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VR: Available Virtual Reality Apps & Videos @ University Library

Suggested VR Oculus Apps for Course Subjects

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  • Gravity Sketch: Communicate ideas in 3D at each stage, capture work as an image or model to use in other phases of your workflow

American Studies

  • Anne Frank House VR: Immerse yourself in Anne’s thoughts as you traverse each faithfully recreated room and find out what happened to the Annex’ brave inhabitants
  • Blue Planet VR Explore: a rich collection of over 40 volumetric experiences of powerful scenic and cultural heritage locations worldwide
  • MLK- Now is the Time: an immersive journey that explores key themes of Dr. King's speech and highlights systemic inequities that persist in our society
  • Steps of Privilege: provides a safe space to explore the nuances of privilege and foster the discussion around diversity, equity & inclusion
  • The Eva Experience: experience the story of an Auschwitz survivor in a deeply personal and immersive way
  • Traveling While Black: Immerses the viewer in the long history of restriction of movement for black Americans and the creation of safe spaces in our communities.
  • We Live Here: Immerses the viewer in the life experience of a person who lives in a tent city
Art
  • Kingspray Graffiti: Sharpen your skills or learn new styles with thousands of online artists from around the world
  • SculptVR: Create sprawling, brilliant worlds and explore them with your friends
  • Tilt brush: lets you paint in 3D space with virtual reality
  • Vermillion: brings professional painting equipment into your own room, using Passthrough
  • VR Animation: Step into wonderful, immersive VR stories, hand painted and animated in VR with Quill by Smoothstep
Astronomy
  • Apollo 11: Walk through the historic moon landing through the eyes of an astronaut
  • Homestar VR: a VR planetarium experience based on Homestar, Sega Toys' million-seller home planetarium
  • Mission ISS Quest: Take a trip into orbit and experience life on board the International Space Station
  • Space Explorers: The ISS Experience is an epic four-part immersive series that invites you to join eight astronauts on life-changing missions aboard the International Space Station
Behavioral Neuroscience
  • Enhance VR: offers a daily brain training workout of short, fun, and intense games designed by neuroscientists to test and train your cognitive skills, including
  • Guided Meditation VR: Meditation made simple & visual. Bring peace, joy, and calm back into your daily life with Guided Meditation VR
  • Maloka: Maloka meditations are carefully designed in close collaboration with expert content partners.  Each environment will help you to activate beta and theta waves, and no experience is ever the same
Biology
  • 3d Organon XR: a medical & healthcare education platform for teaching and learning anatomy
  • Biology Punnett Squares: interact with virtual biology Punnett squares
  • Brothers Volcano- Virtual Experience: allows groups of users to freely explore around a vast 20km² underwater landscape, while learning about geology, geophysics and oceanography
  • Dissection Simulator: thoroughly covers each step of the science procedure that students would take if dissecting organ specimens in their classroom
  • Human Osteology: explore 3-D scanned real human bones with a high-quality 3-D scanner
  • Sea Level Rise Explorers: As coastal communities contend with coastal hazards including more frequent flooding and sea level rise, public education has become a critical piece of the puzzle
  • Shareare YOU Anatomy: exploration of the Human Body that allows viewers to visualize, understand and interact with their organs.
