Earlier this year, we kicked off the second year of Oculus Launch Pad, a program designed to support promising VR content creators from diverse backgrounds with the hope of inspiring new developers that represent our global audience to share their voices with the world. Now, we’re excited to announce that 14 VR projects have been selected to receive Oculus Launch Pad Scholarships totaling $620K!
So happy to announce that my submission, in partnership with Jessica Outlaw, won funding and partnership with Facebook/Oculus for production!!!
Teacher’s Pet: An anti-bias training lab for the classroom
Teacher’s Pet delivers anti-implicit bias training for teachers. Using evidence-based training simulations in VR, Clorama Dorvilias and Jessica Outlaw hope to promote healthy K-12 classroom environments by reducing bias in a more accessible, comfortable, and positive way. Follow Teacher’s Pet on Facebook and Twitter for updates.
Watch the Demo Trailer of the game here--Full game will be available on the Oculus store in March 2018!
So what’s next?
It’s been almost 3 years now since I’ve been dreaming about exploring the power of VR to really drive inclusion and healthy spaces for marginalized people entering homogeneous communities. It’s such an honor and I’m so humbled to have Facebook/Oculus as a partner to help me deliver to make this dream come true.
I’ll follow up with links to the rest of the blogs highlighting the development of this prototype that was submitted into the competition.
I’ll also be taking all the next steps to finish the final game and start building a start-up around this. The vision is if we can get this right, we can translate it bias trainings in gamified form across industries to promote healthy social inclusion, not just in the classroom but in workplaces, healthcare, and other industries that research highlights that have impacted with negative social biases.
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