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| App Name | AR / VR / MR / 360 | Price | App Link | Description | Chrome Book | iOS | Android | Quest | Pico | Vive XR Elite | PCVR | Age Level | Multiplayer / Offline | Student Email / Log-in required |
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| CoSpaces | AR / VR / Web | Free trial, $50 /yr for first seat, $7 /yr for other seats | Website Apple Store Google Play Store Meta Store Pico Download | CoSpaces is a web-browser based 3D engine that allows you to create experiences that are accessible in a web browser with keyboard and mouse, on a phone using an AR app, and in a headset with a VR app. It includes a library of animated 3D models as well as a block-based coding system to create complex games and interactions. | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Web | Web | High School and Adult | Offline | School Account |
| Fectar | AR / VR / Web | Free trial, then 2 euro / month | Website Apple Store Google Play Store Meta Store Pico Store | Fectar is a creation tool that allows you to create interactive experiences using uploaded assets and an existing library. These experiences are accessible on chromebooks, in AR with mobile phones, and on VR headsets. | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Web | Web | All Ages | Internet Required | No login to consume content, but creation requires login |
| Styly | AR / VR / Web | Free | Website Apple Store Google Play Store Meta Store Pico Store Viveport Steam | Styly is a browser-based platform that hosts interactive content that can be consumed on a computer, with AR, or with VR. It is primarily used by artists hosting their own projects and has a lot of cool examples of XR art. | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | High School and Adult | Internet Required | Email required, can be school email |
| ThingLink | VR / Web | Free trial, $41/month | Website Apple Store Google Play Store Meta Store Pico Store | ThingLink is a web-browser based platform for annotating media and connecting it together. In particular, it allows for the creation of interactive 360 video tours, annotation of 3D models, and embedding of videos, images, and audio into a complete experience. | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Web | Web | All Ages | Internet Required | No login to consume content, but creation requires login |
| CurioXR | VR | Free | Meta Store | CurioXR is a multiplayer VR app designed for education. It has several very useful content delivery tools and a couple of well animated lectures. It allows you to upload models. What makes it unique is that it fully embraces hand tracking, meaning you don't need controllers. | Yes | Middle and High School | Multiplayer / Offline | No | ||||||
| Engage | VR | Free trial, $9/month | Website Apple Store Google Play Store Meta Store Pico Store Viveport Steam | Engage VR is a metaverse platform. It includes a 360 video player connected to Youtube, and also has a set of tools that allow you to create and record lectures using 3D models and animations. It also includes several prerecorded lectures that you can show your students. It can also be accessed using a desktop application on a Mac or PC. | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Middle School up to Adults | Multiplayer | Yes |
| App Name | AR / VR / MR / 360 | Price | App Link | Description | Chrome Book | iOS | Android | Quest | Pico | Vive XR Elite | PCVR | Age Level | Multiplayer / Offline | Student Email / Log-in required |
| Reality Composer | AR | Free | Apple Store | This free application on iOS devices allows you to build your own interactive augmented reality applications that can be shared with other iOS devices. We have used this app to teach how to take advantage of iPad hardware features like the microphone, camera, and free software like iMovie to create sharable video of AR apps. | Yes | Middle and High School | Offline | No | ||||||
| HaloAR | AR | Free trial, $99/year | Website Apple Store Google Play Store | Halo AR is a tool that allows you to quickly create augmented reality experiences using image targets or world tracking, and allows you to upload your own models or use free models and images from the internet. | Yes | Yes | All Ages | Internet Required | No login to consume content, but creation requires login | |||||
| Post Reality | AR | Contact Sales | Website Apple Store | Post Reality is an application that allows you to create AR experiences in a web browser using uploaded images, videos, models, and audio recordings. | Yes | Yes | Was Yes, Needs Update | All Ages | Internet Required | Yes | ||||
| Open Brush | VR | Free | Meta Store Pico Store Viveport Steam | Open Brush is an open source VR painting app that grew out of Google's Tiltbrush. It comes with a wide selection of brushes and allows you to paint your own environments! | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Elementary to High School | Offline | No | |||
| ShapesXR | VR | Free trial, contact sales | Meta Store Pico Store | Shapes XR is a mixed reality prototyping tool that allows you to design 3D spaces and includes codeless interactions. Designers can use it to show case architecture or demonstrate a new user interface. | Yes | Yes | Elementary to High School | Internet Required | Yes | |||||
| Gravity Sketch | VR / MR | Free | Meta Store Pico Store Viveport Steam | Gravity Sketch is a powerful mixed reality prototyping and 3D modelling software. It has a larger and more flexible toolset than Open Brush, but comes with a similar increase in complexity. It also enables multi-user collaboration as long as both users have accounts. | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Middle and High School | Multiplayer / Offline | Yes | |||
| App Name | AR / VR / MR / 360 | Price | App Link | Description | Chrome Book | iOS | Android | Quest | Pico | Vive XR Elite | PCVR | Age Level | Multiplayer / Offline | Student Email / Log-in required |
| Tinkercad | 3D Models | Free | Website Apple Store Google Play Store | Tinkercad is a web-browser based 3D modelling application that also works on mobile phones and tablets. It uses 3D solid modeling, which means that it can be used for 3D printing, and is one of the best free modeling applications available for students to make their own models. | Yes | Yes | Yes | All Ages | Internet Required | Can use class code | ||||
