Golden Circle · Iceland
Oxararfoss Waterfall
Still view · Calm · 1 minVR180 3D
Stand before Öxarárfoss in Þingvellir National Park, Iceland, where the Öxará river pours over the edge of a deep rift. Þingvellir lies in a rift valley on the boundary between the North American and Eurasian plates. Iceland's parliament, the Althing, met here from 930, and the park is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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Marvel at the power of nature as you stand before an epic gushing waterfall.
A relaxing waterway experience in Iceland, filmed from a still, meditative vantage point, running 1 min in immersive VR180.
Iceland is home to Golden Circle and South Iceland. Every experience here is filmed on location in resolutions up to 16K.
Watch natively on Apple Vision Pro, or in the browser on Meta Quest, Pico, and Samsung Galaxy XR.
What to expect
The camera stays in one place for the full 1 min, so nothing pans or lurches and you set the pace by turning your head. If fast motion in a headset does not agree with you, this is one of the gentler ways in.
It is filmed in stereoscopic VR180, which means depth is real: near things sit close, far things stay far, and the water reads at proper scale instead of flattening onto a screen. Look up, look to the edges of the frame, and take your time. There is nothing to steer and nothing to learn.
We tag this one relaxing, and it sits in Iceland alongside the rest of what we have filmed there. Create an account to watch this one in full.
Oxarafoss in VR180
Oxarafoss, written Oxararfoss on the signs, is the waterfall where the Oxara river drops around 13 metres into a rift gorge in Thingvellir National Park. The gorge itself is the reason people come: it is the exposed edge of the North American plate, and the wall on the other side of the plain belongs to the Eurasian one, with the two pulling apart by a couple of centimetres a year. Thingvellir is also where the Althingi, the Icelandic assembly, met from 930, which is why the park carries UNESCO status for its history rather than its geology. It sits on the Golden Circle route in the south west of the country.
This is the shortest piece in our Iceland set: thirty seconds, camera fixed, and the catalog marks it as built to loop, so it runs continuously rather than ending. We tag it Relaxing. Nothing pans or lurches and you set the pace by turning your head.
Standing under a waterfall is a depth experience before it is a visual one. In stereoscopic VR180 the block field at the base sits in front of you, the falling water occupies a column with real thickness, and the rift wall stands behind it, so the fall reads as something you are close to rather than a bright shape on a screen.
Oxarafoss waterfall: common questions
Where is Oxarafoss waterfall?
In Thingvellir National Park in south west Iceland, on the Golden Circle route. The Oxara river falls into the rift gorge that runs along the edge of the park.
How tall is Oxarafoss?
Around 13 metres. It is modest next to Iceland’s big falls, and what makes it distinctive is where it lands: inside the rift, on the exposed edge of the North American tectonic plate.
Can you see Oxarafoss in VR?
Yes. We filmed it in stereoscopic VR180 from the base with the camera held still. It is a thirty second piece built to loop, and it plays natively on Apple Vision Pro and in the browser on Meta Quest, Pico and Samsung Galaxy XR.
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