Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality in the Library

Dissection Simulator: Frog Edition

Join Wendy Martin, a national award-winning science teacher, to make Ribbit-ing Discoveries in this virtual reality Frog Dissection. Learn the fundamentals of the female frog anatomy in a fully immersive virtual reality experience.

Human Anatomy VR (Meta)

Human Anatomy VR makes learning about the human body easy and engaging. Customize your experience by choosing High School or University content level to match your expertise. Whether you’re studying medicine, working in healthcare, a fitness enthusiast, or simply interested in the human body, Human Anatomy VR is the ultimate resource to take your understanding of anatomy to the next level.

Key Features:

• Extensive Anatomy Library: Explore 15 body systems and over 13,000 anatomical structures.Micro anatomy in Focus: Dive deep into intricate microanatomy models.

• See the Body in Motion: Understand muscle mechanics with over 500 dynamic movement animations.

• Shrink and Explore: Use Ant Mode to see the human body from a whole new perspective.

• Learn and Test Yourself: Enjoy interactive in-app quizzes that make learning fun.

Journey to the Centre of the Cell

The Journey to the Centre of the cell takes users on a journey to the microscopic world. Explore the surface and interior of a cancer cell, exploring and learning about cellular anatomy and processes.

Abelana's Atom Maker (Steam)

Visualize atomic orbitals, navigate across energy levels, gain an intuitive understanding of the composition of atoms and their electron configurations by assembling all elements of the periodic table. An educational VR experience designed for use by enthusiasts and academics alike.

Futuclass Education (Demo version) (Meta)

Co-created with award-winning science teachers (Katrin Soika - Estonian Gymnasium Teacher of the Year 2016; Joana Jõgela - Second Prize for the Popularization of Science and Technology 2021), the learning value of each VR lesson has been proven with real students in classroom and at home.Learn Chemistry through gamified experiences in Virtual Reality! For example, hold molecules in your hand in Reaction Balancing and shoot particles to create atoms in Atomic Structure.

Nanome

The Future of Molecular Design - From drug discovery to chemistry class, Nanome is a powerful tool for research and education. Visualize, build, and simulate chemical compounds, proteins, and nucleic acids like never before. Collaborate remotely in real-time.

Gadgeteer (Steam)

Gadgeteer is a physics-based VR puzzle game where you build chain reaction machines to solve fun, intricate puzzles. Your machines will use gadgets to launch, bump, twist, and turn—creating chain reactions that may even end up tearing apart the fabric of space-time.

Mission: ISS: Quest (Meta)

Take a trip into orbit and experience life on board the International Space Station! In this Emmy-nominated simulation, learn how to move and work in zero-gravity using your controllers. Dock a space capsule, take a spacewalk, and let real NASA astronauts guide you on the ISS through informative videos and images.

Short Circuit VR (Steam)

Short Circuit VR is an electronics lab simulator in Virtual Reality. You can build your own electronic circuits with the components provided, learn basic electronics by completing challenges and just have fun while experimenting and making awesome projects!

Titans of Space Plus (Steam)

Just how big is big? Discover the answer as you tour through this holographic miniature Solar System, then venture beyond to visit some of the largest known stars.. Enjoy curated photos and facts along the way, at your own pace.

Universe Sandbox (Steam)

Universe Sandbox is a realistic physics-based space simulator that allows you to create, destroy, and interact on an unimaginable scale. It merges real-time gravity, climate, collision, and material interactions to reveal the beauty of our universe and the fragility of our planet. 
 

Numbers and Letters (Meta)

Dive into an immersive world where learning meets excitement!  Master equations and spelling in thrilling VR challenges.

Numbers Game:  Solve equations using addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division

Three exciting modes:

• Arcade: 20 equations, beat the clock.
• Time Trial: Max equations in 5 minutes.
• Survival: Endless equations, one chance to proceed.

VR Twists:

• Numbers Archery: Aim and shoot to solve.
• Numbers Whack: Hammer your way to math mastery

Paradiddle (Meta)

Learn to drum with step by step lessons, flex your skills with the built-in rhythm game, and build your own custom kit from a library of 60+ percussive instruments without the limitations of money or physical space. Fun, intuitive drumming for pros and newcomers alike!

