XRU · A free immersive learning library

Don’t read about the evidence. Enter it.

Museum panoramas become investigations. Objects become evidence. A student can move sideways through a collection, then drill down as far as curiosity carries them—into engineering, history, ecology, design, ethics, or a question no lesson plan predicted.

Begin exploring

Space Shuttle Discovery photographed for immersive exploration

Enter the placeInspect the evidenceBuild an explanation

500+explorable viewpoints

1,200+navigation and object hotspots

3 modesexplore · listen · investigate

Open pathslearner choice with curricular purpose

A working public model

The collection is already rich. The learning layer makes it alive.

Many of these experiences began as visitor tools or digital records. XRU connects the preserved work to questions, close observation, narration, source records, educator guidance, and cross-collection pathways.

It is designed for students, families, educators, and lifelong learners today—and as an open demonstration of what the next generation of educational content can feel like.

Choose a path / follow a question

A learning drawer with more than one way in.

Move horizontally across subjects. Open a stop, listen to the narration, look closer, try the inquiry, or switch to the educator layer. The same component can be placed inside every preserved tour.

Search the learning library

8 learning stops shown

The curving stone Hemicycle and Court of Valor at the entrance to Arlington National Cemetery

Public Memory

Grades 6–12 · History · Architecture · Visual literacy

Military Women’s Memorial

Read a memorial through architecture, words, and individual lives

Nineteen immersive viewpoints connect the Memorial’s ceremonial axis, exhibitions, Hall of Honor, portraits, Register, and fourteen glass inscriptions.

Learning connections

C3 Inquiry Arc: questions, historical evidence, conclusions, and civic meaning
CCSS RH.6–8.1 and RH.6–8.7: cite and integrate visual evidence
National Core Arts Standards VA:Re7 and VA:Cn11

Enter the immersive space

Connected collections

One story does not stop at one building.

The next museum is one click away when an object, technology, event, or question continues somewhere else.

Path 01 / architecture to public memory

Military Women’s Memorial → Vietnam commemoration

Compare how a memorial and an exhibition use architecture, inscription, objects, chronology, and personal records to make service visible and shape collective remembrance.

Women’s Memorial Vietnam War

Path 02 / community and place

Philadelphia Chinatown → West Virginia

Ask how maps, public space, community memory, transportation, work, and collective action shape places at neighborhood and statewide scales.

No Arena Virtual West Virginia

Path 03 / observation to model

Deep reef evidence → geometric systems

Move from observing a research system in the field to changing a mathematical model. Compare how scientists and engineers use evidence, constraints, representation, and iteration.

Deep Reef Geometric Design

Preserved immersive spaces

Enter a gallery, then build the lesson around what students notice.

01Military Women’s MemorialService · architecture · remembrance 02Vietnam War CommemorationChronology · evidence · remembrance 03No ArenaCommunity · place · civic inquiry 04Virtual West VirginiaGeography · public history · route-building 05Immersive Art HistoryClose looking · comparison · cultural context 06Deep Reef ExplorersEcosystems · evidence · engineering systems 07Earth TravelerGeography · media history · map literacy 08Geometric DesignMathematics · modeling · STEAM

Curricular purpose without a prescribed path

Curiosity is the route. Evidence is the discipline.

Science

Three-dimensional learning

Learners use science and engineering practices, crosscutting concepts, and disciplinary core ideas together to explain a phenomenon or design a solution.

Next Generation Science Standards

Social studies

The C3 Inquiry Arc

Students develop questions, use disciplinary tools, evaluate sources and evidence, communicate conclusions, and connect learning to informed action.

C3 Framework

Literacy

Read across media

Panoramas, diagrams, objects, captions, technical records, audio, and primary sources become a connected text set for close reading, evidence-based writing, speaking, and listening.

Common Core ELA/Literacy

A living public collection

Every experience can continue to deepen.

XRU begins with real places and surviving evidence, then adds the layers that help people learn: accessible text, audio, maps, questions, source records, comparisons, and connections to related experiences. The collection is designed to remain useful as tools improve and new paths become possible.

Museums, memorials, historic sites, and landscapes
Science missions, art history, engineering, and civics
Free exploration and structured learning routes
Source-grounded interpretation and accessible companion modes
Connections across places, objects, eras, and disciplines