10k Science FAQ

10k Science is Dynamoid’s immersive 3D science learning platform for web and VR. It helps learners explore real scientific data through interactive environments, AI-guided instruction, formative assessment, and educator-facing insights.

10k Science is designed for science topics that are hard to teach with text, diagrams, slides, or video alone: microscopic structures, molecular processes, body systems, environmental systems, and mechanisms that require students to connect ideas across scales.

10k Science is made by Dynamoid, an Oakland-based educational software company with a mission to democratize science education through AI and VR technology.

Dynamoid is the company. 10k Science is the flagship product and platform.

10k Science is a product and platform. It includes immersive science experiences, the 10k Science Viewer for web and VR, AI Guides, formative assessment tools, the Educator Dashboard, and a growing content library.

People may also describe it as a science VR app, a web-based interactive 3D science platform, or an immersive science learning platform.

10k Science is designed for active exploration and explanation. Students can move through immersive 3D environments, inspect objects, cross levels of scale, hear guidance, answer prompts verbally, and receive feedback.

The goal is not only to show students a model. It is to help them build a mental model of how a scientific system works.

Yes. 10k Science is available for VR on Meta Quest.

Yes. The 10k Science Web Viewer lets people explore an immersive interactive science experience in a browser.

Yes. Educators can start a free trial account for the 10k Science web platform, including the web viewer and Educator Dashboard.

No. 10k Science supports both VR and web-based immersive science learning. This matters for classrooms because schools may not have a headset for every student.

Teachers can use 10k Science through individual browser exploration, small-group work, VR station rotations, whole-class previews, or post-experience debriefs.

No. 10k Science can be used on the web as well as in VR. In classrooms with limited headset access, teachers can use station rotations or combine VR exploration with web-based participation, discussion, readings, diagrams, or formative assessment activities.

Current pricing, trials, subscriptions, free experiences, and organizational licensing are available on the live 10k Science pricing page. Access status can change, so pricing and availability should be checked there rather than copied from this knowledge base.

Educators can also start a free trial account for the web platform.

10k Science is primarily for science classrooms, schools, districts, higher education, researchers, and science communicators. It is especially useful when learners need a spatial way to understand science that is invisible, abstract, dynamic, or difficult to observe directly.

Teachers can use 10k Science for individual exploration, small-group investigation, VR station rotations, whole-class previews, post-experience debriefs, pre-lab or post-lab reasoning, and formative assessment.

The Educators page explains classroom use in more detail.

10k Science is designed to help with abstract concepts, microscopic and molecular science, student engagement, explanation-based learning, formative assessment, and giving teachers better visibility into student understanding.

Dynamoid’s 2023 educator survey identified recurring challenges such as limited teacher time, student engagement and distraction, funding constraints, individualized feedback, intrinsic motivation, and teaching concepts that are difficult to see directly.

No. 10k Science is designed to support teachers. AI Guides can prompt and respond to students during an experience, while the Educator Dashboard helps teachers see student progress and understanding.

The teacher remains responsible for instruction, classroom context, discussion, feedback, and curriculum decisions.

The 10k Science content library includes immersive experiences and topics across molecular biology, genetics, biotechnology, plant biology, food chemistry, pain signaling, pharmacology, environmental health, wildfire smoke, respiratory and circulatory systems, cellular respiration, antibodies, evolution, sound, atomic orbitals, and chemistry.

Listed experiences include:

• CRISPR & Sickle Cell
• Trouble in Sunshine Creek
• Snack Shack
• Pain & Painkillers
• LA Wildfires
• AI Antibodies
• Seeing With Sound
• Quantum Plants?!
• Orbitals Are Fun

Access status can change over time. See the live content page and pricing page for current availability.

Yes. 10k Science is especially relevant to biology and life-science learning because it helps students explore cells, molecules, DNA, RNA, proteins, CRISPR, blood, plant systems, pain signaling, respiratory health, antibodies, echolocation, evolution, and other topics that are difficult to observe directly.

