Mel Chemistry VR
Type: Educational
Image Quality: Good / Very Good inside the microscope
Scale: Good
Length: Very Short / Short
Cost:Free for 4 minute lesson, $9.99 for each additional topic
I'm an education geek. I own dozens of Great Courses lecture series on DVD and I'm used to paying a premium for this kind of stuff. But this is expensive. For 10 bucks you get maybe 30 minutes of content in the first series on atoms plus some little 'labs', but for the periodic table and molecules you get maybe 10 minute of video each for your ten bucks. However the interactive periodic table and the molecule builder do add value.
That said this is an experience like no other that I'm aware of. You dive into diamond, graphite and helium down to the atomic level. You look at an atom and the electrons like you were the atom next door. You learn how to build molecules by building molecules. This is something you can't replicate outside of VR. You can interact with the periodic table and look at the electron charts and such. For someone interested in chemistry but understanding little about it, I'm a history guy not a science guy, this was a highly educational experience that I will repeat several times. Obviously a very niche and expensive app, but wonderful if you are in the target audience.
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