VR Use Case Catalogue

Use Case Catalogue Introduction

The Virtual Reality Use Case Catalogue is a constantly growing collection of activities at universities in Germany, Austria and Switzerland that deal with the topic of virtual reality in higher education teaching.

The catalogue aims to support new projects, teachers, and interested people...

by helping them to find contacts in different disciplines or in their own department or faculties,
by informing them about activities related to virtual reality in higher education teaching in their disciplines,
to find inspiration for their own plans and projects,
to serve as a networking tool.

We would like to thank all the people, projects and institutions for their kind permission to be included in the Use Case Catalogue!

VR Use Case Catalogue

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(Anti-)discrimination at the workplace - changing perspectives with virtual reality As part of a seminar, students develop scripts and short film sequences on various everyday situations in companies that are experienced in terms of one dimension of discrimination. A change of perspective is used to sensitise students to everyday discrimination on an emotional level. _{Focus: Diversity management, Religion and Education} Go to the Project »	Working Group Virtual Reality Simulation in Medical Studies Together with the 3D visualisation company ThreeDee (Munich), this working group developed the VR-based emergency simulation STEP-VR. The aim is to enable students to prioritise tasks and make clinical decisions quickly before they start their careers. The training is integrated into the curriculum of the internal medicine practical clerkship since winter semester 2020. Focus: Medicine Go to Working Group »	Working Group VR/AR The aim is an interdisciplinary exchange on the main topic and the networking of the universities in Central Hesse and beyond. Focus: Interdisciplinary Go to Working Group »


aixCave The aixCAVE at the IT Centre of the RWTH Aachen University is a five-sided virtual reality installation for the presentation of immersive virtual environments. Focus: Interdisciplinary Go to aixCAVE »	AKTiViR Mouse dissection is part of many zoology practicals. This project will test the use of a virtual reality application for mouse dissection. The aim is for students to learn more. And use fewer animals. ^{Schwerpunkt: Veterinary Medicine} Go to AKTiViR »	AR/VR-teaching In this project, a university didactic concept for the integration of augmented and virtual reality in courses is developed, applied and evaluated. Focus: Mechanical Engineering Go to AR/VR-teaching »


AssistME The digital support tool combines AI with virtual reality to allow mechanical engineering students to view and try out components or assemblies in a game-like VR environment. Focus: Mechanical Engineering Go to AssistME »	Avatar-based Teaching and Learning with VR The open-source software for avatar-based teaching and learning aims to enable students and teachers to collaborate and interact in VR-scenarios. All scenarios are available as Open Educational Resources under the CC BY 4.0 license. Focus: Interdisciplinary Go to avatar-based Teaching and Learning with VR »	BrainBuilder In virtual reality, the complex anatomy of insect brains is presented in three dimensions and can be explored in a playful way. Focus: Biology, Behavioural Physiology, Sociobiology Go to Brainbuilder »


Cardboard-Virtual Reality in Teaching A course at Technical University Darmstadt offers students of civil and environmental engineering the opportunity to develop a VR application for Cardboards. The students use self-made digital building models as a basis. Focus: Civil and Environmental Engineering Go to Cardboard-VR »	Cyber Classroom Laboratory In Cyber Classroom, complex mathematical facts from geometry are visualised three-dimensionally, with the aim of developing students' 3D imagination. Focus: Mathematics Go to Cyber Classroom Labor »	Digital Teaching in Architecture The project enables students to experience architectural and urban designs three-dimensional using mobile VR headsets, regardless of their location. Go to Digital Teaching in Architecture »

Expansion of Teacher Training in Biology with VR and AR The goal of the project is to explore the technical possibilities of using VR and AR in the classroom and to develop ideas on how to complement traditional teaching methods digitally and overcome possible reservations. Focus: Lehramt Go to the Project »	Extended Reality in Surgery The Surgical Clinic of the Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin is developing mixed and virtual reality techniques for planning surgical interventions and visualising anatomical structures in the operating room. XR techniques are used in training and teaching to improve spatial understanding and to test new visualisation strategies. Focus: Medicine Go to Extended Reality Surgery »	femtoPro FemtoPro is an interactive virtual reality simulator for femtosecond lasers. Users follow step-by-step instructions to learn how to set up and operate complex laser experiments in an eye-safe manner. Focus: Chemistry, Physics, Computer Science, Human-Computer-Interaction Go to femtoPro »


