Breakdown of Unity interface of the 360-degree video environments to be viewed from a VR headset. The first is underneath the I-10 Interstate that was built through a historically black neighborhood in Baton Rouge, displacing many families and aiding toward the residual segregation. The viewer can then choose a resident of BR to interact with and it will take the viewer into a more intimate setting where the viewer is able to learn more about that resident as well as hear personal stories about the racial-issues of an American city. Extending from the main environment are options to take the viewer to the location of the Alton Sterling shooting as well as into the neighborhood where the protests occurred following his death.
Next step will be to incorporate the video footage I captured from the Black Lives Matter march and protests (see below for an example). I will line up the footage from that day with the 360-video so that when the cursor goes across certain points it will trigger a video to pop up. My intention is to evoke the same kind of fear I felt from this happening in a neighborhood so close to home by placing the viewer in a virtual first person experience.
