Create an innovative experience that appeals to and engages high school students. Informing and educating them about the risks of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs).
A Virtual Reality (VR) project using immersive storytelling to promote safe sex and create a sense of urgency in our target audience surrounding STDs.
In less than a year a prototype evolved into a fully functional product and became an integral part of the national sex education program at Dutch high schools.
Talking about STDs can be embarrassing, especially for teenagers. To get the right message across, the messenger itself had to be appealing.
We prototyped early in the process and kept testing the versions among the target audience. This way we made sure we developed an engaging concept. We adopted new technologies and relevant storytelling to connect with the teenagers and built an innovative solution for the education program.
We saw VR as the ideal medium to show teenagers the potential size of their sexual network and the consequences of not practicing safe sex. Early prototypes were tested and improved, leading to a successful final product.
The VR EXperience has the teenager start in bed where he or she sees contacts from their sexual network appear around them, filling up the room. They can interact with the people in the room by looking at them. The teenagers hear their experiences and thoughts about their sexual encounters.
The biggest challenge in this project was to personalize the experience for each individual teenager. The VR EXperience needed an onboarding mechanism that enabled teens to customize their experience.
Our solution: let the teenagers have a VR chat conversation with their loved ones. Based on the input from these talks, the size of the group and gender, the EXperience is personalized. After the experience ends, tailored advice is given to each individual to promote safe sex.
In order to make the experience accessible to the target audience, we built the VR EXperience in WebGL and optimized for mobile. This allowed Dutch high school students to have the full experience on their preferred devices.
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Native web API's.
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