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World 8

2020-12-01T04:46:23Z

JoannA: /* Curriculum Reforms */

== VIRIS ==

[[File:smallscreent.jpg|250px|thumb|right|VIRIS Model X]]

[[File:crazy-lens-cyborg-a.jpg|250px|thumb|right|VIRIS Model Y]]

[[File:person.jpg|500px|thumb|right|VIRIS Vision: the lenses give information on person you are looking at for more than 3 seconds]]

VIRIS is a revolutionary contact lens system which allows one to detect any particles which may threaten human health as well as identify citizens who have compromised immune systems. Since 2020 this device has been known to improve public health and look out for the wellbeing of citizens.

There are currently two different models of the device. The first being the standard version, Model X. The Model X is able to detect virus particles - even if they are airborne. They can detect if someone is sick with a viral infection regardless of whether they are showing symptoms or not. Limitations to this model are its lack of ability to fully identify any bacterial infections such as Strep Throat. Moreover, Model X is not able to calculate contagion levels.

The second, and most recent model of VIRIS is Model Y. Model Y offers advanced features. Model Y will give one the ability to view someone’s brief family history, including the country their parents were born in, and any genetic diseases associated with the family. These advanced lenses collect the personal information of the user including legal name, sex, current health-status as well as the age of the individual. Moreover, Model Y offers a bonus feature that allows one to understand different languages. The most recent update allows one to read captions in their preferred language when someone is speaking a different language.

Minimum network requirement to operate this device is a 4G network and also has Wi-Fi capabilities to use. The Model X is now the most affordable device available at a price point of $650-$700 CAD. Model Y, however, is the most widely used and the most expensive at a price point of $1500-$2000 CAD.

=== Initial Release ===

At the beginning of the VIRIS life cycle there were some people who were initially skeptical. LENZ with a Z was quite thorough in their research and development for this product- testing on voluntary people from almost every ethnicity, health status, and gender and weight. Many concerns were regarding whether this product would damage one's natural eye sight. Dr. Ojo - an expert optometrist- made it clear that LENZ with a Z's technology does not further damage natural human eye sight nor does it cause damage to already healthy eyes.

Early Innovators of this technology encouraged the public to accept the benefits of this product and with consistent rising cases of COVID-19 in 2020 it was clear that the human race needed a tool to further understand just how easily transferable the virus was. Once specialists of WHO were involved with LENZ with a Z VIRIS was almost instantly accepted by the public.

=== Is VIRIS for you? ===

The development of VIRIS has brought innovation for safety and improving public health. Many public sectors such as public parks, shopping malls, and public schools understand that not everyone will be able to afford this technology and so the use of VIRIS is completely up to the individual to use or not. In a number of private sectors; however, VIRIS has become a requirement to wear and has become part of uniform in many office buildings and private schools.

==== Children and VIRIS ====

In all models of VIRIS a Children's mode was developed for young kids ages 6-10. This setting was created to first introduce kids into learning about public health and safety. It offers a simplistic representation of the cleanliness of a space before they enter it. Moreover, if children attempt to approach a red zone there is a warning "beeping" sound that the child can hear. It does not provide information to children about the personal information of an individual.

[[File:safe.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Example of what children see through VIRIS lens in a safe environment]]

[[File:danger.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Example of what children see through VIRIS lens in a high-risk environment]]

==== Safety Concerns ====

To get the full experience of VIRIS and ensure that VIRIS lenses last for a full 3 years it is essential to follow the cleaning procedures included in the VIRIS package. A sample cleaning kit is included with a first-time purchase of VIRIS and various subscriptions are available to receive the full cleaning set.

Notifications are sent to smartphones to remind customers that they must clean their lenses after every use at the end of the day. Failure to do so will lead to difficulty in putting the lenses on in the next use. This safety feature is to ensure that the natural eye remains clean and healthy.

For regular contact lens users or those who wear corrective glasses a prescription VIRIS is available - the cleaning procedures are similar with a few added steps outlined in the VIRIS cleaning kit.

== History ==
VIRIS was created in 2020 by LENZ with a Z, a startup created by Bill Gates, Canadian university researchers and Bayer, an international pharmaceutical company. VIRIS was conceptualized as a response to the COVID-19 Pandemic that began in 2019 which lasted until 2022 and resurfaced again in 2025 as VIRIS was still in its infancy and bug fixes were being rolled out to users. The product was secretly developed by LENZ with a Z as Gates, researchers and the medical industry became less confident that enough vaccines could be produced to successfully combat COVID-19 and future pandemics given the widespread damage to economic, social, political and healthcare systems in the wake of COVID-19.

[[File:bayer bill gates.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Gates, Bayer executives and healthcare/agriculture officials at the "Zero By 40 Meeting" 2019]]

=== Project Implementation: 2020-2026 ===

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation already had prior experience with Bayer as Bill Gates had attended a conference to eradicate Malaria by 2040 which he attended in 2019. Due to these prior connections The project to design VIRIS was quickly implemented in the winter of 2020 leading into 2021 as immense funding from The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Bayer pushed the project ahead quite quickly. Consequently, Model X, the company’s initial offering was in the hands of consumers in 2021. This had an immediate impact as users were able to stay away from people and areas that contained any harmful pathogens and this initially accelerated the disappearance of COVID-19 despite reports of a lack of worldwide adherence to social distancing measures.
Rates of Illness steadily declined after Model X was released although a mutated strain of COVID-19 resurfaced in 2025. It was revealed that the resurgence of viral activity was due to a major software bug which incorrectly identified unsafe areas as pathogen-free and vice versa.
Through the discovery of the software bug In Model X update 1.06 it was revealed that VIRIS had many serious social implications as stigma surrounded those with viral activity – and they were often wrongly identified. Some critics argue that the bug issues and stigmatization should be blamed on the growing divide between Gates and Bayer, as the two tried to take LENZ with a Z in different directions. Gates wanted to make (product) more accessible worldwide while Bayer wanted to continue raising the price and marketing Model X to grow the business.

=== Good, Bad and Model Y: 2026-2040 ===

After working out many of the software issues, VIRIS became crucial to eliminating the spread of disease and increasing overall health of the global population. Cures for cancer and HIV became more promising as researchers and the healthcare industry could focus more directly on new areas as preventing pandemics became a secondary concern.
As Governments and NGOs alike had to focus less on illnesses, they turned to fighting against equality issues and realized that VIRIS had negative societal affects as well. Health outcomes of low-income families remained low as they struggled to afford Model X and this disproportionately affected oppressed members of society based on race, gender and sexuality.
Some school boards used VIRIS as a teaching tool to introduce children to public health education and supplied Model X to all students, while many private institutions closed their doors to students who did not have VIRIS due to associated risk, further deepening the wealth gap associated with private schooling.

==== Model Y: 2034 ====

Model Y was seen as a vast improvement over Model X and further protected users, but was also direct proof to critics that VIRIS disparately protected only the wealthy with its retail price of $1500. With its new features, many also began to worry about government agencies and LENZ with a Z collecting data and conducting surveillance on VIRIS users. Model Y also opened the door for new learning opportunities and modalities as the captioning upgrade made second-language learning more accessible and allowed for digital literacy alphanumeric literacy learning to occur simultaneously. This came with a caveat though, as those who could not afford VIRIS were further disadvantaged in the learning system as a result of these resources being out of reach.

=== Onwards: 2040- ===

With the release of Model Z expected soon, many humanitarian organizations are calling for LENZ with a Z to subsidize the cost of VIRIS to low income users or to make the base model, X free so that income, and racialized disparities existing in society are eliminated. Many have argued that VIRIS played a role in exacerbating equity issues worldwide despite alleviating pressure on the global healthcare system.

== Education (Jee-ae Joanna) ==

Revolutionary contact lenses, VIRIS, opened new avenues of change and modification within the education system. VIRIS became an overarching invention, of which its impacts filtrated school curriculums, school funding systems and the pedagogical methods used in classrooms.

==== Distribution and Accessibility ====
Since its launch in 2020, VIRIS proposed multiple concerns of equal access and distribution of the technology amongst students and teachers. Private school institutions remain to exclusively accept students who can afford VIRIS, due to the associated risks of opening doors to those who do not have the contact lenses. This policy further increased economic disparities, between families in public schooling and those in the private schooling system. Consequently, such unequal distribution and accessibility led to an expected increase of positive COVID-19 cases in public schools.

[[File:Education viris.jpg|500px|thumb|right|Grade 10 science class' studying VIRIS lense]]

In the same way school boards provide students with technological resources like iPads and Chromebooks, a similar initiative was put in place by The Ministry of Education in 2028 to fund Ontario public school boards, in order to provide students with the virus-detecting technology. This initiative raised issues of inequitable funding, due to unequal distribution of investment money between school districts and regions. More populous areas saw greater amounts of funding, compared to cases in smaller, less populous regions and districts. As of 2040, schools situated on Indigenous reserves remain inadequately unfunded by the government to provide students and teachers with VIRIS lenses.

==== New Pedagogical Approaches ====
Since the outbreak of COVID-19 in late 2019, there has been a global manifestation of fear towards viruses and bacteria. For this reason, teachers of Grade 3 students or younger, are instructed to employ different pedagogical approaches when teaching the concept of bacteria and viruses. The concept of VIRIS is explained through multimodal teaching pedagogies. Kids are taught that the colour red and the icon “!”, symbolizes “bad” and “harmful”, as a result, one should not go near or touch the area, object or person. On the other hand, the colour green is taught to be a “safe colour”. A feature of VIRIS Model Y signals beeping sounds when someone is entering a red zone. As a result, children are taught in school that certain sounds are associated with danger. Such teaching pedagogies are constructed in relation to multimodal and multimedia pedagogies that integrate diverse semiotics to enhance learning. As society is now vastly digital, similar representations of icons, colours and signs on phones and computers, are used to teach the concept of unsafe infected zones and zones that are safe.
[[File:Contactlens.jpg|250px|thumb|left|Dual-lingual caption feature on VIRIS]]

==== VIRIS for L2 Learning ====

VIRIS has become a teaching tool for second-language acquisition, otherwise known as, L2 learning. The caption feature of Model Y enables students to listen to teachers and peers speak in English, while simultaneously viewing captions in their native language. This feature on VIRIS has been compared to dual-lingual texts, used as pedagogical methods to teach ESL learners by using multiple semiotics from one’s native language and the English language. The dual-lingual feature on VIRIS Model Y has not only made positive impacts on an educational level, but also in the social lives of ESL learners, who now have an easier time communicating and interacting with other peers who only speak English. Moreover, VIRIS Model Y has been used in French classes, to enhance the linguistic proficiency of students, particularly the oral and listening competence of FSL learners.

==== Curriculum Reforms ====
VIRIS has become an overarching invention that has revolutionized social, cultural, economic and political contexts of the world. As a result, in 2026 The Ministry of Education released updated Kindergarten - Grade 12 curriculums, with modified and adapted curriculum goals and expectations.
Social Sciences and Humanities (a course offered at the secondary level), saw significant adaptations in its curriculum, particular in the following subsections: Equity Studies, Health Studies, Sociology and Psychology. In the same way schools address issues of race and intersectionality, teachers teach students about societal, racial and economic discrimination and marginalization created from the invention of VIRIS. In courses like Psychology and Sociology, students discuss how VIRIS has transformed the way people see the world. An emphasized topic in these courses is the stigmatization created towards people who cannot afford VIRIS, against people that are labeled "infected" and communities with higher rates of infected residents.

VIRIS has also been integrated in Science curriculums for students in Grade 7-12, each with a highlighted unit focusing on the symptoms, side effects and functions of VIRIS lenses. Science teachers use VIRIS as case studies and science experiments to teach students the biological interaction between the human eye and brain, in relation to the virus-detecting lenses. Moreover, VIRIS is integrated in history curriculums, as The Ministry of Education found it vital for students to have a profound understanding of the historical events and contexts that have led us to today’s world of VIRIS lenses.

== Group Members ==

Samantha Dungca, Nabila Elahi, Jee-ae Joanna Lee, Brendan Spencer

World 8

2020-12-01T04:41:10Z

JoannA: /* Education (Jee-ae Joanna) */

== VIRIS ==

[[File:smallscreent.jpg|250px|thumb|right|VIRIS Model X]]

[[File:crazy-lens-cyborg-a.jpg|250px|thumb|right|VIRIS Model Y]]

[[File:person.jpg|500px|thumb|right|VIRIS Vision: the lenses give information on person you are looking at for more than 3 seconds]]

VIRIS is a revolutionary contact lens system which allows one to detect any particles which may threaten human health as well as identify citizens who have compromised immune systems. Since 2020 this device has been known to improve public health and look out for the wellbeing of citizens.

There are currently two different models of the device. The first being the standard version, Model X. The Model X is able to detect virus particles - even if they are airborne. They can detect if someone is sick with a viral infection regardless of whether they are showing symptoms or not. Limitations to this model are its lack of ability to fully identify any bacterial infections such as Strep Throat. Moreover, Model X is not able to calculate contagion levels.

The second, and most recent model of VIRIS is Model Y. Model Y offers advanced features. Model Y will give one the ability to view someone’s brief family history, including the country their parents were born in, and any genetic diseases associated with the family. These advanced lenses collect the personal information of the user including legal name, sex, current health-status as well as the age of the individual. Moreover, Model Y offers a bonus feature that allows one to understand different languages. The most recent update allows one to read captions in their preferred language when someone is speaking a different language.

Minimum network requirement to operate this device is a 4G network and also has Wi-Fi capabilities to use. The Model X is now the most affordable device available at a price point of $650-$700 CAD. Model Y, however, is the most widely used and the most expensive at a price point of $1500-$2000 CAD.

=== Initial Release ===

At the beginning of the VIRIS life cycle there were some people who were initially skeptical. LENZ with a Z was quite thorough in their research and development for this product- testing on voluntary people from almost every ethnicity, health status, and gender and weight. Many concerns were regarding whether this product would damage one's natural eye sight. Dr. Ojo - an expert optometrist- made it clear that LENZ with a Z's technology does not further damage natural human eye sight nor does it cause damage to already healthy eyes.

Early Innovators of this technology encouraged the public to accept the benefits of this product and with consistent rising cases of COVID-19 in 2020 it was clear that the human race needed a tool to further understand just how easily transferable the virus was. Once specialists of WHO were involved with LENZ with a Z VIRIS was almost instantly accepted by the public.

=== Is VIRIS for you? ===

The development of VIRIS has brought innovation for safety and improving public health. Many public sectors such as public parks, shopping malls, and public schools understand that not everyone will be able to afford this technology and so the use of VIRIS is completely up to the individual to use or not. In a number of private sectors; however, VIRIS has become a requirement to wear and has become part of uniform in many office buildings and private schools.

==== Children and VIRIS ====

In all models of VIRIS a Children's mode was developed for young kids ages 6-10. This setting was created to first introduce kids into learning about public health and safety. It offers a simplistic representation of the cleanliness of a space before they enter it. Moreover, if children attempt to approach a red zone there is a warning "beeping" sound that the child can hear. It does not provide information to children about the personal information of an individual.

[[File:safe.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Example of what children see through VIRIS lens in a safe environment]]

[[File:danger.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Example of what children see through VIRIS lens in a high-risk environment]]

==== Safety Concerns ====

To get the full experience of VIRIS and ensure that VIRIS lenses last for a full 3 years it is essential to follow the cleaning procedures included in the VIRIS package. A sample cleaning kit is included with a first-time purchase of VIRIS and various subscriptions are available to receive the full cleaning set.

Notifications are sent to smartphones to remind customers that they must clean their lenses after every use at the end of the day. Failure to do so will lead to difficulty in putting the lenses on in the next use. This safety feature is to ensure that the natural eye remains clean and healthy.

For regular contact lens users or those who wear corrective glasses a prescription VIRIS is available - the cleaning procedures are similar with a few added steps outlined in the VIRIS cleaning kit.

== History ==
VIRIS was created in 2020 by LENZ with a Z, a startup created by Bill Gates, Canadian university researchers and Bayer, an international pharmaceutical company. VIRIS was conceptualized as a response to the COVID-19 Pandemic that began in 2019 which lasted until 2022 and resurfaced again in 2025 as VIRIS was still in its infancy and bug fixes were being rolled out to users. The product was secretly developed by LENZ with a Z as Gates, researchers and the medical industry became less confident that enough vaccines could be produced to successfully combat COVID-19 and future pandemics given the widespread damage to economic, social, political and healthcare systems in the wake of COVID-19.

[[File:bayer bill gates.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Gates, Bayer executives and healthcare/agriculture officials at the "Zero By 40 Meeting" 2019]]

=== Project Implementation: 2020-2026 ===

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation already had prior experience with Bayer as Bill Gates had attended a conference to eradicate Malaria by 2040 which he attended in 2019. Due to these prior connections The project to design VIRIS was quickly implemented in the winter of 2020 leading into 2021 as immense funding from The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Bayer pushed the project ahead quite quickly. Consequently, Model X, the company’s initial offering was in the hands of consumers in 2021. This had an immediate impact as users were able to stay away from people and areas that contained any harmful pathogens and this initially accelerated the disappearance of COVID-19 despite reports of a lack of worldwide adherence to social distancing measures.
Rates of Illness steadily declined after Model X was released although a mutated strain of COVID-19 resurfaced in 2025. It was revealed that the resurgence of viral activity was due to a major software bug which incorrectly identified unsafe areas as pathogen-free and vice versa.
Through the discovery of the software bug In Model X update 1.06 it was revealed that VIRIS had many serious social implications as stigma surrounded those with viral activity – and they were often wrongly identified. Some critics argue that the bug issues and stigmatization should be blamed on the growing divide between Gates and Bayer, as the two tried to take LENZ with a Z in different directions. Gates wanted to make (product) more accessible worldwide while Bayer wanted to continue raising the price and marketing Model X to grow the business.

=== Good, Bad and Model Y: 2026-2040 ===

After working out many of the software issues, VIRIS became crucial to eliminating the spread of disease and increasing overall health of the global population. Cures for cancer and HIV became more promising as researchers and the healthcare industry could focus more directly on new areas as preventing pandemics became a secondary concern.
As Governments and NGOs alike had to focus less on illnesses, they turned to fighting against equality issues and realized that VIRIS had negative societal affects as well. Health outcomes of low-income families remained low as they struggled to afford Model X and this disproportionately affected oppressed members of society based on race, gender and sexuality.
Some school boards used VIRIS as a teaching tool to introduce children to public health education and supplied Model X to all students, while many private institutions closed their doors to students who did not have VIRIS due to associated risk, further deepening the wealth gap associated with private schooling.

==== Model Y: 2034 ====

Model Y was seen as a vast improvement over Model X and further protected users, but was also direct proof to critics that VIRIS disparately protected only the wealthy with its retail price of $1500. With its new features, many also began to worry about government agencies and LENZ with a Z collecting data and conducting surveillance on VIRIS users. Model Y also opened the door for new learning opportunities and modalities as the captioning upgrade made second-language learning more accessible and allowed for digital literacy alphanumeric literacy learning to occur simultaneously. This came with a caveat though, as those who could not afford VIRIS were further disadvantaged in the learning system as a result of these resources being out of reach.

=== Onwards: 2040- ===

With the release of Model Z expected soon, many humanitarian organizations are calling for LENZ with a Z to subsidize the cost of VIRIS to low income users or to make the base model, X free so that income, and racialized disparities existing in society are eliminated. Many have argued that VIRIS played a role in exacerbating equity issues worldwide despite alleviating pressure on the global healthcare system.

== Education (Jee-ae Joanna) ==

Revolutionary contact lenses, VIRIS, opened new avenues of change and modification within the education system. VIRIS became an overarching invention, of which its impacts filtrated school curriculums, school funding systems and the pedagogical methods used in classrooms.

==== Distribution and Accessibility ====
Since its launch in 2020, VIRIS proposed multiple concerns of equal access and distribution of the technology amongst students and teachers. Private school institutions remain to exclusively accept students who can afford VIRIS, due to the associated risks of opening doors to those who do not have the contact lenses. This policy further increased economic disparities, between families in public schooling and those in the private schooling system. Consequently, such unequal distribution and accessibility led to an expected increase of positive COVID-19 cases in public schools.

[[File:Education viris.jpg|500px|thumb|right|Grade 10 science class' studying VIRIS lense]]

In the same way school boards provide students with technological resources like iPads and Chromebooks, a similar initiative was put in place by The Ministry of Education in 2028 to fund Ontario public school boards, in order to provide students with the virus-detecting technology. This initiative raised issues of inequitable funding, due to unequal distribution of investment money between school districts and regions. More populous areas saw greater amounts of funding, compared to cases in smaller, less populous regions and districts. As of 2040, schools situated on Indigenous reserves remain inadequately unfunded by the government to provide students and teachers with VIRIS lenses.

==== New Pedagogical Approaches ====
Since the outbreak of COVID-19 in late 2019, there has been a global manifestation of fear towards viruses and bacteria. For this reason, teachers of Grade 3 students or younger, are instructed to employ different pedagogical approaches when teaching the concept of bacteria and viruses. The concept of VIRIS is explained through multimodal teaching pedagogies. Kids are taught that the colour red and the icon “!”, symbolizes “bad” and “harmful”, as a result, one should not go near or touch the area, object or person. On the other hand, the colour green is taught to be a “safe colour”. A feature of VIRIS Model Y signals beeping sounds when someone is entering a red zone. As a result, children are taught in school that certain sounds are associated with danger. Such teaching pedagogies are constructed in relation to multimodal and multimedia pedagogies that integrate diverse semiotics to enhance learning. As society is now vastly digital, similar representations of icons, colours and signs on phones and computers, are used to teach the concept of unsafe infected zones and zones that are safe.
[[File:Contactlens.jpg|250px|thumb|left|Dual-lingual caption feature on VIRIS]]

==== VIRIS for L2 Learning ====

VIRIS has become a teaching tool for second-language acquisition, otherwise known as, L2 learning. The caption feature of Model Y enables students to listen to teachers and peers speak in English, while simultaneously viewing captions in their native language. This feature on VIRIS has been compared to dual-lingual texts, used as pedagogical methods to teach ESL learners by using multiple semiotics from one’s native language and the English language. The dual-lingual feature on VIRIS Model Y has not only made positive impacts on an educational level, but also in the social lives of ESL learners, who now have an easier time communicating and interacting with other peers who only speak English. Moreover, VIRIS Model Y has been used in French classes, to enhance the linguistic proficiency of students, particularly the oral and listening competence of FSL learners.

==== Curriculum Reforms ====
VIRIS has become an overarching invention that has revolutionized social, cultural, economic and political contexts of the world. As a result, in 2026 The Ministry of Education released updated Kindergarten - Grade 12 curriculums, with modified and adapted curriculum goals and expectations.
Social Sciences and Humanities (a course offered at the secondary level), saw significant adaptations in its curriculum, particular in the following subsections: Equity Studies, Health Studies, Sociology and Psychology. In the same way schools address issues of race and intersectionality, teachers teach students about societal, racial and economic discrimination and marginalization created from the invention of VIRIS.

VIRIS has also been integrated in the Science curriculums for students in Grade 7-12, each with a highlighted unit focusing on the symptoms, side effects and functions of VIRIS lenses. Science teachers use VIRIS as case studies and science experiments to teach students the biological interaction between the human eye and brain, in relation to the virus-detecting lenses. Moreover, VIRIS is integrated in history curriculums, as The Ministry of Education found it vital for students to have a profound understanding of the historical events and contexts that have led us to today’s world of VIRIS lenses.

== Group Members ==

Samantha Dungca, Nabila Elahi, Jee-ae Joanna Lee, Brendan Spencer

World 8

2020-12-01T04:37:38Z

JoannA: /* Education (Jee-ae Joanna) */

== VIRIS ==

[[File:smallscreent.jpg|250px|thumb|right|VIRIS Model X]]

[[File:crazy-lens-cyborg-a.jpg|250px|thumb|right|VIRIS Model Y]]

[[File:person.jpg|500px|thumb|right|VIRIS Vision: the lenses give information on person you are looking at for more than 3 seconds]]

VIRIS is a revolutionary contact lens system which allows one to detect any particles which may threaten human health as well as identify citizens who have compromised immune systems. Since 2020 this device has been known to improve public health and look out for the wellbeing of citizens.

There are currently two different models of the device. The first being the standard version, Model X. The Model X is able to detect virus particles - even if they are airborne. They can detect if someone is sick with a viral infection regardless of whether they are showing symptoms or not. Limitations to this model are its lack of ability to fully identify any bacterial infections such as Strep Throat. Moreover, Model X is not able to calculate contagion levels.

The second, and most recent model of VIRIS is Model Y. Model Y offers advanced features. Model Y will give one the ability to view someone’s brief family history, including the country their parents were born in, and any genetic diseases associated with the family. These advanced lenses collect the personal information of the user including legal name, sex, current health-status as well as the age of the individual. Moreover, Model Y offers a bonus feature that allows one to understand different languages. The most recent update allows one to read captions in their preferred language when someone is speaking a different language.

Minimum network requirement to operate this device is a 4G network and also has Wi-Fi capabilities to use. The Model X is now the most affordable device available at a price point of $650-$700 CAD. Model Y, however, is the most widely used and the most expensive at a price point of $1500-$2000 CAD.

=== Initial Release ===

At the beginning of the VIRIS life cycle there were some people who were initially skeptical. LENZ with a Z was quite thorough in their research and development for this product- testing on voluntary people from almost every ethnicity, health status, and gender and weight. Many concerns were regarding whether this product would damage one's natural eye sight. Dr. Ojo - an expert optometrist- made it clear that LENZ with a Z's technology does not further damage natural human eye sight nor does it cause damage to already healthy eyes.

Early Innovators of this technology encouraged the public to accept the benefits of this product and with consistent rising cases of COVID-19 in 2020 it was clear that the human race needed a tool to further understand just how easily transferable the virus was. Once specialists of WHO were involved with LENZ with a Z VIRIS was almost instantly accepted by the public.

=== Is VIRIS for you? ===

The development of VIRIS has brought innovation for safety and improving public health. Many public sectors such as public parks, shopping malls, and public schools understand that not everyone will be able to afford this technology and so the use of VIRIS is completely up to the individual to use or not. In a number of private sectors; however, VIRIS has become a requirement to wear and has become part of uniform in many office buildings and private schools.

==== Children and VIRIS ====

In all models of VIRIS a Children's mode was developed for young kids ages 6-10. This setting was created to first introduce kids into learning about public health and safety. It offers a simplistic representation of the cleanliness of a space before they enter it. Moreover, if children attempt to approach a red zone there is a warning "beeping" sound that the child can hear. It does not provide information to children about the personal information of an individual.

