XR Lab App Catalogue

Browse the apps and experiences available in the XR (Extended Reality) Lab.

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Arts and culture

These applications provide virtual tours and immersive access to museums, art galleries, historical sites, and cultural heritage locations. They allow users to explore ancient ruins, view fine art, and experience historical events or architecture from any location.

  • 1943 Berlin Blitz

    This VR experience is an immersive historical documentary that transports the user back to the intense events of the Second World War. It provides a unique perspective on the 1943 air raid over Berlin, allowing users to witness the scene and the atmosphere of the city during this critical moment in history. The goal is to provide a powerful and memorable encounter with historical reality.

    Platform: Steam, Meta, Viveport

  • Anne Frank House VR

    Anne Frank House VR is a profoundly moving and unique virtual reality experience that transports users back to the year 1942. It offers an unprecedented level of insight into the two years Anne Frank, her family, and four others spent hiding from the Nazis in the "Secret Annex" of an Amsterdam office building. Through VR, users can faithfully traverse the rooms, immerse themselves in Anne's thoughts, and discover the harsh reality of life in constant fear of discovery.

    Platform: Steam, Meta

  • Antarctic Heritage Trust

    This application offers a virtual reality exploration of significant historical sites located in the Antarctic, focusing on their preservation and conservation. Users can tour the remote, extreme environments and the historic bases used by early polar explorers, gaining an appreciation for the difficult conditions and the important legacy of these expeditions. The experience highlights the ongoing work to maintain these fragile structures for future generations.

    Platform: Steam

  • ART Reflections

    This project faithfully reproduces Salvador Dalí's iconic artwork, "The Mae West Room," within a detailed digital environment. The experience directly addresses Dalí's idea of the "presence of the viewer in the work" by granting users the unprecedented ability to interactively destroy or reinterpret the original piece at will. This interactive approach powerfully demonstrates how VR technology successfully blurs the boundaries between traditional sculpture, architecture, and a truly engaging, interactive digital experience.

    Platform: Meta

  • Artheon – The Living Museum

    Artheon is a captivating and peaceful virtual reality experience designed for the elegant appreciation of art. Users are invited to explore highly detailed exhibitions where famous paintings are faithfully recreated, enjoying an accompanying guide who provides rich context and insightful information for each piece. This platform is suitable for both casual visitors and dedicated art lovers, functioning as an ever-growing virtual museum with new halls, artworks, and features added regularly to enhance the experience.

    Platform: Meta

  • Baalbek Reborn: Temples

    This VR experience is an immersive reconstruction of the magnificent Roman temple complex at Baalbek. It allows users to explore the grandeur of this ancient site as it once stood, offering historical context and educational detail about the architecture and cultural significance of the temples. Users can virtually walk through the massive columns and courtyards, gaining a sense of the scale and engineering prowess of the Roman Empire.

    Platform: Steam, Meta

  • Beltrame's Gallery

    The "Beltrame Gallery" VR app is a direct digital transposition of the permanent exhibition dedicated to Achille Beltrame. It allows users to immerse themselves in his fascinating illustrations originally created for the Domenica del Corriere. This engaging and educational experience is unique because it features the artist's own warm voice sharing personal stories and inspirations while the user interactively explores his works, offering a personal journey for art and history enthusiasts.

    Platform: Meta

  • Boulevard

    BLVRD is a platform dedicated to bringing art, architecture, and culture to people around the world through immersive digital access. By partnering with leading global museums and cultural sites, Boulevard revolutionizes the way the world engages with the arts. Utilizing 21st-century innovation and dynamic, high-quality content, Boulevard is focused on reshaping the landscape of cultural storytelling, making history and art accessible to anyone, anywhere, at any time.

    Platform: Meta

  • Douarnenez VR

    Douarnenez VR offers a historical and archaeological virtual reality experience that provides guided tours of two distinct sites. Users can explore the ancient Plomarc'h Pella site, viewing its current archaeological remains and traveling back to Roman times to see the reconstructed building used for making garum. Additionally, the experience features the Norwegian galleon, Anna Rosa (built in 1893), which users can interactively explore by manipulating its parts and changing the view scale.

    Platform: Steam, Meta, Viveport

  • Dry Visit - Underwater Visit

    This application provides a virtual reality opportunity to explore and virtually dive into underwater archaeological sites without ever getting wet. It allows users to examine artifacts and sunken structures with high fidelity, often using photogrammetry models. This initiative is part of the iMARECulture project aimed at making submerged cultural heritage accessible for education and virtual tourism, preserving the experience of these delicate sites.

    Platform: Steam

  • Great Paintings VR

    Great Paintings VR offers a focused virtual reality experience dedicated to the appreciation of masterful artworks. Users are transported to a serene virtual gallery where they can view high-resolution reproductions of famous paintings. The app typically includes educational information about the artists and the history behind the pieces, providing an engaging and accessible way to study and enjoy classic masterpieces from around the world at their leisure.