Biochemistry
  • Nanome: Nanome is a collaborative virtual reality tool for molecular design
Business
  • Bodyswaps: Practice and perfect all-important soft skills in Bodyswaps
  • Engage: a metaverse platform designed for professionals, event organizers, and corporations to build their own virtual worlds to provide metaverse services directly to their own clients and to build out new business models
  • Language Lab: re-approached the language acquisition process from the ground up and created lessons that mimic the same learning process that we have all used while learning our first language
  • Virtual Speech ultimate training tool for improving your soft skills with AI-powered avatars, real-time feedback, and realistic environments
  • VR Job Interview Prep: Practice conducting a job interview in Virtual Reality. Answer the questions, show interest and promote yourself
Chemistry
  • Lost Recipes: cook for ghosts from Greek, Chinese, and Maya civilizations who long to pass on the traditional recipes of their favorite dishes. Recreate authentic food from three historic cultures in this relaxing cooking game
  • Nanome: Nanome is a collaborative virtual reality tool for molecular design
Communication
  • Arkio: Design interiors, buildings, virtual spaces and more
  • Bodyswaps: Practice and perfect all-important soft skills in Bodyswaps
  • Gravity Sketch: Communicate ideas in 3D at each stage, capture work as an image or model to use in other phases of your workflow
  • Language Lab: : re-approached the language acquisition process from the ground up and created lessons that mimic the same learning process that we have all used while learning our first language
  • Virtual Speech: ultimate training tool for improving your soft skills with AI-powered avatars, real-time feedback, and realistic environments
Computer Information Systems
  • Gravity Sketch: Communicate ideas in 3D at each stage, capture work as an image or model to use in other phases of your workflow
  • Shapes XR: In ShapesXR anybody can start creating in 3D without prior experience within minutes
Dance
  • Dance Central:  immerses you and your friends in the world’s best dance club experience
Education
  • Adam Savage's Tested VR: a journey inside the creative workspaces of incredible makers, bringing their processes to life, from ideation to creation
  • Bodyswaps: Practice and perfect all-important soft skills in Bodyswaps
  • Enhance VR: offers a daily brain training workout of short, fun, and intense games designed by neuroscientists to test and train your cognitive skills, including
  • First aid training: learn a step-by-step on how to perform first aid
  • Historic Crafts: learn a historic craft by completing and experimenting with challenges and tacit puzzles presented in each craft
  • Noun Town: rapidly build your vocabulary and practice speaking without the fear of making mistakes
Environmental 
  • National Geographic Explore VR: discover two of the most iconic locations on the planet! Head to Antarctica and set off on a thrilling expedition of discovery. Visit Machu Picchu, Peru and get immersed in amazing digital reconstructions of the ancient Inca citadel
  • Pollinator Park: Following a cascade of ecological crises, our world has been deprived of healthy ecosystems and wealthy flora. Amidst this dystopian landscape lies a lavish green beacon of hope: Dr. Beatrice Kukac’s Pollinator Park -a futuristic farm, a safe haven for pollinating insects and an eye-opener for its visitors. 
  • Sea Level Rise Explorers:  As coastal communities contend with coastal hazards including more frequent flooding and sea level rise, public education has become a critical piece of the puzzle
  • Sustainability Stories: These indigenous stories teach us about preserving habitat, good health and more using funny animals or characters that inspire our imagination
Exercise Science
  • First aid training: learn a step-by-step on how to perform first aid
  • FitXR: Huge variety of intense cardio or low impact strength workouts
  • Human Osteology: explore 3-D scanned real human bones with a high-quality 3-D scanner
  • Shareare YOU Anatomy: exploration of the Human Body that allows viewers to visualize, understand and interact with their organs.
  • VXR Lab Biology: track the statistics of a certain exercise
  • XR Workout: XRWorkout is the FULL-BODY FITNESS app of the future
Film and Television
  • Youtube VR: Watch and stream videos through virtual reality
Game Design
  • Gravity Sketch: Communicate ideas in 3D at each stage, capture work as an image or model to use in other phases of your workflow
  • SculptVR: Create sprawling, brilliant worlds and explore them with your friends
  • Shapes XR: In ShapesXR anybody can start creating in 3D without prior experience within minutes
Gender Studies
  • Coming Out Simulator: a positive experience for those who feel closeted or confused about coming out to their loved ones about being gay
Health Science
  • First aid training: learn a step-by-step on how to perform first aid
  • FitXR: Huge variety of intense cardio or low impact strength workouts
  • Human Osteology: explore 3-D scanned real human bones with a high-quality 3-D scanner
  • Shareare YOU Anatomy: exploration of the Human Body that allows viewers to visualize, understand and interact with their organs.