| Polycam | 3D Models | Free trial, $150/year | Website Apple Store Google Play Store | Polycam is an application that allows you to use photogrammetry to scan real life objects and turn them into 3D models. All you need to do is take photos or a video of your object from all angles then upload it, and polycam will generate a mesh and texture for your object. | Yes | Yes | Yes | All Ages | Internet Required | Yes | ||||
| Sketchfab | 3D Models | Free | Website | Sketchfab is an online repository of 3D models. One of its features allows a user to view a 3D model using augmented reality. While this website does require an email to log in, you can use it to find 3D models and animations to use as part of your own interactive experiences. | Yes | Web | Web | Middle School to Adult | Internet Required | Yes | ||||
| Poly Pizza | 3D Models | Free | Website | Poly.pizza is a site that hosts a large library of low-polygon models, previously known as Google Poly but now hosted privately. | Yes | Web | Web | All Ages | Internet Required | No |
| App Name | AR / VR / MR / 360 | Price | App Link | Description | Chrome Book | iOS | Android | Quest | Pico | Vive XR Elite | PCVR | Age Level | Multiplayer / Offline | Student Email / Log-in required |
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| EnggOnline | VR | Contact Sales | Website | EnggOnline is a collection of training simulations for a wide variety of trade industries, including electricians, plumbers, surveyors, construction workers, mechanics, and more. | Yes | High School and Adult | Offline | School Account | ||||||
| MetaEnga | VR | $30 / month / module or contact sales | Meta Store | MetaEnga is a collection of training simulations for electricians and warehouse employees. | Yes | High School and Adult | Offline | School Account | ||||||
| Career View XR | AR / VR / Web | Contact Sales | Website | Career View XR is a collection of interactive web-browser based experiences that allow users to experience 360 images and videos of professionals doing their job. | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | All Ages | Internet Required | School Account |
| TransfrVR | VR | Contact Sales | Website | Transfr VR is an application that simulates common trades such as electrical engineering, plumbing, and automotive repair. We have seen it successfully used as an after school program to allow students to train for a job without needing to commit to an apprenticeship. They typically provision custom headsets for the school. | Yes | Yes | Yes | High School and Adult | Internet Required | No | ||||
| Inspirit | VR | Contact Sales | Meta Store Website | Inspirit is an application that simulates common trades such as electrical engineering, plumbing, and automotive repair. It can be used to help train students for trades without needing to commit to an apprenticeship. | Yes | Yes | Yes | High School and Adult | Internet Required | No | ||||
| VictoryXR | VR | Free trial, courses available between $200-300 each | Website Meta Store Steam | VictoryXR has a large collection of interactive modules. A couple of them are available for free as a trial, but most of them require purchase. These modules range from lab experiences such as dissections to career training in tech like drones, carpentry, or welding. | Yes | Yes | Yes | Middle School up to Adult | Internet Required | School Account | ||||
| App Name | AR / VR / MR / 360 | Price | App Link | Description | Chrome Book | iOS | Android | Quest | Pico | Vive XR Elite | PCVR | Age Level | Multiplayer / Offline | Student Email / Log-in required |
| Career Day AR | AR | Free | Apple Store | Career Day AR is a set of four people who where photogrammetry scanned as they respond to questions about how they got into their career. The user picks which questions to ask from a set of options. | Yes | All Ages | Offline | No | ||||||
| Tested VR | VR / 360 | Free | Meta Store | Adam Savage takes you on a tour behind the scenes of workshops that create beautiful props for the film industry. There are several 180-degree videos to watch. | Yes | Middle School up to Adult | Internet Required To Download Videos | No | ||||||
| Battling Wildfires in British Columbia | 360 | Free | YouTube Link | 90 second video showing footage of firefighters cutting down trees and pre-burning sections of forest to slow down fire. The video shows food lines and tents for people displaced by the fires. | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Elementary School to High School | Internet Required | No |
| Where It's Made: 4th of July Fireworks | 360 | Free | YouTube Link | Behind the scenes in a factory that creates fireworks. Trigger warning for death, discusses an explosion that killed narrators father and cousin. Good example of a place you would never take children in real life. | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | High School to Adult | Internet Required | No |
| App Name | AR / VR / MR / 360 | Price | App Link | Description | Chrome Book | iOS | Android | Quest | Pico | Vive XR Elite | PCVR | Age Level | Multiplayer / Offline | Student Email / Log-in required |
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| Newton's Room | VR / MR | Free | Meta Store | Passthrough mixed reality application that uses balls and mirrors to demonstrate forces, reflection, drag, and newton's laws to construct puzzles that you have to solve within your room. | Yes | Middle and High School | Offline | No | ||||||
| Prisms | VR | Contact Sales | Meta Store | Prisms is a VR application that uses real world problems to demonstrate math concepts, such as graphing the spread of Covid and other examples. Prisms will typically provision you with headsets. | Yes | Middle and High School | Offline | School Account | ||||||
| Math Ninja AR | AR | Free | Apple Store | Math Ninja AR is an application meant to make practicing addition, subtraction, multiplication, and divistion more fun by asking a question and making the user find the person with the correct answer in a 3D environment. | Yes | Elementary and Middle School | Offline | No | ||||||
| McGraw Hill AR | AR | Free | Google Play Store Apple Store Web Browser | McGraw hill has a collection of augmented reality classes. For math, these classes include lessons on the coordinate system, fractions, game theory, cross sections, nets, parallel & skew lines, Pythagorean Theorem, quadratic functions, reflections, slope, graph theory, equation solving, and more. | Yes | Yes | Yes | Elementary and Middle School | Internet Required / Some Multiplayer | No | ||||
| 360 Maths Playlist | 360 | Free | YouTube Playlist | This is a playlist of 8 videos that cover math topics in 360 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Varies | Internet Required | No |
