Virtual Reality at Marian University Library

The Body VR -The Body VR is an educational virtual reality experience that takes the user inside the human body. Travel through the bloodstream and discover how blood cells work to spread oxygen throughout the body. Enter one of the billions of living cells inside our body and learn how the organelles work together to fight deadly viruses.

Sharecare VR - "Sharecare VR is a real-time simulation of the human body. Sharecare VR allows anyone to freely navigate and explore an anatomically accurate 3D model of the human body, its organs, and their natural function. Visualize how your body works. Explore organs and systems in a fully immersive 3D environment. Customize physiology and simulate diseases. Personalize the human body to represent YOU. The unprecedented power of Sharecare VR allows customization to display diseases in varying states of severity. By adding treatments, Sharecare VR helps visualize and understand medical options."

Al Zubarah - It covers the remains of a walled coastal town that once ranked as one of the Gulf’s most important pearl diving and trading centers with links extending to the Indian Ocean. The fort houses a visitor’s center. According to UNESCO, Al Zubarah was one of a long line of prosperous trading towns around the coast in what is present day Qatar. UNESCO said “Al Zubarah bears a unique testimony to the human interaction with both the sea and the harsh desert environment of the region. Pearl divers’ weights, imported ceramics, depictions of dhows, fish traps, wells and agricultural activity show how the town’s development was driven by trade and commerce, and how closely the town’s inhabitants were connected with the sea and their desert hinterland.”

Blocks - "Blocks lets you easily create 3D objects in virtual reality. Using six simple tools, you can bring your applications to life, create a volumetric masterpiece, or simply let your imagination run wild. Get inspired by others’ creations or publish your own to https://vr.google.com/objects to inspire the world around you. No matter your modeling experience, you’ll create beautiful 3D objects in no time."

BrainVis - BrainVis is an educational demo / proof of concept of visualizing and interacting with real neuroimaging data (*.trk, NIFTI), such as fiber rendering like these hairy brain images that you can for example see on Muse's "the 2nd law" album cover, or NIFTI volumes (lesion masks, labels, T1 MRI).

Calcflow - Everything starts with the math. Are you ready to see the third dimension of mathematics? Calcflow features intuitive ways for you to understand and share with your friends the complexities of three dimensional mathematical functions. Whether you want to edit our example functions or input your own, immerse yourself in beautiful graphs!

DatavizVR - Who says data visualization has to be boring? Have you ever wanted to see your data in real 3D? Imagine going inside your data and viewing it from any angle, manipulating any aspect of your data visualization with simple hand gestures. Now you can, in true “Minority Report” fashion with DatavizVR.

Exploring the Universe From Antarctica - Exploring the Universe from Antarctica takes users on a journey from the South Pole into outer space in efforts to better understand high-energy neutrinos and the research that takes place surrounding them at the IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole. Take the role of an IceCube scientist who has the ability to travel deep into space to seek out the source of a high energy neutrino that passes through the IceCube detection array.

Mission: ISS - 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 Touch controllers. Dock a space capsule, take a spacewalk, and let real NASA astronauts guide you on the ISS through archival video clips.

Nanome - Imagine a future where chemistry and the nano-scaled world are no longer difficult to understand. Imagine having the ability to build your own molecular structures out of thin air or explore the intricacies of a DNA strand or understand what medicine looks like at the molecular level.

NASA's Exoplanet Excursions - Take a guided journey through the amazing TRAPPIST-1 star system, known to be the home of 7 Earth-size exoplanets orbiting a star that is only a little larger than Jupiter. This experience is based on the best current understanding of what these worlds could be like given their sizes, densities, and proximity to their star. This experience was developed by the Communications and Education group at Caltech/IPAC and has been released in conjunction with the 15th anniversary of NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope mission. Spitzer, along with a number of other observatories on Earth and in Space, has contributed to our understanding of the TRAPPIST-1 system. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory manages the Spitzer Space Telescope mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate. Science operations are conducted at the Spitzer Science Center at Caltech.

NeuroExplorer - "Experience the evolution of the human brain from brainstem to neocortex and stimulate brain function with a virtual brain-machine interface, the Neuron Wand. This virtual reality experience is an educational tool for anyone to begin learning about the complex, but increasingly important field of neuroscience in this critical phase of humanity's evolution as we begin exploring brain-machine interfaces."

The New York Times: Apollo 11: As They Shot It - Fifty years ago, astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to walk on the moon. Follow in their footsteps, hold their camera and recreate their historic photographs for the 50th anniversary of NASA’s Apollo 11 mission.

This is Our Future, The Nature Conservancy - The numbers are shocking. Overexploitation of the world's fish stocks is growing at an alarming rate, killing vulnerable species like sharks and turtles and robbing the economies of small pacific island nations. But if we can see it, we can save it. The Nature Conservancy, a leading conservation organization, is partnering with the tech community to bring deep learning to the deep seas to transform a multi-billion-dollar tuna industry and ultimately create a world where nature and people thrive. By mounting cameras on fishing boats and advanced machine learning that can track what is getting caught, we can prevent overfishing and help threatened and endangered sea life recover without putting fishermen out of work. Step into an immersive virtual reality art experience as you journey through gallery spaces and engage with poetic sculptures that communicate information through your actions.

ENGAGE - ENGAGE is a education and training platform that seeks to transform how people share ideas and teach lessons to each other globally by harnessing the power of virtual reality technologies such as the Oculus Rift & HTC Vive.

Noda - We live in 3D. Our thinking is patterned from this three dimensional world. Putting mental notes on paper or drawing diagrams on flat surfaces means a lot is lost in translation. With Noda use your spatial thinking and interact naturally with information. Shape your knowledge and Map your understanding. Noda maps have a simple structure: Shapes hold concepts - Links show relationships between them. This format supports a wide range of topics for anything where relationships between concepts is important.

rumii - Step into your virtual reality office or classroom. rumii can be used across virtual reality headsets and desktops for collaboration, classes and meetings. Great for remote teams, education and digital nomads.

Teacher's Lens Beta - Teacher's Lens Beta is an Oculus Launch Pad winning project that strives to mitigate unconscious bias in classroom education. This is the first virtual reality app to translate the Harvard Implicit Association Test (IAT) into a game play simulation. Future iterations will include game training modules using proven methods in immersive experiences shown to reduce social biases. Decades of research have revealed that teacher expectations on student directly correlate to student performance with long term impacts on education, career, and overall life trajectory. Unfortunately, research also shows that teachers systematically have lower expectations of female and students of color. When these biases are left unchecked, consequences impact the STEM pipelines and "School to Prison" Pipelines. Traditional methods of diversity training have been largely proven to be ineffective. Debias VR believes VR technology has capacity more effectively approach measurable, de-biasing solutions.

Unimersiv - "Unimersiv is the largest platform for VR educational experiences. Our Gear VR app includes multiple field trips (from the ISS to the Acropolis of Athens) that will let you learn using Virtual Reality."