In partnership with the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, USC students harnessed emerging technology to create immersive experiences to illustrate how the climate crisis is affecting habitats across the world.

## About This Game
Funded by the USC Wicked Problems Practicum, USC students from Annenberg,
Dornsife, Games, Viterbi and the Wrigley Institute harnessed emerging
technology to produce immersive projects in the 2019-2020 academic year that
illustrate how the climate crisis is threatening caribous and their habitats.

In partnership with the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County and
supervised by Professors Robert Hernandez (JOVRNALISM) and Vangelis
Lympouridis (USC Games), the team of engineering, journalism, and game design
students collaborated to create an interactive XR experience about the caribou
diorama.

As climate change melts the permafrost and fuels a positive feedback loop of
carbon emissions, it forces caribou out of their habitat and puts them in
danger of aggressive species, from predators on their migration route to a new
home to parasite flies that could kill a baby calf alive.

Beyond creating an interactive museum experience that’s entertaining and
educative, this multi-part immersive multimedia project aims to engage the
audience and visitors with the effects of climate change and call for
practical individual actions, demystifying any abstract scientific language
that makes people perceive climate change as a distant looming threat.

This collaborative project was supported by Lecia Geosystems, which lent the
team a BLK 360 scanner.

Beyond The Diorama: Caribou World