VIRTUAL REALITY APPLICATIONS BY CATEGORY
Please scroll down to view popular virtual reality applications in each the following categories:
- STEM VR APPLICATIONS
- CTE VR APPLICATIONS
- ELEMENTARY & MIDDLE SCHOOL VR APPLICATIONS
- HIGH SCHOOL & COLLEGE VR APPLICATIONS
STEM APPLICATIONS
Kinetic/ Potential Energy
This Math experience takes students into a Skate Park where they learn about kinetic and potential energy. This experience helps students Learn the relationships between kinetic, potential, heat and total energy. Recognize that the total energy of a system doesn’t change – energy cannot be created or destroyed.
Fetal Pig Dissection
This Biology/Anatomy experience takes students into a Lab where they have to follow voice-guided, step-by-step instructions to prepare for a fetal pig dissection. The main objective of this experience is to help students: Familiarize themselves with the proper procedure required for a fetal pig dissection (training exercise before performing the dissection with a real sample.) |
Circuits and Ohm’s Law
This Physics experience takes students into a Serial Circuit Board Lab where they have access to different types of batteries, components and activities to run experiments. To experiment with different elements of a circuit (i.e. power supply/battery, resistors, light bulb, multimeter) in a unique and safe way . |
Double Doppler Effect (Submarine Experience)
This Physics experience takes students into a submarine where they emit sounds at different Hz, watch the wave bounce off an object and record the shifted frequency visible in the sonar view, calculate the velocity of the object, and determine if it is moving toward the submarine or away from it. |
Newton's House of Forces
Sure you’re in our space-based research facility, but even in space you need a recreation room. So, in this unit, enter the rec room and dance with holograms, play a little billiards or just relax and watch some television. Oh, and you might just learn a few things along the way. |
The Body VR (FREE)
The Body VR 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. |
Shark Week: Operation Apex
Use virtual reality to uncover the secrets of the big blue in an atmospheric deep sea dive. As you bear witness to an underwater marvel, your mission becomes clear. Take your research rig out into open sea in search of the largest great white shark ever seen…Operation Apex is an accessible virtual reality exploration and adventure game developed by Curiscope, in partnership with HTC Vive Studios. |
IndustrialVR - Hoover Dam
Combining an innovative documentary-style approach with visuals powered by Unreal Engine 4, the game takes players on an exclusive journey through the Hoover Dam. Fly overhead for a birds eye view, pick any spot to land on and explore, or go inside the pipes and through the machinery to look into the heart of this technological feat with the highest level of access imaginable. How does a turbine work? What happens inside towers? How does a generator function? IndustrialVR will answer these questions and many more. For the first time, you will be able experience for yourself the inner workings of the Hoover Dam. |
Sharecare (FREE)
Sharecare was launched to make it easy for anyone to get educated in, and appreciate an understanding of the human body. By giving you an anatomically accurate VR model of the human body, you get to immerse yourself in everything it’s capable of. Simulate diseases and customize the physiology to your hearts content. The educational content is growing rapidly and we have written extensively about the project here. Pick it up if you’d like to see what first class VR-based biology class is like. |
Inspirit
The Inspirit VR experience comes complete with a large catalog of immersive and interactive titles across science core topics. The engaging content can easily be aligned with structured lesson plans to help students visualize inherently complex topics across all fundamental concepts in Physics, Chemistry, and Biology.
Water Bears
Each puzzle starts with sad water bears that are desperately in need of water. Help them by building and rebuilding water flows using an ever-increasing variety of pipes. Walk around the puzzles in real space, viewing them from all sides to get ideas. Manipulate myriad colors, test your spatial reasoning, and make the most of your limited resources. There are dozens of puzzles and an awful lot of thirsty water bears that need your help!