Virtuoso (Meta)

Grab an instrument and get ready to jam in Virtuoso, your own virtual music stage! This VR musical sandbox lets anyone play and perform music in new, immersive ways. Explore a range of 7 unique instruments made for VR!  You can also add vocals with lush reverb using the virtual Microphone! Create music in real-time using the Looper and easily share it for all to hear! Even if you've never touched an instrument before, features like Tempo Sync and preset scales help you stay in time and on pitch.

Brink Traveler (Steam)

BRINK Traveler is a virtual travel experience that takes you to amazing natural locations in full 3D to feel like you're really there. Step into a postcard and visit some of the most breathtaking places on Earth today!

Ecosphere (Meta)

Venture into the wildest places on earth, where indigenous and community-led efforts are creating space for humanity and wildlife to thrive together. This app covers various places on Earth and its social impact. Whether it be Elephants in Kenya, the Sea of Islands, Marine life in Raja Ampat, plus many others.

Google Earth VR (Steam)

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.

Greenland Melting (Steam)

Using cutting-edge technology to create a state-of-the-art immersive piece, Greenland Melting allows viewers to experience being in Greenland – standing in the water in front of a glacier, flying at low altitudes over some of the world’s most stunning scenery, and diving beneath the ocean’s surface to see what NASA’s studies are revealing about how deep Greenland’s fjords go – and how quickly warm ocean water is melting them.

National Geographic Explore VR (Meta)

Set off as a National Geographic explorer to discover two of the most iconic locations on the planet! Head to Antarctica and set off on a thrilling expedition of discovery. Navigate around icebergs in a kayak, climb a massive ice shelf and survive a raging snowstorm as you search for a lost emperor penguin colony. Visit Machu Picchu, Peru and get immersed in amazing digital reconstructions of the ancient Inca citadel. Witness mummy worship, raise a cup of sacred chicha and encounter alpacas as you match Hiram Bingham’s photographs from when he rediscovered the Inca citadel.

1943 Berlin Blitz (Steam)

In September 1943, a BBC reporter boarded a plane on an allied bombing raid over Berlin. The incredible recording he returned with forms the basis of this breathtaking experience by BBC Northern Ireland and Immersive VR Education, putting you inside a Lancaster bomber as it navigates a most dangerous journey.

Anne Frank House VR (Meta)

In 1942, during the Second World War, Anne Frank, a thirteen-year-old Jewish girl and her family were forced to go into hiding to escape persecution from the Nazis. For more than two years, the Franks and 4 others would live in the “Secret Annex” of an old office building in Amsterdam, sharing the burden of living in hiding in confined quarters with the constant threat of discovery. Anne Frank House VR offers a unique and emotional insight into these two years. Experience the world-famous Secret Annex in a never before seen way. Travel back to the years of the Second World War and wander through the rooms of the Annex that housed the group of 8 Jewish people as they hid from the Nazis. Immerse yourself in Anne’s thoughts as you traverse each faithfully recreated room, thanks to the power of VR, and find out what happened to the Annex’ brave inhabitants.

Duration: 25 minutes

Antarctic Heritage Trust (Steam)

This virtual reality experience celebrates New Zealand’s first presence in Antarctica as part of the Trans-Antarctic Expedition and International Geophysical Year and shares what life was like on the ice. New Zealand-based Antarctic Heritage Trust partnered with Auckland University of Technology (AUT) to create a ground-breaking virtual reality experience of Sir Edmund Hillary’s Antarctic hut. A fully immersive experience, which includes a guided tour through the hut, it celebrates what Hillary’s 23-man team achieved in their mission to further science and exploration in the world’s most extreme environment.

Britannic: Patroness of the Mediterranean (Steam)

Explore the Britannic, sister ship of the infamous Titanic, and relive her tragic sinking after striking a mine in the First World War.

The Dawn of Art (Meta)

Let Daisy Ridley guide you in your discovery of the Chauvet Cave, a Unesco World Heritage Site, considered one the greatest scientific breakthroughs of the 20th century. Our humanity’s first masterpiece was created 36, 000 years ago in Ardèche, France. Within Chauvet Cave lies thousands of drawings, enclosed forever. The Dawn of Art is a Virtual Reality experience, including both an immersive film and a virtual visit of the cave that invites you to meet your prehistoric ancestors, the first humans who ventured in a deep subterranean world and left their marks preserved on the walls.

