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Ayodele Dare works for MSU in its diversity, equity and inclusion office.
He’s been testing a new virtual reality application, called “A Mile in My Shoes.”
Users will be able to download it for desktop or mobile through the Oculus App.
The Oculus App works alongside an all-in-one virtual reality, or VR, headset that includes goggles and controllers. So you have the goggles on, you re going through, you re kind of looking around, trying to kind of reassess your location really,” Dare said.
The program allows the user to select a computer-generated character to play as.
Those characters reflect students of various backgrounds and identities, from which the participant can experience different real-life scenarios that might happen in a classroom.
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WKAR s Sophia Saliby speaks with MSU CANR Associate Dean, Quentin Tyler, about a virtual reality application designed to build awareness around unconscious bias.
It’s called, A Mile in My Shoes.
Quentin Tyler is an Associate Dean and Director for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources at MSU. WKAR s Sophia Saliby spoke to him about the program.
Interview Highlights
On How The Program Works
These are scenarios based on situations that happened on Michigan State s campus or even other classrooms across the country. You know, they will experience maybe some microaggressions, based on a certain part of their identity, and they have an opportunity to act through those situations. So again, it talks about ways to be an ally, ways to be an accomplice, and see things through the eyes of other folks.