To watch the videos in a Google Cardboard-compatible headset:
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First click on the “Share” button
in the upper right corner.
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Click on the link (https://youtu.be/…) in the Share window. This should bring you straight into the Youtube app (if you have it installed).
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The Youtube app will begin playing the video. Look for the
Google Cardboard icon in the bottom right corner of the video and tap it. Enjoy!
Astronomy & Physics
Apollo 11 VR Video Trailer – Immersive VREducation
Large Hadron Collider – BBC video narrated well with educational graphics
Total Solar Eclipse in Svalbard, 2015
The Night Sky – the Milky Way
Explore the Solar System (CrashCourse) – animated tour of the Solar System with lots of useful information about the planets
NASA’s Curiosity Rover on Mars’ Namib Dune – high quality IMAGE showing great detail of Mars’ landscape as well as the rover
Journey to the Edge of Space – take a narrated high-altitude balloon ride through Earth’s atmosphere to the edge of space
A Journey to Venus – HAWAII 360 – narrated tour of scientists working on Hawaii to view Venus, includes digital rendition of Venus’ surface
Biology
Gorillas in the Congo – video footage of gorillas in the jungle
Great White Shark – Swimming with Great Whites, narrated, some nice graphics, (1 min 44 s) – made by Curiscope
What Goes on Inside Your Body? – Life Noggin animated episode about the innerworkings of your blood, stomach, eyes, and digestion
Red Kite Feeding Frenzy
Titanosaur and David Attenborough visit – great graphics of its bones, internal organs
Surrounded by Wild Elephants in 4k 360 – A closeup 360 view of a herd of African elephants
Mythbusters: Shark Shipwreck – swimming with sharks and shipwrecks, narrated by Adam Savage (footage is a little wobbly, could be dizzying for some)
Engineering, Aeronautics, and Aerospace
Flying in the cockpit of a Swiss Airbus 320 – experience the takeoff, parts of the flight, and landing from the inside of a commercial jetliner
Cockpit of a Swiss Air Patrol jet – Amazing video from the perspective of a jet pilot chaperoning an Airbus jetliner over the Ski World Cup in Lauberhorn 2016
Blue Angels cockpit flight – Another amazing in-flight VR video of the Blue Angels precision flying – narrated by the captain
Red Bull F1 racing experience
Skydiving with GoPro Bombsquad – jump out of plane and “float” in the air with a squad of skydivers, includes good music
Google Data Center Tour – Computer science-heavy tour of the Dalles, Oregon center
Earth Science and Geology
Spelunking Deep in the Heart of Texas (Discovery Channel) – tour guided
Glow Worm Caves of New Zealand (Nat. Geo.) – insturmental music, descriptive captions, no narration
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