Kinetic/Potential Energy
This Math experience takes students into a Skate Park where they learn about kinetic and potential energy. This experience helps students Learn the relationships between kinetic, potential, heat and total energy. Recognize that the total energy of a system doesn’t change – energy cannot be created or destroyed . |
CTE APPLICATIONS
Nutrients for Life (FREE)
Nutrients for Life is a fun VR experience that teaches kids who have never been near a farm about the right nutrients and the right rate of application for a crop. Players must balance Nitrogen, Phosphorus, Potassium and Water, to ensure an ideal yield, economic benefit, and environmental impact! |
Potioneer: The VR Gardening Simulator
Potioneer: The VR Gardening simulator is a virtual reality game where players tend their virtual garden. Using the 3d visuals and room-scale tracking that HTC Vive provides, players explore the wilderness looking for plants and craft their home using wood, hammers, and nails. |
Car Mechanic Simulator
Build and expand your repair service empire in this incredibly detailed and highly realistic simulation game, where attention to car detail is astonishing. Find classic, unique cars in the new Barn Find module and Junkyard module. You can even add your self-made car in the Car Editor. |
Forklift Simulator 2019
Forklift Simulator 2019 drops you in the seat of a realistic forklift. You’ll learn how to properly operate a forklift and be tested in various situations. There are more than 40 challenges to master. Forklift enthusiasts will enjoy the realistic look and feel of driving. Beginners will quickly learn how to drive these powerful machines. No matter your level of skill or interest Forklift Simulator 2019 will provide an entertaining forklift driving experience. |
Mona Lisa Beyond the Glass (FREE)
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. |
IndustrialVR - Hoover Dam
Combining an innovative documentary-style approach with visuals powered by Unreal Engine 4, the game takes players on an exclusive journey through the Hoover Dam. Fly overhead for a birds eye view, pick any spot to land on and explore, or go inside the pipes and through the machinery to look into the heart of this technological feat with the highest level of access imaginable. How does a turbine work? What happens inside towers? How does a generator function? IndustrialVR will answer these questions and many more. For the first time, you will be able experience for yourself the inner workings of the Hoover Dam. |
Wayfair Patio Playground
Wayfair’s Patio Playground invites you to escape to a summery retreat, complete with sunny skies, open air, and…drones? Watch your design dreams come to life as you explore, rearrange, and discover furniture and décor from our extensive catalog, materialized right in front of your eyes via trusty teleportation! Set against the backdrop of a lakeside scene, Patio Playground will immerse you in a relaxing, dynamic environment with a selection of vividly rendered products to inspire your inner decorator. Visualize design as you’ve never been able to before as you arrange and customize your finds in an array of colors and styles, from traditional to modern and more. What will you create? |
connect - Virtual Home (3D or VR) (FREE)
connect is your customizable, social, multifunctional virtual home. You can play games, chat, make video calls, listen to music, watch TV, read a newspaper, surf the net, or meet friends. connect is a free, data protected virtual world and a device-independent interface (2D/3D/VR/AR) for all digital content. |
The Body VR (FREE)
The Body VR 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. |
Sharecare (FREE)
Sharecare was launched to make it easy for anyone to get educated in, and appreciate an understanding of the human body. By giving you an anatomically accurate VR model of the human body, you get to immerse yourself in everything it’s capable of. Simulate diseases and customize the physiology to your hearts content. The educational content is growing rapidly and we have written extensively about the project here. Pick it up if you’d like to see what first class VR-based biology class is like. |
VR health care (running exercise):
For use with a treadmill– VR running in different scenes, while enjoying VR scenery while exercising, while forgetting the fatigue of exercise, unlike traditional running, it also contains rich and interesting obstacles, such as: sudden tornado , the lightning that can’t be guarded against, the trap of retrogression. |
ELEMENTARY & MIDDLE SCHOOL
YouTube VR for STEAM (FREE)
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.
Virtual Phonics
Fun game to teach and reinforce letter phonics – homework should be fun! Aimed to be an educational way to learn some basic letter phonics. This has been developed tested with primary school students in Queensland Australia within a learning support group. Any feedback is more than welcome! |
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. |
Anne Frank House VR (FREE)
Anne Frank House VR takes us back to 1942 during WW2, where Anne Frank, a teenage jewish girl is forced into hiding to escape the viscious nazi occupation. Her story is heralded as one of the most famous of the horrid regime, which is why it is often used for educational purposes, and not just in VR. Born in germany, she lived most of her life in or around Amsterdam. Her story is one that should never be forgotten, and you owe it to yourself to give this one a download, hard as it may be to get through it. |
Remembering Pearl Harbor
Told in three acts, the story is told through the point of view of Lt. James Downing, who at 103 is the second-oldest living American veteran to have witnessed that day. As postmaster of the USS West Virginia, Downing gave himself the task of writing letters to the families of men who died or were injured during the attack; those letters form an arc that the user follows through Downing’s experience of Dec. 7, 1941. In an American home of 1941, we hear from Downing about how the coming of war affected everyone in the U.S.; at Pearl Harbor after the attack, we see the breadth of the destruction; and in the present day, we learn how the experience has stayed with him for 75 years. Throughout the experience, users interact with realistic virtual versions of artifacts from the time, along with iconic photography and archival video, providing a unique and personal view of one of American history’s defining moments. |
Spacewalker (FREE)
You are about to be part of the SpaceWalker team. Let’s explore the the multiple dimensions yet to be known, obtain the knowledge and power of the cosmos and save the universe!In Early Access, Solar System Explorer, you will steer a spacecraft to visit planets in the solar system.
