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TRAPPED: A VR DETECTIVE STORY OVERVIEW
Developed on the HTC VIVE, a room-scale VR system, it is designed in three separate acts, the first of which is completed and available on WEARVR . 

TRAPPED: A VR Detective Story is an interactive virtual reality “narrative story” that raises awareness of human trafficking by educating users about grooming techniques used for exploitation as well as how to recognize the signs of human trafficking.

In Act One, you become Lisa, a 14-year-old girl from an idyllic suburb, lured into trafficking by a boy she met online. Go on a narrative journey with Lisa as you explore her world, piece together important clues from her past, and learn how she fell under the control of an abuser. Learn how grooming techniques feel and affect you when you are on the receiving end.

PARENTAL GUIDANCE
While there is some mature subject matter (Language, Sexuality, Violence), everything is set in a realistic context.

FEATURES
- Supports HTC Vive Headset (required)
- Teaches how to recognize signs of human trafficking.
- Educates about exploitative grooming techniques
- Provides an immersive, interactive, movie-like experience. Turn your head and hear the neighbors arguing through the thin walls; peer out the window and see the world to which Lisa longs to return.
- Follows United Nations Sustainable Development Goal #5: Gender Equality.
- Based upon a real case, with a script developed alongside a broad group of educational partners, including survivors and survivor groups.
- Incorporates direction from: Texas Attorney General’s Office of Human Trafficking, Prevent Human Trafficking, Allies Against Slavery, Traffick911, UNICEF, and ECPAT.
- Showcased on Fox 7 Good Morning Austin and PBS Austin’s Decibel.



DEVELOPMENT
Our founder, Billy Joe Cain, has 25 years experience in the interactive industry with prior employers and clients, including Electronic Arts, Origin Systems, and the United States Air Force. He has created interactive, educational products for afterschool programs and has led summer camps where students created socially-relevant interactive products. 


N-Fusion Interactive (www.n-fusion.com) is the development team that has put the finishing touches on Act One of TRAPPED. They have won multiple awards for their work, those for Deus Ex: The Fall are shown above, and have worked with Billy previously on other successful products. 


$1500 to reach the TASC Annual Conference
These include downloadable lessons that use the story of TRAPPED as a way to open conversations about healthy and unhealthy relationships, facts about human trafficking, and Polaris' "Recognize the Signs" as key learning objectives. We are exhibiting at SXSW and want to have materials ready. We are also exhibiting and doing breakout sessions at the Texas Association of Student Councils ' Annual event. They estimate 5000 attendees, and we plan to sign up many educators and schools. Experienced curriculum writers have already started.




$750 per language transcription

We're English-only at the moment, but we have a team working on a Simplified Chinese text translation.




$5-15,000 per platform, depending on difficulty

The goal is to be available to as many people as possible. This means creating versions that work on other devices. Help us support new platforms: Android, iPhone, tablets, browsers, and other VR headsets.




$50,000 - Complete Act

Act Two allows you to be the detective, investigating the homicide. Clues lead you to catch the john that killed her, and along the way, common myths about human trafficking are debunked. Gain a greater understanding about the reality of trafficking, while you solve the murder. 






$50,000

Act Three's challenge is connecting the dots between Lisa and her boyfriend / pimp / victimizer, so he can be prosecuted. Collect the evidence needed to convict him. Can you make the case? 

Users leave the experience with a fuller understanding about the difficulty of finding justice for these victims, and how important this is as a worldwide issue. 

ACCURACY IS VITAL
We have worked closely with survivors and government agencies to ensure we are creating an accurate and authentic experience that raises empathy for victims. 

The facts of our story come from a real case in San Antonio. Very common indicators of trafficking are demonstrated from the point of view of the person being groomed and then victimized. They are well-integrated into the narrative story.

Our educational material supports United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls. 

WHY VIRTUAL REALITY?
The experience is in Virtual Reality (VR), because it affects people on a deeper level than any other medium. VR immerses you in the experience by replacing what you see and hear with a three dimensional, interactive world inside an immersive stereo soundscape.

More details and studies on how this really works can be found here.


SOFTWARE RATING
While no "mature" visual content is in the experience, there is realistic language to tell the story and to provide an accurate experience for users. 


YOUR GENEROCITY AMPLIFIES THE MESSAGE
Your support also allows us to travel to conferences worldwide, so we can reach more leaders in the field, such as the JuST Conference. JuST is hosted by Shared Hope International to shed light on juvenile sex trafficking. We demonstrated TRAPPED at their October, 2017 event. Read more here. 

RESEARCH 
There are many schools, such as Stanford University, performing scientific research on the effects of virtual reality on human behavior. Details about these studies here.


THANK YOU!
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