Picture is worth a thousand words but Virtual Reality is worth a million. The experience, the feel and the thrill, all accumulated at one place. Feeling the thrill riding a roller coaster or walking through the terrains of the mountain, the virtual reality experience is somewhat close to what we experience in real life.
The hype it has gained and the mounting interest of end-users, virtual reality solutions might have given you superb experience or a boring one. There is a lot to explore if you have experienced the later. Don’t just dump your VR gear in a storeroom, take it out, clean it up and gear up for the ultimate experience you never felt before.
In this post, we’ll take you through some of the best apps that you can install on your smartphone and experience the dimensions that you never imagined of.
Google Cardboard
Don’t miss this app as you are going to get a wide variety of experiences such as flying, tours, watching videos, arctic journey, photosphere, and examining cultural artifacts.
In fact, you can explore and experience, whatever you like. The app comes with built-in video player to watch their favorite videos, movies, and songs. You can also view virtual reality pictures and have fun once you are used to it.
Moreover, expeditions is an education-oriented app to give you classroom-like environment. It comprises of 200 expeditions to experience virtual destinations, waterscapes, landmarks and lot of other places. Similarly, Fulldive VR will help you explore tons of VR content around the web with built-in VR video from YouTube, VR browser to search online content and a marketplace to take VR pictures.
Jaunt Player
Jaunt Player can help you watch over 150 premium, cinematic virtual experiences comprising of 5 parts invisible series by Doug Liman, ESPN Gameday, VR documentaries inside North Korea and Syria, Home Turf series in Adventure Travel, Paul McCartney concerts, and The Game.
Make sure to connect your headset to the phone for the best viewing. Moreover, you can switch between 2D and stereoscopic modes by pinching the screen (Jaunt originally employs 360-degree stereoscopic imagery with directional audio).
DINOTREK
Are you curious to know how it would feel if you had the chance to walk with the dinosaurs? End your curiosity because, with DinoTrek, you can find yourself in prehistoric times with dinosaurs roaming all around.
It is the best app for kids to explore prehistoric times and how they would have lived with dinosaurs. The app works best with the headset but can be enjoyed without it.
Discovery VR
Discovery VR is a new way to see the world, exploring new places, ideas, and characters. The application will be updated regularly with new content like:
- Popular TV shows like Survivorman and MythBusters
- Heart throbbing adventures from wide variety of angles while surfing, free boarding or mountain biking
- Underwater explorations like shark wrecked ships off Stuart Cove
- Ultimate tips and tricks for survival through off the grid hikes
- Exploring the planet through natural scenic Pacific Ocean and California Redwoods
Ocean Rift
Ocean Rift is one of the popular apps among people who love to explore the ocean life. You can lock up in a shark cage and let the shark bite you through the bars. As soon as you turn around and see a shark coming, you might end up with a big shroud scream. Worry not because it’s just an app and made for the fun purpose.
Ocean Rift is a great way to spend time with your friends and watch them scream and screech. It is available both in paid and free version, but the paid version comes with more features.
Netflix
Sit on a comfortable couch, have some popcorns and a soda in your hand and get ready to watch large screen television, just like Netflix screen. Don’t forget, you need to subscribe to Netflix.
Watch your favorite shows or enjoy your weekends with a super hit movie; Netflix is just the right choice for those who are savvy and want to watch movies on a big screen without going to the cinema. The experience is quite captivating, but currently, there is no 360 degrees or VR movies and a few collection of 3D movies.
New York Times VR
New York Times has been one of the world’s recognized media houses. How would it be if you have the experience of real-time reporting on your virtual reality gear? Yes, it’ll be a truly awesome experience.
You can experience a number of events that took places such as Paris Attacks in 2015, refugees of Syria basecamp, worldwide crisis and much more. It isn’t as much exciting as other apps might be, but you won’t miss the powerful storytelling. Install now and enjoy the reporting from around the world.
Titans of Space
Virtual reality is designed to not only entertain you but also offer a tool for education. It is quite challenging to learn astronomy as a subject, but not anymore when Titans of Space is right here to rescue you. Just get rid of the Planetarium model and go for a real star cruise between moon and planets.
It will not only help you explore planets and moon but will also provide information regarding the size of the planet and other related stuff. Both adults and kids can benefit from this great app to update their info about planets, stars, and moon.
Seene
Seene is another virtual reality application compatible with Google Cardboard that allows you to capture and share photos by merging image, depth, and movement into JPEG, scene, video or GIF. It also allows you to create own 3D scenes with adjustable depth and artistic effects. See also helps you to include 3D scene construction, face capture, 2.5D scene reconstruction and computational photography, augmented reality, and object tracking.
Ryot VR
Ryot allows you to watch the evening news. The production company sends its reporters to different parts of the world including war zones, to create stellar 360 degrees and VR stories on a daily basis. The fresh content is available round the clock with built-in contact and activist references in the browser to help the audience be part of the solution, instead of being just an observer.
Mobile Station VR
Mobile Station VR is just another awesome VR app with head tracking. It allows you to view photos, videos, panoramas, and files anticipated on a virtual screen floating in space. The app supports standard 2D and 3D side by side/over-under content. However, it cannot display DRM protected content like content purchased from iTunes.
Conclusion
After reviewing all these apps, what are your opinions, and whether you have decided to take the VR box out of the dust and get started again or leave it as it is? There are plenty of options available in the app stores, where you can search for the VR apps designed to meet your needs.
Looking for Your Own VR App?
If you are an entrepreneur, the other option could be to get your own VR app and market it as a product. If you’re such a plan, IQVIS can help you materialize your dream by offering reliable VR app development service.
