VR Applications

Free Applications

3dSunshine

3dSunshine isn’t your everyday ordinary VR sandbox. We let you build epic space ships you can actually use in Space Engineers, and Minecraft castles in no time flat.

Content Creation | Engineering | Sandbox | Science

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Age of Sail

Age of Sail VR is the story of William Avery (Ian McShane), an old sailor adrift and alone in the North Atlantic. When Avery rescues Lara, who has mysteriously fallen overboard, he finds redemption and hope in his darkest hours.

Art | Story-telling

Becoming Homeless: A Human Experience

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.

Sociology

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Blocks by Google

Blocks lets you easily create 3D objects in virtual reality, no matter your modelling experience. Using six simple tools, you can bring your applications to life, create a volumetric masterpiece, or simply let your imagination run wild.

Art | Content Creation

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The Body VR: Journey Inside a Cell

Body VR lets you 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.

Anatomy | Biology | Science

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DatavizVR

Who says data visualization has to be boring? Have you ever wanted to see your data in real 3D? Imagine going inside your data and viewing it from any angle, manipulating any aspect of your data visualization with simple hand gestures. Now you can, in true “Minority Report” fashion with DatavizVR.

Data Visualization | Math | Science

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Destination: Pluto The VR Experience

Walk on Pluto! Based on actual images and data from NASA’s New Horizons mission, Destination Pluto: The VR Experience is an amazing 3D virtual reality excursion to the surface of Planet X.

Astronomy | Science | Space | Travel

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Google Earth

Google Earth VR enables you to explore the world from totally new perspectives. Stroll the streets of Tokyo, soar over Yosemite, or teleport across the globe.

Geography |  Social Studies

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HoloLAB Champions

Grab your safety goggles and set out on a chemical-burning, liquid-stirring, camera-whirring competition in HoloLAB Champions, a virtual reality chemistry game show. Free for educators and includes a classroom guide.

Chemistry | Science

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Home – A VR Spacewalk

Throw yourself into the void 250 miles above Earth in this award-winning VR spacewalk inspired by NASA’s training program and the astonishing experiences of its astronauts. Home puts you at the center of the story, taking you on an emotional and personal journey while delivering beautiful, heart-stopping, and memorable moments.

Astronomy | Science | Space

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InCell VR

InCell is an action/racing VR game with a bit of strategy and science thrown into the mix. You’ll take an exciting journey inside the highly unusual micro world of human cell and stop the virus advance.

Biology | Science

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InMind VR

InMind is a short scientific adventure with arcade elements designed for VR. Submerge into the microworld and experience the miracles of the human mind.

Biology | Science

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The Lab

Steam’s showcase collection of demos.  Explore a mountain vista, play a spaceship arcade shooter, play fetch with a robotic dog, launch snarky robots with a catapult in a factory warehouse.  Adaptable to a variety of areas.

Geography | Getting Started in VR | Robotics | Science

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Lifeliqe VR Museum

Lifeliqe VR Museum brings Lifeliqe’s interactive learning experiences into VR for the first time! Learn about a cell, join ancient dinosaurs for a walk, or visit a prehistoric settlement that dates back to the seventh millennium B.C.

Anatomy | History | Science

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Mindshow

Mindshow lets you make animated movies in VR with your body and voice! Become 3D cartoon characters, act out a show, and share it with your friends!

English | Storytelling

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Nefertari: Journey to Eternity

For the first time ever, step inside Nefertari’s tomb and immerse yourself in the story of its art, history, construction, and mythology through interactive elements.

Art | History | Mythology

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The Night Cafe: A VR Tribute to Vincent Van Gogh

The Night Cafe is an environment that allows you to explore the world of Vincent van Gogh first hand. Take a moment to enjoy his iconic sunflowers in 3 dimensions or walk around the chair he painted in his bedroom to see it from another angle. Step into the vivid colors straight from his palette.

Art

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PaintLab

Paint or sculpt your own 3D creations and play around with them in Virtual Reality! It’s free, easy to use and a lot of fun to use PaintLab with friends and family!

Art | Painting | Sculpting

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Realities

Walk through the desolate vastness of Death Valley. Explore the eerie abandoned 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.

Social Studies | Travel

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Sketchfab VR

Teleport yourself to Rome, hold a beating heart, or walk among dinosaurs. Open Sketchfab VR to discover a showcase of explorations through remote places, fantastic creatures, game worlds, cultural heritage, science and other wonders.

