North America Indigenous XR Scan & Showcase
Project Leads: Tyson & Lona Running Wolf
Purpose: Coordinate leadership, track discoveries, and manage partnerships, process, and outputs.
- Overview & Roles
- Scan Process
- Curation Criteria
- Documentation
- Showcase Development
- Outcomes & Reporting
- Process Management
Overview & Roles
Mandate & Scope - Clear statement l
Roles and Responsibilities (who does what, iLRN support team, project leads, volunteers, publication team)
Scan Process
Scanning Protocol: Methodology for identifying projects
Submission Form (Tally.so) - for people to self-nominate projects
Curation Criteria
How to decide what qualifies and how it will be documented
Documentation
Project Entries - each project logged with consistent metadata
Partnership Notes - Running log of outreach and developing relationships
Showcase Development
Design Brief - Plan for how the showcase will look and feel
Program and Run-of-Show: a draft timeline for the showcase
Hosting & Cultural Protocols: Guidance
Outcomes & Reporting
Reflections - Insights from the scan and showcase
Contributions to the State of XR 2026 Report
Process Management
Greenlighting system
Lightweight approval: Adding projects to the Repository Log
Heavyweight approval: Announcing partnerships or publishing showcase content - must go through iLRN leadership (Immersive Futures, Pubs Team, iLRN Board of Directors)
Collaboration Tools:
- Codex for documentation and process tracking
- Tally.so for intake of projects
- Frame VR for the showcase build and event hosting
- Invision Community / Discord for open discussion and volunteer contributions
- Support Roles
- iLRN Repository Working Group --> technical / process support
- iLRN Circle of Scholars --> quality assurance and advising
- Volunteers / Graduate students --> help index and prepare project entries