Program: CREI ( CA Libraries Cultivating Racial Equity and Inclusion) XR Program: Creating immersive experiences of a community's "lost stories"
CA Libraries Cultivating Racial Equity and Inclusion with XR program: A Way Out of No Way: The Marinship Project of Marin City: 1942-1945
Saturday, June 25, 2022
11:00am – 12:00pm
Location: Washington Convention Center, 140A
CA Libraries Cultivating Racial Equity and Inclusion XR programming We produced a 12 minute video about the CREI project featuring Chantel Walker, the research of Yolo and Palos Verdes Libraries staff and the soundtrack and media from Marin City. A Way Out of No Way immersive media program helped youth create and produced hip-hop songs and a VR experience of the Marin Shipyard workers during WWII. https://youtu.be/X-H5N-ZSBVs
www.xrloststories.com Soundtrack Program https://youtu.be/IF7kV-qEo3M This project is a scaleable project for libraries to examine community “lost stories” to be discovered and revisited through immersive XR media of music and VR.
Learning Objectives:
Participants will understand how immersive XR media can help communicate implicit bias
Participants will understand how to create an immersive program for examining community racial bias.
Participants will understand the possibilities of integrating XR apps into library programming.
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