This resource was created by Rob Theriault, a pioneering VR educator currently working as Immersive Technology Manager at Georgian College.
The list contains over 500 applications designed specifically for education across several categories including soft skills, business, architecture, medical, health & safety, mental health, history and STEM. To our knowledge this is largest list of off-the-shelf virtual reality apps for teaching and learning at colleges and universities.
With most applications offering at least a free trial or free-to-access content, this is a tremendous resource for teachers and educators looking to pilot immersive learning with their students whilst being low on resources.
Finally, the vast majority of those apps are compatible with stand-alone headsets like the Oculus Quest, the Pico Neo 3 or the Vive Focus+.
The list is organised in 4 sections:
- Applications for experiential learning (376)
- Empathy building apps (47)
- Multi-user platforms for teaching synchronously online (47)
- 360 videos (20)
Disclaimer: The following list is not a complete list and is not intended as a ranking system. The following list does not reflect the views of the author or of Georgian College. For the latest updates on the list, click here.
VR apps for experiential learning
- Acupuncture: MAI AcuMap
- Agriculture: Farming,
- Architecture: Agile Lens
- Architecture: EyeCAD
- Architecture: IrisVR
- Architecture: Origami
- Architecture: Resolve
- Architecture: Revit + Enscape + Iris
- Architecture: Sentio VR (Quest 2)
- Architecture: The Wild collaborative space
- Art: Art Studio VR
- Art: BrushWork WebXR
- Art: Gravity Sketch
- Art: Kingspray graffiti
- Art: Tilt Brush copyright video, Math in TB, fashion, Fashion video
- Art: Pottery VR
- Art: Quill VR for artists and animators
- Art: ShapeLab
- Art: The Museum of Other Realities (PCVR)
- Art: MasterpieceVR - Animation on PC for VR
- Art: Vermillion
- Astronomy: VR Spacewalk
- Astronomy: Buzz Aldrin: Cycling Pathways to Mars
- Astronomy: HOME
- Astronomy: SpaceVR
- Bartending: Bartender VR Simulator video
- Biology: Nanome article, video,
- Business: AMP Creative
- Business: Bodyswap
- Business: InStage soft skills
- Business: Mursion soft skills
- Business: OvationVR public speaking video
- Business: Portico soft skills
- Business: pwc soft skills
- Business: Quytech
- Business: Serious Factory VTS - soft skills
- Business: STRIVR business training solutions
- Business: Talespin soft skills, article, article
- Business: The Glimpse Group
- Business: Vantage Point Soft skills
- Business: Vectre Perspectives
- Business: Virsabi
- Business: Virtual Bodyworks
- Business: Virtual Humans
- Business: Virtual Speech
- Career: CareerLabsVR
- Career: TRANSFR VR, video
- Child & Youth CareL Accenture video
- Coffee Barista: Sentireal AR to train baristas
- Collaboration: Matrix (mostly for science collaboration)
- Communications: In-Stage public speaking
- Communications: 911 Operator
- Communications: Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes.
