{"id":15759,"date":"2026-04-16T18:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T18:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/news-itp-students-xr-experience-presented-at-the-un\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T18:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T18:50:09","slug":"news-itp-students-xr-experience-presented-at-the-un","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/news-itp-students-xr-experience-presented-at-the-un\/","title":{"rendered":"ITP students&#8217; XR experience presented at the UN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>            <!-- figure-image info --><br \/>\n            <a><br \/>\n            <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"100%\" src=\"https:\/\/tisch.nyu.edu\/content\/dam\/tisch\/itp\/NewsEvents\/2025-2026\/ITP-XR-UN-3.JPG\"\/><br \/>\n            <\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>Landmine Garden, a collective, multiplayer XR experience created by NYU ITP students and alumni, was recently presented at the United Nations Headquarters. Participants take on the role of deminers working together through slow and careful actions to clear virtual landmines. As areas are made safe, hidden stories and personal tragedies are revealed, drawing attention to an ongoing humanitarian crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Set in a familiar backyard environment, the project brings distant conflicts into a personal context, asking participants to reflect on how ignored dangers can exist anywhere. The project resonated with UN partners\u00a0looking to enhance visitor understanding of the UN\u2019s work, which led to an invitation to present it as part of the \u201cForward Not Fragmented\u201d exhibition.<\/p>\n<p>Under the guidance of Michelle Cortese\u00a0, who teaches the ITP course \u201cHedonomic VR Design\u201d, the group refined the project, transitioning from an early AR iPad prototype into a fully realized multiplayer XR experience.<\/p>\n<p>This project was exhibited at the United Nations Headquarters in New York City on December 3, 2025, and from January 2 to January 6, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Team:<br \/>\nProject &amp; Tech Lead: Haoren Zhong\u00a0<br \/>\nCreative Tech: Ivy Yiyun Jiang\u00a0<br \/>\nVisual &amp; 3D: Zongshuai Zhang\u00a0, Xiaoxu Han<br \/>\nVisual &amp; UX: Cathy Chenxu Li (ITP \u201825)<br \/>\nSound Design: Keyi Ding\u00a0<br \/>\nSpecial thanks to Michelle Cortese, Mimi Yin, Matt Parker<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>            <!-- figure-image info --><br \/>\n            <a><br \/>\n            <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"100%\" src=\"https:\/\/tisch.nyu.edu\/content\/dam\/tisch\/itp\/NewsEvents\/2025-2026\/ITP-XR-UN-1.jpg\"\/><br \/>\n            <\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>            <!-- figure-image info --><br \/>\n            <a><br \/>\n            <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"100%\" src=\"https:\/\/tisch.nyu.edu\/content\/dam\/tisch\/itp\/NewsEvents\/2025-2026\/ITP-XR-UN-2.jpg\"\/><br \/>\n            <\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><!--\/\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"5\" src=\"http:\/\/tisch.nyu.edu\/content\/dam\/tisch\/itp\/NewsEvents\/2025-2026\/ITP-XR-UN-3.JPG\"\/>This project was exhibited at the United Nations Headquarters in New York City on December 3, 2025, and from January 2 to January 6, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}