See VR Biology App For Meta Quest And Web and 3D Molecular Biology Learning for more detail.

No. Biology is a major strength, but 10k Science also includes chemistry, environmental science, health science, engineering-related topics, food chemistry, air quality, atomic orbitals, and scientific visualization.

Yes. 10k Science experiences are built around real scientific data, research-based visualizations, and collaborations with scientists and educators. 10k Science materials describe content created using authentic data from researchers at institutions including UC Berkeley, UC Davis, and the University of Washington.

AI Guides are instructional agents inside 10k Science experiences. They can audibly orient students, call attention to relevant structures, prompt observation and explanation, listen to spoken responses, and provide personalized real-time feedback.

Students respond verbally to prompts while exploring immersive science environments. AI helps score understanding of key concepts based on those responses, and teachers can review student progress and thinking through the Educator Dashboard.

The formative assessment loop is: explore, prompt, explain, assess, respond, and continue.

No. 10k Science is positioned as a formative assessment tool, not a high-stakes testing system. It is designed to help students receive guidance during learning and help teachers see where students understand concepts or need support.

The Educator Dashboard gives teachers visibility into student progress and understanding. 10k Science materials describe the dashboard as displaying and summarizing students’ verbal responses to prompts throughout the experience in real time and helping educators identify where individual students may be having challenges.

See Viewer, Guides, Dashboard, And Formative Assessment for more detail.

10k Science content is developed to align with the Next Generation Science Standards in partnership with the Lawrence Hall of Science.

10k Science supports NGSS-aligned learning by giving students scientific phenomena and models to explore, then prompting them to observe, compare, explain, and connect ideas. This fits well with NGSS science and engineering practices and crosscutting concepts.

10k Science is especially well suited to crosscutting concepts such as patterns, cause and effect, scale, systems and system models, energy and matter, structure and function, and stability and change.

The platform helps students move across scale, trace mechanisms, compare states, and connect structures to what they do.

10k Science has shown strong engagement signals and evidence of promise for science learning in pilot and survey materials. Reported signals include a 137-student pilot, 22 of 28 students preferring VR over reading or video, +15% content knowledge gains in Dynamoid pilot studies, 78% student engagement, and an independent Stevens Institute pilot where over 92% of undergraduates said the experience enhanced their learning.

See Research And Evaluation for more detail.

Dynamoid’s 2023 educator survey gathered feedback from more than 60 science educators. The report identified challenges including limited teacher time, student engagement and distraction, funding constraints, providing individual feedback, intrinsic motivation, and teaching abstract or non-visible concepts.

The report also found that 74% of surveyed educators identified budget constraints as a major barrier to VR classroom adoption.

Dynamoid works with researchers, learning designers, and educators to turn scientific data, models, mechanisms, and field observations into immersive visual experiences that learners can explore.

Dynamoid uses researcher bootcamps as a structured way to help scientists turn complex datasets into immersive 3D visualizations. Bootcamps give researchers access to 10k Creator workflows, science communication guidance, visualization support, and expert feedback.

See Researchers And Creators for more detail.

Yes. 10k Science-style immersive 3D experiences can support research communication, higher education, scientific visualization, industrial visualization, medical and healthcare communication, and other settings where people need to understand complex science spatially.

See Science Communication In Immersive 3D and Market Applications for more detail.

Dynamoid is an Oakland-based educational software company with a mission to democratize science education through AI and VR technology. Its flagship product is 10k Science.

Powers of Minus Ten was Dynamoid’s NSF-funded, award-winning educational app that zoomed learners into the human body to explore cells, proteins, and molecules. It reached 700,000+ users and helped establish Dynamoid’s long-running focus on scientific scale, visualization, and interactive learning.

Use the live 10k Science website, Dynamoid website, and 10k Science contact page for current product information, collaboration inquiries, and contact details.