- Communications: Star Trek: Bridge Crew for team building
- Correction Services: GTL prisoner rehab and training. Article, video,video, article, article,
- Culinary: Lost Recipes
- Data Analytics: Virtualitics, Quest compatibility,
- Data Analytics: BadVR
- Data Analytics: versabi
- Data Analytics: Komorebi
- Data Analytics: 3data Also called Virtual Command
- Data Analytics: Ulysses
- Dental:
- Design: Mindesk for CAD collaboration
- Design (Interior): VRTisan, video,
- Disaster Management: Adv Disaster Management
- Disaster Management: Environmental Tectonics Corporation Simulation Training Sys
- Driving: LogiTech G27 & HTC Vive Driver Sim
- Driving: VRmotion - video
- Emergency Preparedness: GTI
- Emergency Services: Fire Safety Lab
- Emergency Services: Fire FLAIM Trainer site, FLAIM Training video, Haptics to simulate heat, Webinar
- Emergency Services: Fire Guardian Airwaves
- Emergency Services: Fire Mammoth XR, P.A.S.S. training,
- Emergency Services: Fire One Bonsai fire extinguisher training. Video,
- Emergency Services: Fire Pixo VR video,
- Emergency Services: Fire NEXTGEN Interactions
- Emergency Services: Fire RelyOn Nutec (XVR uses the Teslasuit)
- Emergency Services: Fire RiVR Arson investigation, video,
- Emergency Services: Fire SmartFireFighter
- Emergency Services: Fire Vobling
- Emergency Services: Fire & Police XVR,
- Emergency Services: Police: Apex Officer
- Emergency Services: Police: Axon VR
- Emergency Services: Police: BCIT BCIT Forensic Investigator Simulator
- Emergency Services: Police: Black Marble Ltd article,
- Emergency Services: Police: Fight training
- Emergency Services: Police: Jigsaw deescalation training. Article re “Trainer”, article
- Emergency Services: Police: LEVRS 360 video
- Emergency Services: Police: MobiC
- Emergency Services: Police: NSENA de-escalation
- Emergency Services: Police: Crime scene investigation - article
- Emergency Services: Police: Wrap around video virtual training - article & video
- Emergency Services: Police: Milo Range (cave style simulation)
- Emergency Services: Police: Police Enforcement
- Emergency Services: Police: Refense
- Emergency Services: Police: RCMP training, article/video
- Emergency Services: Police: Street Smarts VR
- Emergency Services: Police: surviVR
- Emergency Services: Police: Tactical AR
- Emergency Services: Police: V-Armed article/video
- Emergency Services: Police: VR Police crime scene investigation
- Engineering - Civil: Civil Virtual Reality Laboratory
- Environmental: Beyond the Diorama: Caribou World PCVR on Steam
- Environmental: Ocean Acidification article article2 - Stanford University
- Environmental: ecoMUVE
- Environmental: This is Climate Change - article
- Environmental: Pollinator Park (website with link to webxr)
- Environmental: Tree
- Environmental: The Crystal Reef
- Environmental: The Stanford Ocean Acidification Experiment
- Environmental: Being Coral and climate change
- Environmental: Tree
- Fitness: Beat Saber
- Fitness: BoxVR
- Fitness: Creed: Rise to Glory
- Fitness: Dance Central
- Fitness: Ohshape
- Fitness: RenderFit
- Fitness: Supernatural
- Fitness: Synth Riders
- Fitness: Thrill of the fight
- Flight Services: AVIAR
- Flight Services: Flight Attendant Training using Engage
- Flight Services: Avietra video, video
- Flight Services: TF cabin crew training
- Flight Training: Visionary Training Resources
- General: 3lbXR. Trades, medical…
- General: Motive Medical, First Responder, Trades
- General: Serious VR trades
- General: The Glimpse Group
- General: XRdigitech
- General: Universive for Gear VR, Oculus and Vive - video
- General: VEATIVE
- General: VictoryXR
- Health & Safety: Digital Engineering and Magic video,
- Health & Safety: Elite VR
- Health & Safety: 3M, video,
- Health & Safety: Mindglow - Active shooter safety training. video
