A New York art fair is coming to your smartphone.

For the first time, Frieze New York — an eight-year-old fair that will be held at Randalls Island Park from Thursday through Sunday — will include a virtual reality component. For fairgoers, this will come in the form of a booth with works visible via high-tech headsets. But it will also be available to curious viewers worldwide, via the free-to-download Acute Art app. All you need is a basic virtual reality headset like Google Cardboard, and you can immerse yourself.

The VR section of the fair is called Electric, and Daniel Birnbaum, the former director of the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, served as its curator. Mr. Birnbaum, who is the director of Acute Art and a leader in the field of artistic production using VR, selected seven works — six in virtual reality and one in augmented reality — for Frieze’s first foray into the medium. The AR work is an exploration of a physical drawing . Two VR works are historically focused pieces done in collaboration with contemporary artists; these use the technology to explore works by Marcel Duchamp and Hilma Af Klint.

This might be the first time many people see VR art in person, Mr. Birnbaum said. Of the in-app element, he said, it’s a chance for a “mainstream audience who wouldn’t normally go to fairs ” to have the experience.

Loring Randolph, Frieze’s artistic director for the Americas, said, “I think the work in Electric is going to blow people away and I’m very excited about the new dimension that it is going to bring to the fair.”