High Fidelity's STEM VR challenge is offering up to three $5,000 grants to developers who can create compelling High Fidelity/VR-based educational scenes appropriate to teens, are STEM-focused, and can be experienced by over three people at the same time.
"We're doing this because we think that education is going to be transformed by VR and we want to attract that user group to our product early," High Fidelity's Emily Donald tells me. "We also want good examples of great content that people can download and experiment with." Judging to be done by High Fidelity's founding team, led by Philip Rosedale and several other Linden alum:
"So the people who will be judging the contest are our three cofounders Philip Rosedale, Ryan Karpf, Freidrica Heiberger, and also our Biz Dev and community manager, Chris Collins." (Ryan and Chris were part of Philip's core team at Linden Lab, too.)
If you do submit an entry, NWN reader, please let me know too - I may very well want to blog about it!
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Will the judges be taking advice from one or more teachers?
Posted by: Graham Mills | Monday, July 06, 2015 at 03:30 PM
A person needs to be capable of identifying "good educational content" for teens and Phil and his stoner pals are not it.
Basically, Row-snale is fishing for stuff he already likes....and that ain't good.
Posted by: joe | Tuesday, July 07, 2015 at 01:19 PM