with audience immersion to amplify engagement and promote actionusing Virtual Reality to showcase positive environmental projectsSurround Vision is using VR to transform the way people think about environmental issues

A Brighter Future

Client: United Nations

United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
Surround Vision are teaming up with the biggest names in the green movement to transform the way people think about environmental issues. ‘A Brighter future’ is a VR showcase that transports audiences into the heart of green innovation with climate solutions they can see in action. The project was used by the UN & UK government at the last three COP’s as a showcase to inspire global action towards international support of green initiatives in line with the UN’s ‘sustainable development goals’.

Deliverables

VR experience at Climate Events & Mobile AR & social media

Project Brief

A VR Showcase of sustainable innovation in action

A Brighter Future

The best examples of sustainable innovation in action

Client: United Nations

United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
Surround Vision are teaming up with the biggest names in the green movement to transform the way people think about environmental issues. ‘A Brighter future’ is a VR showcase that transports audiences into the heart of green innovation with climate solutions they can see in action. The project was used by the UN & UK government at the last three COP’s as a showcase to inspire global action towards international support of green initiatives in line with the UN’s ‘sustainable development goals’.

Deliverables

VR experience at Climate Events & Mobile AR & social media. Tethered and untethered versions exist as well as versions responding to hand gestures. Surround Vision also designed, built and installed bespoke display units to support the experience at COP 26.

Project Brief

A VR Showcase of sustainable innovation in action

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Project Delivery

The project started life as a green showcase to inspire Key decision makers at the COP, but has blossomed into a touring showcase that engages with adults & children, students & teachers, influencers & policy-makers.

Research has shown that immersive technology can be a powerful tool in enabling behaviour change in areas of real-world problems and challenges, such as human disconnect with the natural world.

Our strong relationships with Environmental groups and government agencies gives us a huge opportunity to drive further distribution opportunities and we are actively looking for partners to help raise the profile and amplify the reach of this project.

Project Delivery

The project started life as a green showcase to inspire Key decision makers at the COP, but has blossomed into a touring showcase that engages with adults & children, students & teachers, influencers & policy-makers.

Research has shown that immersive technology can be a powerful tool in enabling behaviour change in areas of real-world problems and challenges, such as human disconnect with the natural world. Our strong relationships with Environmental groups and government agencies gives us a huge opportunity to drive further distribution opportunities and we are actively looking for partners to help raise the profile and amplify the reach of this project.

Reach and Impact

Each positive story in the ‘A Brighter Future’ is created for virtual and augmented reality use but can also be translated into traditional media, web and mobile, enabling people from around the World to meet, discuss and learn about the Sustainable innovation and how to support it.

‘A Brighter Future’ uses Surround Vision's XR Hub. This platform has been developed to allow for the display of multiple formats of media, aimed at raising the profile of the UN’s ‘Sustainable development goals’ with lots of examples that link between the different goals.

The roadmap for this project includes building a social function into the core of the platform to bring people together from around the world, sharing in sustainable Innovation concepts. After all, this is something we all need to engage with.

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    To educate, entertain and inspire our global community.
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    Highlighting the success stories, to inspire change.
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    Shared across social media & global climate events.
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    A celebration of environmental excellence.

Reach and Impact

Each story in the ‘A Brighter Future’ is created for virtual and augmented reality use but can also be translated into traditional media, web and mobile, enabling people from around the World to meet, discuss and learn about the Sustainable innovation and how to support it.

‘A Brighter Future’ has been designed like a Jukebox, aimed at raising the profile of the UN’s ‘Sustainable development goals’ with lots of examples that link between the different goals.

The longer term strategy is to build a social function into the core of the platform to bring people together from around the world, sharing in sustainable Innovation concepts.

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    To educate, entertain and inspire our global community.
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    Highlighting the success stories, to inspire change.
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    Shared across social media & global climate events.
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    A celebration of environmental excellence.

View the Brighter Future Showcase

Zero Emission Flight

USA & UK

ZeroAvia is on a mission to tackle aviation’s climate change impact holistically and at scale, focusing on hydrogen-electric propulsion as the only viable way to achieve this goal. Follow Sergey Kiselev as he introduces us to the company’s work to develop the first engine for 19-seat aircraft and a green hydrogen production and refuelling capability.

Farms of the future

Bristol, United Kingdom

LettUs Grow is an indoor farming technology provider. They design & build aeroponic technology, control software & vertical farms that grow more food with less impact on land & resources. Join Charlie Guy, co-founder and CEO of LettUs Grow, as he takes you on a tour of their working vertical farm, specially designed for a changing world.

Garden Guardians

Medellín, Colombia

The city has introduced ‘Green Corridors’ to combat rising street temperatures and implemented a programme using just 200 new ‘Garden Guardians’ who have helped transform the city in just two years, tackling the urban heat island effect, increasing biodiversity and cutting air pollution along 18 roads and 12 waterways.

Great Green Wall

Senegal

The Great Green Wall is an incredible, generation-defining project that aims to stop the Sahara encroaching into the savannah grasslands by planting a wall of trees spanning 8000 km across central Africa. Led by the African Union, the initiative aims to transform the lives of millions of people by creating a mosaic of green and productive landscapes across North Africa.

Trash Heroes

Thailand
Part of the Sky Ocean Rescue campaign, Trash Hero creates sustainable, community-based projects that remove existing, and reduce future waste, by inspiring long-term behaviour change. Go on a journey to Thailand and meet the heroes who are fighting the plastic pollution spoiling the country’s pristine waters.

Offshore Wind Farm

Liverpool, United Kingdom

As energy accounts for 73% of global emissions – the green energy transition will be crucial in the fight against climate change. Ørsted is the largest offshore wind developer in the world and this video showcases the Burbo Bank Offshore Wind Farm, located off the west coast of the UK, which provides enough energy to power over 230,000 homes a year

Space Safari

Earth

Planet Earth, from a new perspective, inspiring viewers to demand faster green action. Through this project we learn more about the actions we can take that will have the most significant impact. Together we can show love for our home and create a world that runs entirely on green energy.

Game Zero

London, United Kingdom

Tottenham Hotspur partnered with Sky to host a football match like no other, aimed at raising awareness and inspiring people across the country to make simple changes to help reduce their carbon footprint. This historic match demonstrated the green steps that fans, the sporting world, and broadcasters can take to work towards a zero-carbon future.

Forest Makers

Xingu, Brazil

The Xingu Seed Network brings indigenous people together to collect and plant seeds, from trees and other plants native to the Xingu, Araguaia and Teles Pires regions in Brazil, that are then sold to landowners and farmers for them to reforest their land. So far, the network has reforested more than 6.6 thousand hectares of degraded areas in the Xingu and Araguaia Basin.

Extreme-E

Global

Extreme E is an FIA-sanctioned international off-road racing series that uses electric SUVs to race in remote parts of the world, such as the Saudi Arabian desert or the Arctic. All racing locations are chosen to raise awareness for some aspects of climate change and Extreme E maintains a “Legacy Programme” which intends to provide social and environmental support for those locations.

“If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a virtual reality experience is worth a whole book”

– Kate Allen Amnesty International

“If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a virtual reality experience is worth a whole book”

– Kate Allen Amnesty International

“If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a virtual reality experience is worth a whole book”

– Kate Allen Amnesty International

Research has shown that immersive tech is a powerful tool in enabling behaviour change in areas of real-world problems and challenges, such as a human disconnect with the natural world.