This interactive 360 video VR experience brings to life the world of a person with a disability. The project is a collaboration between the Business School, the Media team and the Immersive developers to create a powerful experience to educate students about and build empathy for those with a disability.
Project Details
The Riding with Amy Disability Project brings the user on a journey following a person with a disability in a cafe scenario. The scenes show how they are perceived by others in the cafe, as well as their point of view when doing tasks such as finding a place at the table or ordering food. The player experiences both good and bad interactions and is prompted to make choices, see what various people are thinking and interact with the scene using virtual reality.
This is a wonderful collaboration with academics from Marketing in the UNSW Business School, particularly Dr. Veronica Jiang, EF Senior Lecturer and Academic Disability Advisor.
TEACHING & RESEARCH
The experience is used each term in one of the large core postgraduate Marketing courses as a component of their groupwork project where disability is a major theme. Riding with Amy has also been used in research looking at video, interactive video and virtual reality comparisons.
TECHNOLOGY & DEVELOPMENT
While the project is in a stable state, the minor enhancements continue as the technology improves and small requests are delivered. The staff and work integrated learning student developers are using the Unity game engine to bring together all the elements and deliver the VR experience using our Meta Quest 3 headsets. The original script work, filming and coordination of the actors and shooting was done by the Media team.
OUTREACH & NEWS
News Blog: Riding with Amy: A virtual reality journey towards disability inclusion
Get Involved
There are internal Teams Channels, Miro Boards and working groups covering the development collaboration with Marketing in the Business School. To find out more, join the team, get a demo or have your class or promotion use-case included just get in touch.
- Email: [email protected]