| App Name | VR / MR | Price | App Link | Description | Chrome Book | iOS | Android | Quest | Pico | Vive XR Elite | PCVR | Age Level | Multiplayer / Offline | Student Email / Log-in required |
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| Nanome | VR / MR | Free | Quest Store Viveport Steam | Nanome shrinks the user down to the size of molecules and atoms. It is a simulation of how molecules, proteins, and enzymes can be put together and how they move. It was used to develop a treatment for Covid-19, and allows you to record yourself giving lectures that you can play back for a class. | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | High School | Multiplayer and Offline | No | |||
| OneLab VR | VR | Free | Meta Store | OneLab VR is a VR simulation of a lab created by the CDC. It currently contains modules on centrifuge training, packing dangerous materials, and autoclave safety, with plans to expand content. It is a good example of allowing multiplayer while preventing students from talking to strangers. | Yes | High School | Multiplayer and Offline | No | ||||||
| Looking Inside: Cells | VR | Free | Viveport Steam | Put together different parts of a cell, understand different specialization components, and watch a cell divide. | Yes | Yes | Middle and High School | Offline | No | |||||
| Pollinator Park | VR | Free | Website Meta Store | A VR museum set in the future where pollinators have died out that shows the importance of pollinators in our food supply. | Yes | PCVR | Oculus Rift | Middle and High School | Offline | No | ||||
| CurioXR | VR | Free | Meta Store | CurioXR is a multiplayer VR app designed for education. It has several very useful content delivery tools and a couple of well animated lectures. It allows you to upload models. What makes it unique is that it fully embraces hand tracking, meaning you don't need controllers. The app includes several pre-recorded lectures on the environment and chemistry. | Yes | Middle and High School | Multiplayer and Offline | No | ||||||
| Ocean Rift | VR / MR | $9.99 | Meta Store | Swim around aquatic environment and find informational bubbles that read information out loud about the animal you've found. Fully animated fish, turtles, whales, as well as interactions where you can feed sharks. It also comes with a mixed reality feature that lets you put windows into your walls so you can peek out into the aquatic environment. | Yes | Middle and High School | Offline | No | ||||||
| Human Anatomy VR | VR | Free trial, $29.99, group pricing. | Meta store Pico Store | This is one of the most detailed simulations of human anatomy available in VR. It has multiple categories for bones, muscles, organs, skin, and more. You can animate the body to see how it would move. It supports multiplayer so a teacher can guide a student. | Yes | Yes | High School | Multiplayer and Offline | No | |||||
| App Name | AR | Price | App Link | Description | Chrome Book | iOS | Android | Quest | Pico | Vive XR Elite | PCVR | Age Level | Multiplayer / Offline | Student Email / Log-in required |
| McGraw Hill AR | AR | Free | Google Play Store Apple Store Web Browser | McGraw Hill has a collection of augmented reality classes. For Science, these classes include lessons on Glaciers, Photosyntheses, the Respiratory System, the Human Eye, and more. | Yes | Yes | Yes | Elementary and Middle School | Internet Required / Some Multiplayer | No | ||||
| Aurelia | AR | Free | Apple Store | Aurelia is an AR app that turns your classroom into an underwater aquarium. You can click on fish to learn more about how to identify them. | Yes | Elementary School to High School | Multiplayer and Offline | Can set up a class code and nickname | ||||||
| Xplore AR | AR | Free | Apple Store Google Play Store | XPlore AR is a tool that can be used to create your own interactive AR presentations. It comes with a large library of pre-made lessons that you can use, including several parks and landmarks your students might otherwise not have access to. You can also pay a license to develop your own interactive AR lessons for their platform. | Yes | Yes | Elementary School to High School | Internet Required to Download Content | No | |||||
| WWF Forests | AR | Free | Apple Store | This app shows how forests can be protected by putting one all around you and making you explore your surroundings to learn more. It also includes a mode where you can place your own plants into the environment. | Yes | Middle and High School | Offline | No | ||||||
| Arcadia Earth | AR | Free | Apple Store | This AR app places small towns, cities, and oceans in front of you to show you the steps we can take to protect our environment sustainably. | Yes | Middle and High School | Offline | No | ||||||
| App Name | 360 | Price | App Link | Description | Chrome Book | iOS | Android | Quest | Pico | Vive XR Elite | PCVR | Age Level | Multiplayer / Offline | Student Email / Log-in required |
| A Deep Dive on Gar Fish | 360 | Free | YouTube Link | Short 90 second video from the University of Minnesota talking about how they study the Gar fish, a fish native to Minnesota’s lakes. Brief section on a moving boat, not super likely to cause motion sickness but worth warning your students about. | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Elementary School to High School | Internet Required | No |
| Attenborough and the Giant Dinosaur | 360 | Free | YouTube Link | David Attenborough narrates a digital narration of the largest dinosaur discovered, including an XRay vision of the dinosaurs bones and a discussion of the structure of the dinosaurs body. | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Elementary School to High School | Internet Required | No |
| Mythbusters Sharks Everywhere | 360 | Free | YouTube Link | 4 minute video behind the scenes of a Mythbusters episode where they tested on sharks. The camera floats around in the water and gets bumped by sharks, so warn students about potential motion sickness. | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Elementary School to High School | Internet Required | No |
| Elephants On The Brink | 360 | Free | YouTube Link | 2.5 min video of a pack of elephants drinking water. Elephants are very curious about the camera, investigate it with their trunks. Elephants briefly bump the camera a couple of times. | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Elementary School to High School | Internet Required | No |
