Excerpt of post originally published on the Carleton College Humanities Center Blog 1/10/2024

This past summer, I embarked on a journey into the past, joining the Virtual Viking Longship Project, a collaborative initiative between Carleton College and Grinnell College, overseen by Austin Mason, David Neville, and Tim Arner. Among other objectives within the grant narrative, creating an immersive educational virtual reality (VR) experience that can allow users to interact with significant historical artifacts of the Viking Age was central to my work this summer. 

Unlike my colleagues, who delved deep into the world of VR development and programming, my role focused on a different, yet equally crucial aspect of the project…