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new technologies great potential facilitate students understanding appreciation one abstract challenging school subjects physics study aimed examine effects gamebased virtual reality teaching method secondary school students selfbeliefs interest performance physics quasiexperimental design using pre posttest data evaluation based systemic actiotope model explains persons goaloriented actions interplay environment action repertoire ie students performance interest physics subjective action space ie students selfefficacy selfconcept implicit theories regarding physics gamebased virtual reality app used google cardboards developed containing 10 teaching units secondary school physics class curriculum participants control group taught using traditional teaching methods students experimental group went vr teacher conducted prepared vr experiments addition traditionally presented content three tests measured students physics performance semester addition students answered questionnaires assessing interest selfefficacy selfconcept entity implicit theories regarding physics intervention resulting pretestposttest control group design significant differences control experimental group test scores first second tests compared control group experimental group achieved higher scores third test addition results indicate differential effects gamebased virtual reality teaching method students interest selfefficacy regarding physics advantage students identifying male effects students selfconcept entity implicit theories regarding physics results pilot study suggest incorporating innovative didactic methods secondary school physics classes could potentially contribute higher performance motivation physics crucial period adolescence students develop educational career aspirations however gamebased virtual reality teaching methods seem favor students identifying male considered development presentation practical implications practitioners researchers discussed