • Unrated

Walkthrough of Program

Cost

  • Unlisted. Interested person or organization will be asked to fill in a questionnaire to identify the pricing based on their needs.

Gravity Sketch

Think in 3D. Create in 3D. Preserve your design intent through the creative process! Communicate ideas in 3D at each stage, capture work as an image or model to use in other phases of your workflow. A powerful yet intuitive creation tool – express 3D ideas in real-time at any scale. Create loose free form sketches, detailed models, expansive scenes, and artwork unrestricted.

Curricular Connections

  • Growth as an artist is dependent on perseverance, resilience, refinement, and reflection.
  • Artistic works offer unique aesthetic experiences in a variety of contexts.
  • Visual arts reflect the interconnectedness of the individual, community, history, and society.

Gameplay Length

  • 15+ minutes

Player Comfort Level

  • Comfortable

Walkthrough of Program

Cost

  • Free

Ocean Rift

Ocean Rift is the world’s first VR aquatic safari park. Explore a vivid underwater world full of life including dolphins, sharks, turtles, sea snakes, rays, whales, manatees, sea lions and even prehistoric animals! You are free to swim around each of the 14 habitats using innovative motion controls. Activate the education mode to learn more about the animals you come across. There are over 40 fully narrated information points to find.

Curricular Connections

  • Complex roles and relationships contribute to diversity of ecosystems.
  • Living things are diverse, can be grouped, and interact in their ecosystems.
  • The biosphere, geosphere, hydrosphere, and atmosphere are interconnected, as matter cycles and energy flows through them.

Gameplay Length

  • 15 minutes

Player Comfort Level

  • Comfortable

Walkthrough of Program

Cost

  • CA $11.99 (November 2021)

Tilt Brush

Tilt Brush lets you paint in 3D space with virtual reality. Unleash your creativity with three-dimensional brush strokes, stars, light, and even fire. Your room is your canvas. Your palette is your imagination. The possibilities are endless.

Curricular Connections

  • Growth as an artist is dependent on perseverance, resilience, refinement, and reflection.
  • Artistic works offer unique aesthetic experiences in a variety of contexts.
  • Visual arts reflect the interconnectedness of the individual, community, history, and society.

Gameplay Length

  • 15+ minutes

Player Comfort Level

  • Comfortable

Walkthrough of Program

Cost

  • CA $25.51 (November, 2021)
  • CA $21.99 on Steam (November, 2021)

Nature Treks VR

Explore tropical beaches, underwater oceans and even take to the stars. Discover over 20 different animals. Command the weather, take control of the night or shape your own world. Immerse yourself into the Nature Treks VR experience and escape into a world of relaxation.

Curricular Connections

  • Complex roles and relationships contribute to diversity of ecosystems.
  • Living things are diverse, can be grouped, and interact in their ecosystems.
  • The biosphere, geosphere, hydrosphere, and atmosphere are interconnected, as matter cycles and energy flows through them.

Gameplay Length

  • 15+ minutes

Player Comfort Level

  • Moderate

Walkthrough of Program

Cost

  • CA $8.99

Within

Tales and documentaries from a range of VR creators await, including a scene from the highly regarded Mr. Robot series. The Within app is the premier destination for cinematic virtual reality. Within immerses you inside of award-winning stories and documentaries that will transport you to places never before possible. 

Curricular Connections

  • The exploration of text and story deepens our understanding of diverse, complex ideas about identity, others, and the world.
  • Language shapes ideas and influences others.
  • Technology and emerging media can transform communication in a variety of ways.

Gameplay Length

  • 15+ minutes

Player Comfort Level

  • Comfortable

Walkthrough of Program

Cost

  • Free

Mona Lisa: Beyond The Glass

Mona Lisa: Beyond the Glass is the first VR experience presented to the public by the Louvre Museum and is conceived as part of the Museum’s seminal Leonardo da Vinci exhibition which commemorates the 500th anniversary of the artist’s death in France. Mona Lisa: Beyond the Glass reveals the latest scientific research on da Vinci’s artistic innovation and his painting techniques and processes through exceptional visualization in virtual reality, bringing them to life.

