Educators Guide to Virtual Reality
Supporting the Integration of Virtual Reality into Every Classroom
Humanity: First Woman in Space transports you into the body of the first woman to go into space. View the world through the eyes of Astronaut Turova as she navigates through the male dominated world of astronaut training. Experience how it feels when most people around you don’t believe in you.
This immersive journey takes you deep into the heart of Parliament, where an iconic building surges to life with magic realism. Animals spring from stone walls. Empty rooms echo with voices of the past. And figures who have helped shape Canada return to take their place in the halls of democracy.
In this immersive virtual reality experience from Stanford University’s Virtual Human Interaction Lab, spend days in the life of someone who can no longer afford a home. Interact with your environment to attempt to save your home and to protect yourself and your belongings as you walk in another’s shoes and face the adversity of living with diminishing resources.
Researchers from Stanford have run thousands of participants through this experience in an effort to study the effect of VR experiences on empathy. Across our studies, we demonstrate that a VR experience changes helping behavior more than other types of perspective taking exercises, and the effect lasts months afterward. While this 7-minute journey does not come close to immense burden of living without a home, researchers continue to find that VR experiences can be a powerful tool to help put oneself in the shoes of another.
Intentio Education Game Studios gives you a passport to all parts of our vibrant planet. As you crisscross the globe you’ll be able to study and learn about the native species while you help out your new four-legged friends through a series of challenging, environmental-themed quests.
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 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.
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.
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!
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!
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.
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.