| Red Kite Bird Feeding Frenzy | 360 | Free | YouTube Link | Short video of Red Kite Birds flying around, swooping to pick up food. Static camera so very little motion sickness. | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Elementary School to High School | Internet Required | No |
| Stampeding Elk Have A Pool Party | 360 | Free | YouTube Link | Short 90 second video of elk enjoying a pond, splashing around. Occasionally putting their noses right up into the camera, bumping it around . | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Elementary School to High School | Internet Required | No |
| Ecosphere | 360 | Free | Meta Store | Ecosphere is a library of 180 degree videos, primarily composed of wildlife documentaries. | Yes | Middle and High School | Internet Required | No | ||||||
| Out of the Blue | 360 | Free | YouTube Link | To get their reef back, a family of fishermen chose to make a revolutionary yet dramatic decision. | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | All Ages | Internet Required | No |
| The Hydrous presents: EXPLORE | 360 | Free | Meta Store Viveport | This experience is a set of interactive 180-degree videos that have students tagging manta rays and exploring coral reefs. It's relatively short. | Yes | Yes | Middle and High School | Internet Required | No | |||||
| App Name | AR / VR / MR / 360 | Price | App Link | Description | Chrome Book | iOS | Android | Quest | Pico | Vive XR Elite | PCVR | Age Level | Multiplayer / Offline | Student Email / Log-in required |
| App Name | AR / VR / MR / 360 | Price | App Link | Description | Chrome Book | iOS | Android | Quest | Pico | Vive XR Elite | PCVR | Age Level | Multiplayer / Offline | Student Email / Log-in required |
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| Wander | VR | $9.99 | Meta Store | Wander is essentially a way to use Google Street View's 360 images in VR. You can travel to a wide variety of locations with friends, and tour otherwise inaccessible places. | Yes | Middle School and High School | Requires Internet, can be Multiplayer | No | ||||||
| Brink Traveler VR | VR | $14.99 | Meta Store | Brink Traveller has done photogrammetry scans of beautiful locations that are difficult to access. These scans allow you to move around the area to look at different landmarks, including annotations that add information about the site. The VR version of this app allows for multiplayer, so your students can all be in the same environment together. | Yes | Yes | Middle School and High School | Multiplayer and Offline, though new environments require internet to download | No | |||||
| Brink Traveler AR | AR | Free trial has three locations, otherwise $4.99 | Apple Store | Brink Traveller has done photogrammetry scans of beautiful locations that are difficult to access. These scans allow you to move around the area to look at different landmarks, including annotations that add information about the site. The AR version of this app does not allow multiplayer. | Yes | Used to be Yes, now No | Elementary School to High School | Offline, though new environments required internet to download | No | |||||
| Paleontology (WebXR link) | AR | Free | Web Browser Link | This WebXR experience uses your phone to let you simulate an archeological dig! | Yes | Yes | Elementary School to High School | Requires internet and web browser | No | |||||
| Ecosphere | 360 | Free | Meta Store | Ecosphere is a library of 180 degree videos, primarily composed of wildlife documentaries. | Yes | Middle and High School | Internet required to download new videos | No | ||||||
| Crawl Inside a 3,500 year old Egyptian Tomb | 360 | Free | YouTube Link | Archaeological dig site in Egypt, including coffins, mummies, skulls. No camera movement, very little motion sickness. Excellent example of the use of VR to bring you into otherwise inaccessible places. | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Elementary School to High School | Internet Required | No |
| How McMurdo Station is run on the Least Habitable Continent | 360 | Free | YouTube Link | 10 minute video that is a tour of McMurdo Station in Antarctica. Good example of showing students a place that would be expensive to get to. | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Middle and High School | Internet Required | No |
| App Name | VR / MR | Price | App Link | Description | Chrome Book | iOS | Android | Quest | Pico | Vive XR Elite | PCVR | Age Level | Multiplayer / Offline | Student Email / Log-in required |
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| Mechanisms | VR | Free | Meta Store | Short but free game where you assemble engineering mechanisms. You grab pieces and they snap into place based on images you are given. There's no narration, but it is satisfying to see things come together and then move when you're done. For education you would likely need to pair this app with instruction where you ask what kind of mechanism you'd use to solve a specific problem. | Yes | Middle and High School | Offline | No | ||||||
| Energy Encyclopedia VR | VR | Free | Meta Store | This VR application allows students to explore different kind of power plants, including different kinds of solar farms, wind farms, hydroelectric dams, nuclear reactors, and a tokamak reactor. It includes annotations and narration for all the components and does a good job showing the scale of these structures and how they move. | Yes | High School | Offline | No | ||||||
| Watertour | VR | Free | Meta Store | This is a VR tour of a Czech pumped storage plant that provides electricity during peak hours and then pumps water back to the top of a mountain when electricity prices are cheaper. | Yes | Middle and High School | Offline | No | ||||||
| TransfrVR | VR | Contact Sales | Transfr Website | Transfr VR is an application that simulates common trades such as electrical engineering, plumbing, and automotive repair. We have seen it successfully used as an after school program to allow students to train for a job without needing to commit to an apprenticeship. | Yes | Yes | Yes | High School and Adult | Internet Required | No | ||||
| Inspirit | VR | Contact Sales | Inspirit Website | Inspirit is an application that simulates common trades such as electrical engineering, plumbing, and automotive repair. It can be used to help train students for trades without needing to commit to an apprenticeship | Yes | Yes | Yes | High School and Adult | Internet Required | No | ||||