Newton's House of Forces
Sure you’re in our space-based research facility, but even in space you need a recreation room. So, in this unit, enter the rec room and dance with holograms, play a little billiards or just relax and watch some television. Oh, and you might just learn a few things along the way. |
Shark Week: Operation Apex
Use virtual reality to uncover the secrets of the big blue in an atmospheric deep sea dive. As you bear witness to an underwater marvel, your mission becomes clear. Take your research rig out into open sea in search of the largest great white shark ever seen…Operation Apex is an accessible virtual reality exploration and adventure game developed by Curiscope, in partnership with HTC Vive Studios. |
WaterBears
Each puzzle starts with sad water bears that are desperately in need of water. Help them by building and rebuilding water flows using an ever-increasing variety of pipes. Walk around the puzzles in real space, viewing them from all sides to get ideas. Manipulate myriad colors, test your spatial reasoning, and make the most of your limited resources. There are dozens of puzzles and an awful lot of thirsty water bears that need your help! |
HIGH SCHOOL & COLLEGE
YouTube VR for STEAM (FREE)
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.
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. |
Berlin Blitz 1943 (FREE)
In September 1943, a BBC reporter boarded a plane on an allied bombing raid over Berlin. The incredible recording he returned with forms the basis of this breathtaking experience by BBC Northern Ireland and Immersive VR Education, putting you inside a Lancaster bomber as it navigates a most dangerous journey. |
Anne Frank House VR (FREE)
Anne Frank House VR takes us back to 1942 during WW2, where Anne Frank, a teenage jewish girl is forced into hiding to escape the viscious nazi occupation. Her story is heralded as one of the most famous of the horrid regime, which is why it is often used for educational purposes, and not just in VR. Born in germany, she lived most of her life in or around Amsterdam. Her story is one that should never be forgotten, and you owe it to yourself to give this one a download, hard as it may be to get through it. |
Remembering Pearl Harbor
Told in three acts, the story is told through the point of view of Lt. James Downing, who at 103 is the second-oldest living American veteran to have witnessed that day. As postmaster of the USS West Virginia, Downing gave himself the task of writing letters to the families of men who died or were injured during the attack; those letters form an arc that the user follows through Downing’s experience of Dec. 7, 1941. In an American home of 1941, we hear from Downing about how the coming of war affected everyone in the U.S.; at Pearl Harbor after the attack, we see the breadth of the destruction; and in the present day, we learn how the experience has stayed with him for 75 years. Throughout the experience, users interact with realistic virtual versions of artifacts from the time, along with iconic photography and archival video, providing a unique and personal view of one of American history’s defining moments. |
Buzz Aldrin: Cycling Pathways to Mars (FREE)
Buzz Aldrin wants to be remembered for more than just “kicking up moon dust.” He wants his legacy to include laying the groundwork for a permanent human settlement on Mars, and he has a plan. As NASA prepares to send the first humans to Mars, 8i and Time Inc’s LIFE VR have collaborated with the celebrated astronaut and historical icon to create a one of a kind virtual reality experience. |
Berlin Wall: The Virtual Reality Experience (FREE)
Travel back in time to a city divided by the Iron Curtain and discover how free expression helped topple the world’s greatest symbol of oppression in this educational narrative adventure produced by the Newseum in partnership with Vive Studios. Go behind the Berlin Wall in an immersive experience that transports you to communist East Berlin at the height of the Cold War. As you walk through the deserted streets, you pass communist propaganda posters and razor-sharp barbed wire, all while dodging the guard tower searchlights that sweep no-man’s land looking for wall jumpers. That’s the immersive trip that visitors to the Newseum — and now you — can take in “Berlin Wall: The Virtual Reality Experience.” |
Kinetic/Potential Energy
This Math experience takes students into a Skate Park where they learn about kinetic and potential energy. This experience helps students Learn the relationships between kinetic, potential, heat and total energy. Recognize that the total energy of a system doesn’t change – energy cannot be created or destroyed . |
Fetal Pig Dissection
This Biology/Anatomy experience takes students into a Lab where they have to follow voice-guided, step-by-step instructions to prepare for a fetal pig dissection. The main objective of this experience is to help students: Familiarize themselves with the proper procedure required for a fetal pig dissection (training exercise before performing the dissection with a real |
