Bill Nye's VR Science Kit

Abacus Brands Inc.

About this app

Step into the lab with Bill Nye’s VR Science Kit and get ready to make some discoveries with 30 fun experiments that come alive in augmented and virtual reality! Bill will explain key scientific principles including chemical reactions, sound waves, oxidation and dive into crystals, volcanoes, slime and more. So join Bill Nye the Science Guy and explore the wonders of science!

To activate the experiences, simply download the app and hold your mobile device over the book included with Bill Nye’s VR Science Kit and watch Bill come to life!

Ratings and reviews

AR works fine. The VR is terrible and implemented in a lazy way. First, the app doesn't override the phone's battery settings, meaning you have to go to phone settings and disable auto screen off preferences. Second, there's no way to adjust the dimensions of the left and right halves of the VR mode, which means unless you have a very specific phone size, VR mode will create double vision. a basic resolution resizing option would have fixed this. If you have a larger phone, it won't work.

VR Headset included isnt great. I have quite a slim phone and I was still a little worried it was going to damage it due to the pressure on the screen. The App is also not great, having some problems with centering while in VR mode. It may be a setting or something I need to change perhaps, but not a great experience so far. Experiments themselves seem well chosen and described in the included book. And Bill Nye is fantastic!

Downloaded the 2.02GB app and it works decently on handheld mode, although the VR experiences on several of the pages won't load and will freeze the app. The goggles are a different story; the split screen images are displayed so far apart that I (as an adult) cannot adjust them to be close enough to form one cohesive picture. What we get instead is a semi-overlapping image that gives the appearance of double vision and results in a nasty headache and one very disappointed child.

What’s new

Minor bug fixes and updates