{"id":10178,"date":"2020-07-02T09:27:53","date_gmt":"2020-07-02T06:27:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=10178"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:31:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:31:08","slug":"un-and-sony-playstation-team-up-with-new-virtual-experience-to-raise-gamers-awareness-of-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2020\/07\/02\/un-and-sony-playstation-team-up-with-new-virtual-experience-to-raise-gamers-awareness-of-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"UN and Sony PlayStation Team Up with New Virtual Experience to Raise Gamers\u2019 Awareness of Climate Change"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Nairobi, 29 June 2020<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013 The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and Sony PlayStation have teamed up to create an&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.unenvironment.org\/news-and-stories\/story\/experience-your-carbon-footprint-vr\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">immersive virtual reality experience<\/a>&nbsp;designed to increase global awareness about what a climate change-friendly lifestyle looks like.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For the first time, UNEP and Sony have collaborated using the Dreams<sup>TM<\/sup>&nbsp;platform to create an immersive video that seeks to bring viewers face to face with their individual carbon footprints. It takes the audience on a 5 minute journey through an average day, observing what they eat, how they travel and the homes they live in. The video ends with viewers witnessing a giant 34 meter high heaving ball illustrating the carbon footprint of an average person in a developed country.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cCOVID has brought unprecedented disruption to how we live our lives, but now as we move out of lock-downs, we have an opportunity to develop new habits that can keep us within the safe limits of a 1.5 degree world. We hope that this \u2018virtual reality check\u2019 will show people how beautiful and possible these new lifestyle choices are&#8221; said&nbsp;Ligia Noronha, Director of UNEP\u2019s Economy Division<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As a member of the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.playing4theplanet.org\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0Playing for the Planet Alliance<\/a>, launched in 2019 with the support of UNEP, Sony hopes to see more game designers becoming more deliberate about tackling climate change.\u00a0 The Alliance hosted a Green Mobile Green Jam with 11 companies in April that will see more companies integrate green activations into their games. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unenvironment.org\/news-and-stories\/press-release\/un-and-sony-playstation-team-new-virtual-experience-raise-gamers\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi, 29 June 2020&nbsp;\u2013 The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and Sony PlayStation have teamed up to create an&nbsp;immersive virtual reality experience&nbsp;designed to increase global awareness about what a climate change-friendly&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10179,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}