CVR — for the Humanities —

We seek to create experiences that place the viewer in the era, allow her to listen to people people from the age, to passively participate in a slice of history, and to construct their own version of the subject under study.

For example, our prototype project, “How Do We Love Thee?” allows the viewer to learn about Elizabeth Barrett Browning from the people who knew her. Set at a celebration of her life, five years after her death, the viewer enters as her son’s girlfriend and is tasked with listening.

We believe that purposefully crafting educational cinematic virtual reality experiences will provide a way into the required common core content that will generate richer discussion and higher interest than through lecture alone.

We also believe that it is important for our students, for those who are the next generation of citizens, to be familiar with new technologies. Bringing them engaging content connected to current curricular content provides exposure to one of the emerging technologies in an environment that allows for exploration and analysis of the possibilities.

As Marcos Luna Hoyas said in our most recent team meeting, “We want to bring educational CVR experiences to every school no matter if their budget is $200 or $2000.”

To do this, we focus on the educational value of everything we create. We consider how it will work when implemented into classroom practice. We think of its implications on both the students’ learning and the teacher’s instruction. We strive to provide viable lesson guides onto which the teacher can put her own spin, tailoring the EduCVR experience to her students’ needs.

Further, in creating each experience, we seek to capture the unique essence of the locale - be it the Victorian formality of the Brownings’ parlor or the New England playfulness of Dickinson’s garden. We will bring our professional production team and equipment with us, but will continue to cast from local post-secondary theatre departments in order to provide an opportunity for them to gain experience acting in this new medium.