Google Immerse VR videos investigate race, diversity, and identity by exploring how real people interact with the world and how the world interacts with them. Experience the other Google Immerse VR videos at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL590L5WQmH8c8AJGzN1laCvgUXFqDb9um
Join Dezzie, a UX Designer at Google, as she shares how racial identity, bias, and systematic racism impact her and her family everyday. Dezzie says: “You can’t talk about racial identity without talking about racism.”
Stand shoulder to shoulder in Virtual Reality with Dezzie and explore her challenges, successes, and sense of identity as you travel with her around Paris and back to her childhood home.
Made in partnership with Light Sail VR.
Part 1 of 3 in the Google Immerse VR Racial Identity series.
Featuring:
Dezzie Dimbitsara
and Emilie Bequignat, Benjamin Gaulon, Ilana, Nora
Light Sail VR Team:
Director – Matthew Celia
Producer – Robert Watts
Writer – Katherine Celia
Cinematography – Keith Lancaster
Editor – Matthew Celia
Original Music – Dimitri Smith
Guitar Soloist – Kevin Enstrom
Cello Soloist – Katt Newlon
Production Manager – Jason Huddleston
Production Coordinator, France – Guillaume Marchant
Production Sound Mixer – Gabe Ruggiero
VFX – Occlusion VFX
Post Production Sound – Empty Sea Audio
Supervising Sound Editor – Mark Camperell, MPSE
Re-Recording Mixer – Michael O’Connor
Sound Editor – Michael O’Connor
Colorist – Arianna Shinning Star Pane at Velem
Google Immerse Team:
Google Immerse Founder – Gina Rudan
Google Immerse Executive Producer & Program Manager – Jeffrey Breau
Google Immerse Executive Producers – Liza Patnoe, Dominique Mungin, Ragland Williamson
Executive Producer – Hunter Johnson
Google Immerse Communications – Sarah Choi
With Special Thanks to:
Florence Aknin, Alexandra Labourel, Elizabeth Lowe-Hunter, Hannah Thedros; Nilka Thomas, Dr. Myosha McAfee and the Google Diversity & Inclusion Team; Peter Lubbers, Jamie Baughman and Google Developer Studio; Google People Development Team;
Google Computer Science Education in Media; Sarah Steele, Joe Szopa and the Jump Team; Oona King, Stephen Golden and the YouTube Diversity & Inclusion Team; Erin Teague and the YouTube VR Team; Xpedition Media; Le Pigalle Café, Paris, France; SNCF France and SNCF Nevers; Woods Communications; The City of Clamecy, France; The City of Nevers, France; The City of Paris, France; Google Paris
Made on:
Jump