Most campuses are already covered in screens. Lobby displays, wayfinding panels, the iPads your team carries to recruitment fairs: the hardware is in place, but most of it runs a looping slideshow that visitors walk straight past. CampusXR’s Interactive Kiosk Application turns those same screens into an immersive extended reality (XR) experience that prospective students actually stop and explore. It runs in an ordinary browser on any size touchscreen. After setup, it keeps working without WiFi, whether it is bolted to a wall in your visitor center or sitting on a folding table at a college fair three time zones away.
Headset-based VR and AR can be powerful, but they ask a lot of a casual visitor: hardware to hand out, cleaning between users, and a learning curve at the worst possible moment. Touchscreens ask for none of that: anyone who has used a phone already knows how to use it. CampusXR’s Offline Kiosk Application unlocks the clickable 3D models and explorable spaces you would expect from a headset, without the friction. And because it is built offline-first, it holds up exactly where campus networks tend to fail: the far corners of campus, or a convention hall across the country.
Offline Kiosk Application featuring PACE: Interactive Campaign Website
Pace University’s kiosk application runs on any touchscreen or iPad, loads once, and then stays fully interactive offline.
Here's what the experience includes:
- A 3D interactive campus map — clickable markers reveal building info, dorm details, and dining options
- 360° tours of labs, libraries, and student lounges
- An interactive 3D model — drag and rotate
- Selfie mode — snap a photo with the mascot in front of a virtual campus backdrop
- AI chatbot (online only) — answers questions like "How do I apply?" in real time, based on your database
- Contact form + CTA buttons — request info, schedule a tour, or download a brochure
All of this — without installing a single app. Just open the webpage on any iPad or touchscreen kiosk.
Two Features That Make CampusXR Kiosks Stand Out
1. Offline-First Interactive Map & 3D Content
Most interactive maps rely on a steady internet connection to load. CampusXR kiosks work differently. Once the experience has been opened with internet access, assets like 3D models, videos, and map data are cached automatically. From that point on, the map, mascot, and selfie mode continue to work fully offline. Whether you're in a campus basement, an outdoor tent, or a conference hall with spotty Wi-Fi, the experience keeps running smoothly.
2. No App, No Friction
Built on standard, modern web technologies and served from your own domain, it has nothing to download, update, or install. Just place an iPad or touchscreen or even just your own laptop display in your space, open the URL, and it becomes an interactive XR kiosk. There is nothing to push out to devices and nothing to keep patched.
Note: The AI chatbot and 360 tours require an internet connection. Everything else (maps, 3D models, selfies, tours) works offline.
Why This Works for Higher Ed Recruitment
Whether it's placed in your visitor center, or loaded onto an iPad and carried to recruitment fairs around the world, it meets prospective students wherever they are. Recruitment is a contest for attention, and static displays lose it instantly. The same build that anchors your visitor center folds down onto an iPad and travels. At a crowded college fair, where every table has a banner and a bowl of branded pens, a 3D campus that a student can spin, zoom, and walk through is the booth people line up for. It takes almost no setup from your IT team, and because it runs offline, the dead convention-hall Wi-Fi that sinks everyone else’s demo never touches yours.
For a deployment like Pace University, that could mean:
- Replacing static poster boards with a living, clickable campus map that invites exploration
- Making campus visits more interactive — visitors don't just look, they click, explore, and engage at their own pace
- Capturing the attention of Gen Z students at crowded recruitment fairs, where an immersive 3D experience stands out far more than a brochure ever could
- Letting visitors take selfies with the mascot and share the moment on social media — turning a campus visit into shareable content
- Answering repetitive admissions questions automatically with an AI chatbot, freeing up your staff to focus on meaningful conversations
- Keeping everything running during network outages, basement labs, or high-traffic events — no Wi-Fi, no problem
No app downloads. No headsets to manage. No signal required. Just the screens you already own, woken up into a campus visit students actually want to touch, on the wall of your visitor center and in your bag on the road. Let us build yours.