I recently finished my Ph.D. To do this I had the crazy idea to do my entire defense in VR. Somehow this worked out, and the result can be experienced in the video below (watch it at the highest resolution possible, preferably in VR):
Nearly all the animations in the videos were created with the help of CoppeliaSim. The content was rendered either using the coppeliaSim VR toolbox or Blender. To do this I also made a tool to convert CoppeliaSim simulations to Blender that is publically available. With this, I also want to thank the CoppeliaSim team for their excellent software.