Art | 3D Modeling

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Speech Trainer

Speech Trainer is a virtual auditorium where you can learn to overcome your fear of public speaking by addressing a virtual audience.

Communication | English | Speech

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The VR Museum of Fine Art

Explore a virtual museum in room-scale VR: see famous sculptures in full, 1:1 scale and see famous paintings without the limitations of glass and security guards.

Art | History

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WITHIN

Discover the best VR content from the world’s finest VR creators—all in a single app. From gripping tales set in worlds of pure imagination to documentaries taking you further inside the news than ever before, WITHIN brings together premium, story-based immersive content in a variety of genres.

Art | History | Math | Science | Travel

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YOU by Sharecare

YOU is a real-time simulation of the human body. YOU allows anyone to freely navigate and explore an anatomically accurate 3D model of the human body, its organs, and their natural function. Visualize how your body works. Explore organs and systems in a fully immersive 3D environment.

Anatomy | Science

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YouTube VR

YouTube VR reimagines YouTube as a 3D world you can explore. Experience every channel, video and creator in virtual reality. Swim alongside great white sharks, explore all seven continents with your own personal tour guide, get front row seats at your favorite concerts and more.

360 Video Viewer

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Paid Partnership Applications

Jam Studio VR

Jam Studio VR is an interactive music performance application that allows anyone, at any age, to create and perform music or be a DJ, regardless of musical experience or ability. It also provides a broad range of fun, learning & therapy benefits for families and individuals with special needs.

Content Creation | DJing | Music

ByteSpeed Case Study

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Paid Applications

3D Organon VR Anatomy

3D Organon VR Anatomy is the world’s first fully-featured virtual reality anatomy atlas. Learn human anatomy with over 4,000 realistic anatomical models/structures sided with quality text descriptions per body structure. Explore the human body like never before with this revolutionary medical app!

Anatomy | Science

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Apollo 11 VR

Apollo 11 VR is the story of the greatest journey ever taken by humankind. This VR experience is a recreation of the events which took place between July 16th and July 24th 1969. Now for the first time ever you get to experience this historic event through the eyes of those who lived through it.

History

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CalcFlow

See the future of mathematical modeling with Calcflow, a Graphing Calculator in VR. Calcflow features intuitive ways you can learn the foundations of vector calculus using virtual reality.

Calculus | Math

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Chernobyl VR Project

Visit Chernobyl without leaving home! Chernobyl VR Project is a unique project by The Farm 51, as it combines video games with educational and movie narrative software. It is the very first virtual tour around the Chernobyl and Pripyat area.

History

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Dissection Simulator: Frog Edition

Join Wendy Martin, a national award-winning science teacher, to make Ribbit-ing Discoveries in this virtual reality Frog Dissection. Learn the fundamentals of the female frog anatomy in a fully immersive virtual reality experience.

Anatomy | Biology | Science

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Dry Erase: Infinite VR Whiteboard

Watch your own CT- and MRI-Scans in real 3D using Virtual Reality glasses. Just click on the red + button in the library and choose the data from your computer. The software provides various tools to examine, work and alter medical body scans.

Communication | Note-taking | Writing

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Enscape 3D

Enscape is a VR and real-time rendering plugin for Revit and SketchUp. With just one click, you can start Enscape and within seconds walk through your fully rendered project. All changes in Revit are immediately available to evaluate in Enscape. You are able to quickly explore different design options and present projects to clients. If the client wants to see something different in the design, Enscape will immediately show the changes you make to the project.

3D Content Viewer | Architecture

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Everest VR

Experience what it feels like to climb Mount Everest through a sequence of immersive first person locations as you strive to reach the top of the world. Incomparable visual fidelity combined with player agency in a VR journey that feels both real and emotionally stunning.

Geography | Science | Social Studies | Tour

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The Grand Canyon VR Experience

Explore one of nature’s greatest wonders from anywhere with the Grand Canyon VR Experience! Transport yourself on an epic journey into the heart of nature through the magic of Virtual Reality completely immersed in a fully dynamic and interactive beauty.

Social Studies | Tours

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Gravity Sketch

Gravity Sketch is an immersive 3D creation tool. You can create detailed professional grade 3D models, scenes, and artwork in a fast, intuitive way! From idea conception, design directly in 3D and take your models.

