[2] During a visit to Gannon University in 2017, Eugene had the opportunity to explore Virtual Reality technology within Professor Ikechukwu Ohu's lab.
[3] This experience had an impact on him and inspired him to establish a VHCI lab in 2018 at Lagos Business School, setting a new course for his career.
[4][5][6][7] The lab was granted funding in 2020 by the Templeton World Charity Foundation to promote perspective-taking, empathy, and compassion among diverse ethnic groups in Nigeria.
The project will utilize game jams as a tool to achieve this objective in public schools across the country.
[8][9][10][11] In 2022, the VCHI lab established a partnership with Meta to conduct a cross-cultural academic research study across Africa using virtual reality (VR).