What connects everything together? One way to view XR and AerieX is as vehicles for storytelling. Simon telling a story about a homeless hut, Zora assisting with the 3D model, Om coding the experience after taking Unity's Create with VR course, Bodhi making the music, Andrew helping Om, etc.. The homeless hut is a way for us to talk about and highlight a real world issue. Then we actually do something about. We make it real for people in XR. Then they get to experience what it might be like to live there for one night, or simply just walk around in it and learn something new with voice narration (maybe pulling podcasters with sweet voices from Video Broadcasting). This helps satisfy one of our major goals with 🥽The XR Lab: Empathy Generation, Multi-Perspectivalism, and Integral Collaboration. Empathy. Perspective. Collaboration.