Jun 01, 2022 2022-06-01
Mobile Learning
Native American Culture Brought to Life Through Immersive Reality
The OurWorlds app—winner of the 2022 SXSW EDU Launch Competition—teaches Native American history via virtual reality, augmented reality, and artificial intelligence. The app also includes geolocation features that tailor Native history to where the user is located.
OurWorlds’ XR360 technology uses 360-degree video overlaid with content. Both written and spoken Native language is superimposed over everyday objects or landscapes, artifacts are inserted into real-time environments, and modern landscapes merge with historical images so users can see what a place looked like at certain points.
The app has multiple avenues for exploration. One option depicts Native artifacts virtually, allowing exploration through a hologram-like function, while another lets users explore the items in their historic locations.
Geolocation settings personalize the Native history to the user’s location and offer primary source accounts, such as a Choctaw Code Talkers lesson that features a four-minute video reconstructing messages used on the World War I battlefield.
Geography Cultural Awareness Social Studies Virtual Reality • Augmented Reality Educational Technology
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