A twenty-minute walk through Fallujah: Using virtual reality to raise awareness about IEDs in Iraq

SUMMARY: In January 2018, filmmakers from the studio NowHere Media traveled to Fallujah, Iraq, with the objective of creating a virtual reality (VR) experience to explain how improvised explosive devices (IEDs) are impacting people’s safe return home. In just a few days, they met dozens of people, all of whom had stories to tell. And then they met Ahmaied—an Iraqi father who had returned home with his family about a year earlier. Ahmaied told them about the tragic accident that had happened just a few months prior when his two older sons entered a neighbor’s home to collect wood and set off an IED. Both young men lost their lives in the explosion.