The Group XR Kit is a set of ten (10) XR compatible iPads and interactive cubes that transport your students into immersive lessons and experiences. In small groups your students can go on virtual field trips, see life from new perspectives, and experience learning firsthand. The Group XR Kit is perfect for students of all ages and is ideal for teachers who are interested in developing their our XR classroom experiences.
This How to Guide will show you how to:
If the experience you want isn't already installed on the kit devices please contact library staff at Library.MakerLab@nau.edu to request the experience be added to our selection.
Anatomy AR+ - AnatomyAR+ utilizes augmented reality (AR) to take a closer look at the most iconic and vital organs of the body: the brain, the heart, and the lungs. Students can view the anatomy from the palm of their hand -- and from any angle -- with the Merge Cube. Use with the Merge Cube.
Tags: Health, Anatomy, STEM
Assemblr - Assemblr helps you create a more accessible and exciting learning experience for your students in both 3D & AR. Turn lessons into stunning 3D visuals or simulate models from every subject that can be accessed using a simple QR code and your mobile device's camera. Requires Wi-Fi.
Tags: Education, Experiences, Custom Content
CellulAR - CellulAR uses augmented reality (AR) to teach students about cells and organelles with a hologram that they can place anywhere! This app also supports the Merge Cube so students can hold cells in the palm of their hands.
Tags: Health, Anatomy, STEM
Civilizations AR - Putting history in your hand - the BBC's first ever Augmented Reality app 'Civilisations AR' brings art and culture direct to you from across the world. Discover the secrets of ancient Egypt, reveal hidden layers beneath Renaissance masterpieces and learn more about the origins of these cultural treasures and the people who made them.
Tags: Culture, History, Art
CoSpaces EDU - CoSpaces Edu lets you and your students build 3D creations, animate them with code and explore them in Virtual or Augmented Reality. Creating with CoSpaces Edu develops digital literacy, enhances creativity and fosters collaboration in the classroom. Requires Wi-Fi.
Tags: Education, Experiences, Custom Content
Google Arts and Culture - The Google Arts and Culture app includes high-resolution images, videos, tours, and interactive experiences from over 2000 museums and archives from across the world. Your students can walk through famous art galleries, join narrated tours of historic sites, or see museum exhibits come to life with videos and animations. Requires Wi-Fi.
Tags: Geography, Culture, Travel, History, Art
Google Street View - Street View, by Google Maps, is a virtual representation of our surroundings on Google Maps, consisting of millions of panoramic images. Requires Wi-Fi.
Tags: Geography, Culture, Travel
Human Anatomy Atlas - Human Anatomy Atlas offers thousands of models to help understand and communicate how the human body looks and works--and includes textbook-level definitions. Use it as a reference, instead of an anatomy textbook, or to create virtual lab experiences. Requires Wi-Fi.
Tags: Health, Anatomy, STEM
JigSpace - JigSpace is a platform used to explore and share truly interactive, 3D models of machines, electronic devices, and more. Students can dive through dozens of Jigs, learn at your their pace, and satisfy their curiosity. Use Jig Workshop to create Jigs and share them with your class.
Tags: Education, Engineering, STEM, Custom Content
MERGE Explorer - Engage your students in active, hands-on learning with a MERGE Cube and the MERGE Explorer app. MERGE Explorer lets students investigate a smoking volcano, examine a great white shark, hold the earth in the palm of their hands, and much more. Lessons about physical sciences (energy, matter, force, and motion), life sciences (life cycles and traits, natural selection, adaptation, ecosystems, and human anatomy), Earth and space science (solar system, weather and climate, etc.), engineering, art, and mathematics.
Tags: Education, History, STEM
Physics Lab AR - Play with various circuit components, build your own 3D electric circuits, and see how they work in real time. Anyone can enjoy the fun of scientific experiments. Perfect for teachers to demonstrate physics experiments in class and for students to explore inside and beyond classroom.
Tags: Education, Engineering, STEM
Rec Room - Rec Room is THE place for students to build and play games together. Party up with Rec Roomers from all around the world to chat, hang out, explore millions of player-created rooms, or build something amazing to share. Requires Wi-Fi.
Tags: Experiences, Social, Games
Shapes 3D - Shapes 3D helps keep your students interested and engaged in geometry learning. Things like three-dimensional figures, perpendicular and parallel lines, relationships in geometric figures and even Pythagorean Theorem have never been easier to understand! Explore prisms, pyramids, platonic solids, and solids of revolution in augmented reality. View faces, edges, and vertices. Create the shape via printable nets, expand the shapes into their faces.
Tags: Mathematics, Engineering, STEM
SketchFab - Explore millions of models in 3D, VR, and AR on your mobile device. Teleport yourself to Rome, hold a beating heart, or walk among dinosaurs. Whether you explore 3D with touch, jump into VR using your favorite mobile headset, or use AR to bring models into the real world, let us transport you to new dimensions from the Sketchfab community.
Tags: Design, Engineering, STEM
Within - Within offers beautiful immersive stories — award-winning VR documentaries, animation, music videos, horror, and more. Includes photo-real people & places: everything is captured with cameras or rendered CGI. Requires Wi-Fi.
Tags: Experiences, Storytelling, Documentaries
YouTube VR - 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. Requires Wi-Fi.
Tags: Experiences, Storytelling, Documentaries