WIIT Metaverse Creation Lab

WIIT’s Metaverse Creation Lab was a first in-house creative lab dedicated to women, non-binary and diverse gender creators, organized by Women in Immersive Tech Europe, and funded by the WIIT Meta Grant.

WOMEN IN IMMERSIVE TECH EUROPE
Women in Immersive Tech Europe is a European NGO that wants to break barriers and be an inspiration for Women in Immersive Technologies all over the world. The WIIT community is a place to connect, meet like-minded women and underrepresented groups from across Europe and beyond, and find the resources to learn and grow.

WIIT’S METAVERSE CREATION LAB
WIIT’s Metaverse Creation Lab was a month-long series of workshops around the definition and representation of “self” in a digital context as well as around aspects of responsible creation for online, social XR spaces. The workshop was headed by Sara Lisa Vogl, Co-Founder of WIIT, along with Metaverse experts.

It was centered around building a virtual avatar that might express a female or diverse identifying individual better in comparison with existing models whilst above all establishing a sense of safety in the metaverse.

As Sara Lisa Vogl specified, “Individual self-expression in immersive, online social spaces as well as learning new skills and creating content with new peers is at the heart of this Lab. With Meta’s funds, we at WIIT want to support a diverse group of people to participate in the responsible creation of the Metaverse.“

The lab enabled ten women, non-binary and diverse gender individuals to create their unique, virtual identity.