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Pollinator Park

Description

Pollinator Park is a crossover between a zoo, theme park, an interactive museum and a crystal ball: both educational and emotionally engaging. As a park visitor, unravel the story of Beatrice Kukac, try your hand at hand pollination, go grocery shopping in a pollinator-deprived world, rediscover nature’s perfection and find out how you can help protect it in the real world.

What Works Well

This app uses near-term science fiction to create a world that informs the viewer of the value of pollinators and what would be lost without them.

Discipline

  • Agriculture & Natural Resources
  • Biological (Life) Sciences

Keywords

climate change, conservation, educational media, farming, food science, narrative, natural preservation, science fiction, simulation, storytelling

Developer

Poppins & Wayne

Level of Interactivity

Guidance Level 4
What does this mean?
The Level of Interactivity indicates how many interactive features an experience has.

For instance, a Level 1 would be a more passive experience where you will be able to look around freely, but you will not be triggering or interacting with things in the environment.  A Level 2 will provide some level of interactivity but only very basically, such as being able to move between different scenes in the experience. A Level 3 will start to incorporate some more complex interactions using a remote or controller to trigger things within the scenes. A Level 4 would be a fully interactive experience but something you are still guided through. Finally, a Level 5 would be a fully interactive experience that gives you complete control of how to use it.

Platform

Oculus Quest