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May 20, 2021

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Blueplanet VR

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http://www.blueplanetvr.com/

Blueplanet VR Explore allows you to experience strong spatial presence in some of the world's most remarkable natural and cultural heritage locations.

v2.5 Updates:

The DLC expansion packs have been discontinued and rolled into the base app, adding 40 additional scenes with only a modest pricing increase.
Prior base app users will inherit the new scenes at no cost.
New lobby layout based on scene category, easier to navigate and select.

A sampling of locations include Antelope Canyon, Fantasy Canyon, Cape Royal, Goblin's Lair, Alien Eggs, Moonscape Overlook, Mono Lake, Soldier Pass Cave, Red Rock Canyon, Alien Throne, Crowley Columns, Vazquez Rock, Lone Spire, Little Wildhorse Slot, Wildhorse Window, Windstone Cave, Cathedral Valley, Hermit's Cave, Temple Crag, Neilson Wash, Sunset Cliffs Sea Cave, Carlsbad Caverns, Mojave Lava Tube, Iceland Lava Tube, Matador Beach Sea Cave, Mahabodhi Temple, Mahabodhi Panels, Borobudur Temple, Sewu Temple, Goa Lawah, Goa Gajah, Qutub Minar, Tengboche Temple, Iceland Canyon, Iceland Falls, Iceland Glacier, Bryce Canyon, Fossil Falls, Grand Prismatic, Bentonite Hills, Ubehebe Crater, Bears Ears, Natural Bridges, Chaco Canyon, Arizona Ancestral Sites, Sky Rock, 13 Moons, Hueco Tanks, Burham Canyon, Ayers Rock, Santa Teresa Canyon, Three Rivers, Satsop Nuclear Plant, Burro Shed, Ancient Bristlecone Pine, Death Valley Grandstand, Bali Waterfall Temple, Point Dume Pacific Coast Lookout.

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Meta Quest

Meta Quest 2

Meta Quest Pro

Meta Quest 3

Meta Quest 3S

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Ratings & reviews

3.45

153 ratings

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Not good

The photogrammetry is so lazy. Textures and skewed and on the level of google earth. I appreciate that someone is doing something like this but honestly this is a $10 app not $25. Also the hang gliding is awful, why so slow and Unimmersive . I’m not sure what the point of this is but just skip it and use google earth or Sketchfab. Thank me later Also after loading a scene and trying to load another it just freezes. Feels like hastily thrown together photogrammetry assets in unity

186 found this helpful

Thank You... Seriously!

My dude, you have NO IDEA what it means to have this on the Quest 2! My 93-year-old grandmother has Alzheimer’s, but we visited SEVERAL of these locales together when I was a boy. With this on Quest, it is now technically feasible for us both to revisit these old memories on her good days... together... and in such vivid, NEAR-HOLODECK levels of detail. If nothing else, this will allow her to ‘safely escape’ the same four walls of her room in the lock ward for a while. What's more, I’m able to bring this with me, every single time I visit her! She is absolutely going to LOSE HER S*** when she sees this! I can't wait to bring these places to her!

119 found this helpful

Beyond Awesome!