[[File:safe.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Example of what children see through VIRIS lens in a safe environment]]

[[File:danger.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Example of what children see through VIRIS lens in a high-risk environment]]

==== Safety Concerns ====

To get the full experience of VIRIS and ensure that VIRIS lenses last for a full 3 years it is essential to follow the cleaning procedures included in the VIRIS package. A sample cleaning kit is included with a first-time purchase of VIRIS and various subscriptions are available to receive the full cleaning set.

Notifications are sent to smartphones to remind customers that they must clean their lenses after every use at the end of the day. Failure to do so will lead to difficulty in putting the lenses on in the next use. This safety feature is to ensure that the natural eye remains clean and healthy.

For regular contact lens users or those who wear corrective glasses a prescription VIRIS is available - the cleaning procedures are similar with a few added steps outlined in the VIRIS cleaning kit.

== History ==
VIRIS was created in 2020 by LENZ with a Z, a startup created by Bill Gates, Canadian university researchers and Bayer, an international pharmaceutical company. VIRIS was conceptualized as a response to the COVID-19 Pandemic that began in 2019 which lasted until 2022 and resurfaced again in 2025 as VIRIS was still in its infancy and bug fixes were being rolled out to users. The product was secretly developed by LENZ with a Z as Gates, researchers and the medical industry became less confident that enough vaccines could be produced to successfully combat COVID-19 and future pandemics given the widespread damage to economic, social, political and healthcare systems in the wake of COVID-19.

[[File:bayer bill gates.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Gates, Bayer executives and healthcare/agriculture officials at the "Zero By 40 Meeting" 2019]]

=== Project Implementation: 2020-2026 ===

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation already had prior experience with Bayer as Bill Gates had attended a conference to eradicate Malaria by 2040 which he attended in 2019. Due to these prior connections The project to design VIRIS was quickly implemented in the winter of 2020 leading into 2021 as immense funding from The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Bayer pushed the project ahead quite quickly. Consequently, Model X, the company’s initial offering was in the hands of consumers in 2021. This had an immediate impact as users were able to stay away from people and areas that contained any harmful pathogens and this initially accelerated the disappearance of COVID-19 despite reports of a lack of worldwide adherence to social distancing measures.
Rates of Illness steadily declined after Model X was released although a mutated strain of COVID-19 resurfaced in 2025. It was revealed that the resurgence of viral activity was due to a major software bug which incorrectly identified unsafe areas as pathogen-free and vice versa.
Through the discovery of the software bug In Model X update 1.06 it was revealed that VIRIS had many serious social implications as stigma surrounded those with viral activity – and they were often wrongly identified. Some critics argue that the bug issues and stigmatization should be blamed on the growing divide between Gates and Bayer, as the two tried to take LENZ with a Z in different directions. Gates wanted to make (product) more accessible worldwide while Bayer wanted to continue raising the price and marketing Model X to grow the business.

=== Good, Bad and Model Y: 2026-2040 ===

After working out many of the software issues, VIRIS became crucial to eliminating the spread of disease and increasing overall health of the global population. Cures for cancer and HIV became more promising as researchers and the healthcare industry could focus more directly on new areas as preventing pandemics became a secondary concern.
As Governments and NGOs alike had to focus less on illnesses, they turned to fighting against equality issues and realized that VIRIS had negative societal affects as well. Health outcomes of low-income families remained low as they struggled to afford Model X and this disproportionately affected oppressed members of society based on race, gender and sexuality.
Some school boards used VIRIS as a teaching tool to introduce children to public health education and supplied Model X to all students, while many private institutions closed their doors to students who did not have VIRIS due to associated risk, further deepening the wealth gap associated with private schooling.

==== Model Y: 2034 ====

Model Y was seen as a vast improvement over Model X and further protected users, but was also direct proof to critics that VIRIS disparately protected only the wealthy with its retail price of $1500. With its new features, many also began to worry about government agencies and LENZ with a Z collecting data and conducting surveillance on VIRIS users. Model Y also opened the door for new learning opportunities and modalities as the captioning upgrade made second-language learning more accessible and allowed for digital literacy alphanumeric literacy learning to occur simultaneously. This came with a caveat though, as those who could not afford VIRIS were further disadvantaged in the learning system as a result of these resources being out of reach.

=== Onwards: 2040- ===

With the release of Model Z expected soon, many humanitarian organizations are calling for LENZ with a Z to subsidize the cost of VIRIS to low income users or to make the base model, X free so that income, and racialized disparities existing in society are eliminated. Many have argued that VIRIS played a role in exacerbating equity issues worldwide despite alleviating pressure on the global healthcare system.

== Education (Jee-ae Joanna) ==

Revolutionary contact lenses, VIRIS, opened new avenues of change and modification within the education system. VIRIS became an overarching invention, of which its impacts filtrated school curriculums, school funding systems and the pedagogical approaches used in classrooms.

==== Distribution and Accessibility ====
Since its launch in 2020, VIRIS proposed multiple concerns of equal access and distribution of the technology amongst students and teachers. Private school institutions remain to exclusively accept students who can afford VIRIS, due to the associated risks of opening doors to those who do not have the contact lenses. This policy further increased economic disparities, between families in public schooling and those in the private schooling system. Consequently, such unequal distribution and accessibility led to an expected increase of positive COVID-19 cases in public schools.

[[File:Education viris.jpg|500px|thumb|right|Grade 10 science class' studying VIRIS lense]]

In the same way school boards provide students with technological resources like iPads and Chromebooks, a similar initiative was put in place by The Ministry of Education in 2028 to fund Ontario public school boards, in order to provide students with the virus-detecting technology. This initiative raised issues of inequitable funding, due to unequal distribution of investment money between school districts and regions. More populous areas saw greater amounts of funding, compared to cases in smaller, less populous regions and districts. As of 2040, schools situated on Indigenous reserves remain inadequately unfunded by the government to provide students and teachers with VIRIS lenses.

==== New Pedagogical Approaches ====
Since the outbreak of COVID-19 in late 2019, there has been a global manifestation of fear towards viruses and bacteria. For this reason, teachers of Grade 3 students or younger, are instructed to employ different pedagogical approaches when teaching the concept of bacteria and viruses. The concept of VIRIS is explained through multimodal teaching pedagogies. Kids are taught that the colour red and the icon “!”, symbolizes “bad” and “harmful”, as a result, one should not go near or touch the area, object or person. On the other hand, the colour green is taught to be a “safe colour”. A feature of VIRIS Model Y signals beeping sounds when someone is entering a red zone. As a result, children are taught in school that certain sounds are associated with danger. Such teaching pedagogies are constructed in relation to multimodal and multimedia pedagogies that integrate diverse semiotics to enhance learning. As society is now vastly digital, similar representations of icons, colours and signs on phones and computers, are used to teach the concept of unsafe infected zones and zones that are safe.
[[File:Contactlens.jpg|250px|thumb|left|Dual-lingual caption feature on VIRIS]]

==== VIRIS for L2 Learning ====

VIRIS has become a teaching tool for second-language acquisition, otherwise known as, L2 learning. The caption feature of Model Y enables students to listen to teachers and peers speak in English, while simultaneously viewing captions in their native language. This feature on VIRIS has been compared to dual-lingual texts, used as pedagogical methods to teach ESL learners by using multiple semiotics from one’s native language and the English language. The dual-lingual feature on VIRIS Model Y has not only made positive impacts on an educational level, but also in the social lives of ESL learners, who now have an easier time communicating and interacting with other peers who only speak English. Moreover, VIRIS Model Y has been used in French classes, to enhance the linguistic proficiency of students, particularly the oral and listening competence of FSL learners.

==== Curriculum Reforms ====
VIRIS has become an overarching invention that has revolutionized social, cultural, economic and political contexts of the world. As a result, in 2026 The Ministry of Education released updated Kindergarten - Grade 12 curriculums, with modified and adapted curriculum goals and expectations.
Social Sciences and Humanities (a course offered at the secondary level), saw significant adaptations in its curriculum, particular in the following subsections: Equity Studies, Health Studies, Sociology and Psychology. In the same way schools address issues of race and intersectionality, teachers teach students about societal, racial and economic discrimination and marginalization created from the invention of VIRIS.

VIRIS has also been integrated in the Science curriculums for students in Grade 7-12, each with a highlighted unit focusing on the symptoms, side effects and functions of VIRIS lenses. Science teachers use VIRIS as case studies and science experiments to teach students the biological interaction between the human eye and brain, in relation to the virus-detecting lenses. Moreover, VIRIS is integrated in history curriculums, as The Ministry of Education found it vital for students to have a profound understanding of the historical events and contexts that have led us to today’s world of VIRIS lenses.

== Group Members ==

Samantha Dungca, Nabila Elahi, Jee-ae Joanna Lee, Brendan Spencer

World 8

2020-12-01T04:35:28Z

JoannA: /* New Pedagogical Approaches */

== VIRIS ==

[[File:smallscreent.jpg|250px|thumb|right|VIRIS Model X]]

[[File:crazy-lens-cyborg-a.jpg|250px|thumb|right|VIRIS Model Y]]

[[File:person.jpg|500px|thumb|right|VIRIS Vision: the lenses give information on person you are looking at for more than 3 seconds]]

VIRIS is a revolutionary contact lens system which allows one to detect any particles which may threaten human health as well as identify citizens who have compromised immune systems. Since 2020 this device has been known to improve public health and look out for the wellbeing of citizens.

There are currently two different models of the device. The first being the standard version, Model X. The Model X is able to detect virus particles - even if they are airborne. They can detect if someone is sick with a viral infection regardless of whether they are showing symptoms or not. Limitations to this model are its lack of ability to fully identify any bacterial infections such as Strep Throat. Moreover, Model X is not able to calculate contagion levels.

The second, and most recent model of VIRIS is Model Y. Model Y offers advanced features. Model Y will give one the ability to view someone’s brief family history, including the country their parents were born in, and any genetic diseases associated with the family. These advanced lenses collect the personal information of the user including legal name, sex, current health-status as well as the age of the individual. Moreover, Model Y offers a bonus feature that allows one to understand different languages. The most recent update allows one to read captions in their preferred language when someone is speaking a different language.

Minimum network requirement to operate this device is a 4G network and also has Wi-Fi capabilities to use. The Model X is now the most affordable device available at a price point of $650-$700 CAD. Model Y, however, is the most widely used and the most expensive at a price point of $1500-$2000 CAD.

=== Initial Release ===

At the beginning of the VIRIS life cycle there were some people who were initially skeptical. LENZ with a Z was quite thorough in their research and development for this product- testing on voluntary people from almost every ethnicity, health status, and gender and weight. Many concerns were regarding whether this product would damage one's natural eye sight. Dr. Ojo - an expert optometrist- made it clear that LENZ with a Z's technology does not further damage natural human eye sight nor does it cause damage to already healthy eyes.

Early Innovators of this technology encouraged the public to accept the benefits of this product and with consistent rising cases of COVID-19 in 2020 it was clear that the human race needed a tool to further understand just how easily transferable the virus was. Once specialists of WHO were involved with LENZ with a Z VIRIS was almost instantly accepted by the public.

=== Is VIRIS for you? ===

The development of VIRIS has brought innovation for safety and improving public health. Many public sectors such as public parks, shopping malls, and public schools understand that not everyone will be able to afford this technology and so the use of VIRIS is completely up to the individual to use or not. In a number of private sectors; however, VIRIS has become a requirement to wear and has become part of uniform in many office buildings and private schools.

==== Children and VIRIS ====

In all models of VIRIS a Children's mode was developed for young kids ages 6-10. This setting was created to first introduce kids into learning about public health and safety. It offers a simplistic representation of the cleanliness of a space before they enter it. Moreover, if children attempt to approach a red zone there is a warning "beeping" sound that the child can hear. It does not provide information to children about the personal information of an individual.

[[File:safe.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Example of what children see through VIRIS lens in a safe environment]]

[[File:danger.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Example of what children see through VIRIS lens in a high-risk environment]]

==== Safety Concerns ====

To get the full experience of VIRIS and ensure that VIRIS lenses last for a full 3 years it is essential to follow the cleaning procedures included in the VIRIS package. A sample cleaning kit is included with a first-time purchase of VIRIS and various subscriptions are available to receive the full cleaning set.

Notifications are sent to smartphones to remind customers that they must clean their lenses after every use at the end of the day. Failure to do so will lead to difficulty in putting the lenses on in the next use. This safety feature is to ensure that the natural eye remains clean and healthy.

For regular contact lens users or those who wear corrective glasses a prescription VIRIS is available - the cleaning procedures are similar with a few added steps outlined in the VIRIS cleaning kit.

== History ==
VIRIS was created in 2020 by LENZ with a Z, a startup created by Bill Gates, Canadian university researchers and Bayer, an international pharmaceutical company. VIRIS was conceptualized as a response to the COVID-19 Pandemic that began in 2019 which lasted until 2022 and resurfaced again in 2025 as VIRIS was still in its infancy and bug fixes were being rolled out to users. The product was secretly developed by LENZ with a Z as Gates, researchers and the medical industry became less confident that enough vaccines could be produced to successfully combat COVID-19 and future pandemics given the widespread damage to economic, social, political and healthcare systems in the wake of COVID-19.

[[File:bayer bill gates.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Gates, Bayer executives and healthcare/agriculture officials at the "Zero By 40 Meeting" 2019]]

=== Project Implementation: 2020-2026 ===

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation already had prior experience with Bayer as Bill Gates had attended a conference to eradicate Malaria by 2040 which he attended in 2019. Due to these prior connections The project to design VIRIS was quickly implemented in the winter of 2020 leading into 2021 as immense funding from The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Bayer pushed the project ahead quite quickly. Consequently, Model X, the company’s initial offering was in the hands of consumers in 2021. This had an immediate impact as users were able to stay away from people and areas that contained any harmful pathogens and this initially accelerated the disappearance of COVID-19 despite reports of a lack of worldwide adherence to social distancing measures.
Rates of Illness steadily declined after Model X was released although a mutated strain of COVID-19 resurfaced in 2025. It was revealed that the resurgence of viral activity was due to a major software bug which incorrectly identified unsafe areas as pathogen-free and vice versa.
Through the discovery of the software bug In Model X update 1.06 it was revealed that VIRIS had many serious social implications as stigma surrounded those with viral activity – and they were often wrongly identified. Some critics argue that the bug issues and stigmatization should be blamed on the growing divide between Gates and Bayer, as the two tried to take LENZ with a Z in different directions. Gates wanted to make (product) more accessible worldwide while Bayer wanted to continue raising the price and marketing Model X to grow the business.

=== Good, Bad and Model Y: 2026-2040 ===

After working out many of the software issues, VIRIS became crucial to eliminating the spread of disease and increasing overall health of the global population. Cures for cancer and HIV became more promising as researchers and the healthcare industry could focus more directly on new areas as preventing pandemics became a secondary concern.
As Governments and NGOs alike had to focus less on illnesses, they turned to fighting against equality issues and realized that VIRIS had negative societal affects as well. Health outcomes of low-income families remained low as they struggled to afford Model X and this disproportionately affected oppressed members of society based on race, gender and sexuality.
Some school boards used VIRIS as a teaching tool to introduce children to public health education and supplied Model X to all students, while many private institutions closed their doors to students who did not have VIRIS due to associated risk, further deepening the wealth gap associated with private schooling.

==== Model Y: 2034 ====

Model Y was seen as a vast improvement over Model X and further protected users, but was also direct proof to critics that VIRIS disparately protected only the wealthy with its retail price of $1500. With its new features, many also began to worry about government agencies and LENZ with a Z collecting data and conducting surveillance on VIRIS users. Model Y also opened the door for new learning opportunities and modalities as the captioning upgrade made second-language learning more accessible and allowed for digital literacy alphanumeric literacy learning to occur simultaneously. This came with a caveat though, as those who could not afford VIRIS were further disadvantaged in the learning system as a result of these resources being out of reach.

=== Onwards: 2040- ===

With the release of Model Z expected soon, many humanitarian organizations are calling for LENZ with a Z to subsidize the cost of VIRIS to low income users or to make the base model, X free so that income, and racialized disparities existing in society are eliminated. Many have argued that VIRIS played a role in exacerbating equity issues worldwide despite alleviating pressure on the global healthcare system.

== Education (Jee-ae Joanna) ==

Revolutionary contact lenses, VIRIS, opened new avenues of change and modification within the education system. VIRIS became an overarching invention, of which its impacts filtrated school curriculums, school funding systems and the pedagogical approaches used in classrooms.

==== Distribution and Accessibility ====
Since its launch in 2020, VIRIS proposed multiple concerns of equal access and distribution of the technology amongst students and teachers. Private school institutions remain to exclusively accept students who can afford VIRIS, due to the associated risks of opening doors to those who do not have the contact lenses. This policy further increased economic disparities, between families in public schooling and those in the private schooling system. Consequently, such unequal distribution and accessibility led to an expected increase of positive COVID-19 cases in public schools.

[[File:Education viris.jpg|500px|thumb|right|Grade 10 science class' studying VIRIS lense]]

In the same way school boards provide students with technological resources like iPads and Chromebooks, a similar initiative was put in place by The Ministry of Education in 2028 to fund Ontario public school boards, in order to provide students with the virus-detecting technology. This initiative raised issues of inequitable funding, due to unequal distribution of investment money between school districts and regions. More populous areas, saw greater amounts of funding, compared to cases in smaller, less populous regions and districts. As of 2040, schools situated on Indigenous reserves remain inadequately unfunded by the government to provide students and teachers with VIRIS lenses.

==== New Pedagogical Approaches ====
Since the outbreak of COVID-19 in late 2019, there has been a global manifestation of fear towards viruses and bacteria. For this reason, teachers of Grade 3 students or younger, are instructed to employ different pedagogical approaches when teaching the concept of bacteria and viruses. The concept of VIRIS is explained through multimodal teaching pedagogies. Kids are taught that the colour red and the icon “!”, symbolizes “bad” and “harmful”, as a result, one should not go near or touch the area, object or person. On the other hand, the colour green is taught to be a “safe colour”. A feature of VIRIS Model Y signals beeping sounds when someone is entering a red zone. As a result, children are taught in school that certain sounds are associated with danger. Such teaching pedagogies are constructed in relation to multimodal and multimedia pedagogies that integrate diverse semiotics to enhance learning. As society is now vastly digital, similar representations of icons, colours and signs on phones and computers, are used to teach the concept of unsafe infected zones and zones that are safe.
[[File:Contactlens.jpg|250px|thumb|left|Dual-lingual caption feature on VIRIS]]

==== VIRIS for L2 Learning ====

VIRIS has become a teaching tool for second-language acquisition, otherwise known as, L2 learning. The caption feature of Model Y enables students to listen to teachers and peers speak in English, while simultaneously viewing captions in their native language. This feature on VIRIS has been compared to dual-lingual texts, used as pedagogical methods to teach ESL learners by using multiple semiotics from one’s native language and the English language. The dual-lingual feature on VIRIS Model Y has not only made positive impacts on an educational level, but also in the social lives of ESL learners, who now have an easier time communicating and interacting with other peers who only speak English. Moreover, VIRIS Model Y has been used in French classes, to enhance the linguistic proficiency of students, particularly the oral and listening competence of FSL learners.

==== Curriculum Reforms ====
VIRIS has become an overarching invention that has revolutionized social, cultural, economic and political contexts of the world. As a result, in 2026 The Ministry of Education released updated Kindergarten - Grade 12 curriculums, with modified and adapted curriculum goals and expectations.
Social Sciences and Humanities (a course offered at the secondary level), saw significant adaptations in its curriculum, particular in the following subsections: Equity Studies, Health Studies, Sociology and Psychology. In the same way schools address issues of race and intersectionality, teachers teach students about societal, racial and economic discrimination and marginalization created from the invention of VIRIS.

VIRIS has also been integrated in the Science curriculums for students in Grade 7-12, each with a highlighted unit focusing on the symptoms, side effects and functions of VIRIS lenses. Science teachers use VIRIS as case studies and science experiments to teach students the biological interaction between the human eye and brain, in relation to the virus-detecting lenses. Moreover, VIRIS is integrated in history curriculums, as The Ministry of Education found it vital for students to have a profound understanding of the historical events and contexts that have led us to today’s world of VIRIS lenses.

== Group Members ==

Samantha Dungca, Nabila Elahi, Jee-ae Joanna Lee, Brendan Spencer

World 8

2020-12-01T04:32:12Z

JoannA: /* Education (Jee-ae Joanna) */

== VIRIS ==

[[File:smallscreent.jpg|250px|thumb|right|VIRIS Model X]]

[[File:crazy-lens-cyborg-a.jpg|250px|thumb|right|VIRIS Model Y]]

[[File:person.jpg|500px|thumb|right|VIRIS Vision: the lenses give information on person you are looking at for more than 3 seconds]]

VIRIS is a revolutionary contact lens system which allows one to detect any particles which may threaten human health as well as identify citizens who have compromised immune systems. Since 2020 this device has been known to improve public health and look out for the wellbeing of citizens.

There are currently two different models of the device. The first being the standard version, Model X. The Model X is able to detect virus particles - even if they are airborne. They can detect if someone is sick with a viral infection regardless of whether they are showing symptoms or not. Limitations to this model are its lack of ability to fully identify any bacterial infections such as Strep Throat. Moreover, Model X is not able to calculate contagion levels.

The second, and most recent model of VIRIS is Model Y. Model Y offers advanced features. Model Y will give one the ability to view someone’s brief family history, including the country their parents were born in, and any genetic diseases associated with the family. These advanced lenses collect the personal information of the user including legal name, sex, current health-status as well as the age of the individual. Moreover, Model Y offers a bonus feature that allows one to understand different languages. The most recent update allows one to read captions in their preferred language when someone is speaking a different language.

Minimum network requirement to operate this device is a 4G network and also has Wi-Fi capabilities to use. The Model X is now the most affordable device available at a price point of $650-$700 CAD. Model Y, however, is the most widely used and the most expensive at a price point of $1500-$2000 CAD.

=== Initial Release ===

At the beginning of the VIRIS life cycle there were some people who were initially skeptical. LENZ with a Z was quite thorough in their research and development for this product- testing on voluntary people from almost every ethnicity, health status, and gender and weight. Many concerns were regarding whether this product would damage one's natural eye sight. Dr. Ojo - an expert optometrist- made it clear that LENZ with a Z's technology does not further damage natural human eye sight nor does it cause damage to already healthy eyes.

Early Innovators of this technology encouraged the public to accept the benefits of this product and with consistent rising cases of COVID-19 in 2020 it was clear that the human race needed a tool to further understand just how easily transferable the virus was. Once specialists of WHO were involved with LENZ with a Z VIRIS was almost instantly accepted by the public.

=== Is VIRIS for you? ===

The development of VIRIS has brought innovation for safety and improving public health. Many public sectors such as public parks, shopping malls, and public schools understand that not everyone will be able to afford this technology and so the use of VIRIS is completely up to the individual to use or not. In a number of private sectors; however, VIRIS has become a requirement to wear and has become part of uniform in many office buildings and private schools.

==== Children and VIRIS ====

In all models of VIRIS a Children's mode was developed for young kids ages 6-10. This setting was created to first introduce kids into learning about public health and safety. It offers a simplistic representation of the cleanliness of a space before they enter it. Moreover, if children attempt to approach a red zone there is a warning "beeping" sound that the child can hear. It does not provide information to children about the personal information of an individual.

[[File:safe.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Example of what children see through VIRIS lens in a safe environment]]

[[File:danger.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Example of what children see through VIRIS lens in a high-risk environment]]

==== Safety Concerns ====

To get the full experience of VIRIS and ensure that VIRIS lenses last for a full 3 years it is essential to follow the cleaning procedures included in the VIRIS package. A sample cleaning kit is included with a first-time purchase of VIRIS and various subscriptions are available to receive the full cleaning set.

Notifications are sent to smartphones to remind customers that they must clean their lenses after every use at the end of the day. Failure to do so will lead to difficulty in putting the lenses on in the next use. This safety feature is to ensure that the natural eye remains clean and healthy.

For regular contact lens users or those who wear corrective glasses a prescription VIRIS is available - the cleaning procedures are similar with a few added steps outlined in the VIRIS cleaning kit.

== History ==
VIRIS was created in 2020 by LENZ with a Z, a startup created by Bill Gates, Canadian university researchers and Bayer, an international pharmaceutical company. VIRIS was conceptualized as a response to the COVID-19 Pandemic that began in 2019 which lasted until 2022 and resurfaced again in 2025 as VIRIS was still in its infancy and bug fixes were being rolled out to users. The product was secretly developed by LENZ with a Z as Gates, researchers and the medical industry became less confident that enough vaccines could be produced to successfully combat COVID-19 and future pandemics given the widespread damage to economic, social, political and healthcare systems in the wake of COVID-19.

[[File:bayer bill gates.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Gates, Bayer executives and healthcare/agriculture officials at the "Zero By 40 Meeting" 2019]]

=== Project Implementation: 2020-2026 ===

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation already had prior experience with Bayer as Bill Gates had attended a conference to eradicate Malaria by 2040 which he attended in 2019. Due to these prior connections The project to design VIRIS was quickly implemented in the winter of 2020 leading into 2021 as immense funding from The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Bayer pushed the project ahead quite quickly. Consequently, Model X, the company’s initial offering was in the hands of consumers in 2021. This had an immediate impact as users were able to stay away from people and areas that contained any harmful pathogens and this initially accelerated the disappearance of COVID-19 despite reports of a lack of worldwide adherence to social distancing measures.
Rates of Illness steadily declined after Model X was released although a mutated strain of COVID-19 resurfaced in 2025. It was revealed that the resurgence of viral activity was due to a major software bug which incorrectly identified unsafe areas as pathogen-free and vice versa.
Through the discovery of the software bug In Model X update 1.06 it was revealed that VIRIS had many serious social implications as stigma surrounded those with viral activity – and they were often wrongly identified. Some critics argue that the bug issues and stigmatization should be blamed on the growing divide between Gates and Bayer, as the two tried to take LENZ with a Z in different directions. Gates wanted to make (product) more accessible worldwide while Bayer wanted to continue raising the price and marketing Model X to grow the business.

=== Good, Bad and Model Y: 2026-2040 ===

After working out many of the software issues, VIRIS became crucial to eliminating the spread of disease and increasing overall health of the global population. Cures for cancer and HIV became more promising as researchers and the healthcare industry could focus more directly on new areas as preventing pandemics became a secondary concern.
As Governments and NGOs alike had to focus less on illnesses, they turned to fighting against equality issues and realized that VIRIS had negative societal affects as well. Health outcomes of low-income families remained low as they struggled to afford Model X and this disproportionately affected oppressed members of society based on race, gender and sexuality.
Some school boards used VIRIS as a teaching tool to introduce children to public health education and supplied Model X to all students, while many private institutions closed their doors to students who did not have VIRIS due to associated risk, further deepening the wealth gap associated with private schooling.

