Experiencing Gravitational Red-Shiftting in Virtual Reality

Gravitational red-shifting of light is of immense importance for physics students; however, in contrast to many other physics phe-nomena, it cannot be easily demonstrated in a conventional physics laboratory due to the immense scales involved. To provide students with an experiential learning tool for this otherwise abstract con-cept, we leveraged Virtual Reality (VR) and designed an innovative VR simulator featuring three distinct scenarios that allow users to directly witness this phenomenon.