Circuits and Ohm’s Law
This Physics experience takes students into a Serial Circuit Board Lab where they have access to different types of batteries, components and activities to run experiments. To experiment with different elements of a circuit (i.e. power supply/battery, resistors, light bulb, multimeter) in a unique and safe way . |
Double Doppler Effect (Submarine Experience)
This Physics experience takes students into a submarine where they emit sounds at different Hz, watch the wave bounce off an object and record the shifted frequency visible in the sonar view, calculate the velocity of the object, and determine if it is moving toward the submarine or away from it. |
Newton's House of Forces
Sure you’re in our space-based research facility, but even in space you need a recreation room. So, in this unit, enter the rec room and dance with holograms, play a little billiards or just relax and watch some television. Oh, and you might just learn a few things along the way. |
The Body VR (FREE)
The Body VR 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. |
In Mind 2

Explore the parts of the brain that are responsible for human emotion (Like the movie Inside Out) |
Shark Week: Operation Apex
Use virtual reality to uncover the secrets of the big blue in an atmospheric deep sea dive. As you bear witness to an underwater marvel, your mission becomes clear. Take your research rig out into open sea in search of the largest great white shark ever seen…Operation Apex is an accessible virtual reality exploration and adventure game developed by Curiscope, in partnership with HTC Vive Studios. |
IndustrialVR - Hoover Dam
Combining an innovative documentary-style approach with visuals powered by Unreal Engine 4, the game takes players on an exclusive journey through the Hoover Dam. Fly overhead for a birds eye view, pick any spot to land on and explore, or go inside the pipes and through the machinery to look into the heart of this technological feat with the highest level of access imaginable. How does a turbine work? What happens inside towers? How does a generator function? IndustrialVR will answer these questions and many more. For the first time, you will be able experience for yourself the inner workings of the Hoover Dam. |
Sharecare (FREE)
Sharecare was launched to make it easy for anyone to get educated in, and appreciate an understanding of the human body. By giving you an anatomically accurate VR model of the human body, you get to immerse yourself in everything it’s capable of. Simulate diseases and customize the physiology to your hearts content. The educational content is growing rapidly and we have written extensively about the project here. Pick it up if you’d like to see what first class VR-based biology class is like. |
WaterBears
Each puzzle starts with sad water bears that are desperately in need of water. Help them by building and rebuilding water flows using an ever-increasing variety of pipes. Walk around the puzzles in real space, viewing them from all sides to get ideas. Manipulate myriad colors, test your spatial reasoning, and make the most of your limited resources. There are dozens of puzzles and an awful lot of thirsty water bears that need your help! |
Kinetic/Potential Energy
This Math experience takes students into a Skate Park where they learn about kinetic and potential energy. This experience helps students Learn the relationships between kinetic, potential, heat and total energy. Recognize that the total energy of a system doesn’t change – energy cannot be created or destroyed. |
Mona Lisa Beyond the Glass (FREE)
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. |
VR health care (running exercise):
For use with a treadmill– VR running in different scenes, while enjoying VR scenery while exercising, while forgetting the fatigue of exercise, unlike traditional running, it also contains rich and interesting obstacles, such as: sudden tornado , the lightning that can’t be guarded against, the trap of retrogression.. |
Jam Studio VR
Jam Studio VR (www.jamstudiovr.com) is the first in a new category of interactive AI virtual music Apps and games that allows anyone, at any age, to release their inner musician and create and perform extraordinary music or play like a DJ, regardless of their musical experience or abilities. It also enhances physical & mental wellness with a broad range of Fun, Learning & Therapy exercises and activities for families as well as individuals and families with special needs and a variety of disabilities. Jam Studio VR features its proprietary advanced interactive music triggering and synchronization technology. |
Beat Saber
Beat Saber is an immersive rhythm experience you have never seen before! Enjoy tons of handcrafted levels and swing your way through the pulsing music beats, surrounded by a futuristic world. Use your sabers to slash the beats as they come flying at you – every beat indicates which saber you need to use and the direction you need to match. With Beat Saber you become a dancing superhero! |