For our final project for our FdSc in Applied Computing, Barry Lewis and I created a Virtual Reality (VR) project for the Google Cardboard. Our client for the piece was Somerset Coalfield Life Radstock Mining Museum with the aim of increasing customer interest in the client's establishment and to hopefully draw in more clientele for them. The application was a mine experience designed to give fun, yet also educational, information about what it was like working in the mines. For this, we worked very closely with the museum and ex-miners to ensure the best results for the client. The application is still being used to-date and has helped with the goal of attracting more customers to their establishment.

Somerset Coalfield Life Radstock Mining Museum hosted a launch party event for the VR Mine Experience, attended by relevant stakeholders to the application and the Press and was held in 2018 to coincide with the release of the exhibit to the general public. During the release event, Barry Lewis and I were interviewed by ITV, BBC, BBC Radio, Somerset Live and other media outlets, which allowed us to promote the exhibit for the museum and explain our part of the collaboration that lead to the creation of the VR Mine Experience. We also were able to publicly thank all the people that enabled the Experience to be made, such as the ex-miners whose insights were invaluable to making an as-accurate-as-possible mine experience.

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In addition to this being an event to promote the VR Mine Experience, the museum were kind enough to allow us to set up a technical demonstration area upstairs in the event, where we showed other VR tech demos to relevant guests that may be interested in us creating products for their institutions or businesses.