- History: Hiroshima - article
- History: Lithodomos VR & AR
- Hospitality: Passport To Success Myanmar (360 video hotel training)
- HR: One Bonsai fire extinguisher training. Evacuation
- Indigenous: Cut Off 360 degree video
- Indigenous: IM4 Media Lab
- Indigenous: Ogoki VR Museum. Language Learning apps. Native America App (VR)
- Indigenous: Never Alone - “an atmospheric puzzle platformer Video
- Interior Design: Chief Architecture (Rift or Vive)
- Interior Design: IrisVR
- Interior Design: Chief Architect - app
- Interior Design: Oneiros
- Interior Design: Spacecard - cardboard solution
- Interior Design: Studios
- Language: Gaeltech Irish
- Language: Immerse
- Language: immerse
- Language: ImmerseME (browser based)
- Language: LanguageLab
- Language: Mondly Languages
- Language: Witly - learn from native speakers from around the world
- Language: Wonda VR Spaces Specs video French Harvard Experience
- Language: Virtro
- Liberal Arts: Within 360 video collection
- Liberal Arts: Allumette (storytelling)
- Liberal Arts: Collose (storytelling)
- Liberal Arts: Public Speaking - Virtual Orator
- Liberal Arts: Public Speaking - Ovation, video
- Liberal Arts: Emblematic - storytelling in VR
- Library: Virtual Community Library
- Marine: CTRL Reality video
- Marine: Kilo
- Marine: Kongsberg K-Sim Navigation video
- Marine: Marine Pilots
- Marine: Morild Navigator PCVR (multiplayer)
- Marine: SQLearn
- Marine: Waartsila Voyage, simulators, video
- Marine: Virtual Marine study
- Medical: Anatomy: Biodigital
- Medical: Anatomy: BodyMap for Quest2 or Vive
- Medical: Anatomy: Sharecare YOU (free)
- Medical: Anatomy: 3D Organon YouTube channel
- Medical: Anatomy: EducationXR
- Medical: Anatomy: Virtual Medicine Human Anatomy VR
- Medical: BioFlight VR
- Medical: EasyAnatomy
- Medical: Empathy platform
- Medical: ER VR by Immersive VR (the makers of Engage)
- Medical: Fetal Heart VR (App Lab) fetal ultrasound training. Article
- Medical: Fundamental Surgery
- Medical: Lifeliqe VR Museum (free) - have some anatomy applications
- Medical: Luxonic
- Medical: Medical Realities surgical simulation app.
- Medical: Nurse’s Escape (Sepsis game from UNMC - on Sidequest)
- Medical: The Physiology of the Eye
- Medical: The Physiology of the Ear
- Medical: Ultrasound in OBS using VR
- Medical: Ultrasound CAE Health Vimedix
- Medical: Stroke assessment using mixed reality
- Medical: Triage in a multi-casualty situation - World of Rescue
- Medical: XVR triage - this might be PC based
- Medical: Virtual Heart from Stanford Children’s - video, article
- Medical: HVR Medical Training Dental, birth, surgery
- Medical: Virtual Medicine
- Med Patient Sim: 3lbXR (also for trades and other VR training)
- Med Patient Sim: Acadicus
- Med Patient Sim: Augmented Training Systems. 1st responder training, MCI, Talk
- Med Patient Sim: Avietra First Responder training (triage)
- Med Patient Sim: Axon Park
- Med Patient Sim: BioFlight VR
- Med Patient Sim: Collaborative Human Immersive Interaction Lab
- Med Patient Sim: ConquerExperience Nursing operating room training
- Med Patient Sim: Dynacor Media video
- Med Patient Sim: Dual Good Health ACLS
- Med Patient Sim: EmergeNYC
- Med Patient Sim: Emergisim EMS
- Med Patient Sim: Exonicus Trauma Simulator
- Med Patient Sim: FundamentalVR
- Med Patient Sim: Health Scholars 7 ways… ACLS (HOSP) video EMS
- Med Patient Sim: ICOM Productions, sample,
- Med Patient Sim: i3Simulation VR
- Med Patient Sim: iciteVR for Nurse Practitioner
- Med Patient Sim: Lucid Reality Labs
- Med Patient Sim: Medic Rescue - triage from Live Motion Games
- Med Patient Sim: MedVR Education
- Med Patient Sim: Nurse’s Escape
- Med Patient Sim: Oxford Medical Simulation
- Med Patient Sim: Patient Communication Simulators Spark
- Med Patient Sim: PerSim (AR patient sim)
- Med Patient Sim: Real Response triage app, video,
