VR for the Social Good
What’s the social good issue that you are passionate about?
To change hearts and minds, whose story needs to be experienced?
Let’s get started!
Tuesdays @ 5:10-7:05 PM Room TUR L005
Professors Sriram Kalyanaraman (Journalism) and Benjamin Lok (Computer Science)
TA: Heng Yao (hengyao1993@ufl.edu)
This class is open to students of any major and from freshmen to graduate student. No prerequisites and no programming or technology knowledge is required.
Office of Technology Licensing information of Intellectual Property
This course is a part of the VR for the Social Good Initiative which includes the student group GatorVR (Facebook Group).
Demo Day Video
Important Dates
August 28th - September 25th - Assignment #1 - learn Unity on your own and develop your first social good message using VR. Assignment #1 Trello Board
September 18th - Pitch Day! Seekers (researchers, innovators, and entrepreneurs) pitch project ideas to the class.
Solvers (students) self-form teams of four to five. Teams select a project from projects pitched. Selection priority will be based on class participation points.
September 25th - December 14th - Assignment #2 - Use VR to improve the social good.
Tentative: December 14th 10 AM - noon - Demo Day @ Florida Museum of Natural History
Demo Day Flyer
Course Materials: Information Session on Class video
