Virtual Reality Student Experience (ViRSE)

ViRSE is a custom platform that makes development and delivery of VR teaching easy

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ViRSE is a newly developed software platform to facilitate the development and delivery of VR learning applications within Imperial College.

A screenshot from inside ViRSE, a virtual reality learning platform at Imperial College. Students and a lecturer are inside a cube whose walls are covered with black and white seismic data, allowing them to navigate through the 3D seismic data as if they were inside of it. The lecturer uses a laser pointer to point at a point of interest in the data.

A class of geology students diving inside a visualisation of 3D seismic reflection data

A screenshot from inside ViRSE, a virtual reality learning platform at Imperial College. This shows the ViRSE tutoral, set in fantasy sci fi landscape with floating islands and Imperial College's Queen's Tower and the ALERT Gormley sculpture, set against a background of a glowing nebula and shimmering water below.

The ViRSE tutorial - a student's first experience with ViRSE

A screenshot from inside ViRSE, a virtual reality learning platform at Imperial College. Students represented as robots examine a deformed beam, with arrows and other shapes indicating forces and fixed points.

Aerospace students experimenting with structural analysis simulations

A screenshot from inside ViRSE, a virtual reality learning platform at Imperial College. The POV of someone about to work on a virtual lathe machine.

A simulation of a lathe, allowing mechanical engineering students to practice using dangerous equipment without risk of injury

A group of geology students experimenting with geological phenomena and terrain formation

A screenshot from inside ViRSE, a virtual reality learning platform at Imperial College. POV of someone examing a fossil inside a simulated room. Pictures and names of fossils adorn the walls.

The ViRSE fossil viewer, allowing students to view their own personal copy of any one of countless high-quality fossils

A screenshot from inside ViRSE, a virtual reality learning platform at Imperial College. A simulated crowd of people stand at a tube station platform underground while the train arrives.

A crowd dynamics simulation, allowing students and researchers to experiment with the efficacy of various evacuation procedures among a range of conditions

A screenshot from inside ViRSE, a virtual reality learning platform at Imperial. We see a 3D version of Conway's game of life, simulated with colourful neon cubes in a futuristic environment.

ViRSE allows students to experience simulations and visualisations across a huge range of fields

Contact us

The ViRSE project now sits within the Digital Media Lab. Whether you're a staff member looking to incorporate ViRSE into your teaching, or someone from outside Imperial College hoping to learn more, please get in touch with the team

Digital Media Lab: digital-media-lab@imperial.ac.uk
Mark Sutton (ViRSE Academic Lead): m.sutton@imperial.ac.uk
Fred Tovey-Ansell (VIRSE Software Development Lead): f.tovey-ansell@imperial.ac.uk

Learn to Build with ViRSE

We've partnered with the Early Career Research Institute at Imperial College London to create a training course teaching you everything you need to know to develop richly interactive, fully multiplayer VR applications.

Graduate students have priority, but should there be available seats on the course, anyone from the wider college community (students outside the Graduate School, as well as staff) are more than welcome to join.

Please note, this course is for educational purposes only, rather than for the creation of learning media to be deployed into teaching.

Click here for more information.