Welcome to the Virtual Reality summer experience. Here you will find three different sections:
VR Guided Tours of locations in Eastern Europe connected to the Project GO Summer Domestic Program. The tours of Moscow and St. Petersburg are intended as a general overview of these cities, while the tour of Jewish Eastern Europe is intended as a model tour for the students' own projects. While students with accessibility issues can use the links to Google Street View on this website to participate in the tours, these tours are intended to be experienced in the Wander app in the Meta Quest headset. Student final projects will be posted as examples on this site after the program has finished.
On Site 360 Presentations of locations in Vilnius, Lithuania recorded by our Project GO Summer Study Abroad students. These presentations accompany the students' websites and are best viewed in the YouTube 360 app in a VR headset, but are also available as ordinary YouTube videos embedded on this site.
A Tutorials page explaining how to use the Wander app to create your own tour, as well as how to create a page in Google Sites to serve as a record of your tour as well as an accessible tour for visitors with accessibility issues.
A tour down the Moscow River featuring:
Ministry of Defense
Cathedral of Christ the Savior
Dormition Cathedral in the Kremlin
Red Square, including St. Basil's Cathedral
We start high above the WInter Palace and explore:
Peter & Paul Fortress
St. Isaac's Cathedral
Kazan Cathedral
Church on Spilt Blood
Bronze Horseman
The study abroad students created their own websites and recorded their 360 presentations while on the ground in Vilnius in the Summer of 2023. You can see individual projects by clicking on the link above, or watch a YouTube Playlist by following the link to the left. Student projects all focused on sites in Vilnius that had some connection to a larger Eastern European framework, from the study of the memorializing of the Holocaust to the exploration of how modern Lithuanians are reaching out to displaced Ukrainians during the current war with