This article is a Spotlight ✨ – part of a series of interviews with innovative Hubs creators highlighting their work.
We asked Erdem Murat about how he worked with Hubs and Global Co Lab to help teens build their own 3d worlds and imagine brighter futures.
Tell us about your project, the people involved and some of the people you have worked with. How did you leverage Hubs to achieve your goals?
The Global Co Lab Network (Co Lab) empowers and engages teens around the world with a focus on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Their amazing work is shared and published on numerous platforms, and virtual reality is one of them. The Co Lab has been involved in VR for a few years now, and Mozilla Hubs has been their go-to from day one. As the Virtual Reality Director, I collaborate with many at the Co Lab who have impressive work that they wanted to share in virtual reality. Hubs allows us to have an open platform where people can join whenever they want and view this work in VR. There is always new content so the room is always updated with something exciting!
The Co Lab also entered the UN SDG Metaverse Competition with four teams total (one adult and three youth-led). Two of the teams were invited to present their work for this competition at the UN Science, Technology and Innovation Forum. As the VR Director, I instructed and mentored all three of the youth teams in developing their own VR worlds. The teams all developed something amazing in a field that they are all passionate about.
The Co Lab has had five VR rooms with Mozilla Hubs that have continuously updated for 3+ years.
The Co Lab youth have three teams (so far) that have created their own rooms using Hubs, and there are more to come!
What are some unique features/spaces you have built in Hubs? How did you go about building them?
The Co Lab has built their own VR space with a total of five different rooms. The first room is our main room where you have a nice overview of the impressive work done by the Co Lab. Our second room is devoted to the annual video competition hosted by the Co Lab called “Teens Dream” where all finalists have their entries presented. Our third room presents the great work done by the arts hub, it is very artistic and impressive! Our fourth room is the partner room where partners of the Co Lab are mentioned and honored. Our fifth room is the cafe where people have a nice and relaxing area to chat with each other.
What would you love to see in Hubs that would enable you to better support your users?
Some added functionality for conditionals/animations would be great!
Anything else you would like to tell us about or share with the Hubs community?
We love that Hubs is free and works on a standard operating system without any special requirements. This makes it easily accessible for our Co Lab community!
✨ Special thank you to Erdem for the write up, Starlena McBride, and Linda Staheli, Global Co Lab founder for the context contributing to this post. You can learn more about the Global Co Lab here.