| VictoryXR | VR | Free trial, full courses between $200-300 each | VXRLabs Download Page | VictoryXR has a large collection of interactive modules. A couple of them are available for free as a trial, but most of them require purchase. These modules range from lab experiences such as dissections to career training in tech like drones, carpentry, or welding. | Yes | Yes | Yes | Middle School up to Adult | Internet Required | School Login Required | ||||
| EnggOnline | VR | Contact Sales | Website | EnggOnline is a collection of training simulations for a wide variety of trade industries, including electricians, plumbers, surveyors, construction workers, mechanics, and more. | Yes | High School and Adult | Offline | School Account | ||||||
| MetaEnga | VR | $30 / month / module or contact sales | Meta Store | MetaEnga is a collection of training simulations for electricians and warehouse employees. | Yes | High School and Adult | Offline | School Account | ||||||
| App Name | 360 | Price | App Link | Description | Chrome Book | iOS | Android | Quest | Pico | Vive XR Elite | PCVR | Age Level | Multiplayer / Offline | Student Email / Log-in required |
| A Vial's Journey | 360 | Free | YouTube Link | 3.5 minute video taking viewer through the process of synthesizing and delivering vials of drugs, including quality control, and a peek inside a sterile environment during manufacturing. There's a brief period of the camera being lifted and placed into a box that may cause motion sickness. | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Middle and High School | Internet Required | No |
| Where It's Made: 4th of July Fireworks | 360 | Free | YouTube Link | Behind the scenes in a factory that creates fireworks. Trigger warning for death, discusses an explosion that killed narrators father and cousin. Good example of a place you would never take children in real life. | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | High School to Adult | Internet Required | No |
| 360 Engineering playlist | 360 | Free | YouTube Playlist | This playlist contains 34 videos related to engineering. | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Varies | Internet Required | No |
| App Name | AR / VR / MR / 360 | Price | App Link | Description | Chrome Book | iOS | Android | Quest | Pico | Vive XR Elite | PCVR | Age Level | Multiplayer / Offline | Student Email / Log-in required |
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| Newton's Room | VR / MR | Free | Meta Store | Excellent passthrough application that uses balls and mirrors to demonstrate forces, reflection, drag, and newton's laws using the scene data to construct puzzles that you have to solve. | Yes | Middle and High School | Offline | No | ||||||
| Energy Encyclopedia VR | VR | Free | Meta Store | This VR application allows students to explore different kind of power plants, including different kinds of solar farms, wind farms, hydroelectric dams, nuclear reactors, and a tokamak reactor. It includes annotations and narration for all the components and does a good job showing the scale of these structures and how they move. | Yes | High School | Offline | No | ||||||
| Gadgeteer | VR / MR | $14.99 | Meta Store Pico Store Viveport Steam | This fun puzzle game encourages students to build their own domino reaction to get an impulse from one place to another using blocks, marbles, and more fun physics based objects. It recently got an update that allows you to build your own challenges in the world around you using mixed reality. | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Middle School up to Adults | Offline | No | |||
| McGraw Hill AR | AR | Free | Google Play Store Apple Store Web Browser | McGraw Hill has a collection of augmented reality classes. For Science, these classes include lessons on the Periodic Table, the Law of Reflection, and the V8 engine. | Yes | Yes | Yes | Elementary and Middle School | Internet Required / Some Multiplayer | No | ||||
| Physics Lab AR | AR | Free | Apple Store Google Play Store | Mobile phone / tablet based app that offers simulations of electrical circuits, electromagnetism, and celestial orbits and gravity. Developers are Chinese so some translations may not be perfect. | Yes | Yes | High School | Offline | No | |||||
| 360 Physics Playlist | 360 | Free | YouTube Playlist | This playlist contains 14 videos in 360 related to physics topics. | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Varies | Internet Required | No |
| 360 Chemistry Playlist | 360 | Free | YouTube Playlist | This playlist contains 19 videos in 360 related to chemistry topics. | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Varies | Internet Required | No |
| App Name | AR / VR / MR / 360 | Price | App Link | Description | Chrome Book | iOS | Android | Quest | Pico | Vive XR Elite | PCVR | Age Level | Multiplayer / Offline | Student Email / Log-in required |
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| Mission: ISS | VR | Free | Meta Store | A free application that allows you to fling yourself around in zero gravity aboard the space station, simulate a space walk, and operate the Canadarm. Aboard the station you can select highlighted objects to play videos taken aboard the space station that show you how astronauts bathe, eat, and do experiments. A warning: zero gravity movement has a tendency to cause motion sickness. | Yes | Middle School up to Adult | Offline | No | ||||||
| JFK Moonshot | AR | Free | Apple Store | Watch an animated timeline of the Apollo 11 mission to the moon, using audio recorded during the mission and combining it with video and images taken aboard the spacecraft. This app includes several interactive games simulating different parts of the mission, and its approach to linking digital artefacts and articles to a timeline should be considered the gold standard for allowing students to explore a historic event at their own pace. | Yes | Used to be Yes, now is No | Middle School up to Adult | Offline | No | |||||
| TimePod Adventures: STEM Game | AR | Free | Apple Store | This fun interactive AR application places the student on mars and asks them to calculate water usage and solve problems to keep a mars colony alive. | Yes | Middle School up to Adult | Offline | No | ||||||
| Sky View Lite | AR | Free | Apple Store Google Play Store | This application shows where the constellations are in the sky, along with planets and space stations. | Yes | Yes | Elementary School to High School | Offline | No | |||||
| Big Bang AR | AR | Free | Apple Store | This AR application puts the user into the middle of the big bang timeline separated into chapters and narrated by Tilda Swinton, with additional information given if the user chooses to explore it. | Yes | Elementary and Middle School | Offline | No | ||||||