==== Model Y: 2034 ====

Model Y was seen as a vast improvement over Model X and further protected users, but was also direct proof to critics that VIRIS disparately protected only the wealthy with its retail price of $1500. With its new features, many also began to worry about government agencies and LENZ with a Z collecting data and conducting surveillance on VIRIS users. Model Y also opened the door for new learning opportunities and modalities as the captioning upgrade made second-language learning more accessible and allowed for digital literacy alphanumeric literacy learning to occur simultaneously. This came with a caveat though, as those who could not afford VIRIS were further disadvantaged in the learning system as a result of these resources being out of reach.

=== Onwards: 2040- ===

With the release of Model Z expected soon, many humanitarian organizations are calling for LENZ with a Z to subsidize the cost of VIRIS to low income users or to make the base model, X free so that income, and racialized disparities existing in society are eliminated. Many have argued that VIRIS played a role in exacerbating equity issues worldwide despite alleviating pressure on the global healthcare system.

== Education (Jee-ae Joanna) ==

Revolutionary contact lenses, VIRIS, opened new avenues of change and modification within the education system. VIRIS became an overarching invention, of which its impacts filtrated school curriculums, school funding systems and the pedagogical approaches used in classrooms.

==== Distribution and Accessibility ====
Since its launch in 2020, VIRIS proposed multiple concerns of equal access and distribution of the technology amongst students and teachers. Private school institutions remain to exclusively accept students who can afford VIRIS, due to the associated risks of opening doors to those who do not have the contact lenses. This policy further increased economic disparities, between families in public schooling and those in the private schooling system. Consequently, such unequal distribution and accessibility led to an expected increase of positive COVID-19 cases in public schools.

[[File:Education viris.jpg|500px|thumb|right|Grade 10 science class' studying VIRIS lense]]

In the same way school boards provide students with technological resources like iPads and Chromebooks, a similar initiative was put in place by The Ministry of Education in 2028 to fund Ontario public school boards, in order to provide students with the virus-detecting technology. This initiative raised issues of inequitable funding, due to unequal distribution of investment money between school districts and regions. More populous areas, saw greater amounts of funding, compared to cases in smaller, less populous regions and districts. As of 2040, schools situated on Indigenous reserves remain inadequately unfunded by the government to provide students and teachers with VIRIS lenses.

==== New Pedagogical Approaches ====
Since the outbreak of COVID-19 in late 2019, there has been a global manifestation of fear towards viruses and bacteria. For this reason, teachers of Grade 3 students or younger, are instructed to employ different pedagogical approaches when teaching the concept of bacteria and viruses. The concept of VIRIS is explained through multimodal teaching pedagogies. Kids are taught that the colour red and the icon “!”, symbolizes “bad” and “harmful”, as a result, one should not go near or touch the area, object or person. On the other hand, the colour green is taught to be a “safe colour”. A feature of VIRIS Model Y signals beeping sounds when someone is entering a red zone. As a result, children are taught in school that certain sounds are associated with danger. Such teaching pedagogies are constructed in relation to multimodal and multimedia pedagogies that integrate diverse semiotics to enhance learning. As society is now vastly digital, similar representations of icons, colours and signs on phones and computers, are used to teach the concept of unsafe infected zones and zones that are safe.
[[File:Contactlens.jpg|250px|thumb|left|Dual-lingual caption feature on VIRIS]]

VIRIS has become a teaching tool for second-language acquisition, otherwise known as, L2 learning. The caption feature of Model Y enables students to listen to teachers and peers speak in English, while simultaneously viewing captions in their native language. This feature on VIRIS has been compared to dual-lingual texts, used as pedagogical methods to teach ESL learners by using multiple semiotics from one’s native language and the English language. The dual-lingual feature on VIRIS Model Y has not only made positive impacts on an educational level, but also in the social lives of ESL learners, who now have an easier time communicating and interacting with other peers who only speak English. Moreover, VIRIS Model Y has been used in French classes, to enhance the linguistic proficiency of students, particularly the oral and listening competence of FSL learners.

==== Curriculum Reforms ====
VIRIS has become an overarching invention that has revolutionized social, cultural, economic and political contexts of the world. As a result, in 2026 The Ministry of Education released updated Kindergarten - Grade 12 curriculums, with modified and adapted curriculum goals and expectations.
Social Sciences and Humanities (a course offered at the secondary level), saw significant adaptations in its curriculum, particular in the following subsections: Equity Studies, Health Studies, Sociology and Psychology. In the same way schools address issues of race and intersectionality, teachers teach students about societal, racial and economic discrimination and marginalization created from the invention of VIRIS.

VIRIS has also been integrated in the Science curriculums for students in Grade 7-12, each with a highlighted unit focusing on the symptoms, side effects and functions of VIRIS lenses. Science teachers use VIRIS as case studies and science experiments to teach students the biological interaction between the human eye and brain, in relation to the virus-detecting lenses. Moreover, VIRIS is integrated in history curriculums, as The Ministry of Education found it vital for students to have a profound understanding of the historical events and contexts that have led us to today’s world of VIRIS lenses.

== Group Members ==

Samantha Dungca, Nabila Elahi, Jee-ae Joanna Lee, Brendan Spencer

World 8

2020-12-01T04:31:30Z

JoannA: /* Education (Jee-ae Joanna) */

== VIRIS ==

[[File:smallscreent.jpg|250px|thumb|right|VIRIS Model X]]

[[File:crazy-lens-cyborg-a.jpg|250px|thumb|right|VIRIS Model Y]]

[[File:person.jpg|500px|thumb|right|VIRIS Vision: the lenses give information on person you are looking at for more than 3 seconds]]

VIRIS is a revolutionary contact lens system which allows one to detect any particles which may threaten human health as well as identify citizens who have compromised immune systems. Since 2020 this device has been known to improve public health and look out for the wellbeing of citizens.

There are currently two different models of the device. The first being the standard version, Model X. The Model X is able to detect virus particles - even if they are airborne. They can detect if someone is sick with a viral infection regardless of whether they are showing symptoms or not. Limitations to this model are its lack of ability to fully identify any bacterial infections such as Strep Throat. Moreover, Model X is not able to calculate contagion levels.

The second, and most recent model of VIRIS is Model Y. Model Y offers advanced features. Model Y will give one the ability to view someone’s brief family history, including the country their parents were born in, and any genetic diseases associated with the family. These advanced lenses collect the personal information of the user including legal name, sex, current health-status as well as the age of the individual. Moreover, Model Y offers a bonus feature that allows one to understand different languages. The most recent update allows one to read captions in their preferred language when someone is speaking a different language.

Minimum network requirement to operate this device is a 4G network and also has Wi-Fi capabilities to use. The Model X is now the most affordable device available at a price point of $650-$700 CAD. Model Y, however, is the most widely used and the most expensive at a price point of $1500-$2000 CAD.

=== Initial Release ===

At the beginning of the VIRIS life cycle there were some people who were initially skeptical. LENZ with a Z was quite thorough in their research and development for this product- testing on voluntary people from almost every ethnicity, health status, and gender and weight. Many concerns were regarding whether this product would damage one's natural eye sight. Dr. Ojo - an expert optometrist- made it clear that LENZ with a Z's technology does not further damage natural human eye sight nor does it cause damage to already healthy eyes.

Early Innovators of this technology encouraged the public to accept the benefits of this product and with consistent rising cases of COVID-19 in 2020 it was clear that the human race needed a tool to further understand just how easily transferable the virus was. Once specialists of WHO were involved with LENZ with a Z VIRIS was almost instantly accepted by the public.

=== Is VIRIS for you? ===

The development of VIRIS has brought innovation for safety and improving public health. Many public sectors such as public parks, shopping malls, and public schools understand that not everyone will be able to afford this technology and so the use of VIRIS is completely up to the individual to use or not. In a number of private sectors; however, VIRIS has become a requirement to wear and has become part of uniform in many office buildings and private schools.

==== Children and VIRIS ====

In all models of VIRIS a Children's mode was developed for young kids ages 6-10. This setting was created to first introduce kids into learning about public health and safety. It offers a simplistic representation of the cleanliness of a space before they enter it. Moreover, if children attempt to approach a red zone there is a warning "beeping" sound that the child can hear. It does not provide information to children about the personal information of an individual.

[[File:safe.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Example of what children see through VIRIS lens in a safe environment]]

[[File:danger.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Example of what children see through VIRIS lens in a high-risk environment]]

==== Safety Concerns ====

To get the full experience of VIRIS and ensure that VIRIS lenses last for a full 3 years it is essential to follow the cleaning procedures included in the VIRIS package. A sample cleaning kit is included with a first-time purchase of VIRIS and various subscriptions are available to receive the full cleaning set.

Notifications are sent to smartphones to remind customers that they must clean their lenses after every use at the end of the day. Failure to do so will lead to difficulty in putting the lenses on in the next use. This safety feature is to ensure that the natural eye remains clean and healthy.

For regular contact lens users or those who wear corrective glasses a prescription VIRIS is available - the cleaning procedures are similar with a few added steps outlined in the VIRIS cleaning kit.

== History ==
VIRIS was created in 2020 by LENZ with a Z, a startup created by Bill Gates, Canadian university researchers and Bayer, an international pharmaceutical company. VIRIS was conceptualized as a response to the COVID-19 Pandemic that began in 2019 which lasted until 2022 and resurfaced again in 2025 as VIRIS was still in its infancy and bug fixes were being rolled out to users. The product was secretly developed by LENZ with a Z as Gates, researchers and the medical industry became less confident that enough vaccines could be produced to successfully combat COVID-19 and future pandemics given the widespread damage to economic, social, political and healthcare systems in the wake of COVID-19.

[[File:bayer bill gates.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Gates, Bayer executives and healthcare/agriculture officials at the "Zero By 40 Meeting" 2019]]

=== Project Implementation: 2020-2026 ===

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation already had prior experience with Bayer as Bill Gates had attended a conference to eradicate Malaria by 2040 which he attended in 2019. Due to these prior connections The project to design VIRIS was quickly implemented in the winter of 2020 leading into 2021 as immense funding from The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Bayer pushed the project ahead quite quickly. Consequently, Model X, the company’s initial offering was in the hands of consumers in 2021. This had an immediate impact as users were able to stay away from people and areas that contained any harmful pathogens and this initially accelerated the disappearance of COVID-19 despite reports of a lack of worldwide adherence to social distancing measures.
Rates of Illness steadily declined after Model X was released although a mutated strain of COVID-19 resurfaced in 2025. It was revealed that the resurgence of viral activity was due to a major software bug which incorrectly identified unsafe areas as pathogen-free and vice versa.
Through the discovery of the software bug In Model X update 1.06 it was revealed that VIRIS had many serious social implications as stigma surrounded those with viral activity – and they were often wrongly identified. Some critics argue that the bug issues and stigmatization should be blamed on the growing divide between Gates and Bayer, as the two tried to take LENZ with a Z in different directions. Gates wanted to make (product) more accessible worldwide while Bayer wanted to continue raising the price and marketing Model X to grow the business.

=== Good, Bad and Model Y: 2026-2040 ===

After working out many of the software issues, VIRIS became crucial to eliminating the spread of disease and increasing overall health of the global population. Cures for cancer and HIV became more promising as researchers and the healthcare industry could focus more directly on new areas as preventing pandemics became a secondary concern.
As Governments and NGOs alike had to focus less on illnesses, they turned to fighting against equality issues and realized that VIRIS had negative societal affects as well. Health outcomes of low-income families remained low as they struggled to afford Model X and this disproportionately affected oppressed members of society based on race, gender and sexuality.
Some school boards used VIRIS as a teaching tool to introduce children to public health education and supplied Model X to all students, while many private institutions closed their doors to students who did not have VIRIS due to associated risk, further deepening the wealth gap associated with private schooling.

==== Model Y: 2034 ====

Model Y was seen as a vast improvement over Model X and further protected users, but was also direct proof to critics that VIRIS disparately protected only the wealthy with its retail price of $1500. With its new features, many also began to worry about government agencies and LENZ with a Z collecting data and conducting surveillance on VIRIS users. Model Y also opened the door for new learning opportunities and modalities as the captioning upgrade made second-language learning more accessible and allowed for digital literacy alphanumeric literacy learning to occur simultaneously. This came with a caveat though, as those who could not afford VIRIS were further disadvantaged in the learning system as a result of these resources being out of reach.

=== Onwards: 2040- ===

With the release of Model Z expected soon, many humanitarian organizations are calling for LENZ with a Z to subsidize the cost of VIRIS to low income users or to make the base model, X free so that income, and racialized disparities existing in society are eliminated. Many have argued that VIRIS played a role in exacerbating equity issues worldwide despite alleviating pressure on the global healthcare system.

== Education (Jee-ae Joanna) ==

Revolutionary contact lenses, VIRIS, opened new avenues of change and modification within the education system. VIRIS became an overarching invention, of which its impacts filtrated school curriculums, school funding systems and the pedagogical approaches used in classrooms.

==== Distribution and Accessibility ====
Since its launch in 2020, VIRIS proposed multiple concerns of equal access and distribution of the technology amongst students and teachers. Private school institutions remain to exclusively accept students who can afford VIRIS, due to the associated risks of opening doors to those who do not have the contact lenses. This policy further increased economic disparities, between families in public schooling and those in the private schooling system. Consequently, such unequal distribution and accessibility led to an expected increase of positive COVID-19 cases in public schools.

[[File:Education viris.jpg|500px|thumb|right|Grade 10 science class' studying VIRIS lense]]

In the same way school boards provide students with technological resources like iPads and Chromebooks, a similar initiative was put in place by The Ministry of Education in 2028 to fund Ontario public school boards, in order to provide students with the virus-detecting technology. This initiative raised issues of inequitable funding, due to unequal distribution of investment money between school districts and regions. More populous areas, saw greater amounts of funding, compared to cases in smaller, less populous regions and districts. As of 2040, schools situated on Indigenous reserves remain inadequately unfunded by the government to provide students and teachers with VIRIS lenses.

==== New Pedagogical Approaches ====
Since the outbreak of COVID-19 in late 2019, there has been a global manifestation of fear towards viruses and bacteria. For this reason, teachers of Grade 3 students or younger, are instructed to employ different pedagogical approaches when teaching the concept of bacteria and viruses. The concept of VIRIS is explained through multimodal teaching pedagogies. Kids are taught that the colour red and the icon “!”, symbolizes “bad” and “harmful”, as a result, one should not go near or touch the area, object or person. On the other hand, the colour green is taught to be a “safe colour”. A feature of VIRIS Model Y signals beeping sounds when someone is entering a red zone. As a result, children are taught in school that certain sounds are associated with danger. Such teaching pedagogies are constructed in relation to multimodal and multimedia pedagogies that integrate diverse semiotics to enhance learning. As society is now vastly digital, similar representations of icons, colours and signs on phones and computers, are used to teach the concept of unsafe infected zones and zones that are safe.
[[File:Contactlens.jpg|250px|thumb|left|Dual-lingual caption feature on VIRIS]]

VIRIS has become a teaching tool for second-language acquisition, otherwise known as, L2 learning. The caption feature of Model Y enables students to listen to teachers and peers speak in English, while simultaneously viewing captions in their native language. This feature on VIRIS has been compared to dual-lingual texts, used as pedagogical methods to teach ESL learners by using multiple semiotics from one’s native language and the English language. The dual-lingual feature on VIRIS Model Y has not only made positive impacts on an educational level, but also in the social lives of ESL learners, who now have an easier time communicating and interacting with other peers who only speak English. Moreover, VIRIS Model Y has been used in French classes, to enhance the linguistic proficiency of students, particularly the oral and listening competence of FSL learners.

==== Curriculum Reforms ====
VIRIS has become an overarching invention that has revolutionized social, cultural, economic and political contexts of the world. As a result, in 2026 The Ministry of Education released updated Kindergarten - Grade 12 curriculums, with modified and adapted curriculum goals and expectations.
Social Sciences and Humanities (a course offered at the secondary level), saw significant adaptations in its curriculum, particular in the following subsections: Equity Studies, Health Studies, Sociology and Psychology. In the same way schools address issues of race and intersectionality, teachers teach students about societal, racial and economic discrimination and marginalization created from the invention of VIRIS.

VIRIS has also been integrated in the Science curriculums for students in Grade 7-12, each with a highlighted unit focusing on the symptoms, side effects and functions of VIRIS lenses. Science teachers use VIRIS as case studies and science experiments to teach students the biological interaction between the human eye and brain, in relation to the virus-detecting lenses. Moreover, VIRIS is integrated in history curriculums, as The Ministry of Education found it vital for students to have a profound understanding of the historical events and contexts that have led us to today’s world of VIRIS lenses.

== Group Members ==

Samantha Dungca, Nabila Elahi, Jee-ae Joanna Lee, Brendan Spencer

World 8

2020-12-01T04:27:42Z

JoannA: /* Education (Jee-ae Joanna) */

== VIRIS ==

[[File:smallscreent.jpg|250px|thumb|right|VIRIS Model X]]

[[File:crazy-lens-cyborg-a.jpg|250px|thumb|right|VIRIS Model Y]]

[[File:person.jpg|500px|thumb|right|VIRIS Vision: the lenses give information on person you are looking at for more than 3 seconds]]

VIRIS is a revolutionary contact lens system which allows one to detect any particles which may threaten human health as well as identify citizens who have compromised immune systems. Since 2020 this device has been known to improve public health and look out for the wellbeing of citizens.

There are currently two different models of the device. The first being the standard version, Model X. The Model X is able to detect virus particles - even if they are airborne. They can detect if someone is sick with a viral infection regardless of whether they are showing symptoms or not. Limitations to this model are its lack of ability to fully identify any bacterial infections such as Strep Throat. Moreover, Model X is not able to calculate contagion levels.

The second, and most recent model of VIRIS is Model Y. Model Y offers advanced features. Model Y will give one the ability to view someone’s brief family history, including the country their parents were born in, and any genetic diseases associated with the family. These advanced lenses collect the personal information of the user including legal name, sex, current health-status as well as the age of the individual. Moreover, Model Y offers a bonus feature that allows one to understand different languages. The most recent update allows one to read captions in their preferred language when someone is speaking a different language.

Minimum network requirement to operate this device is a 4G network and also has Wi-Fi capabilities to use. The Model X is now the most affordable device available at a price point of $650-$700 CAD. Model Y, however, is the most widely used and the most expensive at a price point of $1500-$2000 CAD.

=== Initial Release ===

At the beginning of the VIRIS life cycle there were some people who were initially skeptical. LENZ with a Z was quite thorough in their research and development for this product- testing on voluntary people from almost every ethnicity, health status, and gender and weight. Many concerns were regarding whether this product would damage one's natural eye sight. Dr. Ojo - an expert optometrist- made it clear that LENZ with a Z's technology does not further damage natural human eye sight nor does it cause damage to already healthy eyes.

Early Innovators of this technology encouraged the public to accept the benefits of this product and with consistent rising cases of COVID-19 in 2020 it was clear that the human race needed a tool to further understand just how easily transferable the virus was. Once specialists of WHO were involved with LENZ with a Z VIRIS was almost instantly accepted by the public.

=== Is VIRIS for you? ===

The development of VIRIS has brought innovation for safety and improving public health. Many public sectors such as public parks, shopping malls, and public schools understand that not everyone will be able to afford this technology and so the use of VIRIS is completely up to the individual to use or not. In a number of private sectors; however, VIRIS has become a requirement to wear and has become part of uniform in many office buildings and private schools.

==== Children and VIRIS ====

In all models of VIRIS a Children's mode was developed for young kids ages 6-10. This setting was created to first introduce kids into learning about public health and safety. It offers a simplistic representation of the cleanliness of a space before they enter it. Moreover, if children attempt to approach a red zone there is a warning "beeping" sound that the child can hear. It does not provide information to children about the personal information of an individual.

[[File:safe.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Example of what children see through VIRIS lens in a safe environment]]

[[File:danger.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Example of what children see through VIRIS lens in a high-risk environment]]

==== Safety Concerns ====

To get the full experience of VIRIS and ensure that VIRIS lenses last for a full 3 years it is essential to follow the cleaning procedures included in the VIRIS package. A sample cleaning kit is included with a first-time purchase of VIRIS and various subscriptions are available to receive the full cleaning set.

Notifications are sent to smartphones to remind customers that they must clean their lenses after every use at the end of the day. Failure to do so will lead to difficulty in putting the lenses on in the next use. This safety feature is to ensure that the natural eye remains clean and healthy.

For regular contact lens users or those who wear corrective glasses a prescription VIRIS is available - the cleaning procedures are similar with a few added steps outlined in the VIRIS cleaning kit.

== History ==
VIRIS was created in 2020 by LENZ with a Z, a startup created by Bill Gates, Canadian university researchers and Bayer, an international pharmaceutical company. VIRIS was conceptualized as a response to the COVID-19 Pandemic that began in 2019 which lasted until 2022 and resurfaced again in 2025 as VIRIS was still in its infancy and bug fixes were being rolled out to users. The product was secretly developed by LENZ with a Z as Gates, researchers and the medical industry became less confident that enough vaccines could be produced to successfully combat COVID-19 and future pandemics given the widespread damage to economic, social, political and healthcare systems in the wake of COVID-19.

[[File:bayer bill gates.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Gates, Bayer executives and healthcare/agriculture officials at the "Zero By 40 Meeting" 2019]]

=== Project Implementation: 2020-2026 ===

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation already had prior experience with Bayer as Bill Gates had attended a conference to eradicate Malaria by 2040 which he attended in 2019. Due to these prior connections The project to design VIRIS was quickly implemented in the winter of 2020 leading into 2021 as immense funding from The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Bayer pushed the project ahead quite quickly. Consequently, Model X, the company’s initial offering was in the hands of consumers in 2021. This had an immediate impact as users were able to stay away from people and areas that contained any harmful pathogens and this initially accelerated the disappearance of COVID-19 despite reports of a lack of worldwide adherence to social distancing measures.
Rates of Illness steadily declined after Model X was released although a mutated strain of COVID-19 resurfaced in 2025. It was revealed that the resurgence of viral activity was due to a major software bug which incorrectly identified unsafe areas as pathogen-free and vice versa.
Through the discovery of the software bug In Model X update 1.06 it was revealed that VIRIS had many serious social implications as stigma surrounded those with viral activity – and they were often wrongly identified. Some critics argue that the bug issues and stigmatization should be blamed on the growing divide between Gates and Bayer, as the two tried to take LENZ with a Z in different directions. Gates wanted to make (product) more accessible worldwide while Bayer wanted to continue raising the price and marketing Model X to grow the business.

=== Good, Bad and Model Y: 2026-2040 ===

After working out many of the software issues, VIRIS became crucial to eliminating the spread of disease and increasing overall health of the global population. Cures for cancer and HIV became more promising as researchers and the healthcare industry could focus more directly on new areas as preventing pandemics became a secondary concern.
As Governments and NGOs alike had to focus less on illnesses, they turned to fighting against equality issues and realized that VIRIS had negative societal affects as well. Health outcomes of low-income families remained low as they struggled to afford Model X and this disproportionately affected oppressed members of society based on race, gender and sexuality.
Some school boards used VIRIS as a teaching tool to introduce children to public health education and supplied Model X to all students, while many private institutions closed their doors to students who did not have VIRIS due to associated risk, further deepening the wealth gap associated with private schooling.

==== Model Y: 2034 ====

Model Y was seen as a vast improvement over Model X and further protected users, but was also direct proof to critics that VIRIS disparately protected only the wealthy with its retail price of $1500. With its new features, many also began to worry about government agencies and LENZ with a Z collecting data and conducting surveillance on VIRIS users. Model Y also opened the door for new learning opportunities and modalities as the captioning upgrade made second-language learning more accessible and allowed for digital literacy alphanumeric literacy learning to occur simultaneously. This came with a caveat though, as those who could not afford VIRIS were further disadvantaged in the learning system as a result of these resources being out of reach.

=== Onwards: 2040- ===

With the release of Model Z expected soon, many humanitarian organizations are calling for LENZ with a Z to subsidize the cost of VIRIS to low income users or to make the base model, X free so that income, and racialized disparities existing in society are eliminated. Many have argued that VIRIS played a role in exacerbating equity issues worldwide despite alleviating pressure on the global healthcare system.

== Education (Jee-ae Joanna) ==

Revolutionary contact lenses, VIRIS, opened new avenues of change and modification within the education system. VIRIS became an overarching invention, of which its impacts filtrated school curriculums, school funding systems and the pedagogical approaches used in classrooms.

==== Distribution and accessibility ====
Since its launch in 2020, VIRIS proposed multiple concerns of equal access and distribution of the technology amongst students and teachers. Private school institutions remain to exclusively accept students who can afford VIRIS, due to the associated risks of opening doors to those who do not have the contact lenses. This policy further increased economic disparities, between families in public schooling and those in the private schooling system. Consequently, such unequal distribution and accessibility led to an expected increase of positive COVID-19 cases in public schools.

[[File:Education viris.jpg|500px|thumb|right|Grade 10 science class' studying VIRIS lense]]

In the same way school boards provide students with technological resources like iPads and Chromebooks, a similar initiative was put in place by The Ministry of Education in 2028 to fund Ontario public school boards, in order to provide students with the virus-detecting technology. This initiative raised issues of inequitable funding, due to unequal distribution of investment money between school districts and regions. More populous areas, saw greater amounts of funding, compared to cases in smaller, less populous regions and districts. As of 2040, schools situated on Indigenous reserves remain inadequately unfunded by the government to provide students and teachers with VIRIS lenses.

==== New Pedagogical Approaches ====
Since the outbreak of COVID-19 in late 2019, there has been a global manifestation of fear towards viruses and bacteria. For this reason, teachers of Grade 3 students or younger, are instructed to employ different pedagogical approaches when teaching the concept of bacteria and viruses. The concept of VIRIS is explained through multimodal teaching pedagogies. Kids are taught that the colour red and the icon “!”, symbolizes “bad” and “harmful”, as a result, one should not go near or touch the area, object or person. On the other hand, the colour green is taught to be a “safe colour”. A feature of VIRIS Model Y signals beeping sounds when someone is entering a red zone. As a result, children are taught in school that certain sounds are associated with danger. Such teaching pedagogies are constructed in relation to multimodal and multimedia pedagogies that integrate diverse semiotics to enhance learning. As society is now vastly digital, similar representations of icons, colours and signs on phones and computers, are used to teach the concept of unsafe infected zones and zones that are safe.
[[File:Contactlens.jpg|250px|thumb|left|Dual-lingual caption feature on VIRIS]]

VIRIS has become a teaching tool for second-language acquisition, otherwise known as, L2 learning. The caption feature of Model Y enables students to listen to teachers and peers speak in English, while simultaneously viewing captions in their native language. This feature on VIRIS has been compared to dual-lingual texts, used as pedagogical methods to teach ESL learners by using multiple semiotics from one’s native language and the English language. The dual-lingual feature on VIRIS Model Y has not only made positive impacts on an educational level, but also in the social lives of ESL learners, who now have an easier time communicating and interacting with other peers who only speak English. Moreover, VIRIS Model Y has been used in French classes, to enhance the linguistic proficiency of students, particularly the oral and listening competence of FSL learners.

