This case study uses the Once Upon a Time in Palestine XR Documentary as a case study to explore the use of virtual and augmented reality technologies to reimagine historical content creating in immersive and engaging ways to retell history. The documentary tells the oral history of pre-1948 Palestine, reimagined in an interactive and immersive way to engage Palestinian youth in their heritage. The documentary was developed using the Unity3D Gaming Engine, which uses and applies new techniques of combining archival photographs reconstructed as a 3D environment with real-live footage volumetric video reenactments of oral history stories collected from interviews with Palestinian elders. The case study examines aspects of the creation process and the implication of using virtual and augmented reality environments to reimage history so that the audience experiences the content as if it is not mediated by technology; thus, the experience is plausible and the audience feels presence. This presentation shares observations and articulates the creation process to highlight the importance of using virtual and augmented reality documentaries to reimagine the past and evaluates how interdisciplinary, multimodal pedagogical design can help undergraduate students create interactive collaborative projects.

Authors:
Sana Sayed, American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
Sohail Dahdal, American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

About the Presenter(s)
Professor Sana Sayed is a University Postdoctoral Fellow or Instructor at American University of Sharjah in United Arab Emirates

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