How virtual reality is increasing educational inclusiveness

The social scenarios include experiences around gender and disability. For example, the disability scenario creates an experience based on the assumptions people make on another person’s state of physical, mental, social or wellbeing. With the gender scenario, the experience is based around the assumptions of roles and a person’s capabilities based on their gender.

Many of the social situations Equal Reality is working on can be often overlooked by the person interpreting the situation. However, with the help of VR, Brennan says, “When you can feel it, and someone is receiving that impact, you can better understand the negative impacts.”

For Nikhil, he started a passion project using VR and believes that “this project will give the opportunity for everyone to learn and explore about deaf awareness, sign language, and how to communicate with deaf people. This will enable the deaf community to have the same equal experience as everyone else.”

While working on the diversity and inclusion training experiences, both Brennan and Annie are also giving up their time to teach children about the importance of VR  and how they can start working in it.

“Educating youth about VR is incredibly important because, in the future, VR may very well be in their day to day lives. It will play a large part of how they interact with the world and each other,” says Brennan.

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