==== Curriculum Reforms ====
VIRIS has become an overarching invention that has revolutionized social, cultural, economic and political contexts of the world. As a result, in 2026 The Ministry of Education released updated Kindergarten - Grade 12 curriculums, with modified and adapted curriculum goals and expectations.
Social Sciences and Humanities (a course offered at the secondary level), saw significant adaptations in its curriculum, particular in the following subsections: Equity Studies, Health Studies, Sociology and Psychology. In the same way schools address issues of race and intersectionality, teachers teach students about societal, racial and economic discrimination and marginalization created from the invention of VIRIS.

VIRIS has also been integrated in the Science curriculums for students in Grade 7-12, each with a highlighted unit focusing on the symptoms, side effects and functions of VIRIS lenses. Science teachers use VIRIS as case studies and science experiments to teach students the biological interaction between the human eye and brain, in relation to the virus-detecting lenses. Moreover, VIRIS is integrated in history curriculums, as The Ministry of Education found it vital for students to have a profound understanding of the historical events and contexts that have led us to today’s world of VIRIS lenses.

== Group Members ==

Samantha Dungca, Nabila Elahi, Jee-ae Joanna Lee, Brendan Spencer

World 8

2020-12-01T04:27:09Z

JoannA: /* Education (Jee-ae Joanna) */

== VIRIS ==

[[File:smallscreent.jpg|250px|thumb|right|VIRIS Model X]]

[[File:crazy-lens-cyborg-a.jpg|250px|thumb|right|VIRIS Model Y]]

[[File:person.jpg|500px|thumb|right|VIRIS Vision: the lenses give information on person you are looking at for more than 3 seconds]]

VIRIS is a revolutionary contact lens system which allows one to detect any particles which may threaten human health as well as identify citizens who have compromised immune systems. Since 2020 this device has been known to improve public health and look out for the wellbeing of citizens.

There are currently two different models of the device. The first being the standard version, Model X. The Model X is able to detect virus particles - even if they are airborne. They can detect if someone is sick with a viral infection regardless of whether they are showing symptoms or not. Limitations to this model are its lack of ability to fully identify any bacterial infections such as Strep Throat. Moreover, Model X is not able to calculate contagion levels.

The second, and most recent model of VIRIS is Model Y. Model Y offers advanced features. Model Y will give one the ability to view someone’s brief family history, including the country their parents were born in, and any genetic diseases associated with the family. These advanced lenses collect the personal information of the user including legal name, sex, current health-status as well as the age of the individual. Moreover, Model Y offers a bonus feature that allows one to understand different languages. The most recent update allows one to read captions in their preferred language when someone is speaking a different language.

Minimum network requirement to operate this device is a 4G network and also has Wi-Fi capabilities to use. The Model X is now the most affordable device available at a price point of $650-$700 CAD. Model Y, however, is the most widely used and the most expensive at a price point of $1500-$2000 CAD.

=== Initial Release ===

At the beginning of the VIRIS life cycle there were some people who were initially skeptical. LENZ with a Z was quite thorough in their research and development for this product- testing on voluntary people from almost every ethnicity, health status, and gender and weight. Many concerns were regarding whether this product would damage one's natural eye sight. Dr. Ojo - an expert optometrist- made it clear that LENZ with a Z's technology does not further damage natural human eye sight nor does it cause damage to already healthy eyes.

Early Innovators of this technology encouraged the public to accept the benefits of this product and with consistent rising cases of COVID-19 in 2020 it was clear that the human race needed a tool to further understand just how easily transferable the virus was. Once specialists of WHO were involved with LENZ with a Z VIRIS was almost instantly accepted by the public.

=== Is VIRIS for you? ===

The development of VIRIS has brought innovation for safety and improving public health. Many public sectors such as public parks, shopping malls, and public schools understand that not everyone will be able to afford this technology and so the use of VIRIS is completely up to the individual to use or not. In a number of private sectors; however, VIRIS has become a requirement to wear and has become part of uniform in many office buildings and private schools.

==== Children and VIRIS ====

In all models of VIRIS a Children's mode was developed for young kids ages 6-10. This setting was created to first introduce kids into learning about public health and safety. It offers a simplistic representation of the cleanliness of a space before they enter it. Moreover, if children attempt to approach a red zone there is a warning "beeping" sound that the child can hear. It does not provide information to children about the personal information of an individual.

[[File:safe.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Example of what children see through VIRIS lens in a safe environment]]

[[File:danger.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Example of what children see through VIRIS lens in a high-risk environment]]

==== Safety Concerns ====

To get the full experience of VIRIS and ensure that VIRIS lenses last for a full 3 years it is essential to follow the cleaning procedures included in the VIRIS package. A sample cleaning kit is included with a first-time purchase of VIRIS and various subscriptions are available to receive the full cleaning set.

Notifications are sent to smartphones to remind customers that they must clean their lenses after every use at the end of the day. Failure to do so will lead to difficulty in putting the lenses on in the next use. This safety feature is to ensure that the natural eye remains clean and healthy.

For regular contact lens users or those who wear corrective glasses a prescription VIRIS is available - the cleaning procedures are similar with a few added steps outlined in the VIRIS cleaning kit.

== History ==
VIRIS was created in 2020 by LENZ with a Z, a startup created by Bill Gates, Canadian university researchers and Bayer, an international pharmaceutical company. VIRIS was conceptualized as a response to the COVID-19 Pandemic that began in 2019 which lasted until 2022 and resurfaced again in 2025 as VIRIS was still in its infancy and bug fixes were being rolled out to users. The product was secretly developed by LENZ with a Z as Gates, researchers and the medical industry became less confident that enough vaccines could be produced to successfully combat COVID-19 and future pandemics given the widespread damage to economic, social, political and healthcare systems in the wake of COVID-19.

[[File:bayer bill gates.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Gates, Bayer executives and healthcare/agriculture officials at the "Zero By 40 Meeting" 2019]]

=== Project Implementation: 2020-2026 ===

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation already had prior experience with Bayer as Bill Gates had attended a conference to eradicate Malaria by 2040 which he attended in 2019. Due to these prior connections The project to design VIRIS was quickly implemented in the winter of 2020 leading into 2021 as immense funding from The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Bayer pushed the project ahead quite quickly. Consequently, Model X, the company’s initial offering was in the hands of consumers in 2021. This had an immediate impact as users were able to stay away from people and areas that contained any harmful pathogens and this initially accelerated the disappearance of COVID-19 despite reports of a lack of worldwide adherence to social distancing measures.
Rates of Illness steadily declined after Model X was released although a mutated strain of COVID-19 resurfaced in 2025. It was revealed that the resurgence of viral activity was due to a major software bug which incorrectly identified unsafe areas as pathogen-free and vice versa.
Through the discovery of the software bug In Model X update 1.06 it was revealed that VIRIS had many serious social implications as stigma surrounded those with viral activity – and they were often wrongly identified. Some critics argue that the bug issues and stigmatization should be blamed on the growing divide between Gates and Bayer, as the two tried to take LENZ with a Z in different directions. Gates wanted to make (product) more accessible worldwide while Bayer wanted to continue raising the price and marketing Model X to grow the business.

=== Good, Bad and Model Y: 2026-2040 ===

After working out many of the software issues, VIRIS became crucial to eliminating the spread of disease and increasing overall health of the global population. Cures for cancer and HIV became more promising as researchers and the healthcare industry could focus more directly on new areas as preventing pandemics became a secondary concern.
As Governments and NGOs alike had to focus less on illnesses, they turned to fighting against equality issues and realized that VIRIS had negative societal affects as well. Health outcomes of low-income families remained low as they struggled to afford Model X and this disproportionately affected oppressed members of society based on race, gender and sexuality.
Some school boards used VIRIS as a teaching tool to introduce children to public health education and supplied Model X to all students, while many private institutions closed their doors to students who did not have VIRIS due to associated risk, further deepening the wealth gap associated with private schooling.

==== Model Y: 2034 ====

Model Y was seen as a vast improvement over Model X and further protected users, but was also direct proof to critics that VIRIS disparately protected only the wealthy with its retail price of $1500. With its new features, many also began to worry about government agencies and LENZ with a Z collecting data and conducting surveillance on VIRIS users. Model Y also opened the door for new learning opportunities and modalities as the captioning upgrade made second-language learning more accessible and allowed for digital literacy alphanumeric literacy learning to occur simultaneously. This came with a caveat though, as those who could not afford VIRIS were further disadvantaged in the learning system as a result of these resources being out of reach.

=== Onwards: 2040- ===

With the release of Model Z expected soon, many humanitarian organizations are calling for LENZ with a Z to subsidize the cost of VIRIS to low income users or to make the base model, X free so that income, and racialized disparities existing in society are eliminated. Many have argued that VIRIS played a role in exacerbating equity issues worldwide despite alleviating pressure on the global healthcare system.

== Education (Jee-ae Joanna) ==

Revolutionary contact lenses, VIRIS, opened new avenues of change and modification within the education system. VIRIS became an overarching invention, of which its impacts filtrated school curriculums, school funding systems and the pedagogical approaches used in classrooms.

==== Distribution and accessibility ====
Since its launch in 2020, VIRIS proposed multiple concerns of equal access and distribution of the technology amongst students and teachers. Private school institutions remain to exclusively accept students who can afford VIRIS, due to the associated risks of opening doors to those who do not have the contact lenses. This policy further increased economic disparities, between families in public schooling and those in the private schooling system. Consequently, such unequal distribution and accessibility led to an expected increase of positive COVID-19 cases in public schools.

[[File:Education viris.jpg|500px|thumb|right|Grade 10 science class' studying VIRIS lense]]

In the same way school boards provide students with technological resources like iPads and Chromebooks, a similar initiative was put in place by The Ministry of Education in 2028 to fund Ontario public school boards, in order to provide students with the virus-detecting technology. This initiative raised issues of inequitable funding, due to unequal distribution of investment money between school districts and regions. More populous areas, saw greater amounts of funding, compared to cases in smaller, less populous regions and districts. As of 2040, schools situated on Indigenous reserves remain inadequately unfunded by the government to provide students and teachers with VIRIS lenses.

==== New Pedagogical Approaches ====
Since the outbreak of COVID-19 in late 2019, there has been a global manifestation of fear towards viruses and bacteria. For this reason, teachers of Grade 3 students or younger, are instructed to employ different pedagogical approaches when teaching the concept of bacteria and viruses. The concept of VIRIS is explained through multimodal teaching pedagogies. Kids are taught that the colour red and the icon “!”, symbolizes “bad” and “harmful”, as a result, one should not go near or touch the area, object or person. On the other hand, the colour green is taught to be a “safe colour”. A feature of VIRIS Model Y signals beeping sounds when someone is entering a red zone. As a result, children are taught in school that certain sounds are associated with danger. Such teaching pedagogies are constructed in relation to multimodal and multimedia pedagogies that integrate diverse semiotics to enhance learning. As society is now vastly digital, similar representations of icons, colours and signs on phones and computers, are used to teach the concept of unsafe infected zones and zones that are safe.
[[File:Contactlens.jpg|250px|thumb|left|Dual-lingual caption feature on VIRIS]]
VIRIS has become a teaching tool for second-language acquisition, otherwise known as, L2 learning. The caption feature of Model Y enables students to listen to teachers and peers speak in English, while simultaneously viewing captions in their native language. This feature on VIRIS has been compared to dual-lingual texts, used as pedagogical methods to teach ESL learners by using multiple semiotics from one’s native language and the English language. The dual-lingual feature on VIRIS Model Y has not only made positive impacts on an educational level, but also in the social lives of ESL learners, who now have an easier time communicating and interacting with other peers who only speak English. Moreover, VIRIS Model Y has been used in French classes, to enhance the linguistic proficiency of students, particularly the oral and listening competence of FSL learners.

==== Curriculum Reforms ====
VIRIS has become an overarching invention that has revolutionized social, cultural, economic and political contexts of the world. As a result, in 2026 The Ministry of Education released updated Kindergarten - Grade 12 curriculums, with modified and adapted curriculum goals and expectations.
Social Sciences and Humanities (a course offered at the secondary level), saw significant adaptations in its curriculum, particular in the following subsections: Equity Studies, Health Studies, Sociology and Psychology. In the same way schools address issues of race and intersectionality, teachers teach students about societal, racial and economic discrimination and marginalization created from the invention of VIRIS.

VIRIS has also been integrated in the Science curriculums for students in Grade 7-12, each with a highlighted unit focusing on the symptoms, side effects and functions of VIRIS lenses. Science teachers use VIRIS as case studies and science experiments to teach students the biological interaction between the human eye and brain, in relation to the virus-detecting lenses. Moreover, VIRIS is integrated in history curriculums, as The Ministry of Education found it vital for students to have a profound understanding of the historical events and contexts that have led us to today’s world of VIRIS lenses.

== Group Members ==

Samantha Dungca, Nabila Elahi, Jee-ae Joanna Lee, Brendan Spencer

World 8

2020-12-01T04:25:35Z

JoannA: /* Education (Jee-ae Joanna) */

== VIRIS ==

[[File:smallscreent.jpg|250px|thumb|right|VIRIS Model X]]

[[File:crazy-lens-cyborg-a.jpg|250px|thumb|right|VIRIS Model Y]]

[[File:person.jpg|500px|thumb|right|VIRIS Vision: the lenses give information on person you are looking at for more than 3 seconds]]

VIRIS is a revolutionary contact lens system which allows one to detect any particles which may threaten human health as well as identify citizens who have compromised immune systems. Since 2020 this device has been known to improve public health and look out for the wellbeing of citizens.

There are currently two different models of the device. The first being the standard version, Model X. The Model X is able to detect virus particles - even if they are airborne. They can detect if someone is sick with a viral infection regardless of whether they are showing symptoms or not. Limitations to this model are its lack of ability to fully identify any bacterial infections such as Strep Throat. Moreover, Model X is not able to calculate contagion levels.

The second, and most recent model of VIRIS is Model Y. Model Y offers advanced features. Model Y will give one the ability to view someone’s brief family history, including the country their parents were born in, and any genetic diseases associated with the family. These advanced lenses collect the personal information of the user including legal name, sex, current health-status as well as the age of the individual. Moreover, Model Y offers a bonus feature that allows one to understand different languages. The most recent update allows one to read captions in their preferred language when someone is speaking a different language.

Minimum network requirement to operate this device is a 4G network and also has Wi-Fi capabilities to use. The Model X is now the most affordable device available at a price point of $650-$700 CAD. Model Y, however, is the most widely used and the most expensive at a price point of $1500-$2000 CAD.

=== Initial Release ===

At the beginning of the VIRIS life cycle there were some people who were initially skeptical. LENZ with a Z was quite thorough in their research and development for this product- testing on voluntary people from almost every ethnicity, health status, and gender and weight. Many concerns were regarding whether this product would damage one's natural eye sight. Dr. Ojo - an expert optometrist- made it clear that LENZ with a Z's technology does not further damage natural human eye sight nor does it cause damage to already healthy eyes.

Early Innovators of this technology encouraged the public to accept the benefits of this product and with consistent rising cases of COVID-19 in 2020 it was clear that the human race needed a tool to further understand just how easily transferable the virus was. Once specialists of WHO were involved with LENZ with a Z VIRIS was almost instantly accepted by the public.

=== Is VIRIS for you? ===

The development of VIRIS has brought innovation for safety and improving public health. Many public sectors such as public parks, shopping malls, and public schools understand that not everyone will be able to afford this technology and so the use of VIRIS is completely up to the individual to use or not. In a number of private sectors; however, VIRIS has become a requirement to wear and has become part of uniform in many office buildings and private schools.

==== Children and VIRIS ====

In all models of VIRIS a Children's mode was developed for young kids ages 6-10. This setting was created to first introduce kids into learning about public health and safety. It offers a simplistic representation of the cleanliness of a space before they enter it. Moreover, if children attempt to approach a red zone there is a warning "beeping" sound that the child can hear. It does not provide information to children about the personal information of an individual.

[[File:safe.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Example of what children see through VIRIS lens in a safe environment]]

[[File:danger.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Example of what children see through VIRIS lens in a high-risk environment]]

==== Safety Concerns ====

To get the full experience of VIRIS and ensure that VIRIS lenses last for a full 3 years it is essential to follow the cleaning procedures included in the VIRIS package. A sample cleaning kit is included with a first-time purchase of VIRIS and various subscriptions are available to receive the full cleaning set.

Notifications are sent to smartphones to remind customers that they must clean their lenses after every use at the end of the day. Failure to do so will lead to difficulty in putting the lenses on in the next use. This safety feature is to ensure that the natural eye remains clean and healthy.

For regular contact lens users or those who wear corrective glasses a prescription VIRIS is available - the cleaning procedures are similar with a few added steps outlined in the VIRIS cleaning kit.

== History ==
VIRIS was created in 2020 by LENZ with a Z, a startup created by Bill Gates, Canadian university researchers and Bayer, an international pharmaceutical company. VIRIS was conceptualized as a response to the COVID-19 Pandemic that began in 2019 which lasted until 2022 and resurfaced again in 2025 as VIRIS was still in its infancy and bug fixes were being rolled out to users. The product was secretly developed by LENZ with a Z as Gates, researchers and the medical industry became less confident that enough vaccines could be produced to successfully combat COVID-19 and future pandemics given the widespread damage to economic, social, political and healthcare systems in the wake of COVID-19.

[[File:bayer bill gates.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Gates, Bayer executives and healthcare/agriculture officials at the "Zero By 40 Meeting" 2019]]

=== Project Implementation: 2020-2026 ===

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation already had prior experience with Bayer as Bill Gates had attended a conference to eradicate Malaria by 2040 which he attended in 2019. Due to these prior connections The project to design VIRIS was quickly implemented in the winter of 2020 leading into 2021 as immense funding from The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Bayer pushed the project ahead quite quickly. Consequently, Model X, the company’s initial offering was in the hands of consumers in 2021. This had an immediate impact as users were able to stay away from people and areas that contained any harmful pathogens and this initially accelerated the disappearance of COVID-19 despite reports of a lack of worldwide adherence to social distancing measures.
Rates of Illness steadily declined after Model X was released although a mutated strain of COVID-19 resurfaced in 2025. It was revealed that the resurgence of viral activity was due to a major software bug which incorrectly identified unsafe areas as pathogen-free and vice versa.
Through the discovery of the software bug In Model X update 1.06 it was revealed that VIRIS had many serious social implications as stigma surrounded those with viral activity – and they were often wrongly identified. Some critics argue that the bug issues and stigmatization should be blamed on the growing divide between Gates and Bayer, as the two tried to take LENZ with a Z in different directions. Gates wanted to make (product) more accessible worldwide while Bayer wanted to continue raising the price and marketing Model X to grow the business.

=== Good, Bad and Model Y: 2026-2040 ===

After working out many of the software issues, VIRIS became crucial to eliminating the spread of disease and increasing overall health of the global population. Cures for cancer and HIV became more promising as researchers and the healthcare industry could focus more directly on new areas as preventing pandemics became a secondary concern.
As Governments and NGOs alike had to focus less on illnesses, they turned to fighting against equality issues and realized that VIRIS had negative societal affects as well. Health outcomes of low-income families remained low as they struggled to afford Model X and this disproportionately affected oppressed members of society based on race, gender and sexuality.
Some school boards used VIRIS as a teaching tool to introduce children to public health education and supplied Model X to all students, while many private institutions closed their doors to students who did not have VIRIS due to associated risk, further deepening the wealth gap associated with private schooling.

==== Model Y: 2034 ====

Model Y was seen as a vast improvement over Model X and further protected users, but was also direct proof to critics that VIRIS disparately protected only the wealthy with its retail price of $1500. With its new features, many also began to worry about government agencies and LENZ with a Z collecting data and conducting surveillance on VIRIS users. Model Y also opened the door for new learning opportunities and modalities as the captioning upgrade made second-language learning more accessible and allowed for digital literacy alphanumeric literacy learning to occur simultaneously. This came with a caveat though, as those who could not afford VIRIS were further disadvantaged in the learning system as a result of these resources being out of reach.

=== Onwards: 2040- ===

With the release of Model Z expected soon, many humanitarian organizations are calling for LENZ with a Z to subsidize the cost of VIRIS to low income users or to make the base model, X free so that income, and racialized disparities existing in society are eliminated. Many have argued that VIRIS played a role in exacerbating equity issues worldwide despite alleviating pressure on the global healthcare system.

== Education (Jee-ae Joanna) ==

Revolutionary contact lenses, VIRIS, opened new avenues of change and modification within the education system. VIRIS became an overarching invention, of which its impacts filtrated school curriculums, school funding systems and the pedagogical approaches used in classrooms.

==== Distribution and accessibility ====
Since its launch in 2020, VIRIS proposed multiple concerns of equal access and distribution of the technology amongst students and teachers. Private school institutions remain to exclusively accept students who can afford VIRIS, due to the associated risks of opening doors to those who do not have the contact lenses. This policy further increased economic disparities, between families in public schooling and those in the private schooling system. Consequently, such unequal distribution and accessibility led to an expected increase of positive COVID-19 cases in public schools.

[[File:Education viris.jpg|500px|thumb|right|Grade 10 science class' study of VIRIS]]

In the same way school boards provide students with technological resources like iPads and Chromebooks, a similar initiative was put in place by The Ministry of Education in 2028 to fund Ontario public school boards, in order to provide students with the virus-detecting technology. This initiative raised issues of inequitable funding, due to unequal distribution of investment money between school districts and regions. More populous areas, saw greater amounts of funding, compared to cases in smaller, less populous regions and districts. As of 2040, schools situated on Indigenous reserves remain inadequately unfunded by the government to provide students and teachers with VIRIS lenses.

==== New Pedagogical Approaches ====
Since the outbreak of COVID-19 in late 2019, there has been a global manifestation of fear towards viruses and bacteria. For this reason, teachers of Grade 3 students or younger, are instructed to employ different pedagogical approaches when teaching the concept of bacteria and viruses. The concept of VIRIS is explained through multimodal teaching pedagogies. Kids are taught that the colour red and the icon “!”, symbolizes “bad” and “harmful”, as a result, one should not go near or touch the area, object or person. On the other hand, the colour green is taught to be a “safe colour”. A feature of VIRIS Model Y signals beeping sounds when someone is entering a red zone. As a result, children are taught in school that certain sounds are associated with danger. Such teaching pedagogies are constructed in relation to multimodal and multimedia pedagogies that integrate diverse semiotics to enhance learning. As society is now vastly digital, similar representations of icons, colours and signs on phones and computers, are used to teach the concept of unsafe infected zones and zones that are safe.
[[File:Contactlens.jpg|250px|thumb|left|Dual-lingual caption feature on VIRIS]]
VIRIS has become a teaching tool for second-language acquisition, otherwise known as, L2 learning. The caption feature of Model Y enables students to listen to teachers and peers speak in English, while simultaneously viewing captions in their native language. This feature on VIRIS has been compared to dual-lingual texts, used as pedagogical methods to teach ESL learners by using multiple semiotics from one’s native language and the English language. The dual-lingual feature on VIRIS Model Y has not only made positive impacts on an educational level, but also in the social lives of ESL learners, who now have an easier time communicating and interacting with other peers who only speak English. Moreover, VIRIS Model Y has been used in French classes, to enhance the linguistic proficiency of students, particularly the oral and listening competence of FSL learners.

==== Curriculum Reforms ====
VIRIS has become an overarching invention that has revolutionized social, cultural, economic and political contexts of the world. As a result, in 2026 The Ministry of Education released updated Kindergarten - Grade 12 curriculums, with modified and adapted curriculum goals and expectations.
Social Sciences and Humanities (a course offered at the secondary level), saw significant adaptations in its curriculum, particular in the following subsections: Equity Studies, Health Studies, Sociology and Psychology. In the same way schools address issues of race and intersectionality, teachers teach students about societal, racial and economic discrimination and marginalization created from the invention of VIRIS.

VIRIS has also been integrated in the Science curriculums for students in Grade 7-12, each with a highlighted unit focusing on the symptoms, side effects and functions of VIRIS lenses. Science teachers use VIRIS as case studies and science experiments to teach students the biological interaction between the human eye and brain, in relation to the virus-detecting lenses. Moreover, VIRIS is integrated in history curriculums, as The Ministry of Education found it vital for students to have a profound understanding of the historical events and contexts that have led us to today’s world of VIRIS lenses.

== Group Members ==

Samantha Dungca, Nabila Elahi, Jee-ae Joanna Lee, Brendan Spencer

World 8

2020-12-01T04:24:51Z

JoannA: /* Education (Jee-ae Joanna) */

== VIRIS ==

[[File:smallscreent.jpg|250px|thumb|right|VIRIS Model X]]

[[File:crazy-lens-cyborg-a.jpg|250px|thumb|right|VIRIS Model Y]]

[[File:person.jpg|500px|thumb|right|VIRIS Vision: the lenses give information on person you are looking at for more than 3 seconds]]

VIRIS is a revolutionary contact lens system which allows one to detect any particles which may threaten human health as well as identify citizens who have compromised immune systems. Since 2020 this device has been known to improve public health and look out for the wellbeing of citizens.

There are currently two different models of the device. The first being the standard version, Model X. The Model X is able to detect virus particles - even if they are airborne. They can detect if someone is sick with a viral infection regardless of whether they are showing symptoms or not. Limitations to this model are its lack of ability to fully identify any bacterial infections such as Strep Throat. Moreover, Model X is not able to calculate contagion levels.

The second, and most recent model of VIRIS is Model Y. Model Y offers advanced features. Model Y will give one the ability to view someone’s brief family history, including the country their parents were born in, and any genetic diseases associated with the family. These advanced lenses collect the personal information of the user including legal name, sex, current health-status as well as the age of the individual. Moreover, Model Y offers a bonus feature that allows one to understand different languages. The most recent update allows one to read captions in their preferred language when someone is speaking a different language.

