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MOONWALK
Multi-Platform Immersive Reality Experience
Travel Through Space and Back in Time
In May of 2022, our “Moonwalk” Multi-Platform Immersive Reality Experience brought 10,000+ people to the moon at the Smithsonian Arts & Industries Building as part of their FUTURES exhibition. Through our strategic partnership with Meta Immersive Learning, we teamed up with our long-time collaborator Black Dot Films VR to bring this concept to life in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Apollo missions.
10,000+
Experienced Moonwalk in VR
220,000+
Combined Moonwalk QR scans VR
11.6 M
Total Impressions via #THEFUTURES
Multi-modal Immersive Learning Experience System (MILES) is a comprehensive platform that allows educators to implement dynamic and evidence-based immersive experiences. MILES, the product of a joint venture between Meridian Treehouse and Showtime VR, offers variety, ease of use, and freedom to grow and customize to educational groups who are interested in immersive education.
The platform includes a wide variety of licensed immersive educational content, the tools to guide groups through a shared immersive experience, an easy-to-use device management interface, and a suite of options that allow users to create their own experience–all of this and more within the same application. Expanding the capabilities of immersive technology, MILES makes it easy to connect immersive media with digital and analog learning resources, to add new options to your existing practice, and ultimately to expand the capability and utility of immersive technology.
Educators need the freedom to foster deep connections, the access to captivating educational material, and state of the art ways to engage their learners both within and outside of immersive content. MILES makes the most of your standard media, 360 content, games, interactives, and device management; blending them seamlessly and highlighting each formats’ strengths, functionality, and uses like never before..
2021 WEBBY AWARD & PEOPLE'S CHOICE WINNER ”Best 360 Video"
Access The Inaccessible
Changing how we experience our world.
As VR Development Producer for the Expedition Everest 360 series I worked closely with the team at IVAR Studios to create new ways to connect audiences with our world.
Immerse yourself with a team of scientists, climbers, and Sherpa guides as they embark on an expedition that will help define our understanding of high-mountain environments. Experience the National Geographic and Rolex Perpetual Planet Everest Expedition, which was not simply a climb of the mountain, but a perilous adventure to learn how climate change is impacting the highest place on Earth.
National Press Photographers Association 1st prize for “Innovation” winner for Best of Photojournalism 2021
“You have to make it relatable, accessible, and enjoyable,” Della Volla concludes. “If you don’t have that, then you’re doing a disservice to science, to learning, to everyone in your community. Lifelong learners want to know they have a place to go, and it’s gotta feel like a place they’re welcomed in.”
A Day IN: DC
On May 1st, we launched #DayINDC Instagram Live festival and fundraiser to showcase and support local businesses and creatives. We brought those in D.C. and beyond together for a full day and night of authentic, human connection #IVL (In Virtual Life). Head to adayin.live for ways to support and donate
30+ businesses, 18+ hours of content, 10s of thousands of views, a million emotions. Produced by brightestyoungthings.com and exactlyagency.com
Role: Producer, Technical Director, Talent and Relationship Manager
An Introduction to the Metaverse for Education
The Metaverse has potential to enhance all types of educational experiences. Whether you’re an educator, developer, or anyone in between who wants to learn about the opportunities that XR (extended reality) can bring to the classroom and beyond, you’ve come to the right place.
Download our free evidence-based guide for an in-depth overview of the essentials and check out our blog to stay up to date on the latest musings and developments from our team of experts.
“It’s kinda fun to do the impossible.”
— Walt Disney
Seven words that sum up why I jumped headset first into the uncharted waters of immersive experiences. Creating the “World’s Largest Permanent Virtual Reality Theater” was supposed to be impossible, even Oculus told me we couldn’t do it! That didn’t stop me and my team of collaborators from ignoring good sense to make the impossible, possible.
The Virtual Exploration Theater at National Geographic’s Historic World Headquarters in Washington, D.C. opened October 10, 2018 for its debut event. In the 14 months after that first activation of a location-based shared synchronized immersive reality experience system I and my team took over 2500 people on expeditions from under the ocean to the moon. The groundbreaking experience won The Webby Award for “Best VR Interact Design”.
With limitless places to go it became clear the experience needed to go beyond the walls of a theater. This is why I developed, built, tested, and launched the first-of-its-kind mobile remote shared synchronized immersive reality experience system, the VR Exploration Expedition Kit. Opening access and opportunity to these powerful experiences meant we could reach students in the classroom and even X Games enthusiasts on the side of a mountain. In just four short months over 6500 people on two continents went on expedition with us to 11 different destinations.
And that’s just the beginning…