    Platform: Steam

  • Guildford Castle

    This VR experience offers an immersive historical tour of Guildford Castle. Users can explore a detailed virtual reconstruction of the castle as it existed in various historical periods, going beyond the ruins seen today. The experience is educational, providing insights into the castle's architecture, daily life within its walls, and its role in English history, making it a compelling way to engage with the past.

    Platform: Steam

  • London Museum Of Water & Steam

    This application provides a virtual reality experience of touring a museum dedicated to steam power and the Industrial Revolution. Users can explore various steam engines, industrial machinery, and historical exhibits in a virtual environment. The experience is educational, offering detailed information and interactive elements to demonstrate how these powerful machines shaped the modern world.

    Platform: Steam, Meta

  • Maria Blanchard VR Gallery

    This is a dedicated Virtual Reality museum honoring the Franco-Spanish painter, Maria Blanchard (1881–1932), a key, groundbreaking female figure of L'école de Paris. The experience allows players to explore 65 of her works across several rooms representing key historical dates. A virtual character explains her complex biography, covering her genius and intelligence, while users enjoy free locomotion for navigation. The primary purpose is to honour her legacy and introduce the public to her significant contributions.

    Platform: Steam, Meta

  • MasterWorks: Journey Through History

    This application allows users to travel to three continents and visit some of the world's most amazing places spanning over 3000 years of human history. Users can discover the ancient capital of Thailand, the mysteries of a pre-Incan temple in the Peruvian Andes, and the Native American cliff dwellings of Colorado. The MasterWorks Museum transports visitors to four fully explorable environments where they can collect artifacts and learn from archaeologists and scientists about the challenges these sites face today.

    Platform: Meta, Viveport

  • Mayflower Reflections

    Mayflower Reflections is an engaging VR film that provides an immersive exploration of the historical Mayflower Voyage of 1620. The film draws compelling parallels between that journey and contemporary society, delving into the motivations of the Plymouth colonists and the dangers of their transatlantic crossing. It highlights the crucial influence of the native settlers on the colony's survival, bringing this inspiring 400-year-old story to life through unique artwork and original music.

    Platform: Steam, Meta, Viveport

  • Mona Lisa: Beyond The Glass

    This VR experience offers an intimate and highly detailed exploration of Leonardo da Vinci's iconic masterpiece, the Mona Lisa. Developed in partnership with the Louvre, the application allows users to get closer to the painting than is possible in real life. It provides historical context, reveals details about the subject and the painting technique, and simulates X-ray vision to uncover the work's hidden layers and history.

    Platform: Steam, Viveport

  • Museum of Digitized Heritage

    This is a non-profit VR project dedicated to sharing 3D-scanned archives of cultural heritage sites from around the globe. The first edition features four exceptional sites from Spain's La Mancha region, including the medieval Calatrava La Nueva Church. The application allows users to walk or teleport through these huge spaces while accessing audio guides informed by current historical research at points of interest, making significant architecture accessible and inclusive.

    Platform: Meta

  • Muze XR

    Muze XR is an early access social VR platform that provides sophisticated virtual spaces centered around art, technology, and gaming. With a focus on stunning graphics, the app lets users explore various exhibitions and galleries, interact with computer history brought to life, and play classic arcade games while experiencing fascinating visual illusions. It supports collaboration and content sharing via a shared web browser, with future plans to allow users to create their own unique spaces.

    Platform: Meta

  • Nefertari: Journey to Eternity

    This VR experience offers an unparalleled tour inside the exquisitely preserved tomb of Queen Nefertari in Egypt. Users can virtually walk through the burial chambers, closely examining the vibrant, detailed wall paintings that recount ancient Egyptian myths and rituals. The experience provides deep historical and archaeological context, making the wonder of this inaccessible site available to a global audience with stunning visual fidelity.

    Platform: Steam, Meta, Viveport

  • Notre Dame de Paris: Journey Back in Time

    This sensational virtual tour meticulously reconstructs Notre-Dame de Paris as it appeared two centuries ago during the French Revolution. Utilizing the highly acclaimed 3D model originally developed by Ubisoft (a 5,000-hour project guided by historians), the tour allows users to explore various viewpoints from the nave to the spire. The immersive experience places the user in the heart of a living, late 18th-century Paris, complete with a Bach fantasia auditory backdrop.

    Platform: Steam, Meta

  • Parliament - Parlement

    This VR experience offers a comprehensive virtual tour of the Canadian Parliament buildings, including areas not typically accessible to the public. Users can explore the historic architecture, chambers, and halls, learning about the country's legislative process and history. It is designed to be an educational and engaging way for citizens and students to connect with their political institutions remotely.

    Platform: Steam

  • Prehispanic Museum

    This application provides an immersive journey through a surreal virtual space where users can admire a collection of pre-Hispanic artifacts from various ancient Mexican cultures. The items are displayed at their real scale, offering a tangible sense of their size and detail. The experience is enhanced with audio guides providing informative descriptions, and users have the additional interactive feature of being able to expand their knowledge further with the help of integrated artificial intelligence.

