Puppet Theater VR was an artifact in the Puppets in Education exhibit at the Digital Futures Institute Gallery. The exhibit as a whole looked at the role of puppets in education by exploring archival resources while also reflecting on how puppets live on in the present and how digital technology can expand their reach.

The Puppet Theater VR experience let users into a virtual theater with manipulable marionettes and props. Exhibit visitors enjoyed pushing the simulator to the edge of what was feasible. It also poked at the barrier that physics simulations impose on digital spaces. Movement is one of the and when movement is altered and constrained in digital spaces,