Guildford Castle (Steam)

Built in the wake of the Norman Conquest, Guildford Castle was one of England’s first castles and has stood for over 900 years.Visit a hyper-realistic digital double of the castle as it stands today, created using state-of-the-art 3D scanning techniques. Step into the distant past and discover the royal palace and medieval town. Travel back in time to 14th century England and see what the former regional palace and town would have looked like in the late medieval period. Experience the sights and sounds of the era, with meticulously researched historical reconstructions, medieval soundscape and dynamic day-night cycle lighting.

Hi(Story) of a Painting - The Light in the Shadow (Meta)

(Hi)story of a Painting is an animated VR series aimed at engaging young audiences with art by creating intimate, gripping and relatable experiences focused on the human stories behind some of the world’s greatest art and artists. Narrated by contemporary creative influencers, each episode uncovers themes from the artist’s context that resonate with contemporary life. This episode, “The Light in the Shadow”, explores the extraordinary story of one of today’s most celebrated Baroque artists: Artemisia Gentileschi. We follow her extraordinary journey as she navigates a time and world where women have virtually no rights and are essentially men’s property, and becomes one of Europe’s most celebrated and in-demand painters of her time. Artemisia painted herself into posterity, she was a feminist at her core and this story is about how Artemisia rose up against the odds and impressed the whole of Europe with her talent within her own lifetime, and continues to capture our imagination.

London Museum of Water & Steam (Steam)

This application is a virtual tour of the London Museum of Water & Steam museum. The application allows you to explore the museum and the functioning steam machines. The London Museum of Water & Steam is an independent museum founded in 1975 as the Kew Bridge Steam Museum. Situated on the site of the old Kew Bridge Pumping Station in Brentford, near Kew Bridge on the River Thames in West London, England, the museum is centred on a collection of stationary water pumping steam engines dating from 1820 to 1910. It is the home of the world’s largest collection of working Cornish engines, including the Grand Junction 90 inch, the largest such engine in the world. The site is an anchor point on the European Route of Industrial Heritage.

Becoming Homeless (Steam)

The Fundamental Attribution Error, as coined by a Stanford Psychology Professor, describes how we blame others when bad things happen to them, but blame the external situations when bad things happen to us. There is a misconception that losing one’s home is due to who you are and the choices you make. Becoming Homeless: A Human Experience seeks to counter this belief.

In this immersive virtual reality experience from Stanford University’s Virtual Human Interaction Lab, spend days in the life of someone who can no longer afford a home. Interact with your environment to attempt to save your home and to protect yourself and your belongings as you walk in another’s shoes and face the adversity of living with diminishing resources.

Researchers from Stanford have run thousands of participants through this experience in an effort to study the effect of VR experiences on empathy. Across our studies, we demonstrate that a VR experience changes helping behavior more than other types of perspective taking exercises, and the effect lasts months afterward. While this 7-minute journey does not come close to the immense burden of living without a home, researchers continue to find that VR experiences can be a powerful tool to help put oneself in the shoes of another.

The Book of Distance (Steam)

In 1935, Yonezo Okita left his home in Hiroshima, Japan, and began a new life in Canada. Then war and state-sanctioned racism changed everything—he became the enemy. Three generations later, his grandson, artist Randall Okita, leads us on an interactive virtual pilgrimage through an emotional geography of immigration and family to recover what was lost.

Down the Rabbit Hole (Meta)

Down the Rabbit Hole is a VR adventure that takes place in Wonderland prior to Alice's arrival. You will discover a girl in search of her lost pet,
Patches, who has wandered into Wonderland. Throughout the game’s many twists and turns, you will find yourself exploring the most wondrous
corners of Wonderland, solving puzzles, uncovering secrets and making choices about the story along the way.

The Key (Meta)

Meet Anna. Anna doesn’t remember her past, but she has vivid dreams about it. In every one of her dreams, there is a mysterious Key. Will you be able to unlock the mystery behind The Key without sacrificing too much? The Key is a magical realism experience that will take you on a journey through dreams, facing challenges and difficult decisions, leading to a shocking reveal. (20-minute, standing interactive theatrical VR experience)

Lie in My Heart (Steam)

How would you react to your child's mother ending her own life? Would you make the same choices I made? Would you feel the same regret? How would you support your child through this painful moment of life? Both a visual novel and an adventure game, Lie in My Heart is the exploration of a family tragedy and of the autobiographical possibilities of videogames. The game relies on the concept of « expressive games »: play experiences that give players the opportunity to take someone’s place in order to explore personal psychological and social issues, as well as moral and ethical dilemmas and their consequences.