History
  • Anne Frank House VR: Immerse yourself in Anne’s thoughts as you traverse each faithfully recreated room and find out what happened to the Annex’ brave inhabitants
  • Apollo 11: Walk through the historic moon landing through the eyes of an astronaut
  • Blue Planet VR Explore: a rich collection of over 40 volumetric experiences of powerful scenic and cultural heritage locations worldwide
  • Ecosphere: Discover even more intimate journeys into Kenya, Borneo and Raja Ampat. This is a 180 degree experience
  • Historic Crafts: learn a historic craft by completing and experimenting with challenges and tacit puzzles presented in each craft
  • Lost Recipes: cook for ghosts from Greek, Chinese, and Maya civilizations who long to pass on the traditional recipes of their favorite dishes. Recreate authentic food from three historic cultures in this relaxing cooking game
  • MLK- Now is the Time: an immersive journey that explores key themes of Dr. King's speech and highlights systemic inequities that persist in our society
  • Sea Level Rise Explorers:  As coastal communities contend with coastal hazards including more frequent flooding and sea level rise, public education has become a critical piece of the puzzle
  • The Eva Experience: experience the story of an Auschwitz survivor in a deeply personal and immersive way
Languages
  • Language Lab: re-approached the language acquisition process from the ground up and created lessons that mimic the same learning process that we have all used while learning our first language
  • Mondly: Experience the most advanced way to practice languages from the comfort of your couch
  • Noun Town: rapidly build your vocabulary and practice speaking without the fear of making mistakes
  • Wander: From the comfort of your living room you can teleport almost anywhere in the world
Management
  • Bodyswaps:  Practice and perfect all-important soft skills in Bodyswaps
Marine Science
  • Brothers Volcano- Virtual Experience: allows groups of users to freely explore around a vast 20km² underwater landscape, while learning about geology, geophysics and oceanography
  • Sea Level Rise Explorers:  As coastal communities contend with coastal hazards including more frequent flooding and sea level rise, public education has become a critical piece of the puzzle
  • Sustainability Stories: These indigenous stories teach us about preserving habitat, good health and more using funny animals or characters that inspire our imagination
Multicultural Studies
  • MLK- Now is the Time: an immersive journey that explores key themes of Dr. King's speech and highlights systemic inequities that persist in our society
  • National Geographic Explore VR: discover two of the most iconic locations on the planet! Head to Antarctica and set off on a thrilling expedition of discovery. Visit Machu Picchu, Peru and get immersed in amazing digital reconstructions of the ancient Inca citadel
  • Steps of Privilege: provides a safe space to explore the nuances of privilege and foster the discussion around diversity, equity & inclusion
  • Traveling While Black: Immerses the viewer in the long history of restriction of movement for black Americans and the creation of safe spaces in our communities.
  • We Live Here:  Immerses the viewer in the life experience of a person who lives in a tent city
Music
  • Spheres: Uncover the hidden songs of the cosmos through this powerful, immersive spectacle that fuses art with science
  • Tribe XR: Become a VR DJ: Practice on club-standard Pioneer DJ equipment. Take lessons from DJ instructors
  • Virtuoso: Grab an instrument and get ready to jam in Virtuoso, your own virtual music stage
Nursing
  • Biology Punnett Squares: interact with virtual biology Punnett squares
  • Bodyswaps: Practice and perfect all-important soft skills in Bodyswaps
  • Dissection Simulator:  thoroughly covers each step of the science procedure that students would take if dissecting organ specimens in their classroom
  • Human Osteology: explore 3-D scanned real human bones with a high-quality 3-D scanner
  • Nanome: Nanome is a collaborative virtual reality tool for molecular design
  • Shareare YOU Anatomy: exploration of the Human Body that allows viewers to visualize, understand and interact with their organs.
Physics
  • Adam Savage's Tested VR: a journey inside the creative workspaces of incredible makers, bringing their processes to life, from ideation to creation
  • Hand Physics Lab: interact physically with your environment and many different objects and experiences
  • Mission ISS Quest: Take a trip into orbit and experience life on board the International Space Station
  • Space Explorers: The ISS Experience is an epic four-part immersive series that invites you to join eight astronauts on life-changing missions aboard the International Space Station
Psychology
  • Enhance VR: offers a daily brain training workout of short, fun, and intense games designed by neuroscientists to test and train your cognitive skills, including
  • Liminal: Relax your brain, unwind, engage, explore.
  • Maloka: Maloka meditations are carefully designed in close collaboration with expert content partners. Each environment will help you to activate beta and theta waves, and no experience is ever the same.
Sport Management
  • ESPN: stream games, live statistics updates, recent articles
  • First aid training: learn a step-by-step on how to perform first aid
  • MVP Football Patrick Mahomes: MVP, as you play high school, college and pro football games
  • NFL Pro Era: first fully licensed NFL virtual reality (VR) simulation game that lets players experience what it’s like to compete as the QB of their favorite NFL team
Sustainability Studies
  • Sea Level Rise Explorers:  As coastal communities contend with coastal hazards including more frequent flooding and sea level rise, public education has become a critical piece of the puzzle
  • Sustainability Stories: These indigenous stories teach us about preserving habitat, good health and more using funny animals or characters that inspire our imagination