    Platform: Meta

  • Roald Amundsen's House

    This application is a virtual reality tour of the historic home of the famous Norwegian polar explorer, Roald Amundsen. Users are granted virtual access to explore the preserved rooms, artifacts, and personal effects of the man who first reached the South Pole. The experience offers intimate insight into his life, preparations, and the era of grand polar exploration, preserving the legacy of this significant historical figure.

    Platform: Steam, Meta

  • Smithsonian American Art Museum

    This VR experience allows users to explore a virtual gallery showcasing selected artworks from the Smithsonian American Art Museum. By transporting pieces "Beyond The Walls" of the physical museum, it allows global access to its collection. The app typically provides high-resolution viewing of paintings and sculptures, along with expert commentary and educational context about the artists and their impact on American art history.

    Platform: Steam

  • Smithsonian Journey: Venice

    Smithsonian Journeys: Venice is an immersive 3D 360° video tour of Venice, Italy, offering over 30 minutes of on-location footage. The tour is expertly guided by Professor Kenneth R. Bartlett, a distinguished expert in Italian history. Viewers can participate in classic Venetian activities, such as riding a gondola under the Bridge of Sighs and visiting Piazza San Marco, while the professor shares fascinating historical and cultural facts throughout the memorable journey.

    Platform: Meta

  • The Art Gallery VR

    The Art Gallery VR is a unique virtual reality experience that takes art lovers on a journey through the works of masters like Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Claude Monet, and Rembrandt. This application transports users to a stunningly designed virtual art gallery where they can explore iconic paintings up close and personal. From the comfort of their own home, users are moved into a space that replicates the ambiance and sounds of a traditional museum setting.

    Platform: Meta

  • The Finnish Virtual Art Gallery

    This application is a unique Virtual Reality art gallery that allows users to explore a curated collection of the most famous paintings from Finland. The gallery itself is distinctively set on a space station, featuring a main exhibition, a warehouse, and a dedicated extra gallery showcasing the works of Mr. Hugo Simberg. The experience highlights prominent Finnish artists, including Akseli Gallen-Kallela, Albert Edelfelt, and Helene Schjerfbeck, offering a creative twist on the museum format.

    Platform: Steam, Meta, Viveport

  • The Night Cafe

    The Night Cafe is an immersive virtual reality experience that allows users to literally step into the world of Vincent van Gogh, offering a first-hand exploration of his iconic paintings. Users can move through the environment, enjoying famous works like the sunflowers and viewing objects such as his bedroom chair from every angle. The developers creatively expanded on unseen areas—imagining details just beyond the edges of Van Gogh's original canvases—to create a seamless, vivid, three-dimensional space.

    Platform: Steam, Meta, Viveport

  • The OmniGallery

    The OmniGallery is an expanding VR art museum that offers a true "multiverse" of exhibits, allowing visitors to get up close to great works from the past, present, and future without physical restrictions. The gallery is organized into distinct universes: The Classic Hill showcases pre-Modern art, including works by Da Vinci and Van Gogh, while the Diorama-Rama features nearly 100 expressions of 3D art. Users navigate The Main Hall, which contains portals to each universe.

    Platform: Steam, Meta

  • UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Germany

    This application offers a new, immersive way to experience the diversity of Germany's UNESCO World Heritage Sites using 360-degree panoramas. It allows users to explore cultural and natural treasures alone or together with others in a multiplayer mode. The experience is designed to be educational and entertaining through a playful approach, where users can solve interactive tasks, collect badges, and learn interesting facts about each site in a barrier-free, inclusive environment.

    Platform: Meta

  • Vintage Dinosaur Museum

    This is a virtual reality experience that simulates a museum filled with various dinosaur exhibits. The museum contains several interactable elements: users can aim a virtual finger-ray at pedestal-based fossils to read information about them. Navigation is controlled using the joysticks, and users are encouraged to walk toward the T-Rex and enjoy the show, checking out the fossils and video information by standing in designated circles.

    Platform: Meta

Design and creativity

These tools are used for creating, designing, and prototyping in three-dimensional space. They enable users to sketch, paint, model complex objects, brainstorm ideas (mind-mapping), and build functional prototypes for products or XR experiences, often featuring real-time collaboration.

  • Blender

    Blender is the free and open-source 3D creation suite that supports the entire digital production pipeline, including modeling, sculpting, rigging, animation, and rendering. This powerful, versatile software is used by individuals, small studios, and artists for everything from animated films and visual effects to game asset creation.

    Platform: Windows

  • CADDY

    This is a 3D CAD Visualization tool that uses hand tracking, gestures, and poses to allow users to interact directly with models. Key features include viewing exploded and cross-section views, scaling parts, and building sub-assemblies on a dedicated table. Users can also write or draw in freeform 3D and measure both real-world and virtual assets. Crucially, the tool supports collaboration, allowing teams to work together on the same assembly in a networked distributed or local co-located state.

    Platform: Meta

  • CalcFlow

    Calcflow is a free virtual reality tool designed for the visualization and manipulation of complex mathematical concepts, specifically in the field of calculus. It allows users to view 3D graphs, vectors, and equations in a spatial environment, providing an intuitive, hands-on way to understand multivariable calculus concepts that are difficult to grasp on a 2D plane. It serves as an innovative educational and professional visualization tool.