| Aurora Borealis | 360 | Free | YouTube Link | Aurora Borealis, high resolution and with a static camera. | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Elementary School to High School | Internet Required | No |
| 360 Space Playlist | 360 | Free | YouTube Playlist | This playlist contains 63 videos in 360 related to astronomy. | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Varies | Internet Required | No |
| App Name | AR / VR / MR / 360 | Price | App Link | Description | Chrome Book | iOS | Android | Quest | Pico | Vive XR Elite | PCVR | Age Level | Multiplayer / Offline | Student Email / Log-in required |
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| Theater Elsewhere | VR | Free | Meta store | This application is a free collection of stories created in the VR painting and animation app Quill. Previously called the "VR Animation Player", this application showcases some of the best 3D animations and narratives made for VR. | Yes | Middle and High School | Internet Required for new downloads | No | ||||||
| Kindred | VR | Free | Viveport | A 10-minute non-interactive 6DoF experience talking about a non-binary person adopting in the UK for the first time. | Yes | Yes | Middle and High School | Offline | No | |||||
| Notes on Blindness | VR | Quest: Free, Vive XR Elite: $1.99 | Meta Store Viveport | A 30-min experience that uses John Hull’s recordings taken as he was going blind and adds abstract visualization of spatialized sounds using particles and effects. | Used to be Yes, but now no | Used to be Yes, but now no | Yes | Yes | Middle School and High School | Offline | No | |||
| Anne Frank House | VR | Free | Meta Store Pico Store Steam | This is an interactive tour of the annex where Anne Frank and several Jews hid during the german occupation of the netherlands. It includes annotations with passages from her diary narrated. Give your students a better understanding of the living conditions Anne Frank was going through as they ready her diary. | Yes | Yes | Yes | High School | Offline | No | ||||
| The Under Presents | VR | $11.99 | Meta Store Steam | This VR experience allows you to control time. It includes an experience called Timeboat where a lot of conversations are happening at the same time and you can fast forward or rewind time to see different parts of the ship. It is an excellent example of non-linear exploratory storytelling. | Yes | Yes | Middle and High School | Offline | No | |||||
| App Name | AR / VR / MR / 360 | Price | App Link | Description | Chrome Book | iOS | Android | Quest | Pico | Vive XR Elite | PCVR | Age Level | Multiplayer / Offline | Student Email / Log-in required |
| Catchy Words AR | AR | Free | Apple Store | Interactive Augmented Reality game where you look around the room to find letters, then combine them to spell out a word. | Yes | Elementary School | Offline | No | ||||||
| Sensations of Sound | 360 | Free | YouTube Link | Perspectives on music from a deaf person who got cochlear implants. Like many deaf people, her accent is unique and may require some discussion beforehand. | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Elementary School to High School | Internet Required | No |
| App Name | AR / VR / MR / 360 | Price | App Link | Description | Chrome Book | iOS | Android | Quest | Pico | Vive XR Elite | PCVR | Age Level | Multiplayer / Offline | Student Email / Log-in required |
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| Anne Frank House | VR | Free | Meta Store Pico Store Steam | This is an interactive tour of the annex where Anne Frank and several Jews hid during the german occupation of the netherlands. It includes annotations with passages from her diary narrated. Give your students a better understanding of the living conditions Anne Frank was going through as they ready her diary. | Yes | Yes | Yes | High School | Offline | No | ||||
| MLK: Now is the Time | VR | Free | Meta Store | This interactive VR experience discusses the struggles that Martin Luther King Jr fought to address and how these issues are relevant to today. It talks about redlining, policing, and voter suppression. | Yes | High School | Offline | No | ||||||
| (Hi)Story Of A Painting: What's The Point! - George Seurat- | VR | Free | Meta Store Viveport | Describes the historical context of La Grande Jatte, by Georges Seurat (impressionist painting) and how it fit into the artistic movements of the time. | Yes | Yes | Yes | Middle and High School | Offline | No | ||||
| The Dawn of Art | VR | PCVR: Free, Quest + Vive XR Elite: $1.99, Pico: $3.99 | Steam Meta Store Viveport Pico Store | A scripted 6DoF film (with two moments of interaction, lighting a torch and touching a "wall) that goes into the Chauvet Cave in Ardèche, France where theres a bunch of famous cave paintings. Also includes a self-paced tour where you teleport to notable areas while narrator talks about the paintings. | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Middle and High School | Offline | No | |||
| App Name | AR / VR / MR / 360 | Price | App Link | Description | Chrome Book | iOS | Android | Quest | Pico | Vive XR Elite | PCVR | Age Level | Multiplayer / Offline | Student Email / Log-in required |
| JFK: Moonshot | AR | Free | Apple Store | Watch an animated timeline of the Apollo 11 mission to the moon, using audio recorded during the mission and combining it with video and images taken aboard the spacecraft. This app includes several interactive games simulating different parts of the mission, and its approach to linking digital artefacts and articles to a timeline should be considered the gold standard for allowing students to explore a historic event at their own pace. | Yes | Previously Yes, now No | Middle School up to Adult | Offline | No | |||||
| Xplore AR | AR | Free | Apple Store Google Play Store | XPlore has several interactive augmented reality scenes that cover historical topics, including the civil rights movement, the bombing of Hiroshima, and early US history. It also comes with an online platform to let you build your own content, though that requires a paid license. | Yes | Yes | Elementary to High School | Requires Internet to Download experiences | No | |||||
| Gettysburg AR | AR | Free | Apple Store Google Play Store | This app can be used at Gettysburg or at home. It depicts the battle, as well as other important events like Abraham Lincoln's speech. Be advised that it does assume you have a lot of space to move. | Yes | Yes | High School | Offline | No | |||||