Figments.nrw Figments.nrw aims to integrate VR as a key technology into teaching and research at universities and to improve collaboration in this area. The focus is on the easy creation (authoring) of educational content and the collaborative experience and teaching of the created content. Focus: Interdisciplinary Go to Figments.nrw »	FoPro-VR In the project, students in peer groups will develop various teaching and learning settings, exemplary for imparting knowledge in chemistry classes, for use with the medium VR. Focus: Chemistry Go to FoPro-VR »	fuels As part of the joint project, innovative teaching and learning scenarios are being created using 360°, augmented and virtual reality technologies. Focus: Interdisciplinary Go to fuels »


GAME INNOVATION LAB GiL is equipped for the development of hybrid game formats with mixed reality technologies, as well as for creative work in agile teams. Focus: Game Studies Go to Game Innovation Lab »	Shared Values A virtual teaching and learning environment puts (history) student teachers in a classroom situation for impulse technique training. Focus: Teaching Go to Shared Values »	HandLeVR HandLeVR was a joint project with the aim of developing a learning application for the field of vehicle painting using VR to enable action-oriented learning in occupational training. Focus: Occupational Training Go to HandLeVR »


HessenHub - Project Augmented & Virtual Reality The central aim of the network is to design, investigate and evaluate new forms of digitally supported learning and teaching with AR/VR in the context of the specific requirements of universities. Special attention will be paid to the feasibility and transferability of the solutions found beyond the boundaries of universities and various disciplines. The results will be made available to all Hessian universities in an operational form. Crystallisation points for AR/VR platforms will be created. Focus: Interdisciplinary Go to HessenHub »	Hybrid Teaching in Higher Education In the project, students were able to immersively participate in individual input phases via 360° video streaming (using head-mounted displays), virtually entering the seminar room. Focus: German as a Foreign Language Go to Project »	ImmerNa Immersive Transformation Spaces of Sustainability - (ImmerNa) aims to develop an online learning course in VR. Thematically, the focus is on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). Focus: Economics (Sustainable Management) Go to ImmerNa »


Immersive Learning The aim is to implement, use and evaluate AR and VR applications for use in courses and for the preparation and follow-up of lectures, tutorials and internships. Focus: Interdisciplinary Go to Immersive Learning »	Immersive Learning Lab In the Immersive Learning Lab, teachers and students can simulate dangerous, inaccessible or fictional situations in virtual environments, experience them safely and learn to understand them. Focus: Interdisciplinary Go to Immersive Learning Lab »	Immersive Learning Platform Thuringia The project will design, develop and test immersive environments based on Mozilla Hubs, a social VR platform for various learning and teaching formats Focus: Interdisciplinary Go to immersive Learning Platform Thuringia »


Immerse yourself into the Body: Mixed Reality-Training in Radiology The aim of the project is to implement an immersive mixed reality application in curricular teaching in order to enable innovative and more clinically and practice-orientated learning settings and to facilitate the acquisition of diagnostic skills. Medical students are to be better supported in improving their understanding of normal three-dimensional and topographical anatomy, deepening their knowledge of radiological anatomy and further developing their own skills in the independent diagnosis of X-ray images as well as CT and MRI images, including the detection of pathologies. Focus: Medicine Go to Project »	Innovation Space The Innovation Space at the University of Applied Sciences of Neu-Ulm stands for science, prototyping and creative experiences and combines four functional areas in an effective laboratory format. Focus: Economics Go to Innovation Space »	Competence Center eEducation in Medicine Baden Wuerttemberg Future doctors gain their first practical experience on virtual patients before applying their knowledge in real life. Focus: Medicine Go to Competence Center »


