MSU Team Developing Virtual Reality App To Help People Recognize Unconscious Biases
Ayodele Dare works for MSU in its diversity, equity and inclusion office. He’s been testing a new virtual reality application, called “A Mile in My Shoes.” Users will be able to download it for desktop or mobile through the Oculus App. The Oculus App works alongside an all-in-one virtual reality, or VR, headset that includes goggles and controllers. "So you have the goggles on, you're going through, you're kind of looking around, trying to kind of reassess your location really,” Dare said. The program allows the user to select a computer-generated character to play as. Those character...