Mona Lisa: Beyond the Glass is the first VR experience presented to the public by the Louvre Museum and is conceived as part of the Museum’s seminal Leonardo da Vinci exhibition which commemorates the 500th anniversary of the artist’s death in France. Mona Lisa: Beyond the Glass reveals the latest scientific research on da Vinci’s artistic innovation and his painting techniques and processes through exceptional visualization in virtual reality, bringing them to life.
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The arts provide opportunities to gain insight into the perspectives and experiences of people from a variety of times, places, and cultures.
Growth as an artist is dependent on perseverance, resilience, refinement, and reflection.
A Clever Label is a documentary experience that enables audiences to unearth hidden connections between anti-equality lobbyists, senior Australian politicians and international organizations. Unlike a traditional documentary with a fixed narrative and one-way communication, Documentary host Michela Ledwidge invites audiences to independently follow threads that intrigue them to form their own conclusions.
At the height of the Safe Schools debate in 2016 queer trans woman Michela Ledwidge walked past a rally at Town Hall where 15-year old children spoke of the suicide of one of their classmates. This is the week when Australian politicians used parliamentary privilege to equate homosexuality with paedophilia. Michela felt shame at her own ignorance on the debate and wondered why the Australian religious right had such a hold over a supposedly secular society like Australia. She set out to explore the links between anti-LGBTQI lobbyists, senior Australian politicians and international organisations based in the US. Her idea – use the new medium of Virtual Reality to create a space in where complex issues could be explored and digested. In the process she shines a spotlight on decades of rarely reported research that documents the rise of the Australian religious right and on key questions that cut to the heart of our democracy. Who supports these groups? What motivates our politicians? How do echo chambers impact our ability to understand complex issues? Using the Australian Christian Lobby as a starting point, Michela literally “plays” with the data, exploring the literal and figurative threads of financial and political influence on LGBTQI politics as she explores the hidden sources and motivations behind anti-equality messaging. A Clever Label asks the questions and challenges the audience to seek out their own conclusions on some of Australia’s most polarizing issues.
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Health and Physical Education and Social Studies
We experience many changes in our lives that influence how we see ourselves and others.
Learning about similarities and differences in individuals and groups influences community health.
Project Syria is an immersive journalism piece which focuses on the plight of children during the civil war. Nearly one half of Syria’s 23 million people have been displaced in its civil war and no group has been as severely affected as children. Children make up more than half of the three million refugees living in camps or makeshift housing and some news reports indicate that children are actually being specifically targeted in the violence.
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Global and regional conflicts have been a powerful force in shaping our contemporary world and identities.
Humanity: First Woman in Space transports you into the body of the first woman to go into space. View the world through the eyes of Astronaut Turova as she navigates through the male dominated world of astronaut training. Experience how it feels when most people around you don’t believe in you.
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Social Equality: Examining gender bias in male dominated careers
In this immersive virtual reality experience from Stanford University’s Virtual Human Interaction Lab, spend days in the life of someone who can no longer afford a home. Interact with your environment to attempt to save your home and to protect yourself and your belongings as you walk in another’s shoes and face the adversity of living with diminishing resources.
Researchers from Stanford have run thousands of participants through this experience in an effort to study the effect of VR experiences on empathy. Across our studies, we demonstrate that a VR experience changes helping behavior more than other types of perspective taking exercises, and the effect lasts months afterward. While this 7-minute journey does not come close to immense burden of living without a home, researchers continue to find that VR experiences can be a powerful tool to help put oneself in the shoes of another.
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Canada’s policies and treatment of minority peoples have negative and positive legacies.
Urban planning decisions and other government policies can dramatically affect the overall quality of life in cities.
The historical development of cities has been shaped by geographic, economic, political, and social factors.
Intentio Education Game Studios gives you a passport to all parts of our vibrant planet. As you crisscross the globe you’ll be able to study and learn about the native species while you help out your new four-legged friends through a series of challenging, environmental-themed quests.
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Environmental Science: Explore different species and habitats
Put on a virtual reality headset and see what it is like to be on multiple worksites in the energy industry. You can experience conventional and automated drilling, SAGD, mining, processing, natural gas and liquids pipelines. Get up close and see the careers and leading-edge technologies that are transforming the Canadian energy industry.
Experience the Energy: Take the Challenge
Experience the energy in a whole new way. Do you like working with big ideas, specialized machines or doing work that is physical? Take the challenge to see how your skills align with 10 exciting careers in oil and gas. Try your hand at drilling, adjust valves to maintain pressure, and send one-of-a-kind robot assistant, Appo into the field to look for hazards. Test yourself to find out which occupations are the best fit for you in the Canadian energy industry.
The Body VR: Journey Inside a Cell is an educational virtual reality experience that takes the user inside the human body. Travel through the bloodstream and discover how blood cells work to spread oxygen throughout the body. Enter one of the billions of living cells inside our body and learn how the organelles work together to fight deadly viruses.
Curricular Connections
Science 8: Life processes are performed at the cellular level
Biology: Understanding cell structure and human anatomy
Think you have what it takes to go head to head with one of the greatest ball handlers of all time? #GotHandles puts you on the court with streetball legend The Professor to see if you can match him move for move. Interact, dribble, and compete to see how many of The Professor’s moves you can complete in a race against the clock. If your game is tight, you’ll earn bonus time. When you run out of time, it’s game over!
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Learning Basketball competencies with 1-1 guided support
Physical literacy and fitness contribute to our success in and enjoyment of physical activity
Realities brings real world locations into VR – interactive & with stunning photo-realism using photogrammetry. Too many amazing sites are too far away, too expensive to get to, closed off to the general public or too dangerous to visit. Explore those places and discover their stories.
Walk through the desolate vastness of Death Valley. Explore the eerie abandonned hospital Beelitz Heilstätten in the former GDR. Marvel at the amazing architecture of one of the largest cathedrals of the world, the Cologne Cathedral. Feel the confinement of a cell in Alcatraz. Set foot inside the ruins of an 800 year old Staufer castle. More experiences coming soon!
Curricular Connections
Social Studies: Global and regional conflicts have been a powerful force in shaping our contemporary world and identities.
Social Studies: Physical features and natural resources influence demographic patterns and population distribution
Geography: Incorporating data from a variety of sources allows us to better understand our globally connected world.
