Recess

Building immersive environments to support remote students build classmate relationships

prototyping

3d

school-project

A quick summary

For our Master's capstone project, our team worked with our sponsor Quest Labs to explore how we could foster relationship-building and community among students attending fully remote undergraduate programs. We used legos as avatar placeholders to prototype 3D environments, movement, and interactions within an immersive multiplayer virtual world called Recess.

Business Context

Education is moving remote

The pandemic forced higher education to go remote. Now, more and more schools are offering hybrid and remote instruction.

HUMAN PROBLEM

Remote students have few tools to connect with each other naturally

But is a college degree just about academics? What about social connections you build and the lifelong friends that you meet through degree programs?

solution

Recess, an avatar-based immersive platform to meet classmates

Recess is a desktop-based app that helps remote undergraduate students build connections with their classmates.

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