Linearize

Linearize is a virtual reality program that to uses mapping technology to enhance climate change literacy across the world. 

Where have you found an easy, fun, and entertaining way to enhance your climate change literacy? The answer is nowhere. You can learn about climate change through reading long and analytical articles, essays, and papers about the effects of climate change. However not many of us have the overarching interest to read these overwhelmingly long papers. There is no program that allows people to amplify their climate change literacy, through an entertaining program that can hook users' interests.

Linearize is an interactive VR excursion designed to promote climate change literacy. This virtual reality excursion allows users to experience the effects of climate change from selected “maps” available. This program will include everything from predicted temperatures, natural disasters, and pollution, carbon emission, and sea levels to food and water availability and population. With our three-dimensional virtual reality experience, users can freely explore selected “maps” and first-hand see the effects of climate change as if they were walking through time.

Our users will be presented with tips and facts on how to minimize climate change, as the VR excursion runs. When the interactive nears its end, users are exposed to various climate change charities and organizations, in which they will learn its mission statements and accomplishments. As users walk away from this interactive virtual reality experience, their climate change literacy will be enhanced, but their journey doesn’t have to stop there.

Users can view their recorded VR experience through our mobile app or website at any time, along with the option of sharing their recorded experience with the public if they so desire. Through our all inclusive, interactive website and app, users can also view other user’s VR experience to further view and learn about the effects of climate change. 

Two-dimensional graphics and interactives within the app and website are also present for users to play with. Sliding the toggles allows users to see the physical and environmental effects of climate change on the world over time. Additional toggles allow mobile app and website users to play interactives at x2 speeds, select between “maps” available, view nonprofit organizations, view a world (graphic & interactive) without climate change, and enhance their climate change literacy through tips and facts from environmentalist and climate change experts.

Linearize welcomes users of all ages, backgrounds, and climate change knowledge to utilize our program. Linearize is devoted to creating a smooth, safe, and knowledgeable experience for passionate and willing to learn users. Linearize’s services aren’t limited to the US. We provide services to people all across the globe.

Linearize introduces a fun, creative, and knowledgeable experience for users to enhance their climate change literacy. Our program takes away the long hours of reading climate change articles and papers from users. The most prominent and useful tips and facts are cultivated into our short interactive or VR game. This allows users to not only enhance their climate change literacy, but save time and become more engaged.

As business people we always hear about financial literacy, but what about climate change literacy? We want to change the narrative, expand our minds beyond the norms. Just like how the mental health conversation came about, and then financial literacy. Next is climate change literacy, and it just takes one spark to start the conversation. We want to be that start, to create that conversation that will push our world for greatness because greatness starts with us.

Our team at Linearize has participated in community cleaning. We have the amount of garbage that has trashed the streets. Seeing the transformation what a few helping hands can do, we were inspired by this change. After seeing this issue for ourselves, we worked on a project with World Series of Innovation to further develop a solution to combat climate change and pollution.

Our team at Linearize has configured a concept to enhance the climate change literacy of future generations. Our idea doesn't go beyond reality, at the moment. It is a general structure of our current vision.

Linearize goes to our customers rather than have our customers come to us. We will have pop-up shops housing our VR experience that allows users within a close radius to visit our shop. Every two weeks, our pop-up shops will relocate to a different city. This way we can reach a larger audience, and also bring convenience to users across the globe.

Linearize knows that someone has to initiate the change for others to follow. We don’t just advocate for climate change literacy, we start the change. For every VR user we receive, we will donate $__ upon completion of the program. Our donation will be used to not only fund for change, but to be a role model for others to also make a difference.

Lineraize’s VR experience, app, and website are all completely free to use. We establish a sense of excitement and community through our platform by educating users through VR and interactives. These multitude of platforms allow users to interact with Linearize online and/or in-person.

Our goal at Linearize is to spread awareness about climate change literacy to world. By doing so, our future generations will be more educated on how to conquer and adapt to the changing world. We plan to reach our goal in the future by promoting our virtual reality experience in the classroom.

Linearize takes advantage of satellite and mapping imagery for NASA and Google to formulate a virtual reality experience for users.

Linearize has not officially launched operations.  Our current status of users is zero , but we our aim is to expose our program to at least 5,000 individuals by the next year. Of this 5,000, the majority will be high school and college student. By aiming at this target market, we will be influencing our future generation of potential world changers.

Linearize is currently lacking funding to make our program a reality. We are also in the need of a team of programmers and artists to create interactives and the VR  imagery.

At the moment, Linearize is going solo and does not have any partnerships in the works.

Linearize enhances the climate change literacy of individuals in a fun and interactive way. As a result, our future generations are more educated about the impacts, causes, and solutions to climate change. This will create a breaking point in the population, as our world will be revived through our generations. As a fully non-profit program, we work to show individuals the impact of our actions to motivate change.

Linearize will work to fund our work by applying for grants. Through grants, we aim to pay our team, elevate our technology , and sustain our free programs to schools and the public.