How much would a VR app cost to make?

As you may know developers and development companies offers 2 types of pricing of a development:

Fixed price model. Perfect if you have clear requirements, determined deadlines, fixed budget. Best option for the small projects with limited project scope.

Time & material pricing model. Usually choose for the flexible, long term projects with not completely determined project scope and flexible budget. Best option for the projects that will change and improve in the process of creating.

When you choose the pricing model it's necessary to write project documentation. The price for this service usually varies according to the company and could cost about $700-$3,400 and takes 3-10 days.

If you’re interested in hours rate the VR development rates vary from $25- $50 per hour and more (depends on size, experiences, productivity, image of the development company);

Also, you may need post-production maintenance for your app. The price for this kind of service can start from $25-$50 per hour after the warranty period.

The development cost depends on complexity and specifics of future VR app:

1. Simple VR application/elementary VR game. Usually it’s not an interactive app, the simple applications are created to show virtual spaces for users. For example, it can often be found in museums, educational programs, virtual reality tours. The development process takes about 3-5 weeks and the price can vary from $3,000 to $9,000.
2. E-commerce/retail VR application. This type of VR is more interactive and complex, because in this case the user has an ability to “take” and examine the items they like. Usually developers use 3D models, which customers can “try” in virtual space. The rates for e-commerce VR apps start with $10,000 (Some advanced e-commerce applications could cost $30,000).
3. VR training simulations. The price varies according to the area where it’s planning to use:

Manufacturing. App usually required a creation of different scenarios and environment by using very realistic 3D models; the cost starting at $11,000;

Energy. With the environment and objects creation developers offers 3D laser scan/photogrammetry reconstruction; price starting at $24,000;

Healthcare. This kind of VR experience usually has a hyper-realistic modeling of the human body or body parts and needs a quiz/decision tree scenarios development. The pricing starts at $12,000;

Aviation. The interactive apps that aims to simulate the fly with the cockpit model creation and different interactions creation– starting at $18,000;

VR cinema. By offering a 360 video content the VR cinema is pretty straightforward with hardware like the Oculus GO and software like VR Sync. This kind of VR solution could cost $10,000 - $35,000 for UI plus approximately $10,000 for backend development;

1. VR games. Depends of complicity:

Middle complexity VR game will cost $30,000 - $85,000;

VR Shooter cost rates start from $65,000 for one level and $30,000 for every next level complicated VR game development;

Horror game – $20 000 – $80 000 (highly detailed horror game will cost about $100,000-$500,000);

3Ds Max in VR – $50 000 – $200 000;

Massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) the price can start from $90,000 to $350,000 and more.

Also the price in VR app development can vary accordingly to the region of residence of the development company:

North America: $40-$240 per hour;

Latin America: $15-$50 per hour;

Western Europe: $40-$180 per hour;

Eastern Europe: $25-$70 per hour;

Asia: $15-$50 per hour.