Kilo Hōkū was featured at the first annual STEMS² Symposium, which took place at the Kamakakūokalani Center for Hawaiian Studies on June 27th, 2019. The STEMS² Symposium invited teachers, students, policy makers, cultural practitioners, STEM and other STEMS² enthusiasts to learn with and from each other. Presentations highlighted local and national work that focused on …
Kilo Hōkū demoed at Polynesian Voyaging Society to Pwo navigator Nainoa Thompson
The latest version of the Kilo Hōkū simulation was demonstrated at the February 8th Holiday Pāʻina of the Polynesian Voyaging Society. There, Pwo navigator Nainoa Thompson laid out his vision of a new School of Voyaging, and the next steps for the Polynesian Voyaging Society. While demonstrating to crew and friends of the Polynesian Voyaging …
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New 0.4 Updates and Changes
We are happy to announce that we have finished the next phase of updates! There is now a new teacher controller system in place, which allows a teacher to turn features on and off, update the Latitude and Longitude, and control the speed of the Earth's rotation and movement. We also have a few pre-set …
Publication: Kilo Hōkū—Experiencing Hawaiian, Non-Instrument Open Ocean Navigation through Virtual Reality
The Kilo Hōkū team is proud to announce our first publication, now available in MIT's journal PRESENCE: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments. Titled "Kilo Hōkū—Experiencing Hawaiian, Non-Instrument Open Ocean Navigation through Virtual Reality" (doi:10.1162/PRES_a_00301), it is a presentation of our first steps in developing and prototyping the Kilo Hōkū simulation, the history of native Hawaiian Wayfinding, and our …
Kilo Hōkū featured on KHON 2 Wake Up 2Day
As part of Bishop Museum's Wayfinders Weekend, February 3rd and 4th, the Kilo Hoku project was featured on KHON 2's morning news segment, Wake Up 2Day! http://khon2.com/2018/02/01/bishop-museum-to-host-wayfinders-weekend/ Come and see us from 10 am to 3 pm at Bishop Museum on February 3rd and 4th.