BluePlanet-VR EXPLORE is a MUST HAVE for anyone who owns a Quest 2, if for no other reason than to show off the breathtaking potential of VR. Eric Hanson and his team of creatives have produced a masterpiece. A retired college professor, teaching all levels of photography for more than thirty years, including alternative processes, and specializing in 3D nighttime, light-painted images, I would have been ecstatic to present my students with BluePlanet VR’s potential. EXPLORE offers a visual and experiential content that can best be described as mind-bending. Where else than VR can one perform a “face-plant” into the woody interior of a two-thousand-year-old bristlecone pine and, a fraction of a second later, soar like a red-tailed hawk over the frozen-lava remains of an Icelandic glacier? There’s a real kick in being able to Zen out in God-light illuminated Antelope Canyon, and when the brain shifts from alpha and delta waves towards mindful meditation, one’s heartbeat may even slow even to permit near-religious experience. Imagine my excitement when I discovered a floating sphere hovering fifty or so feet out in the canyon beyond Fallen Roof Ruins. In this masterfully designed VR experience, you can leap onto that floating sphere and gaze back at the ruins from a position only attainable by drone. BPVR coaxes geology rockheads and ardent paleontologists to grab a spiral timetable and navigate their way up from Grand Canyon’s Vishnu schist in search of life forms more sexually active than slime molds. Smooth movements, vertigo minimal carpet rides, design architecture that would tantalize museum curators & students from any number of disciplines, and perhaps even sway constipated congressional legislators to consider alternative solutions to environmental and cultural preservation issues. If there were a rating scale of 10, I would pop this app to a 20!

85 found this helpful

Love this app! Please keep developing :)

So I really need to write reviews for all of the apps that we use… to cover the hood, the bad, and the ugly, but here I want to start because I would love to see future support for this app, and have loved what I have seen so far. So first, let us explore some of the wonderful aspects of Blue Planet: After nearly 2 years of separation (thanks Covid) my mother was able to come visit us for the first time. On her arrival, I asked… would she like to try VR? After some brief trepidation about “not being good at video games” my mother put on the headset and was honestly blown away. Starting out with “First Steps”, I knew I needed to show her something amazing, something that would show her just how much it could allow her to do things she hadn’t done before, so visiting places she’d never seen seemed to be an excellent place to start. And you know what? My mother actually started crying as she viewed places she’d always wanted to travel to but hadn’t yet had the opportunity to do so. Walking around in these spaces thoroughly transported her, allowing her to experience them in a way that she hadn’t been able to do for YEARS. Whether it was wandering through Carlsbad Caverns or soaring out over Icelandic glaciers, she stood and sat thoroughly enraptured by it all. I’ve loved seeing these spaces too for the first time, and this app has added a number of distinctions to my bucket list. Could the UI be bolstered by a few tweaks to improve the intuitiveness? Sure. Having the Intro video pop up directly in front of you when you first enter the app even could be great in helping people to become acquainted with it, but it’s still brilliant at doing what it does, and the photogrammetry is simply amazing. I have also encountered some low poly textures at the corners of some spaces, but for me it hasn’t detracted at all from the experience, merely guided me back to where I can gain the best views. One final note on suggestions: it would be wonderful to have a “camera” options for taking screenshots to share (with avatar integration for selfies potentially?) It could be great (when pinged with a tiny watermark) for sharing socially and allowing for others to discover just how amazing this app is! Thank you so much for such a wonderful app, and I do hope that development continues and we can gain new places to explore in the future (I’m even game for some DLC packs if needed in order to help support additional content releases for more locations outside of the US.)

80 found this helpful

Neat idea - very clunky and teeeibke ux

The idea - exploring remote world locations is a phenomenal endeavor. Some of the footage is great, but the user experience — and specifically the interfaces — are really rough. For anyone who is differently abled, the sitting experience is almost unusable, even with accessibility features turned on for height modification. The info “kiosks” in game are clunky and often get in the way unless they’re turned off. So are most of the ‘main len selection spheres. A well thought out option to move around freely using the controllers as opposed to being asked to physically walk around a room scale boundary would be extremely welcome as an addition to a future update. And having control over where the interfaces are And having the ability to change what their heights are dynamically - also being able to access them while seated - would be a really good idea in terms of accessibility. I think the app was rushed. It’s not nearly what it could, or should be based on the branding behind it. it’s about half done. Looking forward to an update.

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Blueplanet VR Explore v2.5

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panthemusicalgoat

Not good

PencilWhipped

Thank You... Seriously!

StereoLightPainting

Beyond Awesome!

Destinator007

Love this app! Please keep developing :)

teamsim1

Neat idea - very clunky and teeeibke ux

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