Titanic VR<\/p>\n
It\u2019s not exactly fun to be on the deck of the Titanic just before it sinks, but it\u2019s really interesting\u2014through some goggles, anyway. Titanic VR<\/a> features an immersive, 360 cutscene where you float away on one of The Titanic\u2019s few lifeboats, meet \u201cthe unsinkable\u201d Molly Brown, and watch helplessly as the massive ocean liner slips into the cold North Atlantic, taking 1,500 or so passengers to their watery graves. Then you can fast forward to the present for an interactive simulation where you are a maritime archeologist who pilots a submersible to visit the sunken wreck of The Titanic. Your mission is to discover, recover, and preserve historical artifacts. I tried very hard to slam into the wreckage and go out with a bang, but it\u2019s not that kind of experience. \u00a0<\/p>\n Anne Frank House VR<\/p>\n This poignant VR experience lets you walk through a faithful recreation of the Secret Annex in Amsterdam where Anne Frank, her family, and others hid from Nazis for two years. Once you open the hidden door behind the bookcase in Anne Frank House VR<\/a>, there are no avatars and no narration beyond occasional selections from Anne\u2019s diary spoken into the stillness. There are no goals or tasks to fulfill, leaving you alone with the weight of history, free to make what sense you can of the things that were left behind. Here is the small kitchen table where Anne Frank ate her meals. There is the narrow bed where she shared a first kiss with Peter. Here are the pictures she cut from movie magazines and taped on the wall. Mercifully, there is no sudden bang on the door announcing the arrival of the Gestapo; it would be too much to take.\u00a0<\/p>\n Mission: ISS<\/p>\n It\u2019s sad, but you and I are never going to outer space. The closest we\u2019ll probably get is the virtual reality experience offered by Mission: ISS<\/a>, a realistic space travel sim that lets you float around in zero gravity as you orbit Earth in the International Space Station, dock a space capsule, and take a spacewalk. Sadly, I wasn\u2019t able to experience more than the initial stage of floating around in the ISS: this game is so realistic, it made me instantly motion sick, just like I\u2019d be on a real space station!<\/p>\n Simtryx<\/p>\n I\u2019m obsessed with the virtual reality training programs available on Meta. This unexplored genre is filled with experiences give you an unfiltered look at occupations and vocations you\u2019d have no way of experiencing, like driving a forklift<\/a> or disassembling a turbine engine<\/a>, without dumbing them down by making them “fun.” Simtryx is the best one I’ve found. This augmented reality medical training tool is designed to test fledgling doctors and nurses\u2019 diagnostic skills. It\u2019s an exam, so it offers no guidance; it just presents users with a bunch of tools\u2014that listen-to-your-heart thinger, that popsicle-stick-tongue dealy, you know, doctor stuff\u2014and an AI-powered patient to poke and prod. Then it expects you to make a medical diagnosis before a timer runs out. <\/p>\n I’m sure this is a useful tool for medical professionals, but it’s hilarious when you don’t know what you’re doing. Your patients will answer anything you ask thanks to AI, and you can prescribe all kinds of drugs. “A stomach ache, you say? 500ccs of Fentanyl, stat!” So far I\u2019ve killed a bunch of people and diagnosed even more with \u201cHell if I know,\u201d but after much trial and error, I was able to correctly diagnose this sad sack with cirrhosis of the liver:<\/p>\n What do you think so far?<\/p>\n Credit: Stephen Johnson – Simtryx\n <\/p>\n Being a doctor is super easy. Note: this is serious doctor biz. Login credentials are \u201conly available to Simtryx partners at the moment,” so you might have to plead to be let in like I did.<\/p>\n OneLab VR<\/p>\n![\"Simtryx](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/images-1.fill.size_2000x1125.v1754510441.jpg\")
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