Alicia Hong wins first prize in VR Eco Hackathon

Boston University’s Alicia Hong (COM 18’) attended VR Eco Hackathon hosted at the Boston Public VR lab, a project of Brookline Interactive Group (BIG), to advocate climate change issues.

Hong is a member of the VR group Before It’s Too Late (BITL), an inspiring team from MIT creating an non-profit to leverage virtual reality visualizations, interactive storytelling, simulations to create empathy, and to inform people about the impacts and solutions for South Florida’s sea level rise.

This initiative now includes 40 students across 9 universities. BITL is working with the SE Florida Regional Climate Compact members, which includes the City of Miami, regional universities and advocacy groups, to develop their experience, “Save or Sink Miami”, which is slated to fully launch in 2018.

The BITL team just released a Kickstarter campaign, which can be found on their site http://www.vrbeforeitstoolate.org/.