Schell Games LLC — Department of Education SBIR Phase II: 91990019R0012
Schell Games LLC — SBIR Phase II award from Department of Education.
Phase II SBIR prototype / development signal
- Phase II is where Department of Education funds deeper R&D after feasibility. Incumbents with Phase II history are serious competitors on adjacent topics.
- Use this award as past-performance context and to map customer organizations for STRATFI/TACFI-style transition planning.
- Obligated amount $899,979 is consistent with substantial Phase II-scale effort; compare to related awards from the same agency.
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- Amount
- $899,979
- Agency
- Department of Education
- Program / Phase
- SBIR · Phase II
- Topic
- 91990019R0012
- Solicitation
- 91990019R0012
- NAICS
- —
- Place of performance
- PA
- Period
- 2019-06-26 → 2021-06-25
Description
History Maker VR is a playful virtual reality (VR) content-creation tool that allows students to embody historical characters in immersive settings, record performances featuring those characters, and share their performance files to demonstrate material mastery. History Maker VR is designed to scaffold creative storytelling, and to encourage embodied learning and for students to take pride in content creation. Students will use a variety of props (e.g., books, parchment, quills) during their VR performances and can play back their movements and voice recording from the Director's Booth in the audience. To access notes, talking points, or historical facts while in VR, students will pre-load text into a folder and then read notes on a teleprompter inside the environment. To share performances, content will be in a format that can be projected on a monitor for a class to watch or will be exported to a video file to be submitted as reports. History Maker VR intends to increase student engagement and knowledge of U.S. history and civics, their interest and enthusiasm for studying history and civics, and their historical thinking skills.