3D Content Creation | Art | Design | Drawing | Sketching

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Guided Meditation VR

Meditation made simple & visual, built from the ground up for VR. Leave the worries of your life for a short virtual vacation across 17 environments, and return calmer and stronger. Find your happy place.

Behavior | Relaxation

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Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes

In the fast paced team building game, one player is trapped in a virtual room with a ticking time bomb they must defuse. The other players are the “Experts” who must give the instructions to defuse the bomb by deciphering the information found in the bomb defusal manual. But there’s a catch: the experts can’t see the bomb, so everyone will need to talk it out – fast!

Communication | Language

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Kingspray Graffiti VR

Kingspray is a Multiplayer VR Graffiti Simulator, with battle-tested realistic spray, colors, drips, metallics, and more! Using a wide range of caps, ultra-detailed environments and paint surfaces, unleash your creativity (just see what some of our fans have already created!) and express your style!

Art | Collaboration | Painting

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Kumoon: Ballistic Physics Puzzle

Kumoon is a mathematical “trickshotting” challenge for all ages.” The player goes around as a little bot and shoots balls at blocks and objects arranged around the room in this fun Physics puzzle.

Math | Physics

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MakeVR Pro

MakeVR Pro is a virtual reality based 3D modeling application, for free-form and precision modeling, built on a professional CAD engine with a natural and intuitive 3D Multi-Touch user interface. Every model created in MakeVR can be easily 3D printed or imported into a game engine.

Content Creation

Mars Odyssey

Mars Odyssey is a single player VR simulator experience. Land on Earth’s sister planet. Walk the surface of Mars in your living room and interact with full-scale, realistic NASA Landers and Rovers. Learn about the Red Planet, its history, and its geography in this interactive experience.

Astronomy | Geography | Science | Space

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Micro Cosmic Worlds

Micro Cosmic Worlds is a discovery based journey into unseen worlds of the microcosmos. Using the power of virtual reality, you (the player) are transported deeper and deeper into the worlds of the infinitesimally small.

Biology | Microbiology | Science

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Masterpiece VR

A new way to experience 3D creation. Sculpt and paint using intuitive, dynamic and powerful tools that allow you to easily build tangible objects, colourful environments, and high quality models. You can sculpt with friends or coworkers in the same virtual room in real time.

Arts | Collaboration | Content Creation | Modeling

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Medicalholodeck

Watch your own CT- and MRI-Scans in real 3D using Virtual Reality glasses. Just click on the red + button in the library and choose the data from your computer. The software provides various tools to examine, work and alter medical body scans.

Anatomy | Biology | Medicine | Science

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Modbox

Modbox is a phyics sandbox game with the focus on user creator, modding, and multiplayer . The player is given various tools for creation and is encouraged to create and build whatever they please. The player then has the ability to share what they’ve created to others.

Content Creation | Modeling | Physics

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MuX

With data from NASA and other space agencies, OVERVIEW is the first VR space experience where everything is correct – from the position of all stars to the orbits of the 62 moons of Saturn.

Content Creation | DJing | Music | Science

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Nanome

Are you ready to build organic molecules such as Carbon, Oxygen, Nitrogen and Hydrogen? nano-one is the first molecular visualization and modeling tool for today’s virtual reality platforms.

Biology | Chemistry | Nanotechnology | Science

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Nature Treks VR

Explore tropical beaches, underwater oceans and even take to the stars. Discover over 50 different animals. Command the weather, take control of the night or create and shape your own world. Relax and immerse yourself into the Nature Treks VR.

Behavior | Nature | Relaxation

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NODA

Noda is virtual reality environment where you can move data around with your hands, connect things together, see structure and dive into the details.

Biology | Mindmapping | Science

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Overview (A Walk Through the Universe)

With data from NASA and other space agencies, OVERVIEW is the first VR space experience where everything is correct – from the position of all stars to the orbits of the 62 moons of Saturn.

Astronomy | Science | Space

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Paleo Museum VR

Paleontological museum in virtuality. In this small application you have the ability to observe the skeletons of the dinosaurs in scale 1:1 and read a short description of each dinosaur.

