VR Classroom vs VR Science Lab
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
VR Classroom
This assistant app enhances a virtual reality educational experience focused on atoms and orbitals. It allows teachers to independently access multi-user VR sessions, control scene flow, and interact with virtual objects. The tool is designed to make scientific concepts intuitive and easy to grasp in a collective learning environment.
- Enhances VR educational experiences
- Teacher mobile access to multi-user VR
- Control scene flow
- Interact with virtual objects
- Supports collective learning environments
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Assistant app to VIRTUAL CLASSROOM: ATOMS AND ORBITALS - the first of a kind educational virtual reality experience designed for group visits to location-based virtual reality venues from schools, summer camps, education centers, and for everyone else who wants to experience how virtual reality makes scientific concepts intuitive and easy to grasp in a collective learning environment. The assistant app allows independent a mobile access for teachers into a multi-user VR experience and provides a possibility to control the flow of scenes and to interact with objects in it. The app does not operate as a virtual reality display but instead, it supports and enhances a virtual reality session experienced by guests of location-based VR venues, and works as a supporting tool for teachers and other presenters. For more information on access please visit https://www.abelanavr.com/.
VR Science Lab
Explore scientific principles through 25 engaging augmented and virtual reality experiments. Learn about chemical reactions, sound waves, and acidity with hands-on activities like volcano eruptions and slime making. Requires a physical kit to activate the AR/VR experiences.
- 25 AR/VR science experiments
- Learn chemical reactions
- Explore sound waves
- Understand acidity
- Hands-on activities
- Augmented and virtual reality integration
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Dive into Professor Maxwell's virtual lab to explore the wonders of science through 25 fun experiments that come alive in augmented and virtual reality! Learn key scientific principles including chemical reactions, sound waves and acidity with integrated AR and VR. Then get hands on with favorite experiments including erupting a volcano, using lemons to light up an LED, making gooey slime and more, all in Professor Maxwell's VR Science Lab! To activate the experiences, simply download the app and hold your phone over the book included in the kit to see Professor Maxwell come to life!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: VR Classroom at 5.0 against VR Science Lab's 4.1. VR Classroom also leads on iOS requirement (8.0 vs 11.0). VR Science Lab's advantage is ratings volume (13 vs 1). On price, update cadence, 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.
VR Classroom holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: VR Science Lab has 13 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
VR Classroom ships an update every 3 months, VR Science Lab every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 28, 2026 and September 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | VR Classroom | VR Science Lab |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 4.1 (13 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 13 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 11.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 387 MB | 976 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Abelana VR Productions Inc | Abacus |
Customer experience
VR Classroom
VR Science Lab
In-app purchases
VR Classroom
No in-app purchases
VR Science Lab
No in-app purchases
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