Virtual Reality Tools

Recommendations for virtual reality apps in different areas and for different VR glasses are presented below.

Socializing and Presentations

Oculus Go:

• vTime: Immersive social network where you can interact with real users around the world. You can meet, talk and share content in virtual destinations.

Oculus Quest 2:

• Horizon Workrooms: A meeting app where you can meet and share with others and give presentations.

Cardboard:

• vTime: Immersive social network where you can interact with real users around the world. You can meet, talk and share content in virtual destinations.

Technology, Natural Sciences & Computer Science

Oculus Go:

• Lanchester VR: Digital STEM games about innovation in automotive, aerospace, propeller technology in English.

• Space Time: Immersive learning experience about space and astrophysics in English.

• Zenva Sky: Teaches computer science with a fun approach through logic puzzles.

• Hatch XR: This program allows students to create and publish VR experiences themselves and then use them on a VR device.

Cardboard:

• Cardboard Design Lab: Here students can design virtual reality experiences themselves.

Learning Languages

Oculus Go:

• Virtual Speech: Students can improve their speaking freely in English. Presentations, networking and job interviews can be practiced in realistic VR scenarios.

• OLC: Listening comprehension can be improved by watching videos in English on various topics, such as sustainability.

• Thunder: Interactive game in English, through which the language can be improved.

Cardboard:

• Virtual Speech: Students can improve their free speech in English. Presentations, networking and job interviews can be practiced in realistic VR scenarios.

Travelling / World

Oculus Go:

• Alcove: App with an immersive travel function. Users can virtually travel together to new places, take a city tour, a ride in a hot air balloon or a road trip through the back country.

• Ecosphere: In the app, different regions can be selected and short films (about 15 minutes) in English can be watched about them. The immersive experience can also improve listening comprehension.

• Temple of Travel: Users can select different cities and watch videos about them.

• Hoppin World: Users can visit different places together with others and chat in a 360-degree video room.

Cardboard:

• Cardboard Camera: With this app, students can create their own VR recordings. Students can show their fellow students their city or favorite places immersively.

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