    Platform: Steam, Meta, Viveport

  • Cosmic Sugar

    Cosmic Sugar VR is an artistic creation tool that allows users to draw and interact with colourful, dynamic, and flowing particles in a three-dimensional space. It is designed to be a relaxing and visually stunning experience where users can manipulate the physics and motion of "cosmic sugar" with their hands. This app focuses on abstract digital art and sensory engagement rather than precise geometric modeling.

    Platform: Steam, Meta, Viveport

  • Google Blocks

    Google Blocks is a free, open-source VR modeling application that enables users of any skill level to easily create 3D objects and volumetric masterpieces using just six simple tools. Originally developed by Google as "Blocks," it was made open source in July 2024. The Icosa Foundation has since taken on the codebase as a fork, continuing development to ensure this accessible and creative VR tool remains available for users to bring their applications and imagination to life.

    Platform: Steam, Meta

  • Gravity Sketch

    Gravity Sketch is an intuitive and immersive 3D creation platform that allows users to design, visualize, and interact with their ideas directly in three-dimensional space. It enables users to create the way they think, experiencing their designs at true scale and shaping them with natural hand gestures. Furthermore, Gravity Sketch fosters real-time collaboration, letting multiple users design together in the same virtual space, making the creative process feel as seamless and collaborative as working together in a physical studio.

    Platform: Steam, Meta, Viveport

  • Microsoft Maquette

    Maquette is a VR mock-up tool for spatial prototyping. It lets anyone create fully immersive concept sketches directly in the headset. Features include 3D content creation, composition, storyboarding, a library of primitives, annotations, and an easy-to-use UX. A Unity addon is also available.

    Platform: Steam, Meta

  • Noda

    Noda is a VR application designed as a "Space for Connected Thinking," enabling users to overcome the limitations of 2D screens by mapping their complex ideas in limitless, multidimensional space. This platform allows ideas to take shape all around the user, using natural body movements and voice to enhance the process of building conceptual structures. People use Noda for diverse activities like mind-mapping, project planning, storyboarding, and creating network diagrams, supporting both independent reflection and multiplayer collaboration.

    Platform: Steam, Meta, Viveport

  • Open Brush

    Open Brush is a community-powered, open-source XR application that allows users to paint and create art directly in 3D space, evolving from Google's original Tilt Brush. Your "canvas" is the space around you, enabling you to gain new perspectives by simply moving your head. The platform offers a rich palette of 48 unique brush types, including effects like fire, water, and light beams. Users can select from a large variety of environments, making anything possible as you unleash your imagination.

    Platform: Steam, Meta, Viveport

  • Shapes XR

    ShapesXR is a powerful, collaborative 3D design tool enabling users to prototype 3D products and XR applications within minutes, even without prior 3D experience. It offers an extensive library of assets, the ability to import custom 2D/3D content, and procedural primitives for building. Designed for professional teams, it supports features like animations and interactive triggers, and integrates with workflows by allowing import of Figma prototypes and export to Unity via a dedicated plugin.

    Platform: Meta

  • Sketchfab VR

    Sketchfab VR is an application that acts as a portal to a showcase of incredible 3D and VR experiences, ranging from remote places and fantastic creatures to cultural heritage sites and scientific models. It serves as a gateway to the world's largest library of user-generated VR content, stemming from the Sketchfab platform's community of over half a million creators. The app presents a curated selection, allowing users to instantly explore millions of 3D wonders, such as walking among dinosaurs or exploring Rome.

    Platform: Steam, Meta, Viveport

  • Tilt Brush

    Tilt Brush is an original virtual reality application developed by Google that allows users to paint in three-dimensional space. Unlike traditional painting, the user's canvas is the virtual world around them, enabling them to create works that they can walk around and through. The tool features dynamic brushes, including lights, stars, and smoke, offering a unique and powerful way to express creativity spatially.

    Platform: Steam, Meta, Viveport

  • Twinmotion

    Twinmotion is a real-time 3D visualization software powered by Unreal Engine, primarily for architecture, urban planning, and landscape design. It enables quick creation of high-quality images, videos, and interactive presentations from BIM or CAD models. Its intuitive tools let users easily add environment features like weather, season changes, dynamic objects, and vast asset libraries for immersive communication of design ideas.

    Platform: Windows

  • Unity Engine

    Unity is a real-time 2D and 3D development platform popular for creating games, interactive simulations, and AR/VR experiences. It uses a component-based architecture and C# scripting. Unity offers a comprehensive suite of tools for graphics, physics, animation, and asset management, making it versatile for developers from small indies to large studios.

    Platform: Windows

  • Unreal Engine

    Unreal Engine is a powerful real-time 3D development platform by Epic Games, renowned for its photorealistic graphics and versatility. It is used widely for creating AAA video games, cinematic visual effects, high-fidelity architectural visualizations, and immersive simulations. Key features include the Blueprint visual scripting system and cutting-edge rendering technologies like Nanite and Lumen.