Minimum network requirement to operate this device is a 4G network and also has Wi-Fi capabilities to use. The Model X is now the most affordable device available at a price point of $650-$700 CAD. Model Y, however, is the most widely used and the most expensive at a price point of $1500-$2000 CAD.

=== Initial Release ===

At the beginning of the VIRIS life cycle there were some people who were initially skeptical. LENZ with a Z was quite thorough in their research and development for this product- testing on voluntary people from almost every ethnicity, health status, and gender and weight. Many concerns were regarding whether this product would damage one's natural eye sight. Dr. Ojo - an expert optometrist- made it clear that LENZ with a Z's technology does not further damage natural human eye sight nor does it cause damage to already healthy eyes.

Early Innovators of this technology encouraged the public to accept the benefits of this product and with consistent rising cases of COVID-19 in 2020 it was clear that the human race needed a tool to further understand just how easily transferable the virus was. Once specialists of WHO were involved with LENZ with a Z VIRIS was almost instantly accepted by the public.

=== Is VIRIS for you? ===

The development of VIRIS has brought innovation for safety and improving public health. Many public sectors such as public parks, shopping malls, and public schools understand that not everyone will be able to afford this technology and so the use of VIRIS is completely up to the individual to use or not. In a number of private sectors; however, VIRIS has become a requirement to wear and has become part of uniform in many office buildings and private schools.

==== Children and VIRIS ====

In all models of VIRIS a Children's mode was developed for young kids ages 6-10. This setting was created to first introduce kids into learning about public health and safety. It offers a simplistic representation of the cleanliness of a space before they enter it. Moreover, if children attempt to approach a red zone there is a warning "beeping" sound that the child can hear. It does not provide information to children about the personal information of an individual.

[[File:safe.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Example of what children see through VIRIS lens in a safe environment]]

[[File:danger.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Example of what children see through VIRIS lens in a high-risk environment]]

==== Safety Concerns ====

To get the full experience of VIRIS and ensure that VIRIS lenses last for a full 3 years it is essential to follow the cleaning procedures included in the VIRIS package. A sample cleaning kit is included with a first-time purchase of VIRIS and various subscriptions are available to receive the full cleaning set.

Notifications are sent to smartphones to remind customers that they must clean their lenses after every use at the end of the day. Failure to do so will lead to difficulty in putting the lenses on in the next use. This safety feature is to ensure that the natural eye remains clean and healthy.

For regular contact lens users or those who wear corrective glasses a prescription VIRIS is available - the cleaning procedures are similar with a few added steps outlined in the VIRIS cleaning kit.

== History ==
VIRIS was created in 2020 by LENZ with a Z, a startup created by Bill Gates, Canadian university researchers and Bayer, an international pharmaceutical company. VIRIS was conceptualized as a response to the COVID-19 Pandemic that began in 2019 which lasted until 2022 and resurfaced again in 2025 as VIRIS was still in its infancy and bug fixes were being rolled out to users. The product was secretly developed by LENZ with a Z as Gates, researchers and the medical industry became less confident that enough vaccines could be produced to successfully combat COVID-19 and future pandemics given the widespread damage to economic, social, political and healthcare systems in the wake of COVID-19.

[[File:bayer bill gates.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Gates, Bayer executives and healthcare/agriculture officials at the "Zero By 40 Meeting" 2019]]

=== Project Implementation: 2020-2026 ===

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation already had prior experience with Bayer as Bill Gates had attended a conference to eradicate Malaria by 2040 which he attended in 2019. Due to these prior connections The project to design VIRIS was quickly implemented in the winter of 2020 leading into 2021 as immense funding from The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Bayer pushed the project ahead quite quickly. Consequently, Model X, the company’s initial offering was in the hands of consumers in 2021. This had an immediate impact as users were able to stay away from people and areas that contained any harmful pathogens and this initially accelerated the disappearance of COVID-19 despite reports of a lack of worldwide adherence to social distancing measures.
Rates of Illness steadily declined after Model X was released although a mutated strain of COVID-19 resurfaced in 2025. It was revealed that the resurgence of viral activity was due to a major software bug which incorrectly identified unsafe areas as pathogen-free and vice versa.
Through the discovery of the software bug In Model X update 1.06 it was revealed that VIRIS had many serious social implications as stigma surrounded those with viral activity – and they were often wrongly identified. Some critics argue that the bug issues and stigmatization should be blamed on the growing divide between Gates and Bayer, as the two tried to take LENZ with a Z in different directions. Gates wanted to make (product) more accessible worldwide while Bayer wanted to continue raising the price and marketing Model X to grow the business.

=== Good, Bad and Model Y: 2026-2040 ===

After working out many of the software issues, VIRIS became crucial to eliminating the spread of disease and increasing overall health of the global population. Cures for cancer and HIV became more promising as researchers and the healthcare industry could focus more directly on new areas as preventing pandemics became a secondary concern.
As Governments and NGOs alike had to focus less on illnesses, they turned to fighting against equality issues and realized that VIRIS had negative societal affects as well. Health outcomes of low-income families remained low as they struggled to afford Model X and this disproportionately affected oppressed members of society based on race, gender and sexuality.
Some school boards used VIRIS as a teaching tool to introduce children to public health education and supplied Model X to all students, while many private institutions closed their doors to students who did not have VIRIS due to associated risk, further deepening the wealth gap associated with private schooling.

==== Model Y: 2034 ====

Model Y was seen as a vast improvement over Model X and further protected users, but was also direct proof to critics that VIRIS disparately protected only the wealthy with its retail price of $1500. With its new features, many also began to worry about government agencies and LENZ with a Z collecting data and conducting surveillance on VIRIS users. Model Y also opened the door for new learning opportunities and modalities as the captioning upgrade made second-language learning more accessible and allowed for digital literacy alphanumeric literacy learning to occur simultaneously. This came with a caveat though, as those who could not afford VIRIS were further disadvantaged in the learning system as a result of these resources being out of reach.

=== Onwards: 2040- ===

With the release of Model Z expected soon, many humanitarian organizations are calling for LENZ with a Z to subsidize the cost of VIRIS to low income users or to make the base model, X free so that income, and racialized disparities existing in society are eliminated. Many have argued that VIRIS played a role in exacerbating equity issues worldwide despite alleviating pressure on the global healthcare system.

== Education (Jee-ae Joanna) ==

Revolutionary contact lenses, VIRIS, opened new avenues of change and modification within the education system. VIRIS became an overarching invention, of which its impacts filtrated school curriculums, school funding systems and the pedagogical approaches used in classrooms.

==== Distribution and accessibility ====
Since its launch in 2020, VIRIS proposed multiple concerns of equal access and distribution of the technology amongst students and teachers. Private school institutions remain to exclusively accept students who can afford VIRIS, due to the associated risks of opening doors to those who do not have the contact lenses. This policy further increased economic disparities, between families in public schooling and those in the private schooling system. Consequently, such unequal distribution and accessibility led to an expected increase of positive COVID-19 cases in public schools.

[[File:Education viris.jpg|500px|thumb|right|Grade 10 science class' study of VIRIS]]

In the same way school boards provide students with technological resources like iPads and Chromebooks, a similar initiative was put in place by The Ministry of Education in 2028 to fund Ontario public school boards, in order to provide students with the virus-detecting technology. This initiative raised issues of inequitable funding, due to unequal distribution of investment money between school districts and regions. More populous areas, saw greater amounts of funding, compared to cases in smaller, less populous regions and districts. As of 2040, schools situated on Indigenous reserves remain inadequately unfunded by the government to provide students and teachers with VIRIS lenses.

==== New Pedagogical Approaches ====
Since the outbreak of COVID-19 in late 2019, there has been a global manifestation of fear towards viruses and bacteria. For this reason, teachers of Grade 3 students or younger, are instructed to employ different pedagogical approaches when teaching the concept of bacteria and viruses. The concept of VIRIS is explained through multimodal teaching pedagogies. Kids are taught that the colour red and the icon “!”, symbolizes “bad” and “harmful”, as a result, one should not go near or touch the area, object or person. On the other hand, the colour green is taught to be a “safe colour”. A feature of VIRIS Model Y signals beeping sounds when someone is entering a red zone. As a result, children are taught in school that certain sounds are associated with danger. Such teaching pedagogies are constructed in relation to multimodal and multimedia pedagogies that integrate diverse semiotics to enhance learning. As society is now vastly digital, similar representations of icons, colours and signs on phones and computers, are used to teach the concept of unsafe infected zones and zones that are safe.

[[File:Contactlens.jpg|250px|thumb|left|Dual-lingual caption feature on VIRIS]]
VIRIS has become a teaching tool for second-language acquisition, otherwise known as, L2 learning. The caption feature of Model Y enables students to listen to teachers and peers speak in English, while simultaneously viewing captions in their native language. This feature on VIRIS has been compared to dual-lingual texts, used as pedagogical methods to teach ESL learners by using multiple semiotics from one’s native language and the English language. The dual-lingual feature on VIRIS Model Y has not only made positive impacts on an educational level, but also in the social lives of ESL learners, who now have an easier time communicating and interacting with other peers who only speak English. Moreover, VIRIS Model Y has been used in French classes, to enhance the linguistic proficiency of students, particularly the oral and listening competence of FSL learners.

==== Curriculum Reforms ====
VIRIS has become an overarching invention that has revolutionized social, cultural, economic and political contexts of the world. As a result, in 2026 The Ministry of Education released updated Kindergarten - Grade 12 curriculums, with modified and adapted curriculum goals and expectations.
Social Sciences and Humanities (a course offered at the secondary level), saw significant adaptations in its curriculum, particular in the following subsections: Equity Studies, Health Studies, Sociology and Psychology. In the same way schools address issues of race and intersectionality, teachers teach students about societal, racial and economic discrimination and marginalization created from the invention of VIRIS.

VIRIS has also been integrated in the Science curriculums for students in Grade 7-12, each with a highlighted unit focusing on the symptoms, side effects and functions of VIRIS lenses. Science teachers use VIRIS as case studies and science experiments to teach students the biological interaction between the human eye and brain, in relation to the virus-detecting lenses. Moreover, VIRIS is integrated in history curriculums, as The Ministry of Education found it vital for students to have a profound understanding of the historical events and contexts that have led us to today’s world of VIRIS lenses.

== Group Members ==

Samantha Dungca, Nabila Elahi, Jee-ae Joanna Lee, Brendan Spencer

World 8

2020-12-01T04:24:23Z

JoannA: /* Education (Jee-ae Joanna) */

== VIRIS ==

[[File:smallscreent.jpg|250px|thumb|right|VIRIS Model X]]

[[File:crazy-lens-cyborg-a.jpg|250px|thumb|right|VIRIS Model Y]]

[[File:person.jpg|500px|thumb|right|VIRIS Vision: the lenses give information on person you are looking at for more than 3 seconds]]

VIRIS is a revolutionary contact lens system which allows one to detect any particles which may threaten human health as well as identify citizens who have compromised immune systems. Since 2020 this device has been known to improve public health and look out for the wellbeing of citizens.

There are currently two different models of the device. The first being the standard version, Model X. The Model X is able to detect virus particles - even if they are airborne. They can detect if someone is sick with a viral infection regardless of whether they are showing symptoms or not. Limitations to this model are its lack of ability to fully identify any bacterial infections such as Strep Throat. Moreover, Model X is not able to calculate contagion levels.

The second, and most recent model of VIRIS is Model Y. Model Y offers advanced features. Model Y will give one the ability to view someone’s brief family history, including the country their parents were born in, and any genetic diseases associated with the family. These advanced lenses collect the personal information of the user including legal name, sex, current health-status as well as the age of the individual. Moreover, Model Y offers a bonus feature that allows one to understand different languages. The most recent update allows one to read captions in their preferred language when someone is speaking a different language.

Minimum network requirement to operate this device is a 4G network and also has Wi-Fi capabilities to use. The Model X is now the most affordable device available at a price point of $650-$700 CAD. Model Y, however, is the most widely used and the most expensive at a price point of $1500-$2000 CAD.

=== Initial Release ===

At the beginning of the VIRIS life cycle there were some people who were initially skeptical. LENZ with a Z was quite thorough in their research and development for this product- testing on voluntary people from almost every ethnicity, health status, and gender and weight. Many concerns were regarding whether this product would damage one's natural eye sight. Dr. Ojo - an expert optometrist- made it clear that LENZ with a Z's technology does not further damage natural human eye sight nor does it cause damage to already healthy eyes.

Early Innovators of this technology encouraged the public to accept the benefits of this product and with consistent rising cases of COVID-19 in 2020 it was clear that the human race needed a tool to further understand just how easily transferable the virus was. Once specialists of WHO were involved with LENZ with a Z VIRIS was almost instantly accepted by the public.

=== Is VIRIS for you? ===

The development of VIRIS has brought innovation for safety and improving public health. Many public sectors such as public parks, shopping malls, and public schools understand that not everyone will be able to afford this technology and so the use of VIRIS is completely up to the individual to use or not. In a number of private sectors; however, VIRIS has become a requirement to wear and has become part of uniform in many office buildings and private schools.

==== Children and VIRIS ====

In all models of VIRIS a Children's mode was developed for young kids ages 6-10. This setting was created to first introduce kids into learning about public health and safety. It offers a simplistic representation of the cleanliness of a space before they enter it. Moreover, if children attempt to approach a red zone there is a warning "beeping" sound that the child can hear. It does not provide information to children about the personal information of an individual.

[[File:safe.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Example of what children see through VIRIS lens in a safe environment]]

[[File:danger.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Example of what children see through VIRIS lens in a high-risk environment]]

==== Safety Concerns ====

To get the full experience of VIRIS and ensure that VIRIS lenses last for a full 3 years it is essential to follow the cleaning procedures included in the VIRIS package. A sample cleaning kit is included with a first-time purchase of VIRIS and various subscriptions are available to receive the full cleaning set.

Notifications are sent to smartphones to remind customers that they must clean their lenses after every use at the end of the day. Failure to do so will lead to difficulty in putting the lenses on in the next use. This safety feature is to ensure that the natural eye remains clean and healthy.

For regular contact lens users or those who wear corrective glasses a prescription VIRIS is available - the cleaning procedures are similar with a few added steps outlined in the VIRIS cleaning kit.

== History ==
VIRIS was created in 2020 by LENZ with a Z, a startup created by Bill Gates, Canadian university researchers and Bayer, an international pharmaceutical company. VIRIS was conceptualized as a response to the COVID-19 Pandemic that began in 2019 which lasted until 2022 and resurfaced again in 2025 as VIRIS was still in its infancy and bug fixes were being rolled out to users. The product was secretly developed by LENZ with a Z as Gates, researchers and the medical industry became less confident that enough vaccines could be produced to successfully combat COVID-19 and future pandemics given the widespread damage to economic, social, political and healthcare systems in the wake of COVID-19.

[[File:bayer bill gates.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Gates, Bayer executives and healthcare/agriculture officials at the "Zero By 40 Meeting" 2019]]

=== Project Implementation: 2020-2026 ===

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation already had prior experience with Bayer as Bill Gates had attended a conference to eradicate Malaria by 2040 which he attended in 2019. Due to these prior connections The project to design VIRIS was quickly implemented in the winter of 2020 leading into 2021 as immense funding from The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Bayer pushed the project ahead quite quickly. Consequently, Model X, the company’s initial offering was in the hands of consumers in 2021. This had an immediate impact as users were able to stay away from people and areas that contained any harmful pathogens and this initially accelerated the disappearance of COVID-19 despite reports of a lack of worldwide adherence to social distancing measures.
Rates of Illness steadily declined after Model X was released although a mutated strain of COVID-19 resurfaced in 2025. It was revealed that the resurgence of viral activity was due to a major software bug which incorrectly identified unsafe areas as pathogen-free and vice versa.
Through the discovery of the software bug In Model X update 1.06 it was revealed that VIRIS had many serious social implications as stigma surrounded those with viral activity – and they were often wrongly identified. Some critics argue that the bug issues and stigmatization should be blamed on the growing divide between Gates and Bayer, as the two tried to take LENZ with a Z in different directions. Gates wanted to make (product) more accessible worldwide while Bayer wanted to continue raising the price and marketing Model X to grow the business.

=== Good, Bad and Model Y: 2026-2040 ===

After working out many of the software issues, VIRIS became crucial to eliminating the spread of disease and increasing overall health of the global population. Cures for cancer and HIV became more promising as researchers and the healthcare industry could focus more directly on new areas as preventing pandemics became a secondary concern.
As Governments and NGOs alike had to focus less on illnesses, they turned to fighting against equality issues and realized that VIRIS had negative societal affects as well. Health outcomes of low-income families remained low as they struggled to afford Model X and this disproportionately affected oppressed members of society based on race, gender and sexuality.
Some school boards used VIRIS as a teaching tool to introduce children to public health education and supplied Model X to all students, while many private institutions closed their doors to students who did not have VIRIS due to associated risk, further deepening the wealth gap associated with private schooling.

==== Model Y: 2034 ====

Model Y was seen as a vast improvement over Model X and further protected users, but was also direct proof to critics that VIRIS disparately protected only the wealthy with its retail price of $1500. With its new features, many also began to worry about government agencies and LENZ with a Z collecting data and conducting surveillance on VIRIS users. Model Y also opened the door for new learning opportunities and modalities as the captioning upgrade made second-language learning more accessible and allowed for digital literacy alphanumeric literacy learning to occur simultaneously. This came with a caveat though, as those who could not afford VIRIS were further disadvantaged in the learning system as a result of these resources being out of reach.

=== Onwards: 2040- ===

With the release of Model Z expected soon, many humanitarian organizations are calling for LENZ with a Z to subsidize the cost of VIRIS to low income users or to make the base model, X free so that income, and racialized disparities existing in society are eliminated. Many have argued that VIRIS played a role in exacerbating equity issues worldwide despite alleviating pressure on the global healthcare system.

== Education (Jee-ae Joanna) ==

Revolutionary contact lenses, VIRIS, opened new avenues of change and modification within the education system. VIRIS became an overarching invention, of which its impacts filtrated school curriculums, school funding systems and the pedagogical approaches used in classrooms.

==== Distribution and accessibility ====
Since its launch in 2020, VIRIS proposed multiple concerns of equal access and distribution of the technology amongst students and teachers. Private school institutions remain to exclusively accept students who can afford VIRIS, due to the associated risks of opening doors to those who do not have the contact lenses. This policy further increased economic disparities, between families in public schooling and those in the private schooling system. Consequently, such unequal distribution and accessibility led to an expected increase of positive COVID-19 cases in public schools.

[[File:Education viris.jpg|500px|thumb|right|Grade 10 science class' study of VIRIS]]

In the same way school boards provide students with technological resources like iPads and Chromebooks, a similar initiative was put in place by The Ministry of Education in 2028 to fund Ontario public school boards, in order to provide students with the virus-detecting technology. This initiative raised issues of inequitable funding, due to unequal distribution of investment money between school districts and regions. More populous areas, saw greater amounts of funding, compared to cases in smaller, less populous regions and districts. As of 2040, schools situated on Indigenous reserves remain inadequately unfunded by the government to provide students and teachers with VIRIS lenses.

==== New Pedagogical Approaches ====
Since the outbreak of COVID-19 in late 2019, there has been a global manifestation of fear towards viruses and bacteria. For this reason, teachers of Grade 3 students or younger, are instructed to employ different pedagogical approaches when teaching the concept of bacteria and viruses. The concept of VIRIS is explained through multimodal teaching pedagogies. Kids are taught that the colour red and the icon “!”, symbolizes “bad” and “harmful”, as a result, one should not go near or touch the area, object or person. On the other hand, the colour green is taught to be a “safe colour”. A feature of VIRIS Model Y signals beeping sounds when someone is entering a red zone. As a result, children are taught in school that certain sounds are associated with danger. Such teaching pedagogies are constructed in relation to multimodal and multimedia pedagogies that integrate diverse semiotics to enhance learning. As society is now vastly digital, similar representations of icons, colours and signs on phones and computers, are used to teach the concept of unsafe infected zones and zones that are safe.

[[File:Contactlens.jpg|500px|thumb|left|Dual-lingual caption feature on VIRIS]]
VIRIS has become a teaching tool for second-language acquisition, otherwise known as, L2 learning. The caption feature of Model Y enables students to listen to teachers and peers speak in English, while simultaneously viewing captions in their native language. This feature on VIRIS has been compared to dual-lingual texts, used as pedagogical methods to teach ESL learners by using multiple semiotics from one’s native language and the English language. The dual-lingual feature on VIRIS Model Y has not only made positive impacts on an educational level, but also in the social lives of ESL learners, who now have an easier time communicating and interacting with other peers who only speak English. Moreover, VIRIS Model Y has been used in French classes, to enhance the linguistic proficiency of students, particularly the oral and listening competence of FSL learners.

==== Curriculum Reforms ====
VIRIS has become an overarching invention that has revolutionized social, cultural, economic and political contexts of the world. As a result, in 2026 The Ministry of Education released updated Kindergarten - Grade 12 curriculums, with modified and adapted curriculum goals and expectations.
Social Sciences and Humanities (a course offered at the secondary level), saw significant adaptations in its curriculum, particular in the following subsections: Equity Studies, Health Studies, Sociology and Psychology. In the same way schools address issues of race and intersectionality, teachers teach students about societal, racial and economic discrimination and marginalization created from the invention of VIRIS.

VIRIS has also been integrated in the Science curriculums for students in Grade 7-12, each with a highlighted unit focusing on the symptoms, side effects and functions of VIRIS lenses. Science teachers use VIRIS as case studies and science experiments to teach students the biological interaction between the human eye and brain, in relation to the virus-detecting lenses. Moreover, VIRIS is integrated in history curriculums, as The Ministry of Education found it vital for students to have a profound understanding of the historical events and contexts that have led us to today’s world of VIRIS lenses.

== Group Members ==

Samantha Dungca, Nabila Elahi, Jee-ae Joanna Lee, Brendan Spencer

File:Contactlens.jpg

2020-12-01T04:22:58Z

JoannA:

World 8

2020-12-01T04:18:52Z

JoannA: /* Education (Jee-ae Joanna) */

== VIRIS ==

[[File:smallscreent.jpg|250px|thumb|right|VIRIS Model X]]

[[File:crazy-lens-cyborg-a.jpg|250px|thumb|right|VIRIS Model Y]]

[[File:person.jpg|500px|thumb|right|VIRIS Vision: the lenses give information on person you are looking at for more than 3 seconds]]

VIRIS is a revolutionary contact lens system which allows one to detect any particles which may threaten human health as well as identify citizens who have compromised immune systems. Since 2020 this device has been known to improve public health and look out for the wellbeing of citizens.

There are currently two different models of the device. The first being the standard version, Model X. The Model X is able to detect virus particles - even if they are airborne. They can detect if someone is sick with a viral infection regardless of whether they are showing symptoms or not. Limitations to this model are its lack of ability to fully identify any bacterial infections such as Strep Throat. Moreover, Model X is not able to calculate contagion levels.

The second, and most recent model of VIRIS is Model Y. Model Y offers advanced features. Model Y will give one the ability to view someone’s brief family history, including the country their parents were born in, and any genetic diseases associated with the family. These advanced lenses collect the personal information of the user including legal name, sex, current health-status as well as the age of the individual. Moreover, Model Y offers a bonus feature that allows one to understand different languages. The most recent update allows one to read captions in their preferred language when someone is speaking a different language.

Minimum network requirement to operate this device is a 4G network and also has Wi-Fi capabilities to use. The Model X is now the most affordable device available at a price point of $650-$700 CAD. Model Y, however, is the most widely used and the most expensive at a price point of $1500-$2000 CAD.

=== Initial Release ===

At the beginning of the VIRIS life cycle there were some people who were initially skeptical. LENZ with a Z was quite thorough in their research and development for this product- testing on voluntary people from almost every ethnicity, health status, and gender and weight. Many concerns were regarding whether this product would damage one's natural eye sight. Dr. Ojo - an expert optometrist- made it clear that LENZ with a Z's technology does not further damage natural human eye sight nor does it cause damage to already healthy eyes.

Early Innovators of this technology encouraged the public to accept the benefits of this product and with consistent rising cases of COVID-19 in 2020 it was clear that the human race needed a tool to further understand just how easily transferable the virus was. Once specialists of WHO were involved with LENZ with a Z VIRIS was almost instantly accepted by the public.

=== Is VIRIS for you? ===

The development of VIRIS has brought innovation for safety and improving public health. Many public sectors such as public parks, shopping malls, and public schools understand that not everyone will be able to afford this technology and so the use of VIRIS is completely up to the individual to use or not. In a number of private sectors; however, VIRIS has become a requirement to wear and has become part of uniform in many office buildings and private schools.

==== Children and VIRIS ====

In all models of VIRIS a Children's mode was developed for young kids ages 6-10. This setting was created to first introduce kids into learning about public health and safety. It offers a simplistic representation of the cleanliness of a space before they enter it. Moreover, if children attempt to approach a red zone there is a warning "beeping" sound that the child can hear. It does not provide information to children about the personal information of an individual.

[[File:safe.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Example of what children see through VIRIS lens in a safe environment]]

[[File:danger.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Example of what children see through VIRIS lens in a high-risk environment]]

==== Safety Concerns ====

To get the full experience of VIRIS and ensure that VIRIS lenses last for a full 3 years it is essential to follow the cleaning procedures included in the VIRIS package. A sample cleaning kit is included with a first-time purchase of VIRIS and various subscriptions are available to receive the full cleaning set.

Notifications are sent to smartphones to remind customers that they must clean their lenses after every use at the end of the day. Failure to do so will lead to difficulty in putting the lenses on in the next use. This safety feature is to ensure that the natural eye remains clean and healthy.

For regular contact lens users or those who wear corrective glasses a prescription VIRIS is available - the cleaning procedures are similar with a few added steps outlined in the VIRIS cleaning kit.

== History ==
VIRIS was created in 2020 by LENZ with a Z, a startup created by Bill Gates, Canadian university researchers and Bayer, an international pharmaceutical company. VIRIS was conceptualized as a response to the COVID-19 Pandemic that began in 2019 which lasted until 2022 and resurfaced again in 2025 as VIRIS was still in its infancy and bug fixes were being rolled out to users. The product was secretly developed by LENZ with a Z as Gates, researchers and the medical industry became less confident that enough vaccines could be produced to successfully combat COVID-19 and future pandemics given the widespread damage to economic, social, political and healthcare systems in the wake of COVID-19.