irreguLab The IrreguLab is a teaching and learning laboratory for digital design and fabrication with irregularly shaped materials. Students of architecture and product design develop concepts, strategies and methods for the precise and efficient processing of these woods using digital tools such as 3D scanning, digital data processing, CNC-controlled and augmented reality-based fabrication, as well as resource-saving design and manufacturing approaches. ^{Focus: Product Design, Architecture} Go to irreguLab »	Concept Group VR/AR in Teaching at the University of Potsdam The concept group collected and categorised teaching-related activities in the field of VR/AR at the University of Potsdam. The disciplines of the different projects were networked and worked on a sustainable perspective for VR/AR in teaching. Focus: Interdisciplinary Go to Concept Group »	Laboratory for Augmented- and Virtual Reality In the laboratory for Augmented and Virtual Reality, students are provided with hardware and software to explore various aspects of architecture. In addition to common applications, specialized software like Fologram uand proprietary developments such as Project DisCo and VRoxel are also utilized. Focus: Architecture Go to the Laboratory for Augmented- and Virtual Reality »


LeadCom - Joint Project "Avatar-Counselling Tool in VR" The 'Avatar counselling tool' project will design, test and develop VR training courses for vocational training practitioners. The integration of VR will lead to changes in communication dynamics, and the research will enable the identification of effective communication training in VR, overcoming challenges in future information transfer and improving the quality of interaction between different stakeholders. Focus: Business Education Go to LeadCom » Go to Chair of Business Education »	learn2act The project aims to iteratively develop, implement and evaluate a cross-curricular unit and practical application task in a mixed reality learning environment. Focus: Occupational Science Go to learn2act »	MARS-D The project is developing a training course for student teachers to reflect on their teaching using video holograms. The training will provide students with the opportunity to analyse their own teaching activities using mixed reality holograms. Focus: Business Education Go to MARS-D »


MARS-IE The project is developing a training course for reflection on teaching using video holograms. The training offers students the opportunity to analyse their own teaching activities using mixed reality holograms. ^{Focus: Business Teaching}	med.ia-versum Students experience realistic care scenarios for interprofessional wound management. They deepen their procedural knowledge through realistic, three-dimensional experience and interaction. Students acquire the necessary declarative prior knowledge in a virtual reality (VR) environment. ^{Focus: Medicine, nursing/care and pharmacy} Go to med.ia-versum »	MINT-VR-Labs By 2025, the project will develop VR learning environments for STEM subjects to complement traditional teaching, enhance the didactic quality, and address the diverse levels of knowledge among students – with the goal of optimally preparing them for the interconnected work environments of tomorrow. ^{Focus: Interdisciplinary, MINT} Go to MINT-VR-Labs »


mixedrealitylab The mixedrealitylab focuses on mixed reality, computer graphics, information visualisation in AR and VR, and machine vision. Focus: (Media)Computer Science Go to mixedrealitylab »	Molecules in the Symphony of the Senses The project involves a multi-sensory teaching strategy that uses individualised acoustics, VR and AR to provide medical students with sustainable practice-relevant knowledge. Focus: Medicine Go to Project »	MOVE² The aim of the project is to provide students with the necessary theoretical knowledge and practical skills to create virtual learning environments and content. Focus: Chemistry & Pharmacy Go to MOVE² »


My Score MyScore is a virtual reality teaching and learning software that enables students and teachers to work together and interact in 3D scenarios. Focus: Interdisciplinary Go to MyScore »	Phreiraum: Developing Virtual Worlds The PHreiraum project aims to qualify prospective business teachers from all types of schools for the competent and responsible application, use and reflection of Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality. Professional guidance is used to teach digital literacy using the example of AR/VR, combining IT skills in the context of "digital making" with didactic principles. Focus: Teaching Go to PHreiraum »	Chair for Virtual Reality and Multimedia The chair is dedicated to virtual reality research and is equipped with the high-resolution VR CAVE 'XSITE'. Focus: (Media) Computer Science Go to Chair »


