Teaching

Notice360 is an immersive 360° video and virtual reality tool for teaching ethnographic observation.

Notice360 approximates the experience of being guided by a trained ethnographer through observations on campus, cultivating what anthropologist Anna Tsing calls “the arts of noticing” (2015). It is optimised for VR headsets but also runs on desktop and mobile devices, so it can be used in online tutorials and by students for whom headsets aren’t suitable.

There are two versions. The guided version uses annotations and voice-over to prompt students to notice what an ethnographer would and to ask critical questions of the environment around them. The unguided version approximates observing without that guidance, allowing the team to test how much guidance matters in observational training.

Try the guided version Try the unguided version

Project: VR and 360° Video for Anthropological Field Methods Training
Developer: TC Zhou
Team: Samanthi Gunawardana and Anna Molas (Human Geography, Anthropology and Development Studies); Sarah Goodwin (Faculty of IT).
Trial: ATS1255 Encountering Cultures, Semester 1 2026
Funding: Arts Faculty Education Seed grant

If you’d like to trial Notice360 in your teaching, get in touch: kari.dahlgren@monash.edu

Students in a tutorial using VR headsets to explore Notice360 — Students trialling Notice360 in an ATS1255 tutorial, Semester 1 2026. Shared with students’ permission.