The 10 Best AR/VR Apps To Introduce To Your Family

MERGE
4 min readSep 24, 2018

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The MERGE Miniverse offers over 350 kid-friendly apps, games, and experiences to explore. With so many AR/VR games to pick from, it can be hard to know where to get started. If you’re looking for recommendations, learn more about some of our favorites.

Romans from Mars
  1. Romans From Mars
    Price: Free
    For the kids who love: adventure, aliens, and superpowers

Calling all Earth heroes! Save the day while Earth is being overrun by wacky Romans…from Mars? You’re a Roman soldier, and you and your crossbow are all that stand in the way of the invading Martian army. Use elemental powers like fire, ice, earth, and lightning to take down enemies.

Discovery VR

2. Discovery VR
Price: Free
For kids who love: science, exploration, and earth’s wonders

For more than 30 years, Discovery has told stories like no one else — transporting you to places you didn’t know existed and sparking curiosity at every turn. Go on new adventures — from shark-infested shipwrecks to free boarding the windiest street in the world!

3. Perfect Angle
Price: Free
For the kids who love: puzzles, using their creativity, and cool art

Nothing is what it seems! Sharpen your perception by beating over 100 puzzles. Each puzzle is based on an optical illusion, and you must solve by rotating each set of 3D shapes until the hidden figure is revealed.

4. Times Tables VR
Price: Free
For the kids who love: math, speed tests

For the kids just getting started on multiplication, let them practice times tables with this awesome game! Over time, the balloons will move faster, so be quick and don’t let the balloons pop on the spikes!

Tiny Eye

5. Tiny Eye
Price: Free
For the kids who love: I Spy, toy wonderlands, and finding treasure

No family time is better than a classic game of Eye Spy! Shrink down to the size of a toy and go on a great adventure hunting for treasures in miniature worlds.

Lamper VR

6. Lamper VR
Price: $0.99
For the kids who love: adventure, scoring points, and fireflies

Lamper the firefly is back and better than ever! As a brave little lightning bug in a big, dangerous world, explore lush woods and fiery caverns as you rescue and recruit 5 friends on an epic adventure! Blast through your enemies with special power-ups to further your score! How far can you fly?

InMind 2

7. InMind 2
Price: Free
For the kids who love: science, psychology, and choose-your-path games

Nominated as one of our best experiences in the Miniverse, travel inside the brain of a teenage boy named John, and explore the chemistry behind emotions that affect his everyday decisions. Help John on his way towards his destiny, but be careful — his future is in your hands!

8. TheBlu: Whale Encounter
Price: Free
For the kids who love: marine life, the ocean, and 360 videos

Dive deep into the ocean and onto the deck of a sunken ship to come face to face with the largest animal on earth — the blue whale. Experience the awe and wonder of this magnificent creature as it swims past in this 360 video!

Dino Digger

9. Dino Digger
Price: $1.99
For the kids who love: dinosaurs, science, and discovery

Go back to in time to when dinosaurs roamed the land with legendary dinosaur hunter and paleontologist, Jack Horner. Learn interesting facts and uncover fossilized skeletons in the palm of your hand! Choose your tools and get digging!

Dig! for MERGE Cube

10. Dig! for MERGE Cube
Price: Free
For the kids who love: Minecraft, architecture, and building

Mine and build to create holographic 3D worlds! Choose from unlimited resources like stone, sand, grass, brick, and lava to make majestic castles or humble houses; an enchanted forest or a work of art. You can bring magical places to life in this world-building game, save your creations and share them with your friends, and even download and remix others’ pre-built worlds.

Want to keep exploring? Visit www.miniverse.io to discover hundreds of VR and AR experiences!

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