Short description

VR Planet is a Virtual Reality center in Athens, Greece, which serves both as a VR entertainment center, and a VR educational portal. Featuring top-notch hardware, the center offers its services either at its premises, or at the respective school, via mobile hardware units.

The students and teachers put on the Virtual Reality goggles, with the rest of the participants being able to watch the process through other monitors, that are inside the room. The VR set includes sensors, virtual hands, and detectors, that realize and acknowledge movement, and in response develop an immersive experience.

Among others, VR Planet offers students the chance to

• visit Acropolis, and wander among the monument’s statues,
• explore the human body, as if they were particles,
• visit the International Space Station, and explore space through the eyes of an astronaut,
• witness the Seven Wonders of the ancient world, while travelling in a ship, riding a horse, or wandering among temples,
• explore the planets of our Solar System,
• ascent on mount Everest,
• scuba dive at a coralline reef, where a caretta-caretta lives, or at a shipwreck, circled by whales,
• travel at the African steppe, and interact with the animals living there.

The centers VR software and educational thematics, are constantly renewed, with new subjects added.

Elements of innovation:

The center not only dynamically introduces Virtual Reality systems across the different levels of the educational chain, but it also offers mobile Virtual Reality units, in case a school prefers bringing the VR experience home.

Target groups

• Students, teachers, educators