Discover the best VR apps to travel and experience immersive experiences around the world with virtual reality, staying comfortably at home.
The restrictions on travel because of covid have certainly not diminished the desire to travel, indeed. Fortunately, waiting for you to book flights and holidays freely, we can still continue to explore the world and live extraordinary experiences with virtual reality, dreaming in open eyes comfortably sitting on the sofa of the house. Here are 10 VR apps and related virtual reality viewers supported, to which will shortly be added the new Oculus Quest 2, to travel with imagination and find inspiration for the coming real trips.
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1. National Geographic Explore VR
Have you always dreamed of making the envoy for National Geographic? Now you can, at least virtually! With National Geographic Explore VR you will really feel like participating in an exciting expedition discovering two of the most iconic places on the planet. First half, the Antarctica where you will sail among the icebergs in kayaks, you will climb a huge ice platform and face a violent snowstorm while looking for a colony of penguins emperor dispersed among the ice.
You will visit Machu Picchu in Peru, immersing yourself in incredible digital reconstructions of the ancient Inca citadel. Where you will attend the adoration of mummies and meet the alpacas while taking Hiram Bingham's photographs of the rediscovery of the fabulous Inca citadel.
Supported Virtual Reality Visors: Oculus Quest
2. Ocean Rift
Ocean Rift is the world's first virtual water safari park. A vivid underwater world full of life where you can virtually immerse yourself in dolphins, sharks, turtles, marine snakes, breeds, whales, lamantini, marine lions and even prehistoric animals!
You will be free of swimming through 14 habitats using innovative motion controls. Activating the educational mode in the VR app you can also learn more about animals that you encounter with 40 information points scattered along the way.
Supported Virtual Reality Visors: Oculus Quest
3. Pompeii app VR
Pompeiii is an experience that allows you to enter and explore the city before it is destroyed by the eruption of Vesuvius, with an unparalleled freedom of movement. It really seems to be there and thanks to highly engaging narrative content, you can understand how you lived at the time.
With virtual reality you can walk along the main roads of Pompeii, visit the interior of a Roman house extraordinarily well preserved, live the bustle of the hole and the shops of Pompeii, visit two beautiful Roman gardens and finally experience how it was to bathe in a Roman spa of 2000 years ago.
Supported Virtual Reality Visors: Oculus Go, Oculus Rift
4. The Grand Canyon VR Experience
With The Grand Canyon VR Experience at Immersive Entertainment, you'll feel like taking a ride in a motorized kayak through Grand Canyon. With this VR app you can adapt the tour to your preferences by selecting an experience in the light of the sun or the moon and also controlling the speed of the ride.
During navigation, you will enjoy the images and sounds of wild animals and you can also feed the fish of the river. The ride is along a default path (meaning that you can't drive the kayak to your liking), but you can still stop at various points and enjoy the landscape by controlling the speed of your motorized kayak or by stopping at panoramic points.
The tour is short and without basic historical or geological information, but it is still fun as an approach to virtual reality.
Supported Virtual Reality Visors: HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, Valve Index
5. Patagonia
Meta di Patagonia is Mount Fitzroy, the most famous mountain in Argentina, at whose foot is the remote Laguna Sucia, one of the most sensational lakes on the planet, in reality accessible with great difficulty.
Thanks to this virtual reality experience that uses Pterovision, a 3D technology that integrates computational photography, video 360 and games you will have the magnificent feeling of taking off like a bird, flying around the lake, visiting the waterfalls along the edge and flying over the glacial formations under the peaks of the mountains, while a narrative voice will give you information about the geology, culture and history of these fantastic places.
Supported Virtual Reality Visors: Oculus Go, Oculus Rift
6. Athens in VR
This VR app meticulously recreates the Acropolis, the Parthenon and the Athenian Agora, allowing you to go back in time to visit and explore these cultural icons throughout their original splendor. With Athens in VR you have the maximum control of this tour and you can choose to move from one place to another while listening to an interesting audioguide of explanations supported by archaeological evidence that make this immersive experience even more immersive.
Supported Virtual Reality Visors: Gear VR, Oculus Go
7. EVEREST VR
The dream of every climber becomes reality (virtual, of course) with EVEREST VR, from Sólfar Studios, which takes you to the summit of Mount Everest VR through five iconic scenes.
We begin with the preparation for the expedition to the base camp, then cross the terrifying icefalls of Khumbu, spend the night at camp 4, then climb the dangerous Hillary Step and finally conquer the summit of Everest.
And after completing the first attempt to reach the summit, surprise! It unlocks the God mode to reach a unique observation point of the Himalayas possible only in virtual reality, from which you dominate the entire mountain range.
Supported Virtual Reality Visors: HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, or Valve Index.
8. Rome Reborn: the Pantheon
The Pantheon is one of Rome Reborn’s VR apps that feature different areas of ancient Rome. Thanks to virtual realityIn the company of two guides you will visit one of the best preserved buildings of antiquity, starting from the outside courtyard and then passing inside the complex, while listening to the explanations that reveal the details of the design, the construction, the decoration of the Pantheon, in addition to the nature of the religious cult that was once housed inside it.
Supported Virtual Reality Visors: Oculus, Vive, Gear VR, Go
9. Wander
With Wander the world has no boundaries, thanks to virtual reality with this VR app that integrates data Google StreetView and Wikipedia to offer a playful and educational experience at the same time. Wander allows you to wander everywhere in the world, you only have the embarrassment of choice, between cross the London Bridge, stroll through the Taj Mahal gardens, admire Iand Pyramids of Egypt in all their magnificence and much more for virtually unlimited explorations.
Supported Virtual Reality Visors: Oculus Quest
10. Chernobyl VR
If you're a fan of the TV show, you can't miss Chernobyl VR that you combine dynamics video games with the narrative approach, educational and cinematic on a high emotional impact virtual tour. Chernobyl VR Project is made with cutting-edge graphics solutions, such as advanced 3D scans of places and buildings, spherical photography, stereoscopic video and augmented reality and part of VR sales revenue are devolved to the foundations that help the victims ofthe accident at the nuclear power plant in Ukraine.
Supported Virtual Reality Visors: Gear VR, Go
