YouTube

The most popular site for online video doesn’t disappoint in the VR department. A growing base of 360-degree camera rigs have allowed for an expanding repertoire of 360 videos—see for yourself by searching #360video.

Curricular Connections

  • Technology and emerging media can transform communication in a variety of ways.
  • Design and content can influence the lives of others.

Gameplay Length

  • 15+ minutes

Player Comfort Level

  • Options for all: Comfortable, Moderate, Intense

Walkthrough of Program

Website

Virtual Reality – YouTube

Cost

  • Free

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

Website

‎Within VR on the App Store (apple.com)

Cost

  • Free

VR Space Stalker

Space Stalker VR game is a space simulator that will immerse you in an atmosphere of dangerous adventures hidden in the depths of space. This is an opportunity for you to try yourself as a spaceship pilot in the dim and distant future. Adrenalin chases through asteroid fields, mysterious vaults, ancient artifacts, puzzles and arsenal of different weapons – this is just a small part of what you can see from the cockpit of your space fighter. Prepare for more complex tasks, upgrading your ship, and solve the mysteries of deep space!

Curricular Connections

  • Forces interact within fields and cause linear and circular motion
  • An object’s motion can be predicted, analyzed, and described.
  • Astronomy seeks to explain the origin of the universe and interactions of celestial bodies.

Gameplay Length

  • 15 minutes

Player Comfort Level

  • Comfortable

Walkthrough of Program

Website

‎VR Space Stalker on the App Store (apple.com)

Cost

  • Free

VirtualSpeech

VirtualSpeech offers different scenarios in which you can practice speaking in front of a crowd. Attend a business meeting, conduct a presentation, teach a class, or go on a job interview.

In each case, you’re in the midst of real people recorded for the app to whom you must convey your message. You can even add your own slides to a presentation for more realism. VirtualSpeech also provides words of wisdom from experts on how to speak in public. As you experience each scenario, the app offers feedback on your performance and tracks your progress.

Curricular Connections

  • Voice is powerful and evocative.
  • The exploration of oral text and story deepens understanding of one’s identity, others, and the world.
  • Language shapes ideas and influences others.

Gameplay Length

  • 30 minutes

Player Comfort Level

  • Comfortable

Walkthrough of Program

Website

‎VirtualSpeech – VR Courses on the App Store (apple.com)

Cost

  • Free

VR Maze

VR Maze is a puzzle based game in which virtual reality is perfect to have a go at. You can experience colourful visuals in 3D whilst playing this virtual maze game without a controller. Challenge yourself by trying to direct the ball out of more than 50 different VR labyrinths. The game gets progressively harder after the initial levels. For use with mobile headset viewers.

Curricular Connections

• Math- Use logic and patterns to solve puzzles and play games
• Use reasoning and logic to explore, analyze, and apply mathematical ideas

Gameplay Length

  • 10-15 minutes

Player Comfort Level

  • Comfortable

Walkthrough of Program

Website

VR Maze – Apps on Google Play

Cost

  • Free

Goosebumps Night of Scares

The bestselling horror series comes to mobile and virtual reality and features Goosebumps most frightening monsters, including Slappy the Dummy, evil gnomes, werewolves, and more. The premise is to survive a night in R.L. Stine’s house – a living trap filled with his most famous monsters? Mystery, madness, and frightening moments await you in Storyplay! This VR app allows for those who have read the Goosebumps novels to add a rich immersive experience to their reading. For use with mobile VR headsets.

Curricular Connections

  • This could be used to introduce students to the book series, during library time (as there is reading involved throughout), or as a conclusion to a book study for example.
  • Language Arts- Language and text can be a source of creativity and joy. (Grades 4-9)
  • Using language in creative and playful ways helps us understand how languagen works. (Grades 3-5)
  • Please note this game is a bit scary for younger students and usability for younger students is dependent on their reading level.

Gameplay Length

  • 20 minutes

Player Comfort Level

  • Comfortable/Moderate due to potentially frightening content involving monsters and creatures.

Walkthrough of Program

Website

Goosebumps Night of Scares – Apps on Google Play

‎Goosebumps Night of Scares on the App Store (apple.com)

Cost

  • Free

Acropolis Interactive Educational 3D


Visit the world´s most famous citadel, the Acropolis of Athens, built in Ancient Greece in the 5th century BC. Explore history with interactive 3D scenes. Learn about historical sites, great works of architecture or events of the past in this game. The interactive scenes can be rotated, enlarged or viewed from pre-set angles. Some of the 3D scenes contain a walk mode, enabling you to explore the scene yourself. Most of the 3D scenes include narrations and built-in animations. They also contain captions, entertaining animated quizzes and other visual elements. The 3D scenes are also available in several languages, which also offers an opportunity to learn and practice foreign languages. For use with mobile headset viewers.

Curricular Connections

• Social Studies- Religious and cultural practices that emerged during this period have endured and continue to influence people.

• Exploration, expansion, and colonization had varying consequences for different groups.

• Languages- Listening and viewing with intent helps us begin to understand different languages

Gameplay Length

  • 5-15 minutes, depending if you are just viewing the ancient environment or if you intend on doing some of the quizzes and remaining immersed for longer.

Player Comfort Level

  • Comfortable

Walkthrough of Program

Website

Acropolis Interactive educational 3D – Apps on Google Play

‎Acropolis Interactive 3D on the App Store (apple.com)

Cost

  • Free

InMind

InMind allows the player to experience the journey into the patient’s brains in search of the neurons that cause mental disorder. Submerge into the microworld and experience the miracles of the human mind.

The game is set in a futuristic setting where humanity is standing upon the brink of a new era where modern healthcare makes tremendous scientific advancements. With the help of nanotechnologies a surgical prototype bathyscaphe allows its operator to shrink to a microlevel and travel inside the patient’s body.

Compatible with mobile VR headsets such as: Fibrum, Homido, Lakento, Archos, Durovis and others Cardboard like headsets.

Curricular Connections

  • Science-Biology-Life processes are performed at the cellular level.

Gameplay Length

  • 5-10 minutes

Walkthrough of Program

Website

‎InMind VR (Cardboard) on the App Store (apple.com)

InMind VR (Cardboard) – Apps on Google Play

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

Website

Mona Lisa: Beyond The Glass on Steam (steampowered.com)

Cost

  • Free

VR Space Game

Set out on the immersive virtual adventure to discovery of depths of galaxy and have a blissful full dive VR experience of floating in the space with this VR app considered one of the best adventure apps among VR games without controller.

VR Space provides a great introduction into exploring the topic of space with stunning views of space to explore with HD graphics of the sun star. For use with mobile headsets such as the Google Cardboard headset.

Curricular Connections

  • Science-Earth/Space-The solar system is part of the Milky Way, which is one of billions of galaxies.
  • The formation of the universe can be explained by the big bang theory.

Gameplay Length

  • 10 minutes to introduce topic of space or to conclude unit on space.

Website

VR Space Game – Apps on Google Play

Cost

  • Free