Google Cardboard VR

VR Apps that can be used for Education or for "Edutainment"


  • Google Cardboard - Cardboard puts virtual reality on your smartphone. The Cardboard app helps you launch your favorite VR experiences, discover new apps, and set up a viewer. Try out a set of included demos as well.
  • Google Cardboard Camera - With Cardboard Camera—now available on iOS as well as Android—you can capture 3D 360-degree virtual reality photos. Just like Google Cardboard, it works with the phone you already have with you. VR photos taken with Cardboard Camera are three-dimensional panoramas that can transport you right back to the moment. Near things look near and far things look far. You can look around to explore the image in all directions, and even hear sound recorded while you took the photo to hear the moment exactly as it happened.
  • Google Expeditions - Youtube tutorial of how to use it with your class. Google Expeditions is a virtual reality teaching tool that lets you lead or join immersive virtual trips all over the world — get up close with historical landmarks, dive underwater with sharks, even visit outer space! Built for the classroom and small group use, Google Expeditions allows a teacher acting as a “guide” to lead classroom-sized groups of “explorers” through collections of 360° and 3D images while pointing out interesting sights along the way.
  • Google Arts and Culture VR - Keep exploring with Google Arts & Culture. Meet the people, visit the places and learn about the events that shaped our world. Discover collections curated by experts from the most famous museums. Be moved by stories depicted in thousands of photos, videos, manuscripts and artworks on every type of screen and in virtual reality. Find your favorite artworks, create your own collections and share them with friends. Google Arts & Culture has collaborated with over 1,200 international museums, galleries and institutions from 70 countries to make their exhibits available for everyone online.
  • Google Street View - Explore world landmarks, discover natural wonders, and step inside locations such as museums, arenas, restaurants, and small businesses with Google Street View. Also create photo spheres to add your own Street View experiences. Start with your phone’s camera or add a one–shot spherical camera (like the RICOH THETA S) for easy 360º photography. Then, you can publish to Google Maps to share your photo spheres with the world.
  • Within VR - - There's short movies, documentaries and comedy from the likes of the New York Times and Saturday Night Live. Grab a pair of headphones as well to complete the fully immersive experience.
  • Wizard Academy VR - Wizard Academy is a bunch of action and learning games that launches you into a magical land where you can navigate around a village to discover the various educational and ridiculously fun challenges. A 'controller' is needed for VR which can be bought here, however in true Cardboard fashion, you can make one yourself by downloading a free kit.
  • InMind VR - InMind is a short adventure with arcade elements designed for the Google Cardboard. It's also playable without any special viewer. The game is totally free. InMind allows the player to experience the journey into the patient's brains in search of the neurons that cause mental disorder. Submerge into the microworld and experience the miracles of the human mind.
  • InCell VR - InCell is an action/racing game with a bit of strategy and science thrown into the mix in a rare and highly unusual micro world of the carefully recreated human cell. This is the right project to start your acquaintance with Cardboard VR or receive new VR impressions. The game is focused on Virtual Reality but you can play just fine without a set (Cardboard or any other). To switch VR mode off - just tap & hold the screen or use Cardboard's trigger to open main menu. A unique experimental project made by Luden.io to test the opportunities of the new Virtual Reality provided by Google Cardboard.
  • VR Tube - Experience every YouTube channel, video and creator in virtual reality. The YouTube VR app turns every video on the platform into your own virtual reality experience and reimagines YouTube as a 3D world you can explore from the inside.
  • New York Times VR - Through virtual reality, The New York Times put you at the center of the stories that only we can tell. From embedding with Iraqi forces as they fight to retake Falluja from ISIS, to climbing the spire of the World Trade Center with professional mountaineer Jimmy Chin or setting foot the alien world of Pluto, NYT VR delivers on the promise of VR to bring you places you can’t normally go. Experience our award-winning virtual reality films by New York Times journalists, in an immersive 360-degree video experience.
  • Orbulus - Its hands free, designed for and works with Google Cardboard and other Smartphone VR Viewers. You control just by looking for example look at an Orb to travel to it, carry on looking at it and go inside it! Travel the world, stand on Mars, experience the magic of King Arthurs Glastonbury Tor, get married, visit the Salt Flats, experience New Year’s Fireworks on Hong Kong Harbor or chill looking at the Northern Lights. Many more delights await.
  • VR Moonwalk - VR Moon Walk 3D provides you an exciting journey on the moon. You can see the moon and enjoy the environment using your VR eye glasses. The app works without an internet connection and it is totally free.
  • Jaunt VR - Download the free Jaunt VR app and watch over 150 premium, cinematic virtual reality experiences - with or without a headset!
  • Cardio - When the doctor’s away, who’s going to find all the broken bones and brain worms? You. Using Google Cardboard, enter a virtual reality doctor’s surgery where you search for your patient’s ailment using x-ray vision. And speaking of vision, navigate your way through the diagnosis using your eyes - just look at the eye icon for help. Cardio is a fun, child-friendly and gender-neutral immersive experience. There is no win or lose, just come and enjoy the surgery.