Best in Education for UNHOME VR

Wednesday evening was a special moment for our team: at the nextReality.Hamburg e.V. awards ceremony, outstanding projects from the extended reality industry were honoured – and together with our partners from VR Crime (GoBanyo gemeinnützige GmbH), we were presented with the award for the best digital education experience.

Pictured (from left): Tim Boerner, Senior Art Director at UNHOME, Henning Westerwelle in the dual role of director and producer, and Chris Poelmann as co-writer and co-producer (GoBanyo)

UNHOME is an extraordinary VR project for our team because it focuses on the impact of the medium of virtual reality – and deliberately pushes the technology itself into the background. The focus is on the idea of experiencing homelessness as a change of perspective. Without any VR effects or technical bells and whistles. The VR glasses serve as the best possible vehicle for immersing oneself in an immersive and emotionally challenging story. It is not an easy topic – and that is precisely why it is so important.

We are currently experiencing overwhelming demand from schools across Germany that want to use UNHOME as a workshop or teaching material. Nicolas Staake is constantly busy coordinating enquiries – a clear sign of how relevant the issue of homelessness and the UNHOME project have already become in school education.

As a team, we want to continuously develop UNHOME: new stories, additional features or further language versions – all of this requires appropriate budgets. Organisations or partners who would like to support UNHOME can contact our team or Chris Poelmann at any time.

Our valuable supporters since day one include:
MOIN Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein, Globetrotter Ausrüstung, FC St. Pauli von 1910 e.V., fritz-kola GmbH („Pfand gehört daneben“), Airbus, German Wahnsinn GmbH and Curious Company®.
Thanks to them, this journey has become possible – and we will continue it together.

All further information can be found at UNHOME-Landingpage.