Chair for Virtual Reality and Visualisation The chair conducts basic and applied research on virtual reality, computer graphics and visualisation. Focus: (Media) Computer Science Go to Chair »	SpeakingVirTuAl The project will extend the existing VR learning environment for medical emergency scenarios (STEP-VR) with a virtual tutor. Natural Language Processing (NLP) and a specialised Large Language Model (LLM) will provide seamless and technically sound support for the learner. This will increase immersion, motivation and learning success. Focus: Medicine Go to SpeakingVirTuAl »	Making Voice and Presence a Realistic Virtual Experience VR glasses will be used to test voice retention techniques in a virtual classrooms. Real lecture scenarios will also be produced. Focus: Teaching Go to Project »


UniVERSEty Interested stakeholders have come together in the uniVERSEty network to share experiences and get to know each other's options for teaching in the metaverse. Focus: Interdisciplinary Go to UniVERSEty »	VIRAL The project uses virtual reality to create a decentralised space in which a visually appealing and sustainable exchange of knowledge and experience can take place using 360° images. Focus: Motion Sciences Go to VIRAL »	VirtFa The aim of the project is to expand the virtual teaching and learning offer on the basis of methodological and didactic approaches and to make it available within the framework of the "Virtual Faculty" as well as to open it up to new target groups. The virtual teaching/learning offer will complement both face-to-face teaching within the framework of "blended" solutions and include freely accessible online courses. Focus: Interdisciplinary Go to VirtFa »


Virtual Automation Lab The Virtual Automation Lab (VAL) focuses its research on smart factory data and simulation. simulation. The mixed-reality-in-the-loop simulation method investigated in the VAL combines digital twins of production systems with real control behaviour and AR/VR visualisation technologies for immersive, interactive, location-independent and hazard-free learning scenarios. Focus: Mechanical Engineering and Systems Go to Virtual Automation Lab »	VIRTUAL LAB The aim of the project was to establish media (didactic) training in the master's programme "German as a Foreign and Second Language" and to evaluate the usability of 360-degree media for foreign language teaching. Focus: German as Foreign Language Go to Virtual Lab »	Virtual Reality Center Production Engineering (VRCP) The department has a virtual reality centre production engineering (VRCP) where applications can be tested and used in practice. Focus: Mechanical Engineering Go to VRCP »


Virtual Reality in the Emergency Room Palpating the abdomen, drawing blood, inserting an infusion: in Marburg, Germany, future doctors can experience the real conditions in an emergency room using VR-glasses. The aim is to prepare them better for stressful situations in emergency room. Focus: Medicine Go Virtual Reality in the Emergency Room »	Virtual Reality Lab In this course, virtual reality as a method in higher education teaching training will be worked with in a practical and project-oriented way. After a basic introduction to media didactics and first approaches to the technology, there is space and opportunity for independent development and critical discussion. Future teachers will be given the opportunity to explore the various applications of virtual reality. Focus: Teaching Go to contact person of Virtual Reality Lab »	Virtual Reality Laboratory The aim of the lab is to develop new and innovative solutions in road design and to experience driving behaviour through VR. Focus: Automotive Technology Go to Virtual Reality Lab »


Virtual dimension in Art Studies In the teaching project "The Virtual Dimension in Art Studies", students recreate historical art exhibitions using virtual reality. Focus: Art Studies Go to Project »	Virtual Teaching and Learning Spaces in Inorganic Chemistry The aim is to create 3D-models, e.g. of molecules, for use in the virtual lecture hall as part of the inorganic chemistry lecture series. Focus: Chemistry Go to Project »	Virtual Studio/Virtual Reality In the Virtual Reality Production Studio, students have the opportunity to undertake study and research projects in VR and AR. Focus: Interdisciplinary Go to Virtual Studio/Virtual Reality »


