PublicVR just won a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to stage an electronic puppet show based on the Virtual Egyptian Temple. It will show at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh, AXIOM Gallery in Boston, and Puppet Showplace Theater also in Boston. We will open source everyting to the public, and publish the evaluation results. Please see the official record and read the whitepaper. We call our project, the Egyptian Oracle.

Introduction

PublicVR is a Non-Profit (501c3) organization dedicated to free software and methods for using Virtual Reality in education and research. Our tools and methods make virtual reality affordable, requiring only commodity electronics and software. We are particularly interested in interactive learning games based on virtual worlds, and on projection-based displays which visually immerse the student in the learning space.

The use of Virtual Reality is no longer the stuff of science fiction. Our site shows a number of installations and projects already been built and implemented using our technology or content methods. Our projects are in use for education, skills training, and even for the medical therapeutic treatment of balance disorders. With the help of visitors to our website, our goal is to expand and advance the uses of Virtual Reality in order to improve education, knowledge, health, and the wealth of human experience.