    Platform: Windows

Experiences and general

This is a mixed category covering applications focused on narrative storytelling, social interaction, light gaming, and general utility. This includes cinematic VR films, social meeting spaces (Alcove, RecRoom), non-educational simulations, and general platform utilities.

  • After Solitary

    This virtual reality experience focuses on the profound psychological and emotional impact of solitary confinement. It aims to create empathy and understanding by simulating the isolated environment and the mental toll of extreme isolation on an inmate. The experience is typically designed as a powerful narrative piece to raise awareness about prison conditions and human rights issues.

    Platform: Steam

  • Aircar

    Aircar is a free, atmospheric flight simulator and experience that puts the user in the cockpit of a futuristic flying vehicle. The app focuses heavily on providing a sense of scale, mood, and immersion as the user navigates a sprawling, detailed cityscape. It is less about complex mission objectives and more about the enjoyment of tranquil, low-fidelity, stylized virtual flight.

    Platform: Steam, Meta

  • Alcove

    Alcove is a virtual reality platform that serves as a portal to new worlds, offering a diverse range of experiences specifically designed to share with friends and family. Users can travel the world together with hundreds of virtual tours, explore the ocean, practice guided or unguided meditation in nature, listen to music, and play simple games. It also allows users to upload and watch their own standard and 360-degree videos together, making it a social hub for all ages to connect and discover.

    Platform: Meta

  • Allumette

    Allumette is a celebrated, narrative cinematic VR experience presented as a short film. It tells a touching story of love, sacrifice, and the relationship between a mother and her daughter in a floating, cloud-based city. The user observes the drama unfold around them in 360-degrees, allowing them to lean in and inspect the detailed, miniature world of the characters.

    Platform: Steam, Meta, Viveport

  • Becoming Homeless: A Human Experience

    This VR experience is designed to immerse the user in the challenging reality of becoming homeless. It attempts to create empathy by guiding the user through the emotional and logistical difficulties faced by individuals who lose their homes. By simulating the loss of resources, social isolation, and stress, it serves as a powerful awareness tool to promote understanding of poverty and systemic issues.

    Platform: Steam, Meta, Viveport

  • Belle II in VR

    This VR experience is related to the Belle II particle physics experiment located in Japan. While the core experiment is scientific, the application itself functions as a virtual tour or interactive visualization of the particle detector and its processes. It is designed to engage users with the complexity of high-energy physics in a spatial environment, making the massive scale of the machinery comprehensible.

    Platform: Steam, Meta

  • Bodyswaps - Soft Skills Training

    Bodyswaps is an innovative platform offering AI-powered immersive simulations to help students and employees develop crucial personal and professional soft skills for the modern workplace. Primarily designed for institutional use, it features a library of over 30 modules where users practice with virtual humans using their own voice. Key features include personalized AI feedback, self-reflection through perspective-swapping, and a secure platform to track skill progression and confidence levels.

    Platform: Meta

  • Experience Colorblindness

    This VR application is a utility tool designed to simulate various forms of colorblindness. It allows users with normal vision to experience the world as it is perceived by individuals with different types of color vision deficiency (e.g., protanopia, deuteranopia). This experience is primarily educational and empathetic, helping designers, educators, and family members understand the daily challenges of colorblindness.

    Platform: Steam, Meta, Viveport

  • Home - A VR Spacewalk

    This application provides a high-fidelity virtual reality simulation of conducting a spacewalk outside the International Space Station (ISS). It accurately replicates the physics of moving in zero gravity and the breathtaking visual spectacle of viewing Earth from space. The goal is to provide a realistic and awe-inspiring experience of being an astronaut performing duties in the vacuum of space.

    Platform: Steam, Meta

  • Hunger

    This virtual reality experience focuses on raising awareness about the global issue of hunger and food insecurity. It often employs narrative storytelling or documentary elements to place the user directly into scenarios that illustrate the daily struggles faced by individuals and communities affected by lack of food. The app serves as a tool for empathy and social advocacy.

    Platform: Steam

  • Into the Scaniverse

    Scaniverse is a free platform that allows users to explore the world through vivid 3D scenes captured by a global community of everyday explorers. Users can "travel the globe" and dive into over 50,000 scans, from famous landmarks to hidden treasures, with the library constantly expanding. Additionally, the application empowers users to create their own 3D scans instantly using their mobile phone and then experience these, or any other scene, in an immersive VR environment.

    Platform: Meta

  • JigSpace VR

    JigSpace is a platform designed to enhance learning and exploration by providing interactive 3D knowledge for virtually anything. Based on the principle that people learn better when engaging with the world in three dimensions, the platform offers users the ability to dive into numerous interactive "Jigs" to satisfy their curiosity and learn at their own pace. By delivering answers to the question "How does that work?" directly in beautiful, interactive 3D, JigSpace offers a way to learn better.

    Platform: Meta

  • LUX SINE

    LUX SINE is a virtual reality experience that is primarily focused on abstract visual art and atmospheric, light-based environments. It often involves interactive elements where users can manipulate light sources, colors, and dynamic geometric shapes to create a sensory experience. The app emphasizes artistic expression and contemplative interaction over specific game mechanics or educational content.

