Nigerian Researcher Wins N90m Grant For Virtual Reality Project

  • A Nigerian researcher named Dr Eugene Ohu has won $234,000 (N90,395,019)
  • The researcher at the Lagos Business School won the grant from the Templeton World Charity Foundation
  • Doctor Ohu won the grant to conduct a two-year virtual reality research

A Nigerian researcher identified as Dr Eugene Ohu has won a $234,000 (N90,395,019) grant from the Templeton World Charity Foundation. The researcher at the Lagos Business School won the grant to conduct a two-year virtual reality research titled Teaching Children Empathy and Compassion through Virtual Reality Games.

The disclosure was made by the school, which stated on its website that the project will explore the potentials of virtual reality (VR) for character development, How Africa reports. The researcher at the Lagos Business School won the grant from the Templeton World Charity Foundation.

The grant was awarded under TWCF’s Global Innovations for Character Development (GICD) initiative.

Dr Ohu was quoted as saying: “It will be an immersive virtual reality (VR) experience where teenagers take the perspectives of ethnic groups different from theirs, to appreciate their identity and share in their sufferings.”

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