Long Beachers To Step Into Virtual Reality At CSULB
The goal is to highlight the school's and industry's diversity, including gender, intellectual and racial, and prepare minorities to be VR industry contributors, organizers said.
The idea was sparked when CSULB communication studies professor Ebony Utley said she consulted for a virtual reality company and attended a Wonder Women Tech conference last year. At the conference, Utley said she experienced UTurn's VR film, where people can see what it's like to be both male and female at a male-dominated floundering tech startup.
"I turned to one side and I was a man, and on the other side, I was a woman," Utley said. "Then, I looked down and saw I was white... It took me a moment to process it."
She added she's an African American woman and wasn't sure how she felt at first.
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