VR Classroom

VR Classroom explores how low-cost VR can make abstract primary-school concepts tangible. The experience targets Google Cardboard so teachers can deploy it with existing classroom devices while still giving students moments of large-scale immersion.

Design Process

• Grounded in Sweden’s National Agency for Education curriculum targets for early middle school
• Built collaboratively with student teachers to balance educational goals with motion comfort
• Prototyped around Google Cardboard constraints to keep inputs simple and visuals performant on mobile hardware

Feature Pillars

Geometry & Scale — Students stand on dynamic maps that expand from tabletop to 1:1 scale, then complete matching and differentiation tasks to reinforce proportional reasoning.

Volume Intuition — Interactive pouring exercises challenge players to fill glass containers without overflowing while giving immediate feedback if they overshoot.

Spatial Reasoning — A virtual classroom asks students to arrange furniture according to procedural prompts such as “place two lamps next to the window,” encouraging spatial vocabulary.

Language Engagement — Multiple-choice and “raining letters” scenarios turn vocabulary drills into physical activities. Students identify rotating 3D objects or shoot falling letters to spell translations.

Comfort & Accessibility

Early playtests revealed that forcing players to “sit” inside a rolling sphere caused motion sickness. We adjusted the viewpoint to a grounded disk that represents positional bounds and added gentle transitions between tasks. Difficulty scales based on recent performance so students stay challenged without frustration.

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Technologies & Platforms

• Unity project targeting Android and iOS builds
• Google Cardboard interaction model for single-button input
• Lightweight JavaScript tooling for content randomisation and teacher configuration

Project Scope

This was a six month course project that involved iterative classroom testing, teacher interviews, and multiple releases to validate usability with young students.