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. Science learning topics have been concentrated in forestry science so far, with an eye toward sustainability planning.

The Latest

PublicVR recently recived a generous gift from Beverly and David Patrick, which allowed us to buy a Discovery Dome, shown above. It is a portable all-digital dome theater, which we will tour around to K-12 schools showing them movies and interactive virtual environments.

One of those experiences is our new Virtual Forest, which supports a game-like learning activies (ages 10 and up) lead by the teacher. This was our contribution to a larger NSF funded research project led by Dr. Schloss at the University of New Hampshire.

We have successfully completed the Egyptian Oracle project, a recreation of an important ancient Egyptian ceremony in virtual reality. The project was funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. We have released a working application, the open-source code, and final report, here.