[[File:bayer bill gates.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Gates, Bayer executives and healthcare/agriculture officials at the "Zero By 40 Meeting" 2019]]

=== Project Implementation: 2020-2026 ===

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation already had prior experience with Bayer as Bill Gates had attended a conference to eradicate Malaria by 2040 which he attended in 2019. Due to these prior connections The project to design VIRIS was quickly implemented in the winter of 2020 leading into 2021 as immense funding from The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Bayer pushed the project ahead quite quickly. Consequently, Model X, the company’s initial offering was in the hands of consumers in 2021. This had an immediate impact as users were able to stay away from people and areas that contained any harmful pathogens and this initially accelerated the disappearance of COVID-19 despite reports of a lack of worldwide adherence to social distancing measures.
Rates of Illness steadily declined after Model X was released although a mutated strain of COVID-19 resurfaced in 2025. It was revealed that the resurgence of viral activity was due to a major software bug which incorrectly identified unsafe areas as pathogen-free and vice versa.
Through the discovery of the software bug In Model X update 1.06 it was revealed that VIRIS had many serious social implications as stigma surrounded those with viral activity – and they were often wrongly identified. Some critics argue that the bug issues and stigmatization should be blamed on the growing divide between Gates and Bayer, as the two tried to take LENZ with a Z in different directions. Gates wanted to make (product) more accessible worldwide while Bayer wanted to continue raising the price and marketing Model X to grow the business.

=== Good, Bad and Model Y: 2026-2040 ===

After working out many of the software issues, VIRIS became crucial to eliminating the spread of disease and increasing overall health of the global population. Cures for cancer and HIV became more promising as researchers and the healthcare industry could focus more directly on new areas as preventing pandemics became a secondary concern.
As Governments and NGOs alike had to focus less on illnesses, they turned to fighting against equality issues and realized that VIRIS had negative societal affects as well. Health outcomes of low-income families remained low as they struggled to afford Model X and this disproportionately affected oppressed members of society based on race, gender and sexuality.
Some school boards used VIRIS as a teaching tool to introduce children to public health education and supplied Model X to all students, while many private institutions closed their doors to students who did not have VIRIS due to associated risk, further deepening the wealth gap associated with private schooling.

==== Model Y: 2034 ====

Model Y was seen as a vast improvement over Model X and further protected users, but was also direct proof to critics that VIRIS disparately protected only the wealthy with its retail price of $1500. With its new features, many also began to worry about government agencies and LENZ with a Z collecting data and conducting surveillance on VIRIS users. Model Y also opened the door for new learning opportunities and modalities as the captioning upgrade made second-language learning more accessible and allowed for digital literacy alphanumeric literacy learning to occur simultaneously. This came with a caveat though, as those who could not afford VIRIS were further disadvantaged in the learning system as a result of these resources being out of reach.

=== Onwards: 2040- ===

With the release of Model Z expected soon, many humanitarian organizations are calling for LENZ with a Z to subsidize the cost of VIRIS to low income users or to make the base model, X free so that income, and racialized disparities existing in society are eliminated. Many have argued that VIRIS played a role in exacerbating equity issues worldwide despite alleviating pressure on the global healthcare system.

== Education (Jee-ae Joanna) ==

Revolutionary contact lenses, VIRIS, opened new avenues of change and modification within the education system. VIRIS became an overarching invention, of which its impacts filtrated school curriculums, school funding systems and the pedagogical approaches used in classrooms.

==== Distribution and accessibility ====
Since its launch in 2020, VIRIS proposed multiple concerns of equal access and distribution of the technology amongst students and teachers. Private school institutions remain to exclusively accept students who can afford VIRIS, due to the associated risks of opening doors to those who do not have the contact lenses. This policy further increased economic disparities, between families in public schooling and those in the private schooling system. Consequently, such unequal distribution and accessibility led to an expected increase of positive COVID-19 cases in public schools.

[[File:Education viris.jpg|500px|thumb|right|Grade 10 science class' study of VIRIS]]

In the same way school boards provide students with technological resources like iPads and Chromebooks, a similar initiative was put in place by The Ministry of Education in 2028 to fund Ontario public school boards, in order to provide students with the virus-detecting technology. This initiative raised issues of inequitable funding, due to unequal distribution of investment money between school districts and regions. More populous areas, saw greater amounts of funding, compared to cases in smaller, less populous regions and districts. As of 2040, schools situated on Indigenous reserves remain inadequately unfunded by the government to provide students and teachers with VIRIS lenses.

==== New Pedagogical Approaches ====
Since the outbreak of COVID-19 in late 2019, there has been a global manifestation of fear towards viruses and bacteria. For this reason, teachers of Grade 3 students or younger, are instructed to employ different pedagogical approaches when teaching the concept of bacteria and viruses. The concept of VIRIS is explained through multimodal teaching pedagogies. Kids are taught that the colour red and the icon “!”, symbolizes “bad” and “harmful”, as a result, one should not go near or touch the area, object or person. On the other hand, the colour green is taught to be a “safe colour”. A feature of VIRIS Model Y signals beeping sounds when someone is entering a red zone. As a result, children are taught in school that certain sounds are associated with danger. Such teaching pedagogies are constructed in relation to multimodal and multimedia pedagogies that integrate diverse semiotics to enhance learning. As society is now vastly digital, similar representations of icons, colours and signs on phones and computers, are used to teach the concept of unsafe infected zones and zones that are safe.

VIRIS has become a teaching tool for second-language acquisition, otherwise known as, L2 learning. The caption feature of Model Y enables students to listen to teachers and peers speak in English, while simultaneously viewing captions in their native language. This feature on VIRIS has been compared to dual-lingual texts, used as pedagogical methods to teach ESL learners by using multiple semiotics from one’s native language and the English language. The dual-lingual feature on VIRIS Model Y has not only made positive impacts on an educational level, but also in the social lives of ESL learners, who now have an easier time communicating and interacting with other peers who only speak English. Moreover, VIRIS Model Y has been used in French classes, to enhance the linguistic proficiency of students, particularly the oral and listening competence of FSL learners.

==== Curriculum Reforms ====
VIRIS has become an overarching invention that has revolutionized social, cultural, economic and political contexts of the world. As a result, in 2026 The Ministry of Education released updated Kindergarten - Grade 12 curriculums, with modified and adapted curriculum goals and expectations.
Social Sciences and Humanities (a course offered at the secondary level), saw significant adaptations in its curriculum, particular in the following subsections: Equity Studies, Health Studies, Sociology and Psychology. In the same way schools address issues of race and intersectionality, teachers teach students about societal, racial and economic discrimination and marginalization created from the invention of VIRIS.

VIRIS has also been integrated in the Science curriculums for students in Grade 7-12, each with a highlighted unit focusing on the symptoms, side effects and functions of VIRIS lenses. Science teachers use VIRIS as case studies and science experiments to teach students the biological interaction between the human eye and brain, in relation to the virus-detecting lenses. Moreover, VIRIS is integrated in history curriculums, as The Ministry of Education found it vital for students to have a profound understanding of the historical events and contexts that have led us to today’s world of VIRIS lenses.

== Group Members ==

Samantha Dungca, Nabila Elahi, Jee-ae Joanna Lee, Brendan Spencer

World 8

2020-12-01T04:12:53Z

JoannA: /* Education (Jee-ae Joanna) */

== VIRIS ==

[[File:smallscreent.jpg|250px|thumb|right|VIRIS Model X]]

[[File:crazy-lens-cyborg-a.jpg|250px|thumb|right|VIRIS Model Y]]

[[File:person.jpg|500px|thumb|right|VIRIS Vision: the lenses give information on person you are looking at for more than 3 seconds]]

VIRIS is a revolutionary contact lens system which allows one to detect any particles which may threaten human health as well as identify citizens who have compromised immune systems. Since 2020 this device has been known to improve public health and look out for the wellbeing of citizens.

There are currently two different models of the device. The first being the standard version, Model X. The Model X is able to detect virus particles - even if they are airborne. They can detect if someone is sick with a viral infection regardless of whether they are showing symptoms or not. Limitations to this model are its lack of ability to fully identify any bacterial infections such as Strep Throat. Moreover, Model X is not able to calculate contagion levels.

The second, and most recent model of VIRIS is Model Y. Model Y offers advanced features. Model Y will give one the ability to view someone’s brief family history, including the country their parents were born in, and any genetic diseases associated with the family. These advanced lenses collect the personal information of the user including legal name, sex, current health-status as well as the age of the individual. Moreover, Model Y offers a bonus feature that allows one to understand different languages. The most recent update allows one to read captions in their preferred language when someone is speaking a different language.

Minimum network requirement to operate this device is a 4G network and also has Wi-Fi capabilities to use. The Model X is now the most affordable device available at a price point of $650-$700 CAD. Model Y, however, is the most widely used and the most expensive at a price point of $1500-$2000 CAD.

=== Initial Release ===

At the beginning of the VIRIS life cycle there were some people who were initially skeptical. LENZ with a Z was quite thorough in their research and development for this product- testing on voluntary people from almost every ethnicity, health status, and gender and weight. Many concerns were regarding whether this product would damage one's natural eye sight. Dr. Ojo - an expert optometrist- made it clear that LENZ with a Z's technology does not further damage natural human eye sight nor does it cause damage to already healthy eyes.

Early Innovators of this technology encouraged the public to accept the benefits of this product and with consistent rising cases of COVID-19 in 2020 it was clear that the human race needed a tool to further understand just how easily transferable the virus was. Once specialists of WHO were involved with LENZ with a Z VIRIS was almost instantly accepted by the public.

=== Is VIRIS for you? ===

The development of VIRIS has brought innovation for safety and improving public health. Many public sectors such as public parks, shopping malls, and public schools understand that not everyone will be able to afford this technology and so the use of VIRIS is completely up to the individual to use or not. In a number of private sectors; however, VIRIS has become a requirement to wear and has become part of uniform in many office buildings and private schools.

==== Children and VIRIS ====

In all models of VIRIS a Children's mode was developed for young kids ages 6-10. This setting was created to first introduce kids into learning about public health and safety. It offers a simplistic representation of the cleanliness of a space before they enter it. Moreover, if children attempt to approach a red zone there is a warning "beeping" sound that the child can hear. It does not provide information to children about the personal information of an individual.

[[File:safe.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Example of what children see through VIRIS lens in a safe environment]]

[[File:danger.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Example of what children see through VIRIS lens in a high-risk environment]]

==== Safety Concerns ====

To get the full experience of VIRIS and ensure that VIRIS lenses last for a full 3 years it is essential to follow the cleaning procedures included in the VIRIS package. A sample cleaning kit is included with a first-time purchase of VIRIS and various subscriptions are available to receive the full cleaning set.

Notifications are sent to smartphones to remind customers that they must clean their lenses after every use at the end of the day. Failure to do so will lead to difficulty in putting the lenses on in the next use. This safety feature is to ensure that the natural eye remains clean and healthy.

For regular contact lens users or those who wear corrective glasses a prescription VIRIS is available - the cleaning procedures are similar with a few added steps outlined in the VIRIS cleaning kit.

== History ==
VIRIS was created in 2020 by LENZ with a Z, a startup created by Bill Gates, Canadian university researchers and Bayer, an international pharmaceutical company. VIRIS was conceptualized as a response to the COVID-19 Pandemic that began in 2019 which lasted until 2022 and resurfaced again in 2025 as VIRIS was still in its infancy and bug fixes were being rolled out to users. The product was secretly developed by LENZ with a Z as Gates, researchers and the medical industry became less confident that enough vaccines could be produced to successfully combat COVID-19 and future pandemics given the widespread damage to economic, social, political and healthcare systems in the wake of COVID-19.

[[File:bayer bill gates.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Gates, Bayer executives and healthcare/agriculture officials at the "Zero By 40 Meeting" 2019]]

=== Project Implementation: 2020-2026 ===

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation already had prior experience with Bayer as Bill Gates had attended a conference to eradicate Malaria by 2040 which he attended in 2019. Due to these prior connections The project to design VIRIS was quickly implemented in the winter of 2020 leading into 2021 as immense funding from The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Bayer pushed the project ahead quite quickly. Consequently, Model X, the company’s initial offering was in the hands of consumers in 2021. This had an immediate impact as users were able to stay away from people and areas that contained any harmful pathogens and this initially accelerated the disappearance of COVID-19 despite reports of a lack of worldwide adherence to social distancing measures.
Rates of Illness steadily declined after Model X was released although a mutated strain of COVID-19 resurfaced in 2025. It was revealed that the resurgence of viral activity was due to a major software bug which incorrectly identified unsafe areas as pathogen-free and vice versa.
Through the discovery of the software bug In Model X update 1.06 it was revealed that VIRIS had many serious social implications as stigma surrounded those with viral activity – and they were often wrongly identified. Some critics argue that the bug issues and stigmatization should be blamed on the growing divide between Gates and Bayer, as the two tried to take LENZ with a Z in different directions. Gates wanted to make (product) more accessible worldwide while Bayer wanted to continue raising the price and marketing Model X to grow the business.

=== Good, Bad and Model Y: 2026-2040 ===

After working out many of the software issues, VIRIS became crucial to eliminating the spread of disease and increasing overall health of the global population. Cures for cancer and HIV became more promising as researchers and the healthcare industry could focus more directly on new areas as preventing pandemics became a secondary concern.
As Governments and NGOs alike had to focus less on illnesses, they turned to fighting against equality issues and realized that VIRIS had negative societal affects as well. Health outcomes of low-income families remained low as they struggled to afford Model X and this disproportionately affected oppressed members of society based on race, gender and sexuality.
Some school boards used VIRIS as a teaching tool to introduce children to public health education and supplied Model X to all students, while many private institutions closed their doors to students who did not have VIRIS due to associated risk, further deepening the wealth gap associated with private schooling.

==== Model Y: 2034 ====

Model Y was seen as a vast improvement over Model X and further protected users, but was also direct proof to critics that VIRIS disparately protected only the wealthy with its retail price of $1500. With its new features, many also began to worry about government agencies and LENZ with a Z collecting data and conducting surveillance on VIRIS users. Model Y also opened the door for new learning opportunities and modalities as the captioning upgrade made second-language learning more accessible and allowed for digital literacy alphanumeric literacy learning to occur simultaneously. This came with a caveat though, as those who could not afford VIRIS were further disadvantaged in the learning system as a result of these resources being out of reach.

=== Onwards: 2040- ===

With the release of Model Z expected soon, many humanitarian organizations are calling for LENZ with a Z to subsidize the cost of VIRIS to low income users or to make the base model, X free so that income, and racialized disparities existing in society are eliminated. Many have argued that VIRIS played a role in exacerbating equity issues worldwide despite alleviating pressure on the global healthcare system.

== Education (Jee-ae Joanna) ==

Revolutionary contact lenses, VIRIS, opened new avenues of change and modification within the education system. VIRIS became an overarching invention, of which its impacts filtrated school curriculums, school funding systems and the pedagogical approaches used in classrooms.

==== Distribution and accessibility ====
Since its launch in 2020, VIRIS proposed multiple concerns of equal access and distribution of the technology amongst students and teachers. Private school institutions remain to exclusively accept students who can afford VIRIS, due to the associated risks of opening doors to those who do not have the contact lenses. This policy further increased economic disparities, between families in public schooling and those in the private schooling system. Consequently, such unequal distribution and accessibility led to an expected increase of positive COVID-19 cases in public schools.

[[File:Education viris.jpg|500px|thumb|right|Grade 10 science class' study of VIRIS]]

In the same way school boards provide students with technological resources like iPads and Chromebooks, a similar initiative was put in place by The Ministry of Education in 2028 to fund Ontario public school boards, in order to provide students with the virus-detecting technology. This initiative raised issues of inequitable funding, due to unequal distribution of investment money between school districts and regions. More populous areas, saw greater amounts of funding, compared to cases in smaller, less populous regions and districts. As of 2040, schools situated on Indigenous reserves remain inadequately unfunded by the government to provide students and teachers with VIRIS lenses.

==== New Pedagogical Approaches ====
Since the outbreak of COVID-19 in late 2019, there has been a global manifestation of fear towards viruses and bacteria. For this reason, teachers of Grade 3 students or younger, are instructed to employ different pedagogical approaches when teaching the concept of bacteria and viruses. The concept of VIRIS is explained through multimodal teaching pedagogies. Kids are taught that the colour red and the icon “!”, symbolizes “bad” and “harmful”, as a result, one should not go near or touch the area, object or person. On the other hand, the colour green is taught to be a “safe colour”. A feature of VIRIS Model Y signals beeping sounds when someone is entering a red zone. As a result, children are taught in school that certain sounds are associated with danger. Such teaching pedagogies are constructed in relation to multimodal and multimedia pedagogies that integrate diverse semiotics to enhance learning. As society is now vastly digital, similar representations of icons, colours and signs on phones and computers, are used to teach the concept of unsafe infected zones and zones that are safe.

VIRIS has become a teaching tool for second-language acquisition, otherwise known as, L2 learning. The caption feature of Model Y enables students to listen to teachers and peers speak in English, while simultaneously viewing captions in their native language. This feature on VIRIS has been compared to duo-lingual texts, used as pedagogical methods to teach ESL learners by using multiple semiotics from one’s native language and the English language. The duo-lingual feature on VIRIS Model Y has not only made positive impacts on an educational level, but also in the social lives of ESL learners, who now have an easier time communicating and interacting with other peers who only speak English. Moreover, VIRIS Model Y has been used in French classes, to enhance the linguistic proficiency of students, particularly the oral and listening competence of FSL learners.

==== Curriculum Reforms ====
VIRIS has become an overarching invention that has revolutionized social, cultural, economic and political contexts of the world. As a result, in 2026 The Ministry of Education released updated Kindergarten - Grade 12 curriculums, with modified and adapted curriculum goals and expectations.
Social Sciences and Humanities (a course offered at the secondary level), saw significant adaptations in its curriculum, particular in the following subsections: Equity Studies, Health Studies, Sociology and Psychology. In the same way schools address issues of race and intersectionality, teachers teach students about societal, racial and economic discrimination and marginalization created from the invention of VIRIS.

VIRIS has also been integrated in the Science curriculums for students in Grade 7-12, each with a highlighted unit focusing on the symptoms, side effects and functions of VIRIS lenses. Science teachers use VIRIS as case studies and science experiments to teach students the biological interaction between the human eye and brain, in relation to the virus-detecting lenses. Moreover, VIRIS is integrated in history curriculums, as The Ministry of Education found it vital for students to have a profound understanding of the historical events and contexts that have led us to today’s world of VIRIS lenses.

== Group Members ==

Samantha Dungca, Nabila Elahi, Jee-ae Joanna Lee, Brendan Spencer

World 8

2020-12-01T04:11:53Z

JoannA:

== VIRIS ==

[[File:smallscreent.jpg|250px|thumb|right|VIRIS Model X]]

[[File:crazy-lens-cyborg-a.jpg|250px|thumb|right|VIRIS Model Y]]

[[File:person.jpg|500px|thumb|right|VIRIS Vision: the lenses give information on person you are looking at for more than 3 seconds]]

VIRIS is a revolutionary contact lens system which allows one to detect any particles which may threaten human health as well as identify citizens who have compromised immune systems. Since 2020 this device has been known to improve public health and look out for the wellbeing of citizens.

There are currently two different models of the device. The first being the standard version, Model X. The Model X is able to detect virus particles - even if they are airborne. They can detect if someone is sick with a viral infection regardless of whether they are showing symptoms or not. Limitations to this model are its lack of ability to fully identify any bacterial infections such as Strep Throat. Moreover, Model X is not able to calculate contagion levels.

The second, and most recent model of VIRIS is Model Y. Model Y offers advanced features. Model Y will give one the ability to view someone’s brief family history, including the country their parents were born in, and any genetic diseases associated with the family. These advanced lenses collect the personal information of the user including legal name, sex, current health-status as well as the age of the individual. Moreover, Model Y offers a bonus feature that allows one to understand different languages. The most recent update allows one to read captions in their preferred language when someone is speaking a different language.

Minimum network requirement to operate this device is a 4G network and also has Wi-Fi capabilities to use. The Model X is now the most affordable device available at a price point of $650-$700 CAD. Model Y, however, is the most widely used and the most expensive at a price point of $1500-$2000 CAD.

=== Initial Release ===

At the beginning of the VIRIS life cycle there were some people who were initially skeptical. LENZ with a Z was quite thorough in their research and development for this product- testing on voluntary people from almost every ethnicity, health status, and gender and weight. Many concerns were regarding whether this product would damage one's natural eye sight. Dr. Ojo - an expert optometrist- made it clear that LENZ with a Z's technology does not further damage natural human eye sight nor does it cause damage to already healthy eyes.

Early Innovators of this technology encouraged the public to accept the benefits of this product and with consistent rising cases of COVID-19 in 2020 it was clear that the human race needed a tool to further understand just how easily transferable the virus was. Once specialists of WHO were involved with LENZ with a Z VIRIS was almost instantly accepted by the public.

=== Is VIRIS for you? ===

The development of VIRIS has brought innovation for safety and improving public health. Many public sectors such as public parks, shopping malls, and public schools understand that not everyone will be able to afford this technology and so the use of VIRIS is completely up to the individual to use or not. In a number of private sectors; however, VIRIS has become a requirement to wear and has become part of uniform in many office buildings and private schools.

==== Children and VIRIS ====

In all models of VIRIS a Children's mode was developed for young kids ages 6-10. This setting was created to first introduce kids into learning about public health and safety. It offers a simplistic representation of the cleanliness of a space before they enter it. Moreover, if children attempt to approach a red zone there is a warning "beeping" sound that the child can hear. It does not provide information to children about the personal information of an individual.

[[File:safe.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Example of what children see through VIRIS lens in a safe environment]]

[[File:danger.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Example of what children see through VIRIS lens in a high-risk environment]]

==== Safety Concerns ====

To get the full experience of VIRIS and ensure that VIRIS lenses last for a full 3 years it is essential to follow the cleaning procedures included in the VIRIS package. A sample cleaning kit is included with a first-time purchase of VIRIS and various subscriptions are available to receive the full cleaning set.

Notifications are sent to smartphones to remind customers that they must clean their lenses after every use at the end of the day. Failure to do so will lead to difficulty in putting the lenses on in the next use. This safety feature is to ensure that the natural eye remains clean and healthy.

For regular contact lens users or those who wear corrective glasses a prescription VIRIS is available - the cleaning procedures are similar with a few added steps outlined in the VIRIS cleaning kit.

== History ==
VIRIS was created in 2020 by LENZ with a Z, a startup created by Bill Gates, Canadian university researchers and Bayer, an international pharmaceutical company. VIRIS was conceptualized as a response to the COVID-19 Pandemic that began in 2019 which lasted until 2022 and resurfaced again in 2025 as VIRIS was still in its infancy and bug fixes were being rolled out to users. The product was secretly developed by LENZ with a Z as Gates, researchers and the medical industry became less confident that enough vaccines could be produced to successfully combat COVID-19 and future pandemics given the widespread damage to economic, social, political and healthcare systems in the wake of COVID-19.

[[File:bayer bill gates.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Gates, Bayer executives and healthcare/agriculture officials at the "Zero By 40 Meeting" 2019]]

=== Project Implementation: 2020-2026 ===

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation already had prior experience with Bayer as Bill Gates had attended a conference to eradicate Malaria by 2040 which he attended in 2019. Due to these prior connections The project to design VIRIS was quickly implemented in the winter of 2020 leading into 2021 as immense funding from The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Bayer pushed the project ahead quite quickly. Consequently, Model X, the company’s initial offering was in the hands of consumers in 2021. This had an immediate impact as users were able to stay away from people and areas that contained any harmful pathogens and this initially accelerated the disappearance of COVID-19 despite reports of a lack of worldwide adherence to social distancing measures.
Rates of Illness steadily declined after Model X was released although a mutated strain of COVID-19 resurfaced in 2025. It was revealed that the resurgence of viral activity was due to a major software bug which incorrectly identified unsafe areas as pathogen-free and vice versa.
Through the discovery of the software bug In Model X update 1.06 it was revealed that VIRIS had many serious social implications as stigma surrounded those with viral activity – and they were often wrongly identified. Some critics argue that the bug issues and stigmatization should be blamed on the growing divide between Gates and Bayer, as the two tried to take LENZ with a Z in different directions. Gates wanted to make (product) more accessible worldwide while Bayer wanted to continue raising the price and marketing Model X to grow the business.

=== Good, Bad and Model Y: 2026-2040 ===

After working out many of the software issues, VIRIS became crucial to eliminating the spread of disease and increasing overall health of the global population. Cures for cancer and HIV became more promising as researchers and the healthcare industry could focus more directly on new areas as preventing pandemics became a secondary concern.
As Governments and NGOs alike had to focus less on illnesses, they turned to fighting against equality issues and realized that VIRIS had negative societal affects as well. Health outcomes of low-income families remained low as they struggled to afford Model X and this disproportionately affected oppressed members of society based on race, gender and sexuality.
Some school boards used VIRIS as a teaching tool to introduce children to public health education and supplied Model X to all students, while many private institutions closed their doors to students who did not have VIRIS due to associated risk, further deepening the wealth gap associated with private schooling.

==== Model Y: 2034 ====

Model Y was seen as a vast improvement over Model X and further protected users, but was also direct proof to critics that VIRIS disparately protected only the wealthy with its retail price of $1500. With its new features, many also began to worry about government agencies and LENZ with a Z collecting data and conducting surveillance on VIRIS users. Model Y also opened the door for new learning opportunities and modalities as the captioning upgrade made second-language learning more accessible and allowed for digital literacy alphanumeric literacy learning to occur simultaneously. This came with a caveat though, as those who could not afford VIRIS were further disadvantaged in the learning system as a result of these resources being out of reach.

=== Onwards: 2040- ===

With the release of Model Z expected soon, many humanitarian organizations are calling for LENZ with a Z to subsidize the cost of VIRIS to low income users or to make the base model, X free so that income, and racialized disparities existing in society are eliminated. Many have argued that VIRIS played a role in exacerbating equity issues worldwide despite alleviating pressure on the global healthcare system.

== Education (Jee-ae Joanna) ==

Revolutionary contact lenses, VIRIS, opened new avenues of change and modification within the education system. VIRIS became an overarching invention, of which its impacts filtrated school curriculums, school funding systems and the pedagogical approaches used in classrooms.

==== Distribution and accessibility ====
Since its launch in 2020, VIRIS proposed multiple concerns of equal access and distribution of the technology amongst students and teachers. Private school institutions remain to exclusively accept students who can afford VIRIS, due to the associated risks of opening doors to those who do not have the contact lenses. This policy further increased economic disparities, between families in public schooling and those in the private schooling system. Consequently, such unequal distribution and accessibility led to an expected increase of positive COVID-19 cases in public schools.