| Fort Watson AR | AR | Free | Apple Store Google Play Store | This app can be used at Fort Watson or at home. It depicts different stages of the battle as well as the Native America village that was on the site previously. | Yes | Yes | High School | Offline | No | |||||
| Paleontology (WebXR link) | AR | Free | Web Browser Link | This WebXR experience uses your phone to let you simulate an archeological dig! | Yes | Yes | Elementary School to High School | Requires internet and web browser | No | |||||
| McGraw Hill AR | AR | Free | Google Play Store Apple Store Web Browser | McGraw hill has a collection of augmented reality classes. For Social Studies it has a module on the Industrial Revolution, one on the Space Race, and one for Trench Warfare. | Yes | Yes | Yes | Elementary and Middle School | Internet Required / Some Multiplayer | No | ||||
| App Name | AR / VR / MR / 360 | Price | App Link | Description | Chrome Book | iOS | Android | Quest | Pico | Vive XR Elite | PCVR | Age Level | Multiplayer / Offline | Student Email / Log-in required |
| Traveling While Black | 360 | Free | YouTube Link | This 20 minute 360 video uses the lived experiences of interviewees to discuss the Green Book and it's role in helping African American travellers know where it was safe to stay. It touches on serious topics, including using the N-Word when describing racial harassment and videos of police brutality, as well as interviewing the mother of Tamir Rice. | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | High School | Internet Required Unless Downloaded | No |
| Ruby Bridges: 6 Years Old and Desegregating a School | 360 | Free | YouTube Link | 3 minutes using 360 videos of the modern day school overlaid with black and white photos taken of Ruby Bridges being escorted to try and desegregate the school. Adds a little bit of drawn on coloring for interest. | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Elementary School to High School | Internet Required Unless Downloaded | No |
| Crawl Inside a 3,500 year old Egyptian Tomb | 360 | Free | YouTube Link | Archaeological dig site in Egypt, including coffins, mummies, skulls. No camera movement, very little motion sickness. Excellent example of the use of VR to bring you into otherwise inaccessible places. | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Elementary School to High School | Internet Required Unless Downloaded | No |
| New York Times: The Daily 360 | 360 | Free | New York Times Website | New York Times spent a year publishing one 360 video a day. This page has all of these compiled, and you can look through them to find what might be relevant to your class. | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Elementary School to High School | Internet Required Unless Downloaded | No |
| Religious Studies Playlist | 360 | Free | YouTube Playlist | This playlist contains 38 videos related to religious locations and topics | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Varies by video | Internet Required Unless Downloaded | No |
| 360 Social Studies Playlist | 360 | Free | YouTube Playlist | This playlist contains 82 videos related to the topic of social studies | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Varies by video | Internet Required Unless Downloaded | No |
| App Name | AR / VR / MR / 360 | Price | App Link | Description | Chrome Book | iOS | Android | Quest | Pico | Vive XR Elite | PCVR | Age Level | Multiplayer / Offline | Student Email / Log-in required |
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| Open Brush | VR | Free | Meta Store Pico Store Viveport Steam | Open Brush is an open source VR painting app that grew out of Google's Tiltbrush. It comes with a wide selection of brushes and allows you to paint your own environments! | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Elementary to High School | Offline | No | |||
| ShapesXR | VR | Freemium | Meta Store Pico Store | Shapes XR is a mixed reality prototyping tool that allows you to design 3D spaces and includes codeless interactions. Designers can use it to show case architecture or demonstrate a new user interface. | Yes | Yes | Elementary to High School | Requires Internet | Yes | |||||
| Gravity Sketch | VR / MR | Free | Meta Store Pico Store Viveport Steam | Gravity Sketch is a powerful mixed reality prototyping and 3D modelling software. It has a larger and more flexible toolset than Open Brush, but comes with a similar increase in complexity. It also enables multi-user collaboration as long as both users have accounts. | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Middle and High School | Multiplayer / Offline | Yes | |||
| SculptrVR | VR | $19.99 | Meta Store Steam | This painting app makes it easy to create worlds, including some autogeneration and fun interactive games that users can play with eachother in the worlds they build. | Yes | Yes | Middle and High School | Multiplayer / Offline | No | |||||
| Quill | VR | Free | Meta Store | Quill is a painting application for PCVR that lets you create animations and play them back. A collection of narratives created in Quill has been compiled into the "Theater Elsewhere" app. | Yes | Middle and High School | Offline | No | ||||||
| Theater Elsewhere | VR | Free | Meta Store | This application is a free collection of stories created in the VR painting and animation app Quill. Previously called the "VR Animation Player", this application showcases some of the best 3D animations and narratives made for VR. | Yes | Middle and High School | Internet required | No | ||||||
| (Hi)Story Of A Painting: What's The Point! - George Seurat- | VR | Free | Meta Store Viveport | Describes the historical context of La Grande Jatte, by Georges Seurat (impressionist painting) and how it fit into the artistic movements of the time. | Yes | Yes | Yes | Middle and High School | Offline | No | ||||
| The Dawn of Art | VR | PCVR: Free, Quest + Vive XR Elite: $1.99, Pico: $3.99 | Steam Meta Store Viveport Pico Store | A scripted 6DoF film (with two moments of interaction, lighting a torch and touching a "wall) that goes into the Chauvet Cave in Ardèche, France where theres a bunch of famous cave paintings. Also includes a self-paced tour where you teleport to notable areas while narrator talks about the paintings. | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Middle and High School | Offline | No | |||