- Med Patient Sim: Ractive (CPR)
- Med Patient Sim: RCSI Medical Training
- Med Patient Sim: Surgical Theater
- Med Patient Sim: Triage by Dr Brennen Mills, Edith Cowan University
- Med Patient Sim: Reanimation
- Med Patient Sim: simvana Anaesthesiology simulation
- Med Patient Sim: SimX - video
- Med Patient Sim: Shift Bias covid19 PPE training video, video
- Med Patient Sim: TacMed Emergesim VR MCI Triage video,
- Med Patient Sim: UbiSim Nursing simulation
- Med Patient Sim: VR CPR
- Med Patient Sim: VRPatients
- Med Patient Sim: Virtro video
- Med Patient Sim: Wholearth
- Med Patient Sim: World of Rescue
- Med Patient Sim: Xennial Digital
- Med Patient Sim: XVR Simulation Triage
- Mental Health Crisis: Axon VR - crisis intervention
- Mental Health Crisis: Lumeto
- Mental Health: BehaVR
- Mental health: Guided Meditation VR video
- Mental Health: MentallyVR
- Mental Health: Nature Treks
- Mental Health: Relax VR (Oculus)
- Mental Health: Remind VR
- Mental Health: Tripp VR
- Mental Health: VR Pottery
- Mental health: Mindfulness: WiseMind
- Museums & Galleries: 7 VR Wonders
- Museums & Galleries: Dreams of Dali
- Museums & Galleries: Hold The World
- Museums & Galleries: Boulevard
- Museums & Galleries: Masterworks: Journey Through History
- Museums & Galleries: Musee d’Orsay, Paris (WebXR)
- Museums & Galleries: Museum of Other Realities website
- Museums & Galleries: Native American App
- Museums & Galleries: Nefertari
- Museums & Galleries: Pompeii
- Museums & Galleries: Rome Reborn: The Pantheon
- Museums & Galleries: The Grand Museum VR
- Museums & Galleries: The Kremer Museum VR Museum
- Museums & Galleries: The Rougeau Gallery
- Museums & Galleries: The OmniGallery
- M useums & Galleries: VR Museum: Art Through Time
- Music: Grand Reality learn to play piano
- Nuclear: Tecknotrove Systems
- Opticianry: Physiology of the Eye
- OTA-PTA: Neuro Rehab VR (therapy)
- Pharmacology: article, Kaegi Pharm Museum,
- Robotics: VRobot allows you to learn how to build robots in VR
- Simulation: SixSense - health, trades, etc
- Simulation: Tecknotrove Nuclear plant, Air, driving, mining, defense
- Social Studies: Becoming Homeless app article - Stanford University
- Social Studies: A 1,000 Cut Journey - article, article,
- Social Studies: The Enemy
- Social Studies: UTURN Gender equity
- Sports: StriVR
- STEM: Breaking Boundaries
- STEM: Gadgeteer (Physics)
- STEM: Hold The World
- STEM: Immerse
- STEM: Inspirit VR
- STEM: Lume VR cell microscopy
- STEM: maroon Web based
- STEM: Nano Symbox iMD article,
- STEM: Nanome
- STEM: Neotrie - math-geometry
- STEM: PC Virtual Lab - assembling a PC
- STEM: PNX Labs
- STEM: Prismsvr (App Lab Oculus) - math
- STEM: ScienceVR
- STEM: VictoryXR
- STEM: VRlabacademy
- STEM: Xennialdigital K-12 sciences
- STEM-chemistry: Hololab Champions (Vive, Rift) Video
- STEM-chemistry: HoloLABchampions video,
- STEM-chemistry: Qualium Systems video,
- STEM-chemistry: MEL Chemistry VR, Website
- STEM-chemistry: SuperChem VR, Video,
- STEM-chemistry: Labster - VR Lab simulation, VR introduction to the lab, TED
- STEM-chemistry: SuperChem, Website
- STEM-chemistry: Chemistry Lab VR
- STEM-chemistry: Chemistry for VR (Oculus)
- STEM-chemistry: VR Chemistry Lab
- STEM - engineering: PNX Labs
- STEM-physics: Physics games: Gadgeteer by Metanaut
- Subscriptions: SIMA Classroom
- Teacher Training: VRsatility, article
- Training General: Strivr
- Trades: 3M working at heights. video
- Trades: AugmentedArc for welding
- Trades: Avatar Partners Mechanics
- Trades: Brightline Interactive construction VR apps
- Trades: Digital Engineering and Magic - Electrical Power Stations
- Trades: Drill Press training
- Trades: Dynacor Media demo
- Trades: Flint mixed reality training e.g. cranes
- Trades: Elevate Training in Fall Protection, Confined Spaces, & Lockout Tagout.
