Pretty much everything I use with my Acer WMR headset comes from Steam. The Windows Store really is a ghost town when it comes to decent, educational VR content with the exception of the Victory VR apps (article on those coming soon) and one other gem – Hold The World. This app was produced by Sky in the UK and puts the user inside London’s Natural History Museum with probably the world’s most famous natural historian and palaeontologist, Sir David Attenborough. You sit insid

When it comes to locating educational content for a PC-powered VR headset like a Vive, Rift or WMR, it can be a little tricky for three main reasons: 1. There are multiple app stores to find content and some of the content can only be found in certain app stores. 2. Not all the stores have an easy to find Education section. 3. Some content which would be great in the classroom isn’t actually tagged as educational. As such I decided to scour the three main stores – Steam, Vive

My December column for VR Focus was a top ten list of educational VR apps for 2018. As opposed to my list from 2017 (which you can read here) I chose not to just focus on Steam-based apps this year and threw in a couple of VR apps from other platforms. To read the article on the VR Focus website, click on the logo below. To access the archives of all my articles for VR Focus, click here. #VR #VRFocus #Vive #WMR

I think it’s pretty obvious that I’m a Vive guy when it comes to VR. I have a section dedicated to Vive in Education here on VirtualiTeach, I always use my Vive when I’m hosting #CPDinVR and it’s my go-to headset for testing all new 6DOF experiences. That being said, earlier this year I reviewed how we had deployed and were using our 3 Vives at JESS Dubai and decided to make a change. We have three schools at JESS – two primary schools (for students aged 3-11) and one seconda