Unity for Underrepresented Communities
Tutorial
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foundational
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+5XP
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60 mins
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(26)
Unity Technologies
Join Michael to learn about the potential of these technologies to preserve culture and ways to support underserved learners to be future creators.
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1. Session Overview
As a faculty member of the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University in Vancouver, Michael Running Wolf teaches XR development with Unity and is working to strengthen the ecology of thought represented by indigenous languages through the intersection of virtual/augmented reality and artificial intelligence.
September 30, 2021 Recording:
2. Session Guests
Michael Running Wolf
Michael was raised in a rural village in Montana with intermittent water and electricity with grandparents who only spoke their tribal languages, Cheyenne and Lakota. These languages like many other indigenous languages are near extinction. It is through this lens, combined with his Masters of Science in Computer Science and professional experiences with Amazon, IBM, AT&T Wireless and Lawrence Livermore National Lab that he found his true passion: endangered indigenous language revitalization using XR technology.