Curricular Connections

  • The arts provide opportunities to gain insight into the perspectives and experiences of people from a variety of times, places, and cultures.
  • Growth as an artist is dependent on perseverance, resilience, refinement, and reflection.

Gameplay Length

  • Approximately 15 minutes

Player Comfort Level

  • Moderate

Walkthrough of Program

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8zv8SXPtP4&ab_channel=BestBoiDan

Cost

  • Free

A Clever Label

A Clever Label is a documentary experience that enables audiences to unearth hidden connections between anti-equality lobbyists, senior Australian politicians and international organizations. Unlike a traditional documentary with a fixed narrative and one-way communication, Documentary host Michela Ledwidge invites audiences to independently follow threads that intrigue them to form their own conclusions.

At the height of the Safe Schools debate in 2016 queer trans woman Michela Ledwidge walked past a rally at Town Hall where 15-year old children spoke of the suicide of one of their classmates. This is the week when Australian politicians used parliamentary privilege to equate homosexuality with paedophilia. Michela felt shame at her own ignorance on the debate and wondered why the Australian religious right had such a hold over a supposedly secular society like Australia. She set out to explore the links between anti-LGBTQI lobbyists, senior Australian politicians and international organisations based in the US. Her idea – use the new medium of Virtual Reality to create a space in where complex issues could be explored and digested. In the process she shines a spotlight on decades of rarely reported research that documents the rise of the Australian religious right and on key questions that cut to the heart of our democracy. Who supports these groups? What motivates our politicians? How do echo chambers impact our ability to understand complex issues? Using the Australian Christian Lobby as a starting point, Michela literally “plays” with the data, exploring the literal and figurative threads of financial and political influence on LGBTQI politics as she explores the hidden sources and motivations behind anti-equality messaging. A Clever Label asks the questions and challenges the audience to seek out their own conclusions on some of Australia’s most polarizing issues.

Curricular Connections

  • Health and Physical Education and Social Studies
  • We experience many changes in our lives that influence how we see ourselves and others.
  • Learning about similarities and differences in individuals and groups influences community health.

Gameplay Length

  • Less than 30 minutes

Player Comfort Level

  • Moderate

Game Trailer

Cost

  • Free

Greenland Melting

Greenland Melting is a virtual reality experience that introduces and brings educational awareness to the effects that the warming waters of the ocean have on glaciers, specifically in Greenland. Through this experience you follow two NASA scientists who explain the process of studying why the glaciers in Greenland are melting. On the heels of the United States’ withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement, Greenland Melting provides timely and much needed information on the subject of climate change. Gain access to NASA scientists as they conduct groundbreaking research into a transforming landscape with ramifications for the entire world.

Using cutting-edge technology to create a state-of-the-art immersive piece, Greenland Melting allows viewers to experience being in Greenland – standing in the water in front of a glacier, flying at low altitudes over some of the world’s most stunning scenery, and diving beneath the ocean’s surface to see what NASA’s studies are revealing about how deep Greenland’s fjords go – and how quickly warm ocean water is melting them.

Curricular Connections

  • Climate Change

Gameplay Length

  • 15 minutes

Player Comfort Level

  • Comfortable

Walkthrough of Program

Cost

  • Free

Project Syria

Project Syria is an immersive journalism piece which focuses on the plight of children during the civil war. Nearly one half of Syria’s 23 million people have been displaced in its civil war and no group has been as severely affected as children. Children make up more than half of the three million refugees living in camps or makeshift housing and some news reports indicate that children are actually being specifically targeted in the violence.

Curricular Connections

  • Global and regional conflicts have been a powerful force in shaping our contemporary world and identities.

Gameplay Length

  • Less than 30 minutes

Player Comfort Level

  • Moderate

Walkthrough of Program

Cost

  • Free