All About Virtual Reality: Includes 5 Amazing VR Experiences

What a fantastic book! You should see my family (including my husband!)unlocking all amazing VR adventures and fighting for their turns! The narrator describes the different places in details. The book is written in a very captivating and inspiring way, while still paying careful attention to facts and data.Our favourite chapter is about exploring the Colosseum. We spent last summer in Rome so it was great to come back there again in virtual reality.It was fun to build the viewer and design it with the fantastic stickers provided.We DO recommend this book!There's something for everyone to learn from it and just can't say enough how nice the book is. Even after you get to know it forwards and backwards it's still the book you will go back to from time to time. Good for learning (!), reference and getting kids to read. It would be a fantastic CHRISTMAS present!

Nice quality bookVR headset is very fiddly to make.I had to make it..my grandson who's 10 couldn't do it.It does work ok though.

Really interesting book for kids, but I learned new information as an adult too! It covers aspects of VR, what is it - how is it developed, what’s it used for etc. All with colour images and well presented. The back of the book has a kit for you to make a cardboard VR viewer to use with your phone, and tells you the free app to use

Very light reading. i.e. you could read this book in less than an hour. It's mainly made up of the kit in the back which is not really a 3D VR kit but basically a head mount for you to stick your smartphone in front of your eyes but then you didn't really expect you were getting anything like a Vive or an Oculus did you? It's just a bit of fun and some software which gives you a slit screen on you phone and allows you to see something slightly split apart for each eye in order to give you a sense of some depth.Good enough for the youngsters in your life to have a bit of a play but don't assume this is anywhere near good enough for true VR ... for that you really should try either of the big headsets including Sony's PlayStation headset.

You can buy a decent cardboard viewer for about half the price of this book, and there are other viewing apps, instead of the one that supports this book, that will give an enjoyable experience similar viewing experience. However, for the convenience of getting a complete, functioning, set-up, this is well worth considering.The viewer was easy to construct. Older children will find the instructions easy to follow, and the push-out cardboard pieces fit together well. Younger children will probably need assistance, as my 7-year-old did.The viewer has a clever, glue-less construction. It works well, and is fine for children to use, though is a little small for adults. Be warned, though, that the compartment for the phone is too small to hold larger phones securely without the risk of them slipping out of viewing alignment, or falling out and dropping to the floor. So make sure your kids are sat down in a room with a carpeted floor – otherwise you might have a broken screen on your phone.The app is quite large, but it loaded onto the SD card in my phone. Check the listed compatible phones before you purchase the book. I tested the app with two phones not listed – it worker without problem on one, but consistently crashed with the other.

This appears to be two products in one; though it is sold as a book, it really is the VR viewer and associated app, that is the main attraction.Like us, most people will go straight to constructing the viewer and playing around in virtual reality. The app lets kids access five, interactive, static, scenes: space, volcanoes, the Colosseum, insects and amphibians and dinosaurs. Each scene is rendered in a full 360 degrees and uses position and motion tracking, such that the viewer can turn their head to look in any direction. Within each scene are various objects, that when selected, give information about the subject, both audibly and with text. For the most part, these are fun, though my 8-year-old son didn't seem inclined to finish to each tidbit of information. They are very well rendered and look pretty much photo-realistic (though there is a weird body of land on the Earth, in the space scene. See if you can find it). I would have liked some movement (I have seen impressive videos on the net) but that would, I suppose, sacrifice resolution.The book itself is fairly slight, with 26 pages of real content' four of which are given over to how to construct and use the viewer, eleven describe how virtual reality works and the rest are given over to double-page spreads introducing each scene. These introductory pages give a little more information, though this is likely to be glossed over, as kids really just want to put on the headset. They also contain images which can be scanned by the app, to access the scenes; this is fairly redundant, as they can be more easily selected from within-app, though if you have more than one child, it gives them something to look at while they wait their turn.There are also some stickers because kids like stickers.My son really enjoys using the headset and app - they really are the stars of the show - and the book has largely been forgotten about.