System: HTC Vive & Oculus Rift
Price at Time Of Review: Free
Comfort Rating: Yellow
Genre: Educational
Input: Tracked Motion Controllers
Best Playing Position: Sitting
Multi-Player: No
Age Rating: PG
VR Shop Score 1/100: 75
Description: AVROD is the Archaeological Virtual Reality Online Database. We are a pioneering VR platform dedicated to digitizing and sharing the world’s archaeological and cultural heritage sites for study and exploration. Our mission is to enhance the way people learn about history and archaeology through fully immersive virtual reality technologies. The AVROD Beta platform will be FREE to download for the HTC Vive through app stores. The AVROD Beta showcases 40 real-world, photorealistic locations for users to explore face-to-face from our growing site list! Users can share their ideas and experiences with AVROD Community members by creating on-site AVROD posts. Get out and virtually experience the world cultural heritage sites and archaeological locations that you have always dreamed of seeing through AVROD!
Review: I think most people realise a big part of the future of VR lies within the educational sector and that is where ‘AVROD’ comes into it. This impressive collection of over 40 archaeological and cultural significant subcultures, landscapes and buildings are sure to spark someone interest. You can explore them, move around many of them and there is a little bit of educational text all about them. While none of them are as mind-blowing as apps that specialise in that one particular building or structure they are still impressive and I for one would love to see this grow. But given that this is free as well I give my respect to the developers. It’s well worth a look even if you are bored one day, but when used in the right educational setting it could become priceless.
