I Am a Man

Derek Ham

Selected as a scholarship winner from the 2017 Oculus Launchpad Program, "I Am A Man" is an interactive virtual reality experience set to the historic events of the African-American Civil Rights Movement. Witness the 1968 Memphis Sanitation Worker’s Strike and the events leading to the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

“I Am A Man” is an interactive virtual reality experience set to the historic events of the African- American Civil Rights Movement. Through a first person perspective, users witness the 1968 Memphis Sanitation Worker’s Strike and the events leading to the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. giving a them a new lens to perceive the past.

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Check out the live Q&A from DIRC20 with Derek Ham and Cortney Harding. You can also view the YouTube 360 Video version of this project.

 

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The following 360 film has been captured and reformatted from the original immersive VR experience released for the Oculus Rift VR headset.

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