We are thrilled to have Dr Bianca Wright help lead our community and chair our Metaverse for Good Committee. As part of this role, Dr Wright will host our Online Meets with guest speakers and the committee will create best practices and guidelines for our industry.
Dr Bianca Wright is passionate about investigating the possibilities, challenges and risks of new and emerging technologies including immersive: XR, virtual reality, augmented reality, mixed reality and gaming, particularly in the context of tech for good. She has led and worked on a range of projects in academia and industry, most recently focusing on immersive technologies, including the Google Digital News Initiative-funded project Playing the News VR: Coventry Blitz and the development of a unit in Tech for Good mobile app development for the Prince’s Trust. Bianca is the Curriculum Lead: Immersive (Associate Professor - Academic) at Coventry University and leads the immersive strategy for the Faculty of Arts and Humanities.
An award-winning technology journalist and analyst whose work has appeared in consumer and trade magazines and websites in the US, the UK, Australia, South Africa and Europe, Bianca was first runner-up in the print business magazine category at the 2002 Telkom ICT Journalist of the Year Awards. She also won second place in the 2002 AISI Media Awards special category IDRC Award For Reporting on Research and Innovation. She has written several white papers about technology and business and has covered the technology industry for publications such as IDG Connect, CIO, and Nearshore Americas. In 2012, she was selected as one of the Top 40 Under 40 business achievers by the Nelson Mandela Bay Business Chamber. She completed the VR Mobile 360 Developer nanodegree through Udacity. Bianca's PhD focused on serious games and gamification.
“I am honoured to be joining VRARA’s Metaverse for Good committee. We all have a responsibility to build an inclusive, sustainable metaverse that serves the needs of all and works to address the very real challenges we face as a society and as a community. I look forward to working with the team and all VRARA members to help make this vision of a metaverse for good a reality.”