    Platform: Steam

  • Mannerheim Virtual Experience

    This VR application is a biographical and historical experience centered on Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, a key figure in Finnish history. It guides the user through significant moments of his life and career, often including tours of relevant historical locations or interactive exhibitions of artifacts related to him. The goal is to educate the user about his legacy as a military leader and statesman.

    Platform: Steam

  • Materials VR

    This virtual reality experience is focused on materials science and engineering. It allows users to visualize and interact with the internal structure and properties of various materials, such as metals, polymers, or ceramics, at a microscopic or atomic level. The application serves as an interactive educational tool for students and professionals to better understand how a material's structure influences its performance.

    Platform: Steam

  • Pollinator Park

    Pollinator Park is a VR experience from the European Commission that serves as a dystopian warning and a beacon of hope regarding the future of our ecosystems. Set in Europe 2050 after ecological crises, the park is a futuristic farm created by Dr. Beatrice Kukac as a safe haven for pollinating insects. It allows visitors to unravel Dr. Kukac's story, attempt pollination themselves, and experience grocery shopping in a pollinator-deprived world, emotionally engaging them on nature protection.

    Platform: Meta, Viveport

  • Sesqui VR

    This describes a collection of six unique 360° video and XR experiences that celebrate diverse Canadian culture, history, art, and landscapes. The collection includes narrative pieces like Polarman and interactive music videos, such as A Tribe Called Red: Indian City 360°, where viewers can "mix" the song with their eyes. Together, these pieces offer viewers a comprehensive and dynamic perspective of Canada through various immersive storytelling formats.

    Platform: Meta

  • Short Circuit VR

    Short Circuit VR is a general virtual reality application that likely provides a collection of short-form, high-impact VR experiences. This often includes short cinematic pieces, quick games, or small, non-specific interactive environments. Its focus is on providing easily consumable, diverse bursts of virtual reality content for casual users.

    Platform: Steam, Viveport

  • The Book of Distance

    The Book of Distance is a poignant, narrative cinematic VR experience that tells a moving, personal story of a Japanese-Canadian family separated by World War II. The user is immersed in the historical journey of the creator’s grandfather, who emigrated to Canada but was later interned. The experience is a powerful exploration of memory, family legacy, and historical injustice, presented with beautiful, stylized visuals.

    Platform: Steam, Meta, Viveport

  • The Marvellous Machine

    The Marvellous Machine is a virtual reality experience that typically involves exploring or interacting with a complex, often fantastical, mechanical device or automaton. It may involve puzzle-solving or simply witnessing the intricate workings of the fictional machine. The app focuses on aesthetic design, imaginative mechanics, and providing a sense of wonder.

    Platform: Steam, Meta

  • TriptoVR

    TripToVR is an immersive virtual reality travel application that serves as a lifelike gateway to the world's most enchanting destinations, all from the comfort of home. The app allows users to experience the vibrancy of cities and landscapes with stunning realism, visiting locations like the bustling streets of Tokyo, the serene canals of Venice, or the tranquil beaches of Cape Town. TriptoVR also offers an Earth-from-space view to select destinations, with new locations added weekly.

    Platform: Meta

Science and education

This category includes apps primarily designed for learning, academic study, and technical training. They offer interactive 3D models for subjects like anatomy and chemistry, simulations of space exploration (e.g., ISS, planets), virtual labs, and science-based documentary experiences.

  • 3D Organon VR

    This is a comprehensive and highly detailed anatomical XR tool trusted by top universities, healthcare organizations, and professionals globally. Designed to facilitate learning, the platform allows institutions to host interactive, multi-user sessions with up to 100 participants, all accessible across multiple devices. Its detailed models and collaborative features make it an essential tool for medical education and professional development, requiring an active subscription for full features.

    Platform: Steam, Meta, Viveport

  • CAPCOM GO! Apollo VR Planetarium

    This VR experience functions as a virtual planetarium that is specifically focused on the historic Apollo missions. It immerses users in the story of humanity's journey to the Moon, featuring detailed information, historical audio, and visual reconstructions of the spacecraft and launch sequences. It serves as an educational tool to celebrate the achievements of NASA and the science behind space exploration, transporting users to a front-row seat for the moon landing.

    Platform: Steam, Viveport

  • Coral Compass: Fighting Climate Change in Palau

    This VR experience focuses on the critical issues of climate change and marine conservation, specifically within the waters of Palau. The application is designed to educate users about the threats facing coral reefs and the steps being taken to protect them. Users are immersed in the ecosystem, learning about the local conservation efforts and the impact of environmental changes on marine life in this sensitive region.

    Platform: Steam, Meta

  • Google Earth VR

    Google Earth VR lets you explore the world from totally new perspectives in virtual reality. Stroll the streets of Tokyo, soar over the Grand Canyon, or walk around the Eiffel Tower. This virtual reality app lets you see the world’s cities, landmarks, and natural wonders. You can fly over a city, stand at the top of the highest peaks, and even soar into space. Earth VR comes with cinematic tours and hand-picked destinations that send you to the Amazon River, the Manhattan skyline, the Grand Canyon, the Swiss Alps, and more.