| Styly | AR / VR / 360 | Free | Website | Styly is a browser-based platform that hosts interactive content that can be consumed on a computer, with AR, or with VR. It is primarily used by artists hosting their own projects and has a lot of cool examples of XR art. | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | High School | Internet required | Yes |
| App Name | AR / VR / MR / 360 | Price | App Link | Description | Chrome Book | iOS | Android | Quest | Pico | Vive XR Elite | PCVR | Age Level | Multiplayer / Offline | Student Email / Log-in required |
| Sketchfab | AR | Free to Browse | Website | Sketchfab is an online repository of 3D models. One of its features allows a user to view a 3D model using augmented reality. While this website does require an email to log in, you can use it to find 3D models and animations to use as part of your own interactive experiences. | Yes | Yes | Yes | Middle and High School | Internet required | Yes | ||||
| Quiver | AR | $2.49/month | Apple Store Google Play Store | Quiver is an augmented reality app for mobile devices that provides students with coloring pages and then turns those pages into Augmented Reality 3D scenes. | Yes | Yes | Elementary and Middle school | Internet required | Class Code | |||||
| 360 Art and Design Playlist | 360 | Free | YouTube Playlist | This is a playlist of 78 videos related to the art and design topic. | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Varies by video | Internet Required Unless Downloaded | No |
| App Name | AR / VR / MR / 360 | Price | App Link | Description | Chrome Book | iOS | Android | Quest | Pico | Vive XR Elite | PCVR | Age Level | Multiplayer / Offline | Student Email / Log-in required |
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| Supernatural | VR / MR | $9.99 / month | Meta Store | This is Meta's primary fitness app. For a subscription you get access to activities that encourage you to move the body to dodge obstacles and punch. | Yes | Middle School up to Adults | Multiplayer / Offline | Connected to a Meta account | ||||||
| Beat Saber | VR | $29.99 | Meta Store Steam | One of the most popular VR apps, this rhythm game has you use laser swords to cut through boxes to the beat of high energy music. | Yes | Yes | Middle School up to Adults | Offline, requires internet to download new songs | No | |||||
| Synth Riders | VR | $24.99 | Meta Store Pico Store Steam | Synth Riders is a great rhythm game to dance to music. | Yes | Yes | Yes | Middle School up to Adults | Offline, requires internet to download new songs | No | ||||
| Eleven Table Tennis | VR | $29.99 | Meta Store Pico Store Steam | A VR simulation of Table Tennis, which does a good job at simulating the sport. | Yes | Yes | Yes | Middle School up to Adults | Multiplayer / Offline | No | ||||
| FitXR | VR | $12.99 / month | Meta Store | A subscription fitness app that is similar to other popular rhythm games | Yes | Middle School up to Adults | Multiplayer / Offline | Connected to a Meta account |
| App Name | AR / VR / MR / 360 | Price | App Link | Description | Chrome Book | iOS | Android | Quest | Pico | Vive XR Elite | PCVR | Age Level | Multiplayer / Offline | Student Email / Log-in required |
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| Theater Elsewhere | VR | Free | Meta Store | This application is a free collection of stories created in the VR painting and animation app Quill. Previously called the "VR Animation Player", this application showcases some of the best 3D animations and narratives made for VR. | Yes | Middle and High School | Internet required | No | ||||||
| Open Brush | VR | Free | Meta Store Pico Store Viveport Steam | Open Brush is an open source VR painting app that grew out of Google's Tiltbrush. It comes with a wide selection of brushes and allows you to paint your own environments! | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Elementary to High School | Offline | No | |||
| Foretell Reality | VR | Contact Sales | Meta Store Desktop Version | Foretell Reality allows users to enter virtual spaces for support groups, therapy, coaching, interactive skills courses, and collaboration. It has been used in therapy settings, taking advantage of avatars and voice changing for anonymity, and can be used remotely for users who cannot travel. | Yes | Yes | All Ages | Internet Required | Login Created in Admin Panel | |||||
| Flow Meditation | VR / 360 | 6 videos free, rest $3.99 / month | Meta Store Viveport | 360 videos from iceland with guided meditation narration. There's 6 free videos you can use, and you can pay about $3.99/month for the rest | Yes | Yes | Middle School and High School | Offline after download | No | |||||
| Cosmic Flow | VR | Free | Meta Store Viveport Steam | This is a relatively simple looping fractal experience with soothing audio that can be used to calm down when in VR | Yes | YEs | Yes | |||||||
| App Name | AR / VR / MR / 360 | Price | App Link | Description | Chrome Book | iOS | Android | Quest | Pico | Vive XR Elite | PCVR | Age Level | Multiplayer / Offline | Student Email / Log-in required |
| Deep | VR | $9.99 | Viveport | Deep is a meditation app directly controlled by breathing. | Yes | Middle School and High School | Offline | No | ||||||
| Wander | VR | $9.99 | Meta Store | Wander is essentially a way to use Google Street View's 360 images in VR. You can travel to a wide variety of locations with friends, and tour otherwise inaccessible places. | Yes | Middle School and High School | Internet Required | No | ||||||
| Townscaper VR | VR | $9.99 | Meta Store Pico | Townscaper is a relaxing game where you build a town out of colored blocks and it procedurally generates all the buildings, bridges, and parks for you. | Yes | Yes | All Ages | Offline | No | |||||
| Walkabout Minigolf | VR | $14.99 | Meta Store Pico Steam | Walkabout Minigolf VR is an relatively calm activity that has multiplayer enabled. It is useful for a more casual meetup and conversation. | Yes | Yes | Yes | Middle School and High School | Multiplayer | No | ||||
| Puzzling Places | VR | $14.99 | Meta Store Pico Viveport | This puzzle game uses photogrammetry scans of real objects and places, then separates them out into puzzle pieces. Assembling these puzzles is very relaxing, and can be done both alone or with a friend. | Yes | Yes | Yes | Middle School and High School | Multiplayer / Offline | No | ||||
| Nature Treks VR | VR | $9.99 | Meta Store Steam | Nature Treks VR is a selection of beautiful environments that can be explored alone or shared with a friend. It even includes a way to paint your own musical instruments into the environment. | Yes | Yes | Middle and High School | Multiplayer / Offline | No |