Biology | Paleontology | Science

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The Physiology of the Eye

“The Physiology of the Eye” is an educational VR experience that teaches you about the anatomical structures and physiology of the eye. As you work your way through each of the chapters you will be quizzed and given a GPA at the end.

Anatomy | Biology | Optometry | Physiology | Science

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Puppet Fever

Act like a freak, play with your friends and discover the magic of the virtual puppet theater! This is hot seat multiplayer in VR like you’ve never experienced before. Social party game for up to 4 players locally, or many more on live stream!

Art | Communication | Content Creation | Theater

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Remembering Pearl Harbor

This original immersive virtual-reality project is told through the voice of Lt. James Downing, who at 103 is the second-oldest living American veteran to have witnessed that day, and is geared towards audiences of all ages.

History | Social Studies

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Robotics in VR

Become an inventor and expert in robotics! Build, program, play. Using VR to plunge into the amazing world of virtual reality, where you can master the skills of programming and designing robots and understand (and even see!) The work of complex mechanisms. The basic design for learning is the unique LEGO EV3 Mindstorms.

Engineering | Robotics | Science

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SculptrVR

For the first time ever, sculpt smooth, polygonal, and cubey worlds and sculptures of any size! SculptrVR makes it easy to create, explore, and share brilliant new sculptures with friends. Build at massive scale or zoom in to add tiny details. With SculptrVR’s intuitive tools, your imagination makes anything possible.

Art | Content Creation | Design | Sculpture

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ShapeLab

ShapeLab by Leopoly brings a joyful, easy and practical VR creation experience.. We are working on offering the most powerful and easiest VR design and presentation software solutions for professional and newcomer creators and designers.

Art | 3D Content Creation | Design

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Shark Week: Operation Apex

Dive with the world’s leading marine scientists and take on the role of research assistant with no diving experience needed. Your mission is clear, take your research rig out into the open sea in search of the largest great white shark ever seen. Assist on scientific expeditions to collect data from the marine life around you and learn about the ocean’s precious ecosystem and our individual impact on it.

Biology | Ecology | Ecosystems | Marine Biology | Science

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Simlab Soft

The VR edition of SimLab Composer 8 is designed to bring any model to VR based on the device the user is running on, whether it’s HTC VIVE or Desktop or Mobile. Also no matter what CAD application you’re using or what’s your 3D skill level or what’s your budget, it’s revolutionizing Model Navigation, Assembly Instructions, Selling Products, Serious Training and much more.

3D Content Viewer | Modeling

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Stonehenge VR Sandbox

A profound learning experience enjoyed by thousands of families when it originated as one of the first room scale VR exhibits in a museum. With the new SANDBOX Mode, learning possibilities are expanded for people of all ages with the ability to build, paint and create their own ancient monument.

Art | Architecture | Building | Construction | History | Painting

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theBlu

Experience the wonder and majesty of the ocean through a series of habitats and come face to face with some of the most awe inspiring species on the planet.

Biology | Ecology | Marine Biology | Science

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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.

Art | Content Creation | Painting | Sculpture

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Titans of Space Plus

Hang on to your cockpit seat! Go for a ride through this authentic miniature Solar System, and then squint your eyes in the intense light of a few of the largest known stars. Enjoy curated photos and facts along the way, at your own pace.

Astronomy | Science | Space

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Unimersiv

Unimersiv is the largest platform for VR educational experiences. By downloading this app, you will have access to multiple experiences that will let you learn about history, space or the human anatomy.

Anatomy | History | Science | Space | Tour | Travel

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Universe Sandbox

Create & destroy on an unimaginable scale… with a space simulator that merges real-time gravity, climate, collision, and material interactions to reveal the beauty of our universe and the fragility of our planet.

Astronomy | Science | Space

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Vinyl Reality

Vinyl Reality is the first DJ mixing application that accurately recreates a traditional DJ setup in virtual reality. Whether you’re a professional DJ, or a beginner interested in learning, Vinyl Reality gives you all the tools you need to play an amazing DJ set in virtual reality!

DJing | Music

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Water Bears VR

A puzzle game where players use your two hands to reroute water pipes to reach water bears in need of water. Players help the water bears by building and rebuilding water flows using an ever-increasing variety of pipes. Players can Walk around puzzles in real space, viewing them from all sides to get ideas. Manipulate colors, test spatial reasoning, and make the most of your limited resources.

Physical Science | Problem Solving | Science

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