A VR system that puts you inside the pollution, then hands you the means to undo it.
Air quality numbers are easy to scroll past. A place is not. Replantify is an undergraduate project from UPES, built on a simple bet: if you stand inside a degraded environment, and your own actions visibly change it, environmental impact stops being abstract.
Replantify: VR-Based Interactive System for Environmental Impact and Pollution Awareness
The case is made by the room, not a chart. You stand inside a damaged environment instead of reading about one.
Interaction is the point. What you do in the scene, like replanting, changes the world around you, not a number in a corner.
It won its first outing at a hackathon, then was kept alive long enough to be registered as a software work.
A student project that ended up on the Register of Copyrights, with the university as owner. Registration took 22 months from filing, which says something about patience.
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