The dataset is associated with the paper entitled: How Academics and the Public Experienced Immersive Virtual Reality for Geo-education. It contains feedback regarding users��� experience with Immersive Virtual Reality for geological exploration, through a tailored approach developed by Tibaldi et al. (2020) where the Virtual Landscape is based on 3D photogrammetry-based high-resolution models. Such feedback has been acquired through anonymous questionnaires during nine dissemination events held in 2018 and 2019 in various locations (Vienna in Austria, Milan and Catania in Italy and Santorini in Greece), in the framework of the following projects: i) the MIUR project ACPR15T4_00098���Argo3D (http://argo3d.unimib.it/); ii) 3DTeLC Erasmus+Project 2017-1-UK01-KA203-036719 (http://www.3dtelc.com); iii) EGU 2018 Public Engagement Grant (https://www.egu.eu/outreach/peg/) . In the dataset, feedback has been grouped into categories, based on users age and background: i) Middle and High School Students (Schools students, results in Sheet 1); ii) MSc Students in Earth Sciences (MSc, results in Sheet 2); iii) Academics/Researchers in Earth Sciences, that include PhD students and postdocs (Academics, results in Sheet 3); iv) Lay Public (i.e. participants that do not belong to the other groups, results in Sheet 4). It lists a total of 459 records; further details are available in the manuscript. If you use this dataset, please do cite the following papers: Bonali et al., How Academics and the Public Experienced Immersive Virtual Reality for Geo-education. Geosciences. Tibaldi, A.; Bonali, F.L.; Vitello, F.; Delage, E.; Nomikou, P.; Antoniou, V.; Becciani, U.; Van Wyk de Vries, B.; Krokos, M.; Whitworth, M. Real world���based immersive Virtual Reality for research, teaching and communication in volcanology. Bull. Volcanol. 2020, 82, 1���12.

Funding are from: i) the MIUR project ACPR15T4_00098���Argo3D (http://argo3d.unimib.it/); ii) 3DTeLC Erasmus+Project 2017-1-UK01-KA203-036719 (http://www.3dtelc.com); iii) EGU 2018 Public Engagement Grant (https://www.egu.eu/outreach/peg/) .