VRstorygram: Community Environment in Virtual Reality

[ UUID ] 803136a0-a38f-416b-9806-90b91a17fdd5

[ Session Name ] VRstorygram: Community Environment in Virtual Reality [ Primary Space ] Youth Zone [ Secondary Space ] Digital Inclusion

[ Submitter's Name ] Heather Stone [ Submitter's Affiliated Organisation ] University of Louisiana at Lafayette [ Submitter's GitHub ] Hnstone

[ Other Facilitator 1's Name ] Ella Barker

[ Other Facilitator 2's Name ] Kary Ritter

[ Other Facilitator 3's Name ] Stephen Barker

What will happen in your session?

Participants of all ages and skill levels will learn how to create and publish a short story of a VR environmental issue using A-Frame. Participants will search a library of 360 photos and videos of environmental issues and quickly create a 360-degree tour with text pop-ups and voice narration. The short story they create, codenamed VRstorygram, will be published and viewable for all conference attendees help educate and promote environmental concerns.

Previously created VRstorygrams will be shown on topics such as Louisiana’s disappearing coastline which is a community, state, and local problem with international implications. This session will provide participants the opportunity to learn how to share previously unheard voices and visual images regarding a local environmental issue.

What is the goal or outcome of your session?

Participants will become part of an inclusive community where people from around the world and even next door easily make connections about the changing environment. Participants will learn how to use technology as a vehicle to promote activism. Community voices become world voices through the sharing of the effects of local environmental changes using virtual reality.

The community voice becomes both visual and global with the help of 360-degree video and virtual reality. Multiple voices, perspectives, and languages enhance the meaning and purpose of digital inclusion. Participants will deepen their understanding of larger environmental concerns through the sharing of community environmental experiences. Demonstrating the power and value of an inclusive internet as a global public resource.

If your session requires additional materials or electronic equipment, please outline your needs.

We will bring all of the equipment needed with us.

Time needed

60 mins