- Trades: Forklift simulator
- Trades: FreerangeR
- Trades: Hinton Scaffold Solutions video
- Trades: immerse
- Trades: Interplay Learning
- Trades: ITI VR Mixed reality training on various cranes
- Trades: IVRY Technologies, electrical,
- Trades: Ludus
- Trades: Make Real
- Trades: Mimbus
- Trades: Modest Tree Xplorer
- Trades: MultVR
- Trades: Norcat
- Trades: One Bonsai fire extinguisher training. Lock out tag out (LOTO), Evacuation
- Trades: Otherside Studio video
- Trades: PixoVR Video
- Trades: Propel VR
- Trades: Proximity
- Trades: RealityWorks Welding mixed reality training (no HMD)
- Trades: Serious Labs MR experience. Crane operation, fork lift, article, article
- Trades: Shinybox
- Trades: Short Circuit VR, Steam (free) Electronics
- Trades: StrataTech OcuWeld - welding in VR video
- Trades: UP360
- Trades: Vinci - wind turbine training
- Trades: Virtualware - nuclear plant training
- Trades: VRKshop carpentry
- Trades: VRSafety (360 video)
- Trades: Worksite VR Simulator
- Trades: Wrench” video Mechanic
- Trades: Wrench Engine Building Demo (Rift/Vive) Steam, Oculus video
- Training General: Job Simulator
- Travel & Tourism: Amazon Odyssey app
- Travel & Tourism: The Kremer Museum
- Travel & Tourism: Atlas Obscura
- Travel & Tourism: Hoppin’ multi player viewing of 360 videos
- Travel & Tourism: Oneiric Masterpieces Paris
- Travel & Tourism: VR Museum of Fine Arts - Steam
- Travel & Tourism: Acute Art VR Art Museum
- Travel & Tourism: Nefertari:Journey to Eternity - Video
- Travel & Tourism: Lithodomos Ancient sites
- Travel & Tourism: National Geographic
- Travel & Tourism: Palace Of Versailles
- Travel & Tourism: Wander (Oculus Rift, Quest or Go)
- Veterinary: Llama Zoo JetsonVR
- Veterinary: Think Digital article, video, Dr. Mani Carr, University of Adelaide
- Veterinary: VictoryXR subscription - e.g. Pig Dissection
- Veterinary: Virginia Tech, Video APK file to sideload to Quest
- Welding: Lincoln Electric
VR apps for building empathy
- 1,000 Cut Journey
- 3-Fold Games Elderly: “Before I Forget”
- After Life - “tragic death of a loved one - family struggles to mend their frayed bonds”
- A Mile In My Shoes article,
- An Autistic Journey (Vive)
- Autism TMI video
- A walk through dementia:
- Axon Policing and empathy, metal health. Article,
- Bodyswaps
- Becoming Homeless: A Human Experience - video research presentation
- Coral Compus: Fighting Climate Change environment
- DebiasVR (evidence-based testing and inclusion behavior training)
- Dementia Free. Rift
- Embodied Labs being elderly, interviews, article
- Embodied Labs Palliative care
- Equal Equality VR Diversity and Inclusion Training
- Goliath: Playing with Reality
- Homeless: A Los Angeles Story
- How to create empathy in VR by Jeremy Bailenson
- I Am A Man African- American Civil Rights Movement
- Mursion “soft skills”
- Out of Exile: LGTBQ+ Description
- Perspectives Diversity & inclusion article
- Play an Aspie Life autism free PCVR (Vive)
- Podcast: Voice of VR #695,
- Praxis Labs
- Project Empathy
- Regatta VR, article Sexual Harassment