[[File:Education viris.jpg|500px|thumb|right|Classroom study of VIRIS]]

In the same way school boards provide students with technological resources like iPads and Chromebooks, a similar initiative was put in place by The Ministry of Education in 2028 to fund Ontario public school boards, in order to provide students with the virus-detecting technology. This initiative raised issues of inequitable funding, due to unequal distribution of investment money between school districts and regions. More populous areas, saw greater amounts of funding, compared to cases in smaller, less populous regions and districts. As of 2040, schools situated on Indigenous reserves remain inadequately unfunded by the government to provide students and teachers with VIRIS lenses.

==== New Pedagogical Approaches ====
Since the outbreak of COVID-19 in late 2019, there has been a global manifestation of fear towards viruses and bacteria. For this reason, teachers of Grade 3 students or younger, are instructed to employ different pedagogical approaches when teaching the concept of bacteria and viruses. The concept of VIRIS is explained through multimodal teaching pedagogies. Kids are taught that the colour red and the icon “!”, symbolizes “bad” and “harmful”, as a result, one should not go near or touch the area, object or person. On the other hand, the colour green is taught to be a “safe colour”. A feature of VIRIS Model Y signals beeping sounds when someone is entering a red zone. As a result, children are taught in school that certain sounds are associated with danger. Such teaching pedagogies are constructed in relation to multimodal and multimedia pedagogies that integrate diverse semiotics to enhance learning. As society is now vastly digital, similar representations of icons, colours and signs on phones and computers, are used to teach the concept of unsafe infected zones and zones that are safe.

VIRIS has become a teaching tool for second-language acquisition, otherwise known as, L2 learning. The caption feature of Model Y enables students to listen to teachers and peers speak in English, while simultaneously viewing captions in their native language. This feature on VIRIS has been compared to duo-lingual texts, used as pedagogical methods to teach ESL learners by using multiple semiotics from one’s native language and the English language. The duo-lingual feature on VIRIS Model Y has not only made positive impacts on an educational level, but also in the social lives of ESL learners, who now have an easier time communicating and interacting with other peers who only speak English. Moreover, VIRIS Model Y has been used in French classes, to enhance the linguistic proficiency of students, particularly the oral and listening competence of FSL learners.

==== Curriculum Reforms ====
VIRIS has become an overarching invention that has revolutionized social, cultural, economic and political contexts of the world. As a result, in 2026 The Ministry of Education released updated Kindergarten - Grade 12 curriculums, with modified and adapted curriculum goals and expectations.
Social Sciences and Humanities (a course offered at the secondary level), saw significant adaptations in its curriculum, particular in the following subsections: Equity Studies, Health Studies, Sociology and Psychology. In the same way schools address issues of race and intersectionality, teachers teach students about societal, racial and economic discrimination and marginalization created from the invention of VIRIS.

VIRIS has also been integrated in the Science curriculums for students in Grade 7-12, each with a highlighted unit focusing on the symptoms, side effects and functions of VIRIS lenses. Science teachers use VIRIS as case studies and science experiments to teach students the biological interaction between the human eye and brain, in relation to the virus-detecting lenses. Moreover, VIRIS is integrated in history curriculums, as The Ministry of Education found it vital for students to have a profound understanding of the historical events and contexts that have led us to today’s world of VIRIS lenses.

== Group Members ==

Samantha Dungca, Nabila Elahi, Jee-ae Joanna Lee, Brendan Spencer

World 8

2020-12-01T04:11:09Z

JoannA:

== VIRIS ==

[[File:smallscreent.jpg|250px|thumb|right|VIRIS Model X]]

[[File:crazy-lens-cyborg-a.jpg|250px|thumb|right|VIRIS Model Y]]

[[File:person.jpg|500px|thumb|right|VIRIS Vision: the lenses give information on person you are looking at for more than 3 seconds]]

VIRIS is a revolutionary contact lens system which allows one to detect any particles which may threaten human health as well as identify citizens who have compromised immune systems. Since 2020 this device has been known to improve public health and look out for the wellbeing of citizens.

There are currently two different models of the device. The first being the standard version, Model X. The Model X is able to detect virus particles - even if they are airborne. They can detect if someone is sick with a viral infection regardless of whether they are showing symptoms or not. Limitations to this model are its lack of ability to fully identify any bacterial infections such as Strep Throat. Moreover, Model X is not able to calculate contagion levels.

The second, and most recent model of VIRIS is Model Y. Model Y offers advanced features. Model Y will give one the ability to view someone’s brief family history, including the country their parents were born in, and any genetic diseases associated with the family. These advanced lenses collect the personal information of the user including legal name, sex, current health-status as well as the age of the individual. Moreover, Model Y offers a bonus feature that allows one to understand different languages. The most recent update allows one to read captions in their preferred language when someone is speaking a different language.

Minimum network requirement to operate this device is a 4G network and also has Wi-Fi capabilities to use. The Model X is now the most affordable device available at a price point of $650-$700 CAD. Model Y, however, is the most widely used and the most expensive at a price point of $1500-$2000 CAD.

=== Initial Release ===

At the beginning of the VIRIS life cycle there were some people who were initially skeptical. LENZ with a Z was quite thorough in their research and development for this product- testing on voluntary people from almost every ethnicity, health status, and gender and weight. Many concerns were regarding whether this product would damage one's natural eye sight. Dr. Ojo - an expert optometrist- made it clear that LENZ with a Z's technology does not further damage natural human eye sight nor does it cause damage to already healthy eyes.

Early Innovators of this technology encouraged the public to accept the benefits of this product and with consistent rising cases of COVID-19 in 2020 it was clear that the human race needed a tool to further understand just how easily transferable the virus was. Once specialists of WHO were involved with LENZ with a Z VIRIS was almost instantly accepted by the public.

=== Is VIRIS for you? ===

The development of VIRIS has brought innovation for safety and improving public health. Many public sectors such as public parks, shopping malls, and public schools understand that not everyone will be able to afford this technology and so the use of VIRIS is completely up to the individual to use or not. In a number of private sectors; however, VIRIS has become a requirement to wear and has become part of uniform in many office buildings and private schools.

==== Children and VIRIS ====

In all models of VIRIS a Children's mode was developed for young kids ages 6-10. This setting was created to first introduce kids into learning about public health and safety. It offers a simplistic representation of the cleanliness of a space before they enter it. Moreover, if children attempt to approach a red zone there is a warning "beeping" sound that the child can hear. It does not provide information to children about the personal information of an individual.

[[File:safe.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Example of what children see through VIRIS lens in a safe environment]]

[[File:danger.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Example of what children see through VIRIS lens in a high-risk environment]]

==== Safety Concerns ====

To get the full experience of VIRIS and ensure that VIRIS lenses last for a full 3 years it is essential to follow the cleaning procedures included in the VIRIS package. A sample cleaning kit is included with a first-time purchase of VIRIS and various subscriptions are available to receive the full cleaning set.

Notifications are sent to smartphones to remind customers that they must clean their lenses after every use at the end of the day. Failure to do so will lead to difficulty in putting the lenses on in the next use. This safety feature is to ensure that the natural eye remains clean and healthy.

For regular contact lens users or those who wear corrective glasses a prescription VIRIS is available - the cleaning procedures are similar with a few added steps outlined in the VIRIS cleaning kit.

== History ==
VIRIS was created in 2020 by LENZ with a Z, a startup created by Bill Gates, Canadian university researchers and Bayer, an international pharmaceutical company. VIRIS was conceptualized as a response to the COVID-19 Pandemic that began in 2019 which lasted until 2022 and resurfaced again in 2025 as VIRIS was still in its infancy and bug fixes were being rolled out to users. The product was secretly developed by LENZ with a Z as Gates, researchers and the medical industry became less confident that enough vaccines could be produced to successfully combat COVID-19 and future pandemics given the widespread damage to economic, social, political and healthcare systems in the wake of COVID-19.

[[File:bayer bill gates.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Gates, Bayer executives and healthcare/agriculture officials at the "Zero By 40 Meeting" 2019]]

=== Project Implementation: 2020-2026 ===

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation already had prior experience with Bayer as Bill Gates had attended a conference to eradicate Malaria by 2040 which he attended in 2019. Due to these prior connections The project to design VIRIS was quickly implemented in the winter of 2020 leading into 2021 as immense funding from The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Bayer pushed the project ahead quite quickly. Consequently, Model X, the company’s initial offering was in the hands of consumers in 2021. This had an immediate impact as users were able to stay away from people and areas that contained any harmful pathogens and this initially accelerated the disappearance of COVID-19 despite reports of a lack of worldwide adherence to social distancing measures.
Rates of Illness steadily declined after Model X was released although a mutated strain of COVID-19 resurfaced in 2025. It was revealed that the resurgence of viral activity was due to a major software bug which incorrectly identified unsafe areas as pathogen-free and vice versa.
Through the discovery of the software bug In Model X update 1.06 it was revealed that VIRIS had many serious social implications as stigma surrounded those with viral activity – and they were often wrongly identified. Some critics argue that the bug issues and stigmatization should be blamed on the growing divide between Gates and Bayer, as the two tried to take LENZ with a Z in different directions. Gates wanted to make (product) more accessible worldwide while Bayer wanted to continue raising the price and marketing Model X to grow the business.

=== Good, Bad and Model Y: 2026-2040 ===

After working out many of the software issues, VIRIS became crucial to eliminating the spread of disease and increasing overall health of the global population. Cures for cancer and HIV became more promising as researchers and the healthcare industry could focus more directly on new areas as preventing pandemics became a secondary concern.
As Governments and NGOs alike had to focus less on illnesses, they turned to fighting against equality issues and realized that VIRIS had negative societal affects as well. Health outcomes of low-income families remained low as they struggled to afford Model X and this disproportionately affected oppressed members of society based on race, gender and sexuality.
Some school boards used VIRIS as a teaching tool to introduce children to public health education and supplied Model X to all students, while many private institutions closed their doors to students who did not have VIRIS due to associated risk, further deepening the wealth gap associated with private schooling.

==== Model Y: 2034 ====

Model Y was seen as a vast improvement over Model X and further protected users, but was also direct proof to critics that VIRIS disparately protected only the wealthy with its retail price of $1500. With its new features, many also began to worry about government agencies and LENZ with a Z collecting data and conducting surveillance on VIRIS users. Model Y also opened the door for new learning opportunities and modalities as the captioning upgrade made second-language learning more accessible and allowed for digital literacy alphanumeric literacy learning to occur simultaneously. This came with a caveat though, as those who could not afford VIRIS were further disadvantaged in the learning system as a result of these resources being out of reach.

=== Onwards: 2040- ===

With the release of Model Z expected soon, many humanitarian organizations are calling for LENZ with a Z to subsidize the cost of VIRIS to low income users or to make the base model, X free so that income, and racialized disparities existing in society are eliminated. Many have argued that VIRIS played a role in exacerbating equity issues worldwide despite alleviating pressure on the global healthcare system.

== Education (Jee-ae Joanna) ==

Revolutionary contact lenses, VIRIS, opened new avenues of change and modification within the education system. VIRIS became an overarching invention, of which its impacts filtrated school curriculums, school funding systems and the pedagogical approaches used in classrooms.

==== Distribution and accessibility ====
Since its launch in 2020, VIRIS proposed multiple concerns of equal access and distribution of the technology amongst students and teachers. Private school institutions remain to exclusively accept students who can afford VIRIS, due to the associated risks of opening doors to those who do not have the contact lenses. This policy further increased economic disparities, between families in public schooling and those in the private schooling system. Consequently, such unequal distribution and accessibility led to an expected increase of positive COVID-19 cases in public schools.

[[File:Education viris.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Classroom study of VIRIS]]

In the same way school boards provide students with technological resources like iPads and Chromebooks, a similar initiative was put in place by The Ministry of Education in 2028 to fund Ontario public school boards, in order to provide students with the virus-detecting technology. This initiative raised issues of inequitable funding, due to unequal distribution of investment money between school districts and regions. More populous areas, saw greater amounts of funding, compared to cases in smaller, less populous regions and districts. As of 2040, schools situated on Indigenous reserves remain inadequately unfunded by the government to provide students and teachers with VIRIS lenses.

==== New Pedagogical Approaches ====
Since the outbreak of COVID-19 in late 2019, there has been a global manifestation of fear towards viruses and bacteria. For this reason, teachers of Grade 3 students or younger, are instructed to employ different pedagogical approaches when teaching the concept of bacteria and viruses. The concept of VIRIS is explained through multimodal teaching pedagogies. Kids are taught that the colour red and the icon “!”, symbolizes “bad” and “harmful”, as a result, one should not go near or touch the area, object or person. On the other hand, the colour green is taught to be a “safe colour”. A feature of VIRIS Model Y signals beeping sounds when someone is entering a red zone. As a result, children are taught in school that certain sounds are associated with danger. Such teaching pedagogies are constructed in relation to multimodal and multimedia pedagogies that integrate diverse semiotics to enhance learning. As society is now vastly digital, similar representations of icons, colours and signs on phones and computers, are used to teach the concept of unsafe infected zones and zones that are safe.

VIRIS has become a teaching tool for second-language acquisition, otherwise known as, L2 learning. The caption feature of Model Y enables students to listen to teachers and peers speak in English, while simultaneously viewing captions in their native language. This feature on VIRIS has been compared to duo-lingual texts, used as pedagogical methods to teach ESL learners by using multiple semiotics from one’s native language and the English language. The duo-lingual feature on VIRIS Model Y has not only made positive impacts on an educational level, but also in the social lives of ESL learners, who now have an easier time communicating and interacting with other peers who only speak English. Moreover, VIRIS Model Y has been used in French classes, to enhance the linguistic proficiency of students, particularly the oral and listening competence of FSL learners.

==== Curriculum Reforms ====
VIRIS has become an overarching invention that has revolutionized social, cultural, economic and political contexts of the world. As a result, in 2026 The Ministry of Education released updated Kindergarten - Grade 12 curriculums, with modified and adapted curriculum goals and expectations.
Social Sciences and Humanities (a course offered at the secondary level), saw significant adaptations in its curriculum, particular in the following subsections: Equity Studies, Health Studies, Sociology and Psychology. In the same way schools address issues of race and intersectionality, teachers teach students about societal, racial and economic discrimination and marginalization created from the invention of VIRIS.

VIRIS has also been integrated in the Science curriculums for students in Grade 7-12, each with a highlighted unit focusing on the symptoms, side effects and functions of VIRIS lenses. Science teachers use VIRIS as case studies and science experiments to teach students the biological interaction between the human eye and brain, in relation to the virus-detecting lenses. Moreover, VIRIS is integrated in history curriculums, as The Ministry of Education found it vital for students to have a profound understanding of the historical events and contexts that have led us to today’s world of VIRIS lenses.

== Group Members ==

Samantha Dungca, Nabila Elahi, Jee-ae Joanna Lee, Brendan Spencer

World 8

2020-12-01T04:09:53Z

JoannA:

== VIRIS ==

[[File:smallscreent.jpg|250px|thumb|right|VIRIS Model X]]

[[File:crazy-lens-cyborg-a.jpg|250px|thumb|right|VIRIS Model Y]]

[[File:person.jpg|500px|thumb|right|VIRIS Vision: the lenses give information on person you are looking at for more than 3 seconds]]

VIRIS is a revolutionary contact lens system which allows one to detect any particles which may threaten human health as well as identify citizens who have compromised immune systems. Since 2020 this device has been known to improve public health and look out for the wellbeing of citizens.

There are currently two different models of the device. The first being the standard version, Model X. The Model X is able to detect virus particles - even if they are airborne. They can detect if someone is sick with a viral infection regardless of whether they are showing symptoms or not. Limitations to this model are its lack of ability to fully identify any bacterial infections such as Strep Throat. Moreover, Model X is not able to calculate contagion levels.

The second, and most recent model of VIRIS is Model Y. Model Y offers advanced features. Model Y will give one the ability to view someone’s brief family history, including the country their parents were born in, and any genetic diseases associated with the family. These advanced lenses collect the personal information of the user including legal name, sex, current health-status as well as the age of the individual. Moreover, Model Y offers a bonus feature that allows one to understand different languages. The most recent update allows one to read captions in their preferred language when someone is speaking a different language.

Minimum network requirement to operate this device is a 4G network and also has Wi-Fi capabilities to use. The Model X is now the most affordable device available at a price point of $650-$700 CAD. Model Y, however, is the most widely used and the most expensive at a price point of $1500-$2000 CAD.

=== Initial Release ===

At the beginning of the VIRIS life cycle there were some people who were initially skeptical. LENZ with a Z was quite thorough in their research and development for this product- testing on voluntary people from almost every ethnicity, health status, and gender and weight. Many concerns were regarding whether this product would damage one's natural eye sight. Dr. Ojo - an expert optometrist- made it clear that LENZ with a Z's technology does not further damage natural human eye sight nor does it cause damage to already healthy eyes.

Early Innovators of this technology encouraged the public to accept the benefits of this product and with consistent rising cases of COVID-19 in 2020 it was clear that the human race needed a tool to further understand just how easily transferable the virus was. Once specialists of WHO were involved with LENZ with a Z VIRIS was almost instantly accepted by the public.

=== Is VIRIS for you? ===

The development of VIRIS has brought innovation for safety and improving public health. Many public sectors such as public parks, shopping malls, and public schools understand that not everyone will be able to afford this technology and so the use of VIRIS is completely up to the individual to use or not. In a number of private sectors; however, VIRIS has become a requirement to wear and has become part of uniform in many office buildings and private schools.

==== Children and VIRIS ====

In all models of VIRIS a Children's mode was developed for young kids ages 6-10. This setting was created to first introduce kids into learning about public health and safety. It offers a simplistic representation of the cleanliness of a space before they enter it. Moreover, if children attempt to approach a red zone there is a warning "beeping" sound that the child can hear. It does not provide information to children about the personal information of an individual.

[[File:safe.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Example of what children see through VIRIS lens in a safe environment]]

[[File:danger.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Example of what children see through VIRIS lens in a high-risk environment]]

==== Safety Concerns ====

To get the full experience of VIRIS and ensure that VIRIS lenses last for a full 3 years it is essential to follow the cleaning procedures included in the VIRIS package. A sample cleaning kit is included with a first-time purchase of VIRIS and various subscriptions are available to receive the full cleaning set.

Notifications are sent to smartphones to remind customers that they must clean their lenses after every use at the end of the day. Failure to do so will lead to difficulty in putting the lenses on in the next use. This safety feature is to ensure that the natural eye remains clean and healthy.

For regular contact lens users or those who wear corrective glasses a prescription VIRIS is available - the cleaning procedures are similar with a few added steps outlined in the VIRIS cleaning kit.

== History ==
VIRIS was created in 2020 by LENZ with a Z, a startup created by Bill Gates, Canadian university researchers and Bayer, an international pharmaceutical company. VIRIS was conceptualized as a response to the COVID-19 Pandemic that began in 2019 which lasted until 2022 and resurfaced again in 2025 as VIRIS was still in its infancy and bug fixes were being rolled out to users. The product was secretly developed by LENZ with a Z as Gates, researchers and the medical industry became less confident that enough vaccines could be produced to successfully combat COVID-19 and future pandemics given the widespread damage to economic, social, political and healthcare systems in the wake of COVID-19.

[[File:bayer bill gates.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Gates, Bayer executives and healthcare/agriculture officials at the "Zero By 40 Meeting" 2019]]

=== Project Implementation: 2020-2026 ===

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation already had prior experience with Bayer as Bill Gates had attended a conference to eradicate Malaria by 2040 which he attended in 2019. Due to these prior connections The project to design VIRIS was quickly implemented in the winter of 2020 leading into 2021 as immense funding from The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Bayer pushed the project ahead quite quickly. Consequently, Model X, the company’s initial offering was in the hands of consumers in 2021. This had an immediate impact as users were able to stay away from people and areas that contained any harmful pathogens and this initially accelerated the disappearance of COVID-19 despite reports of a lack of worldwide adherence to social distancing measures.
Rates of Illness steadily declined after Model X was released although a mutated strain of COVID-19 resurfaced in 2025. It was revealed that the resurgence of viral activity was due to a major software bug which incorrectly identified unsafe areas as pathogen-free and vice versa.
Through the discovery of the software bug In Model X update 1.06 it was revealed that VIRIS had many serious social implications as stigma surrounded those with viral activity – and they were often wrongly identified. Some critics argue that the bug issues and stigmatization should be blamed on the growing divide between Gates and Bayer, as the two tried to take LENZ with a Z in different directions. Gates wanted to make (product) more accessible worldwide while Bayer wanted to continue raising the price and marketing Model X to grow the business.

=== Good, Bad and Model Y: 2026-2040 ===

After working out many of the software issues, VIRIS became crucial to eliminating the spread of disease and increasing overall health of the global population. Cures for cancer and HIV became more promising as researchers and the healthcare industry could focus more directly on new areas as preventing pandemics became a secondary concern.
As Governments and NGOs alike had to focus less on illnesses, they turned to fighting against equality issues and realized that VIRIS had negative societal affects as well. Health outcomes of low-income families remained low as they struggled to afford Model X and this disproportionately affected oppressed members of society based on race, gender and sexuality.
Some school boards used VIRIS as a teaching tool to introduce children to public health education and supplied Model X to all students, while many private institutions closed their doors to students who did not have VIRIS due to associated risk, further deepening the wealth gap associated with private schooling.

==== Model Y: 2034 ====

Model Y was seen as a vast improvement over Model X and further protected users, but was also direct proof to critics that VIRIS disparately protected only the wealthy with its retail price of $1500. With its new features, many also began to worry about government agencies and LENZ with a Z collecting data and conducting surveillance on VIRIS users. Model Y also opened the door for new learning opportunities and modalities as the captioning upgrade made second-language learning more accessible and allowed for digital literacy alphanumeric literacy learning to occur simultaneously. This came with a caveat though, as those who could not afford VIRIS were further disadvantaged in the learning system as a result of these resources being out of reach.

=== Onwards: 2040- ===

With the release of Model Z expected soon, many humanitarian organizations are calling for LENZ with a Z to subsidize the cost of VIRIS to low income users or to make the base model, X free so that income, and racialized disparities existing in society are eliminated. Many have argued that VIRIS played a role in exacerbating equity issues worldwide despite alleviating pressure on the global healthcare system.

== Education (Jee-ae Joanna) ==

Revolutionary contact lenses, VIRIS, opened new avenues of change and modification within the education system. VIRIS became an overarching invention, of which its impacts filtrated school curriculums, school funding systems and the pedagogical approaches used in classrooms.

==== Distribution and accessibility ====
Since its launch in 2020, VIRIS proposed multiple concerns of equal access and distribution of the technology amongst students and teachers. Private school institutions remain to exclusively accept students who can afford VIRIS, due to the associated risks of opening doors to those who do not have the contact lenses. This policy further increased economic disparities, between families in public schooling and those in the private schooling system. Consequently, such unequal distribution and accessibility led to an expected increase of positive COVID-19 cases in public schools.

[[File:Educationviris.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Classroom study of VIRIS]]

In the same way school boards provide students with technological resources like iPads and Chromebooks, a similar initiative was put in place by The Ministry of Education in 2028 to fund Ontario public school boards, in order to provide students with the virus-detecting technology. This initiative raised issues of inequitable funding, due to unequal distribution of investment money between school districts and regions. More populous areas, saw greater amounts of funding, compared to cases in smaller, less populous regions and districts. As of 2040, schools situated on Indigenous reserves remain inadequately unfunded by the government to provide students and teachers with VIRIS lenses.

==== New Pedagogical Approaches ====
Since the outbreak of COVID-19 in late 2019, there has been a global manifestation of fear towards viruses and bacteria. For this reason, teachers of Grade 3 students or younger, are instructed to employ different pedagogical approaches when teaching the concept of bacteria and viruses. The concept of VIRIS is explained through multimodal teaching pedagogies. Kids are taught that the colour red and the icon “!”, symbolizes “bad” and “harmful”, as a result, one should not go near or touch the area, object or person. On the other hand, the colour green is taught to be a “safe colour”. A feature of VIRIS Model Y signals beeping sounds when someone is entering a red zone. As a result, children are taught in school that certain sounds are associated with danger. Such teaching pedagogies are constructed in relation to multimodal and multimedia pedagogies that integrate diverse semiotics to enhance learning. As society is now vastly digital, similar representations of icons, colours and signs on phones and computers, are used to teach the concept of unsafe infected zones and zones that are safe.

VIRIS has become a teaching tool for second-language acquisition, otherwise known as, L2 learning. The caption feature of Model Y enables students to listen to teachers and peers speak in English, while simultaneously viewing captions in their native language. This feature on VIRIS has been compared to duo-lingual texts, used as pedagogical methods to teach ESL learners by using multiple semiotics from one’s native language and the English language. The duo-lingual feature on VIRIS Model Y has not only made positive impacts on an educational level, but also in the social lives of ESL learners, who now have an easier time communicating and interacting with other peers who only speak English. Moreover, VIRIS Model Y has been used in French classes, to enhance the linguistic proficiency of students, particularly the oral and listening competence of FSL learners.

==== Curriculum Reforms ====
VIRIS has become an overarching invention that has revolutionized social, cultural, economic and political contexts of the world. As a result, in 2026 The Ministry of Education released updated Kindergarten - Grade 12 curriculums, with modified and adapted curriculum goals and expectations.
Social Sciences and Humanities (a course offered at the secondary level), saw significant adaptations in its curriculum, particular in the following subsections: Equity Studies, Health Studies, Sociology and Psychology. In the same way schools address issues of race and intersectionality, teachers teach students about societal, racial and economic discrimination and marginalization created from the invention of VIRIS.

VIRIS has also been integrated in the Science curriculums for students in Grade 7-12, each with a highlighted unit focusing on the symptoms, side effects and functions of VIRIS lenses. Science teachers use VIRIS as case studies and science experiments to teach students the biological interaction between the human eye and brain, in relation to the virus-detecting lenses. Moreover, VIRIS is integrated in history curriculums, as The Ministry of Education found it vital for students to have a profound understanding of the historical events and contexts that have led us to today’s world of VIRIS lenses.

== Group Members ==

Samantha Dungca, Nabila Elahi, Jee-ae Joanna Lee, Brendan Spencer

World 8

2020-12-01T04:01:16Z

JoannA: /* Education (Jee-ae Joanna) */

== VIRIS ==

[[File:smallscreent.jpg|250px|thumb|right|VIRIS Model X]]

[[File:crazy-lens-cyborg-a.jpg|250px|thumb|right|VIRIS Model Y]]

[[File:person.jpg|500px|thumb|right|VIRIS Vision: the lenses give information on person you are looking at for more than 3 seconds]]

VIRIS is a revolutionary contact lens system which allows one to detect any particles which may threaten human health as well as identify citizens who have compromised immune systems. Since 2020 this device has been known to improve public health and look out for the wellbeing of citizens.