Moss (Meta)

When an ancient magic is awakened, Quill must embark on an epic journey—and she needs you there by her side. Together, you'll explore forgotten realms, solve cleverly-designed puzzles, and battle arcane enemies, all within a storybook world brimming with myth and magic.

Notes on Blindness (Meta)

In 1983, after decades of steady deterioration, John Hull became totally blind. To help him make sense of the upheaval in his life, he began documenting his experiences on audio cassettes. These original diary recordings create the basis of this interactive non-fictional narrative which is a cognitive and emotional experience of blindness.

A Show of Kindness (Steam)
A Show of Kindness is a three-act VR experience through which the user navigates an unfolding story frozen in time, crafted with meticulous detail by concept artist Peter Chan using a custom build of Tilt Brush. Tilt Brush’s room-scale technology allows users to walk through three scenes and listen to the ambient sounds that each character inspires. In this three part story, you will journey with our protagonist, a young girl searching for a home, through staggering environments and whimsical creations in Chan’s heartwarming immersive storytelling vignette.

Numbers and Letters (Meta)

Dive into an immersive world where learning meets excitement!  Master equations and spelling in thrilling VR challenges.

Letters Game:

Boost literacy and spelling skills. Find missing letters to complete words or race and slice to find the correct word.

Noun Town: VR Language Learning (Steam)

Noun Town: VR Language Learning is the new way to learn a foreign language! Pick things up, listen, read, and speak your chosen language in a world that regains color as you learn. Test your skills with mini-games & talk to the local villagers. Learn Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Spanish, and more.

Virtual Speech (Meta)

With AI-powered avatars, real-time feedback, and realistic environments, you’ll improve your workplace skills in areas such as presentations, leadership, sales, difficult conversations, and more. Practice in over 50 environments where you’re safe to learn from mistakes with no real-life consequences.  Learn how to use the features via this guide: https://virtualspeech.com/app-guide

All-In-One Sports VR (Steam)

13 sports are featured here: archery, billard, baseball, basketball, badminton, bowling, boxing, dart, golf, table tennis, tennis, volleyball, and squash.

First Person Tennis ‐ The Real Tennis Simulator (Steam)

Now, you can play on a real tennis court and face professional tennis players. You'll have to show all your technical and tactical skills.

Eleven Table Tennis (Steam)

The ultimate Table Tennis simulator. Play opponents from around the world or hone your skills by playing a match against our AI.

PowerBeatsVR (Steam)

PowerBeatsVR is a high-intensity VR fitness game where you box, dodge, and squat to the rhythm of energetic music. Choose between official songs with leaderboards and dozens of professional workouts or play with your own music using the generator. See those calories burn and your pulse racing

Cubism (Meta) - Mixed Reality

Challenge your mind in Cubism, a deceptively simple puzzle game where you assemble increasingly complex shapes out of colorful blocks. Immerse yourself in a zen environment as you reason your way through 90 puzzles which will put your spatial thinking skills to the test.

First Encounters (Meta) - Mixed Reality

You are on a strange new planet and pesky space puffians are about to flood into your room. Catch as many as you can before time runs out – match colors for a high score!

First Hand (Meta)

First Hand is an official Hand Tracking demo built by Meta. Experience the magic of interacting with the virtual world directly with your hands. Use switches, levers, virtual UIs as you solve puzzles to build robotic gloves, and then experience their superpowers. 

Gorilla Tag (Meta)

Run, climb, and jump in VR using a unique locomotion method that only needs the movement of your hands and arms. No buttons, no sticks, no teleportation. Push off of surfaces to jump and squeeze them with both hands to climb.  The movement is easy to learn, and hard to master.

Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes

You’re alone in a room with a bomb. Your friends, the “Experts”, have the manual needed to defuse it. But there’s a catch: the Experts can’t see the bomb, so everyone will need to talk it out – fast! Put your puzzle-solving and communication skills to the test as you and your friends race to defuse bombs while attempting to communicate quickly before time runs out!

Mixed Snow Worlds  (Meta) - Mixed Reality

This is an innovative auto-adaptive Mixed Reality game that transforms your space into a magical icy realm! Your entire environment with all objects becomes part of an icy and fully immersive free roam MR and VR experience. Adorable yet mischievous monsters pop through walls, eager to freeze everything with their chilly touch. Armed with a trusty snow cannon and a special flashlight that unveils the hidden virtual world, you embark on an journey to protect your environment.