    Platform: Steam, Meta

  • Ecosphere

    'Ecosphere' is an award-winning social impact documentary platform that utilizes immersive 360° VR episodes to showcase global conservation efforts. The platform features two seasons, focusing on indigenous and community-led wildlife conservation in locations like Kenya, Borneo, and Raja Ampat, often in partnership with organizations like WWF and the United Nations. It highlights how communities are building resilience and working to secure the future of our planet through powerful virtual storytelling.

    Platform: Meta

  • Edmersiv

    Edmersiv is an educational virtual reality application designed to bring classroom subjects to life through immersive experiences. The platform offers interactive lessons and simulations across various curriculum topics, aiming to increase student engagement and understanding of complex concepts. It transforms abstract ideas into tangible, three-dimensional learning environments, making education more accessible and effective than traditional methods.

    Platform: Steam, Viveport

  • EON-XR

    EON-XR is EON Reality's flagship mixed reality platform designed to significantly enhance learning, training, and performance. It achieves this by providing users with unforgettable, hands-on immersive experiences. Students and employees can interact with 3D models and environments using a wide range of devices, from smartphones to dedicated VR headsets. Uniquely, EON-XR removes the need for coding, empowering subject matter experts such as teachers and trainers to easily create and share their own mixed reality lessons.

  • Galactic Center VR

    This application provides a virtual reality experience focused on the center of the galaxy. Users are transported through space to witness the environment surrounding the supermassive black hole, Sagittarius A*. The experience uses scientific data and visualizations to illustrate cosmic phenomena, stellar density, and the gravitational forces at play in this dense region of the Milky Way, serving as an advanced astronomical educational tool.

    Platform: Steam, Viveport

  • GeoGebra MR

    GeoGebra Mixed Reality is an advanced tool specifically designed for mathematics education. It allows users to visualize and interact with complex mathematical concepts, equations, and 3D geometric shapes in a mixed reality environment. By bringing abstract concepts into the user's real-world space, it helps students and educators gain a deeper, more intuitive understanding of algebra, calculus, and geometry, making difficult topics tangible.

    Platform: Steam

  • Greenland Melting

    This VR experience is based on the data and research of NASA's "Oceans Melting Greenland" (OMG) mission. It visualizes the critical process of warm ocean water melting Greenland's massive ice sheet from below. The application is designed to educate users about climate science, oceanography, and the significant impact of glacial melt on global sea level rise, making complex environmental data personally immersive.

    Platform: Steam

  • Guardians of Earth

    Guardians of Earth is an immersive virtual and mixed reality experience developed for Meta Quest that allows users to participate in the Planetary Defence initiative through the lens of the European Space Agency’s Hera mission. The adventure includes a mixed reality puzzle game where users rebuild the Hera probe, a 360° VR experience simulating Hera's journey to the Didymos-Dimorphos asteroid system, and an infographic detailing the instruments used to analyze potential Earth threats.

    Platform: Meta

  • InCell

    This game-based educational concept places the player in the role of a scientist attempting to cure a volunteer, Mrs. Jane Smith, and develop new healing technology. The main challenge involves navigating a microscopic path by selecting the correct sequence of cell organelles to reach the nucleus. The player must then engage in "innovative radial racings" between these organelles, which provide unique abilities to strategically enhance the player's performance or protect the cell.

    Platform: Steam, Meta

  • InMind VR

    InMind is a virtual reality application that takes users on a scientific journey inside the human brain. The experience often involves traveling through the neuronal landscape to visualize the effects of psychological disorders or to witness the firing of synapses. It is designed to be a visually stunning and educational tool that provides an immersive perspective on neuroscience and the complex structures of the human mind.

    Platform: Steam, Meta

  • Journey to the Centre of the Cell

    This virtual reality experience transports users deep inside a living biological cell. It is designed to be an educational tool that allows users to navigate and interact with organelles, molecules, and biological processes at a microscopic level. The goal is to provide a comprehensive, three-dimensional understanding of cell biology that is difficult to achieve with traditional two-dimensional models.

    Platform: Steam

  • LabTrainingVR: Biosafety Cabinet

    This application provides virtual reality training specifically focused on the safe and proper operation of a Biosafety Cabinet. It simulates a laboratory environment, allowing users to practice crucial procedural steps, including decontamination and sterile technique, without the risk or cost of real-world mistakes. This ensures personnel are competent and adhere to strict safety standards before entering a physical lab.

    Platform: Steam, Meta

  • LabTrainingVR: PPE

    This VR application is a specialized training module focused on the correct donning, doffing, and use of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE). It simulates various high-risk environments, allowing users to practice complex sequences safely and repeatedly. The experience is crucial for fields like healthcare and specialized laboratories, ensuring adherence to strict protocols and minimizing the risk of exposure or contamination.

