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Torres Strait Virtual Reality, Rhett Loban (Virtual Reality)
Loban, Rhett David
Loban, Rhett David
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Torres Strait Virtual Reality (TSVR) is a new and innovative way of learning and depicting a Torres Strait Islander experience. It provides access and insight into aspects of the Torres Strait culture, stories, customs, practices and viewpoints in a highly visual way through virtual reality. My game has sought to capitalise on the passions and enjoyment of video games held by our younger generation of adults and children to make learning a much more interesting journey. I hope TSVR has helped promote my community and the Torres Strait Islander culture to a wider audience and highlights our unique culture, traditions and history which few tend to know about. I provided the game as teaching material for several different and varying courses at the University of New South Wales engaging both Indigenous and non-Indigenous students to share our knowledge and foster understanding of cultural diversity.
TSVR illustrates Indigenous environmental knowledge of seasonal, plant and animal life cycles and how this aligns with the island surroundings like the stars, constellations and the wind. The game also depicts several cultural aspects and phenomena in the Torres Strait such as Tombstone openings, trade between Papua New Guineans and the Torres Straits Islanders, traditional hunting practices as well as characters from Torres Strait stories and legends.
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Torres Strait Islands, virtual reality, culture, Papua New Guinea, hunting, gamification
Date
2018
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Book chapter
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Decolonising the digital
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158
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School of Education
Faculty of Education and Arts
Faculty of Education and Arts
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Open access
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CC BY 4.0
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Open
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Published by Tactical Space Lab, 2018 Sydney.
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This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License unless otherwise specified. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/