Professor Maxwell's VR Junior Chef - Virtual Reality Kids Cookbook and Interactive Food Science STEM Learning Activity Set (Full Version - Includes Goggles) - for Ages 8 and Up

Great gift for my 9 year old! She’s very excited as we purchase the needed ingredients for these delicious meals that are turning out well so far! Well organized material, excellent quality spiral bound book, and educational as well as fun! Many added interesting facts and explanations about cooking practices.

VR Chef is the coolest cooking kit for kids that I’ve ever seen. My niece absolutely loved this gift, and she sent me all the pictures of what she cooked and we talked a lot about the food science she learned! The VR experiences are next level I wish this was available when I was a kid!! For any kid interested in cooking or science/VR WHATSOEVER, this is a must-have gift

Muffin is my neice and I hope she likes it. She's into learning and loves to cook with my sister. I think it's a great idea and can't wait for my 3 year old to be old enough for his own. Im a chef btw.

UPDATE. After a few weeks they finally got back to me stating they had corrected the problem. We were able to download the app! So I have reordered it. And plan on buying many more of their other ones down the road. I will update again after it arrives and we get to play around with it. This would be such a GREAT item, if only it was able to work with my S22. We even tried it on an S21 but it still did not work. The item itself was in good quality. The idea of this item is super awesome! I wanted to buy all of them, but unfortunately the app inside the parental app, says it unavailable and was made for an older version??? The book said it was compatible too. But it isn't. My friend was able to get it with her iPhone. Super cool to see it when you put it over the book! I'm greatly saddened to have to return it. The 1 star is because the manufacturer never got back to me about the problem and that the claim of it being compatible with android seems to be inaccurate. The product itself, had it worked, would earn a 5 star!!! If I like iphones, I'd change my phone just so we could get these! But I just cannot do iPhones. Been there, done that, and never again lol!

My 9 year old loves this and has been cooking meals non stop lately!! Great gift!

My son present was missing some pieces from this set.

Gifted to granddaughter for 10th birthday. Parents said it was a hit

My son who loves to cook thought this was going to be something it isn't. It does not teach him how to cook, which is the whole point of what is being advertised. If you want your kid to learn about the science of cooking then this is cool, but thats all it does. We just took all the utensils out and he uses them in the kitchen with me, used the VR headset once and never touched it again because it's pointless.

Bought this for my son's birthday (which is just after Christmas) he tried it once and gave up, but I encouraged him to give it another go. The Goggles are a tad useless, especially as they focus poorly. If it was half the price, it might have been good for the utensils and book, but the VR side of it is not worth it.

9 year old got this for Christmas, he has had fun with it but he doesn’t care much for the VR headset. Cookbook and supplies he uses a lot!

The physical materials in this kit are of decent quality, small pieces of cooking gear. It's maybe a notch above "toy level" in what it is, but not by much. It's usable but we ended up mostly just using our regular kitchen gear after a while. I think the very young will appreciate what's in the box, but older kids will probably want to skip it. This kit is great because it would have been really easy for them to just leave it as a collection of activities revolving around executing some simple recipes and I think a lot of kids would still have fun with that, but they go the extra mile and inject a lot of learning opportunities into it (how or why things are the way they are, how certain processes involved in preparing the food work scientifically etc.). None of it is too advanced, but it's not complete fluff content either. The core experience of the kits are really the augmented reality system through the app, most everything else including the "VR" aspect plays off of that. The kit comes with a really nice printed book of activities, exercises and learning opportunities which is usable all on it's own but it comes to life when you use the free companion app which uses your phones camera to recognize the page you're pointing it at and add in virtual objects visible only on the phone right onto the pages. Some of the pages do things like when you point the phone at certain parts of it, it will overlay and play videos that appear to exist right on the page. The actual VR headset, of course for something in this price point, is really just a shell with some lenses which show a separate part of your phone screen to each eye. The fidelity is rather low, but it works surprisingly well and was certainly good enough to amaze my kids which had zero prior experience with VR. The residual bonus is that the VR Headset included in the kit is totally usable with any other VR apps and experiences you can find, so just because you've exhausted all of the activities included in the kit doesn't mean you can't keep finding new things to do with the headset. I do feel like the price point is a bit on the high side if you look at it in terms of the individual physical components here, but as a complete package it's cohesive, interesting and educational. Overall I think you could do a LOT worse for the money when it comes to these STEM kits, especially for kids on the lower end of the age range on the box.

I have been fortunate enough to try a variety of Professor Maxwell’s VR kits. This kit isn’t my favourite, but it is still a cool concept and engages creativity in my children. The kit comes with a bunch of different baking accessories, a detailed cooking activity book and the VR glasses for which a phone is attached. I like the way the activity book is laid out. It has very clear instructions in simple language, it’s colourful and the recipes are laid out from easy to difficult. A lot of the recipes are easy for adults to make, but are great beginner recipes for children. Most of the recipes require the stove top or oven to complete. The app is really easy to work as well. It recognizes the recipe and a professor pops up and starts talking. The goggles fit well on the face, and the kids find them comfortable. The VR experience is a little trippy, but the kids are really liking it. Overall, this is a cool kit. It’s not my favourite out of all the kits they make as this one requires a lot of adult supervision. The kids still find it fun to use.

Professor Maxwell's VR Junior Chef Virtual Reality Kids Cookbook and Interactive Cooking Food Science Learning Activity Set makes a really good first impression. It comes packaged in a cool looking box that will get kids to open it and start exploring. This is a great activity set to learn about cooking, not by reading about it, but by doing it, which is often the best way to learn. The set includes a pair of VR goggles, a spatula, a whisk, a rolling pin, poach pods, measuring cups and spoons, and an apron with a chef's hat. All materials are pretty good quality for the price. This set starts by using virtual reality to allow kids to see all the different recipes. Most recipes do require an oven or a stovetop to do them on. These tutorials are brisk but effective at getting kids interested in learning how to do the recipes. This is then supported by a great 64-page book, that is well written and contains step by step instructions with lots of beautiful pictures of each of the 24 recipes. The recipes are all delicious but do require some supervision around the kitchen. The only drawback is that the VR experience on the app could be a little more high-tech and polished. But for the money, this kit still provides a good value and a wonderful starting point for learning how to cook. Out of all the Professor Maxwell VR sets, my kids liked the magic one the most followed by this one. Overall, this is an excellent learning resource for kids to start making their own recipes and honing their skills around the kitchen. Full marks from me!