    Platform: Steam, Meta

  • Looking Inside Cells

    This application offers a virtual reality perspective on the interior structure and function of biological cells. It enables users to view organelles and biological processes in a magnified, three-dimensional space. The experience serves as an educational aid for students and researchers to better understand cytology, biochemistry, and the complex machinery of life at the molecular level.

    Platform: Steam, Viveport

  • MarsVR

    MarsVR is a virtual reality simulation designed to immerse users in the environment of the planet Mars. It often utilizes real data from NASA missions to create a realistic landscape, allowing users to drive rovers, explore famous landmarks, and experience the conditions on the Martian surface. It functions as both an educational tool for space science and a realistic training simulation for future astronauts.

    Platform: Steam

  • Mission:ISS

    This Emmy-nominated simulation allows users to take a trip into orbit and experience life on board the International Space Station. Users learn how to move and work in zero-gravity using Touch controllers, practice docking a space capsule, and take an external spacewalk. The entire experience is made more authentic as real NASA astronauts guide the user through the ISS via integrated archival video clips.

    Platform: Meta

  • Mozaik3D

    Mozaik3D is an educational application for VR devices that transforms learning into an engaging adventure by providing access to a wide range of interactive 3D scenes. Designed primarily for students, this platform makes learning at home fun and enjoyable by covering diverse subjects such as history, biology, chemistry, mathematics, and visual arts.

    Platform: Meta

  • Nanome

    Nanome is the ultimate mixed reality interface for collaborative scientific discovery, focused on working with molecular data for both top R&D labs and students studying chemistry and biology. The platform allows anyone to build 3D molecules and simulate entire proteins within a highly collaborative environment. Nanome is feature-rich, enabling users to import molecules from databases, mutate amino acids, and use a flexible Python API for custom integrations, along with a whiteboard and Spatial Recording for sharing insights.

    Platform: Steam, Meta, Viveport

  • NASA's Exoplanet Excursions

    This application offers a virtual reality journey to explore exoplanets, which are planets orbiting stars outside of our solar system. The experience uses scientific data to visualize the diverse and often strange environments of these distant worlds. It serves as an educational extension of NASA's research, allowing users to explore the current frontier of astronomy and astrophysics.

    Platform: Steam, Meta

  • Space Dreams

    Space Dreams is an immersive virtual reality experience that allows users to discover and explore our solar system like never before, functioning as an expansion of the Kennedy Space Center experience. Users can venture through the planets and comets, with the opportunity to learn detailed information about each celestial body. Crucially, the app also highlights the tools that NASA has used and plans to use for future space exploration beyond Earth.

    Platform: Meta

  • The Body VR: Journey Inside a Cell

    This VR application takes the user on a comprehensive journey inside a human cell. Designed for educational purposes, it illustrates the complex processes of cellular biology, including DNA replication and the movement of oxygen molecules. Users gain a magnified, three-dimensional view of the body's smallest functional units, which aids in understanding fundamental concepts in biology and medicine.

    Platform: Steam

  • The Crystal Reef

    The Crystal Reef is a virtual reality experience that immerses users in a dynamic marine ecosystem, typically focusing on the effects of environmental changes. It is often used to demonstrate the impact of phenomena like ocean acidification on delicate underwater habitats. The experience educates viewers on marine biology, conservation, and the ecological consequences of human activity on coral reefs and coastal environments.

  • The Edgar Mitchell Overview Effect

    This VR application is a simulation designed to replicate the "Overview Effect," a cognitive shift reported by astronauts who view the Earth from space. The experience transports users into orbit, providing a sense of awe and connection to the planet. It is often used to promote a greater sense of global unity and environmental responsibility by simulating this profound perspective change.

    Platform: Steam

  • The Stanford Ocean Acidification Experience

    This application offers an immersive virtual underwater ecosystem, created by Stanford researchers, to help people visualize the often-unseen impact of ocean acidification. Based on marine science research, the experience allows users to observe firsthand the predicted degradation of coral reefs and the disappearance of marine life by the end of the century if CO2 emissions are not curbed, detailing the chemical breakdown process.

    Platform: Steam, Meta, Viveport

  • Warship Mars

    This VR application offers users an immersive modern-day diving expedition to explore the historic Swedish flagship Mars, which sank in 1564. Discovered in 2011, the wreck is presented via a detailed photogrammetry model. The experience features two modes: Diving Mode, where users explore and document artifacts, and Researcher Mode, where they analyze findings by engaging in missions exploring the ship's history, crew, and structure.

    Platform: Meta

  • XR Guru

    XR Guru is an interactive and immersive learning application that caters to the diverse needs of the present education system. The primary purpose of the app is to simplify visually complex topics by presenting them as illustrative and instructional 3D content. By leveraging extended reality (XR) technology, it aims to make challenging academic subjects more accessible, engaging, and easier for students to visualize and comprehend than static, two-dimensional media.

    Platform: Meta

Contact us

Adnan Farooq, Digital Facilities Technician
Extended Reality Lab
Rm 119, Elizabeth Dafoe Library
25 Chancellors Circle
University of Manitoba
Winnipeg, MB R3T 2N2 Canada

adnan.farooq@umanitoba.ca