- Shift Bias
- SIMA “soft skills”
- Stanford Virtual Human Interaction Lab - empathy programs
- Social Workers Learn About Child Abuse Through A Child’s Eyes - article
- Stanford VHIL: Downloadable apps (requires PCVR)
- The Autism Simulator article
- The Book of Distance Canada’s racism toward the Japanese (article)
- The Crystal Reef
- The Enemy Social Studies
- The Last Goodbye - A Holocaust story, available via WebVR browser
- The Party: A Virtual Experience of Autism
- The Stanford Ocean Acidification Experiment
- Travelling while Black, trailer,
- UNVR Syrian refugee crisis
- Vantage Point Equity, diversion and inclusion training
- VRsatility, article - Not yet available as far as I can tell
- We are Alfred - Embodied Labs (learning empathy for the elderly)
- Virtual Bodyworks domestic violence, self conversation
- Why practicing empathy is important and how VR can help “Women in Tech”
Multi-user VR platforms for teaching synchronously online
- 3D WebWorldz (WebXR)
- Adaptika
- AfterNow
- Altspace VR - video, video, example
- AnyLand
- Artgate is both an art gallery and spatial network
- Arthur
- BigScreen Cinema
- CMCviewR collaboration and experiential platform
- Couch Live WebXR article
- Cybalounge - not clear is this is a PC or immersive VR platform
- DecentraLand
- EngageVR video, video, FAQs, e.g. class, conference - Best platform, best features
- Garou - high fidelity via PCVR.
- High Fidelity
- Hoppin’ multi player viewing of 360 videos
- Immersed
- iSee
- LearnBrite
- MeetingRoom
- Mindshow or on Steam
- mootup (same as Learnbrite?)
- Mozilla Spokes for world building
- Neos VR
- Oculus Rooms
- Pagoni VR Chimera
- Pluto VR
- RAUM
- REMIO
- rumii
- Sansar is the creator beta version of Second Life for VR
- Sinespace
- Somnium Space
- Spaces
- Spatial
- Tivoli Cloud VR
- VirBELA
- vTime
- VRChat Steam
- VREDDO video,
- Tivoli Cloud VR, video,
- UtopiaVR (british Columbia)
- Virtual Presentation Space video,
- Vive Synch
- Whiteboard VR App WebVR
- WondaVR
- XRspace
360 videos
- WITHIN - source for great 360 video content
- Art: Reuben Margolin - Waves Available via VR app Quill Theater (free)
- Climate: Melting Ice
- Climate: Feast
- Climate: Famine
- Climate: Fire
- Climate: Bring Water To The Thar Desert
- Climate:Homeless: A Los Angeles story Available via VR app Quill Theater (free)
- Conservation: “As it is“ the Grand Canyon
- Cosmology: The day the Asteroid Struck
- Covid: Inside Covid19, regular video
- Documentary: The Sun Ladies - “The Sun Ladies VR takes the viewer on an intimate journey to the lives of a group of Yazidi women fighting ISIS in Iraq” Available via VR app Quill Theater (free)
- Documentary: The wings of Mosul Available via VR app Quill Theater (free)
- Documentary: Women Fighting Terrorism
- Emergency: Car crash
- Emergency: VR Flood
- Empathy: Space/Climate: The overview effect Available via VR app Quill Theater (free)
- Empathy: I am Rohingya
- Empathy: Clouds Over Sidra
- Tourism: Cave paintings in Spain. Available via VR app Quill Theater (free)