Virtual Reality has the ability to become a powerful artistic medium. But its impact could be lessened if not enough people have access to it. 

An article written for artsy.net says that virtual reality is the most powerful medium of our time. Its unique ability to make the user feel totally and completely immersed will definitely bring about some striking and important projects, like Rose Troche’s sexual assault immersive experience.

This new medium has the power to allow users to create projects that confront serious issues in ways that will make people think hard about them. However, there is still a problem: many people find VR to be inaccessible.

That’s why I decided to work with a group of students, professors, and post baccalaureates in order to help make this technology more accessible.

We started this project with a few goals in mind. One was to create a low-cost, low-tech VR lab that other schools could easily replicate. The other was to show how this medium can be utilized in the realm of the humanities.

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People need to realize that VR is not just for people with an extensive background in technology. It’s also for the artist, the writer, and the humanist. There are so many wonderful project ideas out there and I’m sure many of them won’t even get started because the technology required seems to intimidating.

The goal of our project, VR for Virtually Everyone, is to help these projects become actualized by getting this technology into more hands. In order to do this, we are currently working on getting our project fully funded so that we can begin to create our lab and start on our projects. Please consider becoming a backer of our project. By backing you will be helping to make this technology more accessible for everyone and helping many great project ideas become real.

For more information, please visit our project page