11 Best Educational Apps for Oculus Quest 2

Recently updated on February 17th, 2022 at 11:29 pm

Once in a while, we come across questions asking what are the suitable VR apps for students in Oculus Quest 2. This time around, we try our best to choose the top and best educational apps for Oculus Quest 2 that are suitable for the students, teachers and educators as well. Hope it will give benefit for them…

1) National Geographic Explore VR

“National Geographic Explore VR” apps will allow students to visit two great locations on earth which are the Antarctica and Machu Picchu in Peru. Besides the beautiful photographs, they also have the interactive experience such as navigating around iceberg in kayak and climbing the ice shelf. The students can also getting immerse in digital reconstructions of ancient Inca citadel and take photos of alpacas.

Suitable Subjects: Geography and History

2) Wander

“Wander” apps is great for students to learn more about different places and location on earth. There are also museums and historical places that the students able to visit until the inside of the buildings.

For the teachers, the great things about this app is because you can have multiplayer mode where you can provide guided tour to your students. This is a very cool feature if you plan to do Virtual Field Trip!

Suitable Subjects: Geography and History

3) Gravity Lab

“Gravity Lab” apps can help your students to have fun with the physics and electronics stuff. When using this apps, the students can test their critical and creative thinking skill to figure out the solutions to the puzzles.

Suitable Subjects: Science and Physics.

4) Mondly: Practise Languages in VR

“Mondly VR” apps dedicated itself in helping students to learn about languages. In total, there are 29 languages that you can learn via this apps. With this apps, students can practice their skills in the simulated events such as during train ride, ordering dinner and hotel check-in. The great thing is that students can get instant feedback on their pronunciation.

Suitable Subjects: Languages related subjects such as English, Chinese, Italian, German, French and many more.

5) Tilt Brush

Unlike the conventional 2D paper and monitor, “Tilt Brush” apps will let students to practice and hone their art and craft skill by allowing them to paint in 3D space. This skill can indirectly improve their understanding in Mathematics also when it comes to topic like three-dimensional structure (x-axis, y-axis and z-axis).

Suitable Subjects: Art and Craft. And perhaps Mathematics.

6) YouTube VR

In “YouTube VR” apps, there are many great experiences that were captured in the form of VR and 360 degrees format. Some of it are very suitable for the educational purposes. Examples are like virtual tour to London, Dubai, climbing Everest and bungee jumping.

Suitable Subjects: Nearly all based on the content that you search.

7) Titans of Space

“Titans of Space” is an apps that can let students learn more about the space and universe. To make it more interactive, it also has a cute-looking Tour Guide that can share the knowledge and content to the students. In terms of recognition, this apps is also the nominee for UploadVR’s “Best Quest Game/Experience of 2019”.

Suitable Subjects: Science and Astronomy.

8) Ocean Rift

“Ocean Rift” apps is something like aquatic safari park in VR. It is focusing on the knowledge of underwater or marine creatures such as turtles, sharks, sea snakes and sea lions. Students are able to swim freely around them so they can appreciate their size. As a bonus, there are also prehistoric animals as well to enrich the students experience.

Suitable Subjects: Science and Biology.

9) Mission: ISS

“Mission: ISS” is another space exploration apps that great for students. It will simulate how you feel inside the ISS (International Space Station). In this apps, students can learn how to move and work in the zero-gravity.

You can also dock a space capsule and have a chance to do the spacewalk. It is nearly accurate representation of the station and some of the images used are also courtesy of NASA. But, please be careful since it can invoke motion sickness easily.

Suitable Subjects: Science and Physics.

10) Anne Frank House VR

In “Anne Frank House VR“, the students can experience the hard life during World War 2 in year 1942. It is about how Anne Frank, a 13-year old girl, and her family go into hiding to escape the Nazis. Hopefully after that, they will much more appreciate their life in today’s modern world without war.

Suitable Subjects: History and Psychology.

11) Star Chart

“Start Chart” is another space type of apps where students can learn more about our Solar System and view the constellations. Not just viewing, students can also explore Mars planet with the Curiosity Rover. To remember the success of the mankind, students also can stand in the footsteps of the legendary Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the moon.

Suitable Subjects: Science, Astronomy and History.

Lastly…

That’s all so far that we can recommend. We hope in the future, there will be a lot more educational apps for various subjects like Chemistry, Mathematics, Languages etc. If there is any more quality apps for education purpose, we will add it here from time to time. In case you want to see other top games and apps based on other genres or categories, we hope that this article can help you with it.

Are you now getting excited to try VR after you read this? If you don’t have a VR headset yet, we think this is the right time for you to get it 🙂 Happy learning!