Whose Metaverse? builds digital equity and inclusion by making creator tools accessible to everyone. The Whose Metaverse? Community begins with high school students but it doesn’t end there. Our community includes students, families, faculty, developers, designers and researchers across the country to test, evaluate and collaborate on the program.

Our physical locations are embedded in communities and run by local facilitators—from rural regions to urban centers—bringing diverse participants and perspectives into the metaverse. Leveraging our metaverse skills training, facilitators work with students, collaborate with partners on the ground, organize events, and maintain the hardware and software the students will need.

In addition to physical spaces, Whose Metaverse? is also an always-on immersive learning platform for students to connect, collaborate, co-create, and share. We’re committed to leveraging this hybrid approach to teach the tools of creation for the Metaverse, inspiring meaningful impact through storytelling with emerging technologies.

PARADISE is a 20 minute two person immersive audio experience for intimate partners in their own home. Part interactive game, part theatrical experience, audience members progress through a world of simulated scenarios that explore why we stay together or fall apart.

In this immersive documentary, you’ll inhabit the shoes of a prime minister who is preparing to deliver a high-profile speech at a virtual U.N. General Assembly in the near future. The political stakes are high. As you are about to begin your remarks, a group of students hijack the security system and take over the screens, asking to have a dialogue with you. Over the course of the next few minutes, you will experience immersive visualizations of income inequality, disproportionate military spending, loss of biodiversity, and rising sea levels. How will you answer the student’s questions?

The process of eviction involves the collision of home life, the law, the market, along with America’s fraught history of racial and economic injustice. These Sleepless Nights enables one to explore in-depth the experiences of those who have intimate experiences with these collisions, be it as memories from childhood, being bored at work or trying to be a mother when you can’t pay the rent. Making use of augmented reality and spatial computing, one is able to navigate their own journey through these stories and conduct their own experience. It brings nuance and a new perspective on a situation we can no longer keep sleeping through.

This interactive Virtual Reality Memorial, commissioned by the Nobel Peace Prize in honor of 2017 winner ICAN, brings together harrowing first-hand survivor testimonies, data visualizations, 3-D scanning and photogrammetry. The experience seeks to pay tribute to the victims of Hiroshima, while recognizing those currently affected by nuclear
weapons testing in today’s fraught geo-political climate, proving that change is possible with the right tools and information.

An interactive social VR experience that uses song and dance to transport four participants into ecstatic Sufi rituals and explores the motivations behind followers of this mystical Islamic tradition, still observed by millions around the world

In July of 2016, Holocaust survivor Pinchas Gutter toured the Majdanek Concentration Camp in what he vowed would be his final visit. By marrying a stereo video capture of Pinchas within a photoreal roomscale experience, The Last Goodbye reaches profound levels of immersion in service of the first ever VR testimony that will be archived and preserved. The importance of listening to Pinchas’ story is more important now than ever and this is also a beautiful testament to love, compassion and the human spirit.

My Mother’s Wing gives an unprecedented view of the Gaza Strip. It recounts the first-hand experience of a young mother coping with the loss of two of her children in the bombing of the UNRWA school in July 2014. It highlights the grief and optimism in her daily life and role as a pillar of strength in her family, helping them continue with hope as they heal.

After surviving a bout with the deadly disease that stole the lives of her family, Decontee, a Liberian native, uses her immunity to help children orphaned by Ebola. This VR experience follows her story from illness to recovery, mourning to perseverance.

“Clouds Over Sidra” follows a young girl in the Za’atari camp in Jordan–home to 84,000 Syrian refugees. This is the film that took U.N. leaders on a tour of her makeshift tent, her school, and even the camp’s football pitch.