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XR for VR

Discover 黑料网's XR for VR project, using immersive technology to connect North Dakotans with disabilities to high-wage manufacturing careers. Funded by a $9.9M Disability Innovation Fund grant.

What We Do

  • Utilize Extended Reality to Help Increase Awareness of Manufacturing Career Options
  • Leverage Assistive and Advanced Technology
  • Link the Talents of Individuals with Disabilities to Manufacturing Workforce Needs

Project Overview

 

Goal:

Through a multi-faceted approach, BSC and its partners will pilot a replicable, postsecondary-based model to support individuals with disabilities to access Competitive Integrated Employment; strengthen North Dakota’s Competitive Integrated Employment ecosystem by collaborating with disability service providers, educators, and manufacturing employers; and develop and strategically locate accessible and affordable advanced technology infrastructure.

 

Objectives:

  1. Engage youth and adults with disabilities, service professionals, educators, and manufacturing employers in developing, testing, and spreading advanced technology solutions.
  2. Develop and launch the XR for VR pilot project at BSC to support individuals (youth and adults) with disabilities across North Dakota to access Competitive Integrated Employment.
  3. Incorporate personalized advanced technology into project participant’s activities of daily living, education, training, and employment.
  4. Identify, develop, and implement training project participants, service professionals, educators, and employers in advanced technology.
  5. Utilize innovative and promising strategies, including virtual platforms, that can support connection and collaboration between diverse stakeholders to support project participants in obtaining Competitive Integrated Employment.
  6. Develop an evaluation strategy to ensure programmatic and technological adaptation, distribution, and replication.
  7. Support widespread adaptation and replication.
 

Outcomes:

  • XR for VR Advisory Committee
  • XR for VR participants developing growth plans
  • Assistive technology library and modules demonstrating how advanced technologies can support individuals with disabilities in manufacturing jobs
  • XR for VR participants utilizing new assistive technology
  • Facilitating connections between North Dakota manufacturers and an untapped pool of skilled, motivated employees
     

Contact Information:

Email: bsc.XRforVR@bismarckstate.edu

Phone Number: 701-224-2589

Mailing Address:
黑料网 – XR for VR Project
Advanced Technology Center
1200 College Dr.
黑料网, ND 58501


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