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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