VR-Campus As part of the SHELLS teaching project, an immersive VR campus has been designed at the Institute for Intelligent Interaction and Immersive Experience (IIIX) at the Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences, where a virtual university lecture on virtual and augmented reality will take place from 2022. As part of the event, virtual reality will not only be treated as a lecture subject, but will also be used as a medium for imparting knowledge. To this end, 50 Meta Quest 2 VR goggles will be available for students to borrow for a semester. Focus: Computer Science, Business Informatics, Information Management and Media Go to VR-Campus » VR-Campus on YouTube »	VR Classroom Future teachers can practise their classroom management skills in the VR-Classroom as a safe environment with personal attention. Focus: Teaching Go to VR Classroom »	VReiraum - an interdisciplinary VR/AR makerspace for student teachers. VReiraum is an interdisciplinary project involving five different subject didactics (geography didactics, mathematics didactics, history didactics, music didactics and chemistry didactics) and computer science at the University of Potsdam. Together, an interdisciplinary VR/AR makerspace will be created and VR/AR learning environments will be developed by students and tested in schools. The aim of the project is to identify success factors for the use of VR/AR in university teacher training and to evaluate the makerspace format as an innovative teaching format. Focus: Teaching Go to VReiraum »


VREVAL - VR for user-centred architecture In the context of architectural design projects students have used this framework to better understand their building designs from the user's perspective. Focus: Architecture Go to VREVAL »	VR-hybrid The project will develop and test hybrid VR scenarios in collaboration with teachers and students at the University of Duisburg-Essen. VR will be combined with face-to-face or online environments. The target group are Bachelor of Education students. One scenario is a 3rd semester project in which students try out counselling methods in virtual reality. They are placed in typical counselling situations. Other students observe and/or play the role of the client. The developed scenarios are evaluated and revised. In the course of the project, further scenarios are developed and tested across faculties (e.g. teaching). Focus: Educational Sciences Go to VR-hybrid »	VR-ID A VR-classroom is being (further) developed as a training environment to give future teachers practise in lesson-planning at the university. Focus: Teaching Go to VR-ID »


VR-Lab-Classroom As an extension of the VR-Classroom, future teachers in the chemistry department can practise dealing with incidents and emergencies. Focus: Teaching Go to VR-Lab-Classroom »	VR-OSCE This project, funded by the Foundation Innovations in Higher Education Teaching, aims the development of a VR-based examination procedure for complex medical emergency scenarios. Focus: Medicine Go to VR-OSCE »	VR-Resist Medicine places high demands on students during their undergraduate and postgraduate training. Overcrowded emergency rooms or severely injured patients in the shock room, but also conversations with relatives and communicating complex diagnoses are situations with high cognitive and psychological demands. The aim of the project is to develop a teaching and learning unit for dealing with stressful situations, as well as VR training units to simulate these situations. Focus: Medicine Go to VR-Resist »


VR-superTIP Through VR, practical situations from professional fields and teaching activities are reconstructed, reflected upon, and used for further training. By applying VR technology, key practical situations from the fields of social pedagogy, nursing and healthcare, as well as teaching at vocational schools, are digitally prepared. ^{Focus: Teaching} Go to VR-superTIP »	VRTeachingPartner The goal of the project is to make exercises, such as the VR-Classroom, accessible to more future teachers and outside of fixed seminar structures using the train-the-trainer approach. Focus: Teaching Go to VRTeachingPartner »	XR Teaching The project aims to develop XR deployment scenarios in blended learning, test them with students and evaluate them in a structured way. Didactic recommendations will be derived and made available across the campus. The project is a cooperation between the Chair of Polymer Materials and the Centre for University Teaching at the University of Bayreuth. Focus: Polymer Materials Go to XR Lehre »


XR Skills Lab Virtual reality-based training as a teaching format in the training of healthcare professions offers great potential for improving the learning experience through high immersion, direct feedback and automated documentation and performance measurement. This study investigated how to make such training as effective as possible. Focus: Healtcare Sciences Go to XR Skills Lab »	XR_B2M The XR_B2M project uses XR technologies to complement analogue teaching with an ambitious virtual teaching and learning space (educational metaverse) and aims to significantly qualify and develop digital teaching in the Urban and Spatial Planning (SR) degree programme. Focus: Urban and spatial planning Go to XR_B2M »	X-Teach VR Here, a relevant part of the KMK's media and foreign language competence model is integrated into the existing VR-Classroom-Software. Focus: Teaching Go to X-Teach VR »