NYU Tandon Vision VR vs [AR] Blob
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
NYU Tandon Vision VR
Experience a virtual mission to Mars driving a student-designed robot. Explore the Gale Crater and collect simulated Martian soil, best enjoyed with headphones and a VR headset.
- Virtual Mars exploration
- Drive a student-designed robot
- Explore Gale Crater
- Collect simulated Martian soil
- VR headset compatible
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Journey from the classrooms of NYU Tandon School of Engineering to Mars and navigate the surface of the Mars Gale Crater with a student designed robot. The NYU Lunabots team created the ATLAS robot to compete in the NASA Lunabotics competition to collect simulated martian soil. Here, you'll get to drive their robot around in a virtual mission to mars. Best played with headphones. This app will only work in Cardboard or similar headsets, the screen is split and not easily playable without lenses. Works with both magnet (2014) and physical tap (2015) headsets.
[AR] Blob
Explore a dynamic metaball simulation in augmented reality. Customize textures, parameters, and environments to create unique 3D visualizations. This app offers an ad-free and in-app purchase-free experience.
- Metaball simulation in AR
- Customizable textures and parameters
- Multiple virtual environments
- Marching Cubes algorithm visualization
- Ad-free and no in-app purchases
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Are you a fan of 3D computer graphics and augmented reality? Then let yourself be enchanted by this metaball simulation. With [AR] Blob you get a high-quality AR app with which you can play in all facets with Metaballs. Use the settings menu. Here you will find many configuration options that influence the simulation. Choose from a variety of texture types that you like best. Change parameters to see how the simulation adapts and changes. Experiment with refraction. Consider the simulation in the virtual environment of a canyon, in the green nature, in a burned-down observatory, between heaven and earth and numerous other motifs. [AR] Blob uses the Marching Cubes algorithm, which was developed in 1987 by scientists William Lorenson and Harvey Cline as part of a research project. Virtual ISO surfaces can be found, calculated and displayed in three-dimensional space. (e.g. 3D ultrasound technology) As always, this app has no in-app purchases or annoying ads so you get a nice product. We hope you enjoy this AR title.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: [AR] Blob at 4.6 against NYU Tandon Vision VR's 2.0. [AR] Blob also leads on update cadence (every 2 months vs every 9 months) and ratings volume (54 vs 1). NYU Tandon Vision VR's advantage is iOS requirement (8.0 vs 16.6). On price, review sentiment, ads and in-app purchases 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.
[AR] Blob holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 2.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: [AR] Blob has 54 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
NYU Tandon Vision VR ships an update every 9 months, [AR] Blob every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on June 9, 2026 and August 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | NYU Tandon Vision VR | [AR] Blob |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.0 (1 ratings) | 4.6 (54 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 54 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 9 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 16.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 174 MB | 291 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | New York University | Philippe Zay |
Customer experience
NYU Tandon Vision VR
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In-app purchases
NYU Tandon Vision VR
No in-app purchases
[AR] Blob
No in-app purchases
Questions
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