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October 13, 2018 at 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm

Virtual Reality Experience: This Is Climate Change

Virtual Reality Experience: Climate Change

Danfung Dennis, Eric Strauss
This Is Climate Change: Melting Ice
10 minutes | Participant Media, Condition One
Former Vice President Al Gore takes viewers on a transcendent exploration into the devastating consequences of our changing climate. Stand on the Greenland ice and observe the melt as it courses through bright blue rivers and into gaping moulins, as icebergs melt into the ocean.

Danfung Dennis, Eric Strauss
This Is Climate Change: Famine
10 minutes | Participant Media, Condition One
Travel into the arid expanse of Somalia, where crushing drought caused by rising temperatures has turned once-fertile lands into a year-round desert, placing the survival of a generation of children at great risk.

Danfung Dennis, Eric Strauss
This Is Climate Change: Fire
11 minutes | Participant Media, Condition One
In just the last three decades, changes in climate have doubled the amount of land burned by wildfires in the western USA. Experience the scorching California fires of 2017, and follow the dedicated fighterswhose jobs have turned into year-round battles against these blazes.

Danfung Dennis, Eric Strauss
This Is Climate Change: Feast
9 minutes | Participant Media, Condition One
Witness the beautiful expanse of Brazil’s ecologically valuable rainforest, threatened by loggers as massive trees are cleared to make way for sprawling industrial cattle ranches. Can the Amazon survive the growing global demand for beef?

Details

Date:
October 13, 2018
Time:
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm

Venue

VR Lounge
24 Congress Street
Portsmouth, NH 03801 United States
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