About Us

PublicVR is a 501(c)3 non-profit corporation dedicated to research in Virtual Reality for Education and providing free software for educational virtual worlds. Our human computer interaction research centers on large scale projection based displays, interactive educational theater, and mixed reality environments. Our most active educational topics are mostly in cultural heritage and history, especially drama, performance, and ritual, in ancient Egypt and Rome. Our science learning topics have been concentrated in forestry science so far, with an eye toward sustainability planning.

We develop and distribute virtual worlds, public performances, museum exhibitions, and open-source software for low-cost applications in virtual and augmented reality. We document and distribute our work through the website, publications, and demonstrations. With each project, we release some or all of the intellectual property produced to the public domain, free for non-commercial and educational purposes. Most importantly, we conduct basic and applied research on learning with interactive and immersive technologies. All of our projects contain an evaluation and assessment component, the results of which inform future work.

PublicVR is primarily a “virtual” corporation, with a permanent board of directors and officers, but otherwise   with no standing   membership or staff. All