Minecraft + Oculus Rift

We are celebrating the Minecraft + Oculus Rift project that's been facilitated with Kansas City Public Library youth at our Trails West, Southeast, and North-East branches. Youth at those branches, as well as the African Centered Preparatory Academy, were challenged to create their ideal neighborhood in Minecraft with the library as the base. They’ve created restaurants, banks, and railway systems. The project required an immense amount of collaboration between participants, the ability to problem-solve and think logically about what it takes to make a neighborhood function, while also allowing them to imbue the neighborhood with their own creative perspective.

The Oculus Rift is virtual reality technology that then allows the youth to fully immerse themselves in the Minecraft neighborhood they created. It also introduces them to this next generation technology and encourages them to think about how it is/isn’t relevant to their future lives, and how they can play a part in its development.

If you are at all interested in what’s been going on with the digital media lab, or this project, this is the place to see it in action. Please RSVP to attend.