Aquarium VR vs BioDive
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Aquarium VR
Explore a vibrant underwater world with a virtual aquarium. Interact with diverse marine life, including sharks and clownfish, and learn fascinating facts about each species by gazing at them. This immersive experience requires a VR headset.
- Virtual underwater exploration
- Interactive marine life
- Learn about fish species
- Requires VR headset
- Educational content
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Take a journey under the sea to discover what lies beneath our virtual aquarium. This interactive aquarium features sharks, clown fish and many more. Look deeper to learn more about the ethereal sea life in the pacific ocean. If you want to discover what type of fish is in our virtual reality aquarium, gaze at the specific fish to reveal their description. This app requires Virtual Reality Headset. Interactive Aquarium app is brought to you from the creators of EON Experience VR. Download more of our virtual reality and augmented reality apps at the app store. www.eonreality.com | www.eonreality.com/eevr
BioDive
Immerse yourself in virtual reality marine biology expeditions. Students act as scientists, exploring diverse ocean ecosystems, collecting data, and documenting their findings in a digital journal to understand environmental impacts.
- Virtual reality ocean exploration
- Scientific inquiry and data collection
- Digital science journal
- Collaboration with peers
- Hypothesis formation
- Diverse marine ecosystems
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In BioDive, students are marine biologists who travel to international dive locations in VR. They will study the impact of abiotic factors on biotic factors across diverse marine ecosystems and then document their learning in their digital science journals in the companion website. As students move through the experience, they go between their own personal digital science journal (https://biodive.killersnails.com/) and expeditions in the field, including the Eastern Atlantic, Eastern Pacific, and Indo-Pacific Oceans. They make observations, collect data, collaborate with fellow scientists, and synthesize their knowledge to write formal hypotheses about the impact of variables on changes to different ocean ecosystems. Players must have access to the digital science journal to view more than the first scene. BioDive was developed by a team of science teachers and scientists to model the process of scientific inquiry and discovery. Students use their devices to make observations and use their laptops to manipulate data and synthesize observations to demonstrate learning. This game was created by an award-winning team co-founded by a practicing marine biochemist. BioDive was developed with support from the National Science Foundation!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: BioDive at 3.4 against Aquarium VR's 3.1. Aquarium VR's advantage is ratings volume (96 vs 5) and iOS requirement (7.0 vs 12.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
BioDive holds the better App Store score, 3.4 against 3.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Aquarium VR has 96 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two.
| Parameter | Aquarium VR | BioDive |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.1 (96 ratings) | 3.4 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 34.6% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 96 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | — | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 7.0 — better | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 87 MB | 372 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | EON Reality | Killer Snails |
Customer experience
Aquarium VR
BioDive
Bugs and requests
Aquarium VR
Reported bugs
11 issues- App crashes or shuts off
- Screen turns off or locks
- App won't load or open
- Fish teleporting
- Fish not showing information
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- Blurry screen
- Eyes hurt
- Phone turning off
- App doesn't support certain devices
- App doesn't recognize power saving settings
- Shark moving too fast
Requested features
13 requests- Ability to walk around and explore
- More interactive elements
- Additional facts and information about creatures
- Ability to move between different seascapes
- More diverse seascapes and longer fish loops
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- Higher quality graphics
- Menu for headset setup and navigation
- Missions and objectives
- Ability to collect items and take them to a lab
- Land-based activities
- Discoverable and nameable unknown places
- Explore coral reefs
- Fix bug with shark speed
BioDive
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Aquarium VR
No in-app purchases
BioDive
No in-app purchases
Questions
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