Best Educational VR Apps for Schools
These are the highest scoring education apps from our independent reviews, grouped by subject. Every score comes from a full review on The XR School, where we weigh up learning value, engagement, curriculum links, ease of setup and value for money. Click any app to read the full review.
Science and biology
From the inside of a cell to the depths of the ocean.
Proteus
A free Meta Quest experience that takes students inside a real cell and gene therapy manufacturing facility.
theBlu
Stand face to face with a blue whale in one of the most celebrated VR experiences ever made.
Human Anatomy VR
A complete 3D anatomy atlas you can walk around, pull apart and shrink inside, with quizzes and class sessions.
Ocean Rift
Swim with dolphins, meet a great white shark and explore coral reefs and ocean habitats.
Lepidoptera
A butterfly identification adventure across real world meadows and hillsides.
Cell Explorer VR
Our own free browser activity: walk inside an animal cell, learn nine organelles and take a quiz.
Space and astronomy
Travel the Solar System and beyond.
Titans of Space PLUS
A guided tour of a holographic Solar System and the largest known stars.
Mission: ISS
Board the International Space Station, move in zero gravity and dock a supply craft.
SpaceEngine
A science based universe simulator at 1:1 scale, from nearby stars to distant galaxies.
Apollo 11
Ride the Saturn V, travel to the Moon and land the lunar module.
History
Step inside the past with expert led reconstructions and testimony.
The Book of Distance
A moving room scale documentary about a Japanese Canadian family and wartime internment.
Anne Frank House VR
Walk through the Secret Annex as it was furnished when Anne Frank and seven others hid there.
1943 Berlin Blitz
Join a Lancaster bomber crew on a night raid, guided by real BBC wartime reporting.
Nefertari: Journey to Eternity
Explore the beautiful tomb of Queen Nefertari, one of the hardest in Egypt to visit.
Baalbek Reborn: Temples
A free tour of Baalbek's Roman temples in Lebanon, made with archaeologists.
Hadrian's Villa Reborn
An expert narrated reconstruction of Emperor Hadrian's villa at Tivoli.
Geography
Virtual fieldwork anywhere on the planet.
Google Earth VR
Stand on Everest, fly down the Grand Canyon and hover over your own school.
Wander
Visit almost anywhere with Street View imagery, with voice search and historical views.
Komodo: A Paradise Under Pressure
A short documentary on manta rays, Komodo dragons and plastic pollution.
Art and design
Create at scale and visit the world's galleries.
Vermillion
A realistic oil painting simulator with true wet on wet colour mixing.
Gravity Sketch
The professional 3D design tool used by major product designers, available to schools.
Great Paintings VR
A free gallery of more than 1,000 famous paintings from the world's museums.
PSHE and life skills
Empathy, safety and confidence.
Becoming Homeless
Seven minutes that take you from paying the rent to having nowhere to sleep.
Virtual_Decisions: Knives
An interactive VR film and workshop used in schools to tackle knife crime.
VirtualSpeech
Practise presentations and job interviews with AI feedback.
Thinking skills and problem solving
Great for clubs and enrichment.
Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes
One player defuses a bomb in VR while the others read the manual; pure communication and teamwork.
I Expect You To Die
Clever, funny spy escape rooms played seated.
Best free picks
On a tight budget? These highly rated apps cost nothing: Proteus, Google Earth VR, Nefertari: Journey to Eternity, Baalbek Reborn, Great Paintings VR, Becoming Homeless, Belle II in VR and our own Cell Explorer VR. See all of them on our free apps page.
How we score
Each app is reviewed individually and scored out of 10 for schools, not for gamers. We look at:
- Learning value: how much students genuinely learn.
- Engagement: whether students want to keep going.
- Curriculum links: how well it fits UK school subjects.
- Ease of setup: hardware needs, accounts and classroom practicality.
- Value: price and user ratings.
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Browse every review by subject on our reviews page, or see our top rated apps.
Updated October 2026.