School Fab Lab VR Reviews

Amazing simulation of a makerspace! Much to explore and do around the lab. I learned about what can be made with 3D printers and other machines. My favorite part was flying the drone, it was realistic in how it flies, almost like my real drone! It really enjoyed the web browser inside the game because I can put videos on youtube on the big screen, so I could watch them and listen to music while playing. Looks like a useful tool for educators, I look forward to seeing what's to come next. I recommend!

I am a technology educator and this is very much the sort of VR simulator that I want all of my students and teachers to experience. The idea is brilliant! I want to be using it yesterday. Unfortunately, our school has an Oculus Rift as our VR option. This app states that it requires a Vive. I purchased the program anyway, as I have had great luck running the Oculus with other apps that state this caveat, such as the amazing Mindshow (which is free, by the way..try it!), which is now an indespensible tool at our school. No luck with using this with the Oculus. The image of the environment shows up on the monitor, but the headset remains stubbornly locked in a pich black screen. I post this review in hopes that someone (devs?) read this and can possibly provide a fix. If so, I will change my review of this amazing concept for a simulation. If not, then I will reluctantly ask for a refund before the time allotted for such expires. I am of course, presuming that the app works well with Vive, and realize that I took the risk that it might not work with Oculus. The question is, can we fix it for schools that have Oculus, especially with the release of the Oculus Go? An update on this review. The support staff for this product have contacted me after I sent an inquiry to them via their website the same day as posting this review, and are committed to resolving the issue. In view of that, I have changed my review to a thumbs up and it will remain a thumbs up, even if support cannot ultimately assist me in resolving the issue. I will continue to recommend this to the schools in the state who are running Vive and look foreward to being able to do so to those schools like mine who are running the Oculus.

Sad to say I found this to be very limited. Interactivity is minimal and as a teaching tool it has a long way to go. If it were free or really cheap, it could be worth it, but at $20.00 it's not.