There are currently two different models of the device. The first being the standard version, Model X. The Model X is able to detect virus particles - even if they are airborne. They can detect if someone is sick with a viral infection regardless of whether they are showing symptoms or not. Limitations to this model are its lack of ability to fully identify any bacterial infections such as Strep Throat. Moreover, Model X is not able to calculate contagion levels.

The second, and most recent model of VIRIS is Model Y. Model Y offers advanced features. Model Y will give one the ability to view someone’s brief family history, including the country their parents were born in, and any genetic diseases associated with the family. These advanced lenses collect the personal information of the user including legal name, sex, current health-status as well as the age of the individual. Moreover, Model Y offers a bonus feature that allows one to understand different languages. The most recent update allows one to read captions in their preferred language when someone is speaking a different language.

Minimum network requirement to operate this device is a 4G network and also has Wi-Fi capabilities to use. The Model X is now the most affordable device available at a price point of $650-$700 CAD. Model Y, however, is the most widely used and the most expensive at a price point of $1500-$2000 CAD.

=== Initial Release ===

At the beginning of the VIRIS life cycle there were some people who were initially skeptical. LENZ with a Z was quite thorough in their research and development for this product- testing on voluntary people from almost every ethnicity, health status, and gender and weight. Many concerns were regarding whether this product would damage one's natural eye sight. Dr. Ojo - an expert optometrist- made it clear that LENZ with a Z's technology does not further damage natural human eye sight nor does it cause damage to already healthy eyes.

Early Innovators of this technology encouraged the public to accept the benefits of this product and with consistent rising cases of COVID-19 in 2020 it was clear that the human race needed a tool to further understand just how easily transferable the virus was. Once specialists of WHO were involved with LENZ with a Z VIRIS was almost instantly accepted by the public.

=== Is VIRIS for you? ===

The development of VIRIS has brought innovation for safety and improving public health. Many public sectors such as public parks, shopping malls, and public schools understand that not everyone will be able to afford this technology and so the use of VIRIS is completely up to the individual to use or not. In a number of private sectors; however, VIRIS has become a requirement to wear and has become part of uniform in many office buildings and private schools.

==== Children and VIRIS ====

In all models of VIRIS a Children's mode was developed for young kids ages 6-10. This setting was created to first introduce kids into learning about public health and safety. It offers a simplistic representation of the cleanliness of a space before they enter it. Moreover, if children attempt to approach a red zone there is a warning "beeping" sound that the child can hear. It does not provide information to children about the personal information of an individual.

[[File:safe.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Example of what children see through VIRIS lens in a safe environment]]

[[File:danger.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Example of what children see through VIRIS lens in a high-risk environment]]

==== Safety Concerns ====

To get the full experience of VIRIS and ensure that VIRIS lenses last for a full 3 years it is essential to follow the cleaning procedures included in the VIRIS package. A sample cleaning kit is included with a first-time purchase of VIRIS and various subscriptions are available to receive the full cleaning set.

Notifications are sent to smartphones to remind customers that they must clean their lenses after every use at the end of the day. Failure to do so will lead to difficulty in putting the lenses on in the next use. This safety feature is to ensure that the natural eye remains clean and healthy.

For regular contact lens users or those who wear corrective glasses a prescription VIRIS is available - the cleaning procedures are similar with a few added steps outlined in the VIRIS cleaning kit.

== History ==
VIRIS was created in 2020 by LENZ with a Z, a startup created by Bill Gates, Canadian university researchers and Bayer, an international pharmaceutical company. VIRIS was conceptualized as a response to the COVID-19 Pandemic that began in 2019 which lasted until 2022 and resurfaced again in 2025 as VIRIS was still in its infancy and bug fixes were being rolled out to users. The product was secretly developed by LENZ with a Z as Gates, researchers and the medical industry became less confident that enough vaccines could be produced to successfully combat COVID-19 and future pandemics given the widespread damage to economic, social, political and healthcare systems in the wake of COVID-19.

[[File:bayer bill gates.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Gates, Bayer executives and healthcare/agriculture officials at the "Zero By 40 Meeting" 2019]]

=== Project Implementation: 2020-2026 ===

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation already had prior experience with Bayer as Bill Gates had attended a conference to eradicate Malaria by 2040 which he attended in 2019. Due to these prior connections The project to design VIRIS was quickly implemented in the winter of 2020 leading into 2021 as immense funding from The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Bayer pushed the project ahead quite quickly. Consequently, Model X, the company’s initial offering was in the hands of consumers in 2021. This had an immediate impact as users were able to stay away from people and areas that contained any harmful pathogens and this initially accelerated the disappearance of COVID-19 despite reports of a lack of worldwide adherence to social distancing measures.
Rates of Illness steadily declined after Model X was released although a mutated strain of COVID-19 resurfaced in 2025. It was revealed that the resurgence of viral activity was due to a major software bug which incorrectly identified unsafe areas as pathogen-free and vice versa.
Through the discovery of the software bug In Model X update 1.06 it was revealed that VIRIS had many serious social implications as stigma surrounded those with viral activity – and they were often wrongly identified. Some critics argue that the bug issues and stigmatization should be blamed on the growing divide between Gates and Bayer, as the two tried to take LENZ with a Z in different directions. Gates wanted to make (product) more accessible worldwide while Bayer wanted to continue raising the price and marketing Model X to grow the business.

=== Good, Bad and Model Y: 2026-2040 ===

After working out many of the software issues, VIRIS became crucial to eliminating the spread of disease and increasing overall health of the global population. Cures for cancer and HIV became more promising as researchers and the healthcare industry could focus more directly on new areas as preventing pandemics became a secondary concern.
As Governments and NGOs alike had to focus less on illnesses, they turned to fighting against equality issues and realized that VIRIS had negative societal affects as well. Health outcomes of low-income families remained low as they struggled to afford Model X and this disproportionately affected oppressed members of society based on race, gender and sexuality.
Some school boards used VIRIS as a teaching tool to introduce children to public health education and supplied Model X to all students, while many private institutions closed their doors to students who did not have VIRIS due to associated risk, further deepening the wealth gap associated with private schooling.

==== Model Y: 2034 ====

Model Y was seen as a vast improvement over Model X and further protected users, but was also direct proof to critics that VIRIS disparately protected only the wealthy with its retail price of $1500. With its new features, many also began to worry about government agencies and LENZ with a Z collecting data and conducting surveillance on VIRIS users. Model Y also opened the door for new learning opportunities and modalities as the captioning upgrade made second-language learning more accessible and allowed for digital literacy alphanumeric literacy learning to occur simultaneously. This came with a caveat though, as those who could not afford VIRIS were further disadvantaged in the learning system as a result of these resources being out of reach.

=== Onwards: 2040- ===

With the release of Model Z expected soon, many humanitarian organizations are calling for LENZ with a Z to subsidize the cost of VIRIS to low income users or to make the base model, X free so that income, and racialized disparities existing in society are eliminated. Many have argued that VIRIS played a role in exacerbating equity issues worldwide despite alleviating pressure on the global healthcare system.

== Education (Jee-ae Joanna) ==

Revolutionary contact lenses, VIRIS, opened new avenues of change and modification within the education system. VIRIS became an overarching invention, of which its impacts filtrated school curriculums, school funding systems and the pedagogical approaches used in classrooms.

==== Distribution and accessibility ====
Since its launch in 2020, VIRIS proposed multiple concerns of equal access and distribution of the technology amongst students and teachers. Private school institutions remain to exclusively accept students who can afford VIRIS, due to the associated risks of opening doors to those who do not have the contact lenses. This policy further increased economic disparities, between families in public schooling and those in the private schooling system. Consequently, such unequal distribution and accessibility led to an expected increase of positive COVID-19 cases in public schools. [[File:educationvirus.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Classroom study of VIRIS]]

In the same way school boards provide students with technological resources like iPads and Chromebooks, a similar initiative was put in place by The Ministry of Education in 2028 to fund Ontario public school boards, in order to provide students with the virus-detecting technology. This initiative raised issues of inequitable funding, due to unequal distribution of investment money between school districts and regions. More populous areas, saw greater amounts of funding, compared to cases in smaller, less populous regions and districts. As of 2040, schools situated on Indigenous reserves remain inadequately unfunded by the government to provide students and teachers with VIRIS lenses.

==== New Pedagogical Approaches ====
Since the outbreak of COVID-19 in late 2019, there has been a global manifestation of fear towards viruses and bacteria. For this reason, teachers of Grade 3 students or younger, are instructed to employ different pedagogical approaches when teaching the concept of bacteria and viruses. The concept of VIRIS is explained through multimodal teaching pedagogies. Kids are taught that the colour red and the icon “!”, symbolizes “bad” and “harmful”, as a result, one should not go near or touch the area, object or person. On the other hand, the colour green is taught to be a “safe colour”. A feature of VIRIS Model Y signals beeping sounds when someone is entering a red zone. As a result, children are taught in school that certain sounds are associated with danger. Such teaching pedagogies are constructed in relation to multimodal and multimedia pedagogies that integrate diverse semiotics to enhance learning. As society is now vastly digital, similar representations of icons, colours and signs on phones and computers, are used to teach the concept of unsafe infected zones and zones that are safe.

VIRIS has become a teaching tool for second-language acquisition, otherwise known as, L2 learning. The caption feature of Model Y enables students to listen to teachers and peers speak in English, while simultaneously viewing captions in their native language. This feature on VIRIS has been compared to duo-lingual texts, used as pedagogical methods to teach ESL learners by using multiple semiotics from one’s native language and the English language. The duo-lingual feature on VIRIS Model Y has not only made positive impacts on an educational level, but also in the social lives of ESL learners, who now have an easier time communicating and interacting with other peers who only speak English. Moreover, VIRIS Model Y has been used in French classes, to enhance the linguistic proficiency of students, particularly the oral and listening competence of FSL learners.

==== Curriculum Reforms ====
VIRIS has become an overarching invention that has revolutionized social, cultural, economic and political contexts of the world. As a result, in 2026 The Ministry of Education released updated Kindergarten - Grade 12 curriculums, with modified and adapted curriculum goals and expectations.
Social Sciences and Humanities (a course offered at the secondary level), saw significant adaptations in its curriculum, particular in the following subsections: Equity Studies, Health Studies, Sociology and Psychology. In the same way schools address issues of race and intersectionality, teachers teach students about societal, racial and economic discrimination and marginalization created from the invention of VIRIS.

VIRIS has also been integrated in the Science curriculums for students in Grade 7-12, each with a highlighted unit focusing on the symptoms, side effects and functions of VIRIS lenses. Science teachers use VIRIS as case studies and science experiments to teach students the biological interaction between the human eye and brain, in relation to the virus-detecting lenses. Moreover, VIRIS is integrated in history curriculums, as The Ministry of Education found it vital for students to have a profound understanding of the historical events and contexts that have led us to today’s world of VIRIS lenses.

== Group Members ==

Samantha Dungca, Nabila Elahi, Jee-ae Joanna Lee, Brendan Spencer

World 8

2020-12-01T03:58:13Z

JoannA: /* Education (Jee-ae Joanna) */

== VIRIS ==

[[File:smallscreent.jpg|250px|thumb|right|VIRIS Model X]]

[[File:crazy-lens-cyborg-a.jpg|250px|thumb|right|VIRIS Model Y]]

[[File:person.jpg|500px|thumb|right|VIRIS Vision: the lenses give information on person you are looking at for more than 3 seconds]]

VIRIS is a revolutionary contact lens system which allows one to detect any particles which may threaten human health as well as identify citizens who have compromised immune systems. Since 2020 this device has been known to improve public health and look out for the wellbeing of citizens.

There are currently two different models of the device. The first being the standard version, Model X. The Model X is able to detect virus particles - even if they are airborne. They can detect if someone is sick with a viral infection regardless of whether they are showing symptoms or not. Limitations to this model are its lack of ability to fully identify any bacterial infections such as Strep Throat. Moreover, Model X is not able to calculate contagion levels.

The second, and most recent model of VIRIS is Model Y. Model Y offers advanced features. Model Y will give one the ability to view someone’s brief family history, including the country their parents were born in, and any genetic diseases associated with the family. These advanced lenses collect the personal information of the user including legal name, sex, current health-status as well as the age of the individual. Moreover, Model Y offers a bonus feature that allows one to understand different languages. The most recent update allows one to read captions in their preferred language when someone is speaking a different language.

Minimum network requirement to operate this device is a 4G network and also has Wi-Fi capabilities to use. The Model X is now the most affordable device available at a price point of $650-$700 CAD. Model Y, however, is the most widely used and the most expensive at a price point of $1500-$2000 CAD.

=== Initial Release ===

At the beginning of the VIRIS life cycle there were some people who were initially skeptical. LENZ with a Z was quite thorough in their research and development for this product- testing on voluntary people from almost every ethnicity, health status, and gender and weight. Many concerns were regarding whether this product would damage one's natural eye sight. Dr. Ojo - an expert optometrist- made it clear that LENZ with a Z's technology does not further damage natural human eye sight nor does it cause damage to already healthy eyes.

Early Innovators of this technology encouraged the public to accept the benefits of this product and with consistent rising cases of COVID-19 in 2020 it was clear that the human race needed a tool to further understand just how easily transferable the virus was. Once specialists of WHO were involved with LENZ with a Z VIRIS was almost instantly accepted by the public.

=== Is VIRIS for you? ===

The development of VIRIS has brought innovation for safety and improving public health. Many public sectors such as public parks, shopping malls, and public schools understand that not everyone will be able to afford this technology and so the use of VIRIS is completely up to the individual to use or not. In a number of private sectors; however, VIRIS has become a requirement to wear and has become part of uniform in many office buildings and private schools.

==== Children and VIRIS ====

In all models of VIRIS a Children's mode was developed for young kids ages 6-10. This setting was created to first introduce kids into learning about public health and safety. It offers a simplistic representation of the cleanliness of a space before they enter it. Moreover, if children attempt to approach a red zone there is a warning "beeping" sound that the child can hear. It does not provide information to children about the personal information of an individual.

[[File:safe.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Example of what children see through VIRIS lens in a safe environment]]

[[File:danger.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Example of what children see through VIRIS lens in a high-risk environment]]

==== Safety Concerns ====

To get the full experience of VIRIS and ensure that VIRIS lenses last for a full 3 years it is essential to follow the cleaning procedures included in the VIRIS package. A sample cleaning kit is included with a first-time purchase of VIRIS and various subscriptions are available to receive the full cleaning set.

Notifications are sent to smartphones to remind customers that they must clean their lenses after every use at the end of the day. Failure to do so will lead to difficulty in putting the lenses on in the next use. This safety feature is to ensure that the natural eye remains clean and healthy.

For regular contact lens users or those who wear corrective glasses a prescription VIRIS is available - the cleaning procedures are similar with a few added steps outlined in the VIRIS cleaning kit.

== History ==
VIRIS was created in 2020 by LENZ with a Z, a startup created by Bill Gates, Canadian university researchers and Bayer, an international pharmaceutical company. VIRIS was conceptualized as a response to the COVID-19 Pandemic that began in 2019 which lasted until 2022 and resurfaced again in 2025 as VIRIS was still in its infancy and bug fixes were being rolled out to users. The product was secretly developed by LENZ with a Z as Gates, researchers and the medical industry became less confident that enough vaccines could be produced to successfully combat COVID-19 and future pandemics given the widespread damage to economic, social, political and healthcare systems in the wake of COVID-19.

[[File:bayer bill gates.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Gates, Bayer executives and healthcare/agriculture officials at the "Zero By 40 Meeting" 2019]]

=== Project Implementation: 2020-2026 ===

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation already had prior experience with Bayer as Bill Gates had attended a conference to eradicate Malaria by 2040 which he attended in 2019. Due to these prior connections The project to design VIRIS was quickly implemented in the winter of 2020 leading into 2021 as immense funding from The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Bayer pushed the project ahead quite quickly. Consequently, Model X, the company’s initial offering was in the hands of consumers in 2021. This had an immediate impact as users were able to stay away from people and areas that contained any harmful pathogens and this initially accelerated the disappearance of COVID-19 despite reports of a lack of worldwide adherence to social distancing measures.
Rates of Illness steadily declined after Model X was released although a mutated strain of COVID-19 resurfaced in 2025. It was revealed that the resurgence of viral activity was due to a major software bug which incorrectly identified unsafe areas as pathogen-free and vice versa.
Through the discovery of the software bug In Model X update 1.06 it was revealed that VIRIS had many serious social implications as stigma surrounded those with viral activity – and they were often wrongly identified. Some critics argue that the bug issues and stigmatization should be blamed on the growing divide between Gates and Bayer, as the two tried to take LENZ with a Z in different directions. Gates wanted to make (product) more accessible worldwide while Bayer wanted to continue raising the price and marketing Model X to grow the business.

=== Good, Bad and Model Y: 2026-2040 ===

After working out many of the software issues, VIRIS became crucial to eliminating the spread of disease and increasing overall health of the global population. Cures for cancer and HIV became more promising as researchers and the healthcare industry could focus more directly on new areas as preventing pandemics became a secondary concern.
As Governments and NGOs alike had to focus less on illnesses, they turned to fighting against equality issues and realized that VIRIS had negative societal affects as well. Health outcomes of low-income families remained low as they struggled to afford Model X and this disproportionately affected oppressed members of society based on race, gender and sexuality.
Some school boards used VIRIS as a teaching tool to introduce children to public health education and supplied Model X to all students, while many private institutions closed their doors to students who did not have VIRIS due to associated risk, further deepening the wealth gap associated with private schooling.

==== Model Y: 2034 ====

Model Y was seen as a vast improvement over Model X and further protected users, but was also direct proof to critics that VIRIS disparately protected only the wealthy with its retail price of $1500. With its new features, many also began to worry about government agencies and LENZ with a Z collecting data and conducting surveillance on VIRIS users. Model Y also opened the door for new learning opportunities and modalities as the captioning upgrade made second-language learning more accessible and allowed for digital literacy alphanumeric literacy learning to occur simultaneously. This came with a caveat though, as those who could not afford VIRIS were further disadvantaged in the learning system as a result of these resources being out of reach.

=== Onwards: 2040- ===

With the release of Model Z expected soon, many humanitarian organizations are calling for LENZ with a Z to subsidize the cost of VIRIS to low income users or to make the base model, X free so that income, and racialized disparities existing in society are eliminated. Many have argued that VIRIS played a role in exacerbating equity issues worldwide despite alleviating pressure on the global healthcare system.

== Education (Jee-ae Joanna) ==

Revolutionary contact lenses, VIRIS, opened new avenues of change and modification within the education system. VIRIS became an overarching invention, of which its impacts filtrated school curriculums, school funding systems and the pedagogical approaches used in classrooms.

==== Distribution and accessibility ====
Since its launch in 2020, VIRIS proposed multiple concerns of equal access and distribution of the technology amongst students and teachers. Private school institutions remain to exclusively accept students who can afford VIRIS, due to the associated risks of opening doors to those who do not have the contact lenses. This policy further increased economic disparities, between families in public schooling and those in the private schooling system. Consequently, such unequal distribution and accessibility led to an expected increase of positive COVID-19 cases in public schools. [[File:education_virus.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Classroom study of VIRIS]]

In the same way school boards provide students with technological resources like iPads and Chromebooks, a similar initiative was put in place by The Ministry of Education in 2028 to fund Ontario public school boards, in order to provide students with the virus-detecting technology. This initiative raised issues of inequitable funding, due to unequal distribution of investment money between school districts and regions. More populous areas, saw greater amounts of funding, compared to cases in smaller, less populous regions and districts. As of 2040, schools situated on Indigenous reserves remain inadequately unfunded by the government to provide students and teachers with VIRIS lenses.

==== New Pedagogical Approaches ====
Since the outbreak of COVID-19 in late 2019, there has been a global manifestation of fear towards viruses and bacteria. For this reason, teachers of Grade 3 students or younger, are instructed to employ different pedagogical approaches when teaching the concept of bacteria and viruses. The concept of VIRIS is explained through multimodal teaching pedagogies. Kids are taught that the colour red and the icon “!”, symbolizes “bad” and “harmful”, as a result, one should not go near or touch the area, object or person. On the other hand, the colour green is taught to be a “safe colour”. A feature of VIRIS Model Y signals beeping sounds when someone is entering a red zone. As a result, children are taught in school that certain sounds are associated with danger. Such teaching pedagogies are constructed in relation to multimodal and multimedia pedagogies that integrate diverse semiotics to enhance learning. As society is now vastly digital, similar representations of icons, colours and signs on phones and computers, are used to teach the concept of unsafe infected zones and zones that are safe.

VIRIS has become a teaching tool for second-language acquisition, otherwise known as, L2 learning. The caption feature of Model Y enables students to listen to teachers and peers speak in English, while simultaneously viewing captions in their native language. This feature on VIRIS has been compared to duo-lingual texts, used as pedagogical methods to teach ESL learners by using multiple semiotics from one’s native language and the English language. The duo-lingual feature on VIRIS Model Y has not only made positive impacts on an educational level, but also in the social lives of ESL learners, who now have an easier time communicating and interacting with other peers who only speak English. Moreover, VIRIS Model Y has been used in French classes, to enhance the linguistic proficiency of students, particularly the oral and listening competence of FSL learners.

==== Curriculum Reforms ====
VIRIS has become an overarching invention that has revolutionized social, cultural, economic and political contexts of the world. As a result, in 2026 The Ministry of Education released updated Kindergarten - Grade 12 curriculums, with modified and adapted curriculum goals and expectations.
Social Sciences and Humanities (a course offered at the secondary level), saw significant adaptations in its curriculum, particular in the following subsections: Equity Studies, Health Studies, Sociology and Psychology. In the same way schools address issues of race and intersectionality, teachers teach students about societal, racial and economic discrimination and marginalization created from the invention of VIRIS.

VIRIS has also been integrated in the Science curriculums for students in Grade 7-12, each with a highlighted unit focusing on the symptoms, side effects and functions of VIRIS lenses. Science teachers use VIRIS as case studies and science experiments to teach students the biological interaction between the human eye and brain, in relation to the virus-detecting lenses. Moreover, VIRIS is integrated in history curriculums, as The Ministry of Education found it vital for students to have a profound understanding of the historical events and contexts that have led us to today’s world of VIRIS lenses.

== Group Members ==

Samantha Dungca, Nabila Elahi, Jee-ae Joanna Lee, Brendan Spencer

World 8

2020-12-01T03:57:13Z

JoannA: /* Education - Jee-ae Joanna */

== VIRIS ==

[[File:smallscreent.jpg|250px|thumb|right|VIRIS Model X]]

[[File:crazy-lens-cyborg-a.jpg|250px|thumb|right|VIRIS Model Y]]

[[File:person.jpg|500px|thumb|right|VIRIS Vision: the lenses give information on person you are looking at for more than 3 seconds]]

VIRIS is a revolutionary contact lens system which allows one to detect any particles which may threaten human health as well as identify citizens who have compromised immune systems. Since 2020 this device has been known to improve public health and look out for the wellbeing of citizens.

There are currently two different models of the device. The first being the standard version, Model X. The Model X is able to detect virus particles - even if they are airborne. They can detect if someone is sick with a viral infection regardless of whether they are showing symptoms or not. Limitations to this model are its lack of ability to fully identify any bacterial infections such as Strep Throat. Moreover, Model X is not able to calculate contagion levels.

The second, and most recent model of VIRIS is Model Y. Model Y offers advanced features. Model Y will give one the ability to view someone’s brief family history, including the country their parents were born in, and any genetic diseases associated with the family. These advanced lenses collect the personal information of the user including legal name, sex, current health-status as well as the age of the individual. Moreover, Model Y offers a bonus feature that allows one to understand different languages. The most recent update allows one to read captions in their preferred language when someone is speaking a different language.

Minimum network requirement to operate this device is a 4G network and also has Wi-Fi capabilities to use. The Model X is now the most affordable device available at a price point of $650-$700 CAD. Model Y, however, is the most widely used and the most expensive at a price point of $1500-$2000 CAD.

=== Initial Release ===

At the beginning of the VIRIS life cycle there were some people who were initially skeptical. LENZ with a Z was quite thorough in their research and development for this product- testing on voluntary people from almost every ethnicity, health status, and gender and weight. Many concerns were regarding whether this product would damage one's natural eye sight. Dr. Ojo - an expert optometrist- made it clear that LENZ with a Z's technology does not further damage natural human eye sight nor does it cause damage to already healthy eyes.

Early Innovators of this technology encouraged the public to accept the benefits of this product and with consistent rising cases of COVID-19 in 2020 it was clear that the human race needed a tool to further understand just how easily transferable the virus was. Once specialists of WHO were involved with LENZ with a Z VIRIS was almost instantly accepted by the public.

=== Is VIRIS for you? ===

The development of VIRIS has brought innovation for safety and improving public health. Many public sectors such as public parks, shopping malls, and public schools understand that not everyone will be able to afford this technology and so the use of VIRIS is completely up to the individual to use or not. In a number of private sectors; however, VIRIS has become a requirement to wear and has become part of uniform in many office buildings and private schools.

==== Children and VIRIS ====

In all models of VIRIS a Children's mode was developed for young kids ages 6-10. This setting was created to first introduce kids into learning about public health and safety. It offers a simplistic representation of the cleanliness of a space before they enter it. Moreover, if children attempt to approach a red zone there is a warning "beeping" sound that the child can hear. It does not provide information to children about the personal information of an individual.

[[File:safe.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Example of what children see through VIRIS lens in a safe environment]]

[[File:danger.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Example of what children see through VIRIS lens in a high-risk environment]]

==== Safety Concerns ====

To get the full experience of VIRIS and ensure that VIRIS lenses last for a full 3 years it is essential to follow the cleaning procedures included in the VIRIS package. A sample cleaning kit is included with a first-time purchase of VIRIS and various subscriptions are available to receive the full cleaning set.

Notifications are sent to smartphones to remind customers that they must clean their lenses after every use at the end of the day. Failure to do so will lead to difficulty in putting the lenses on in the next use. This safety feature is to ensure that the natural eye remains clean and healthy.

For regular contact lens users or those who wear corrective glasses a prescription VIRIS is available - the cleaning procedures are similar with a few added steps outlined in the VIRIS cleaning kit.

== History ==
VIRIS was created in 2020 by LENZ with a Z, a startup created by Bill Gates, Canadian university researchers and Bayer, an international pharmaceutical company. VIRIS was conceptualized as a response to the COVID-19 Pandemic that began in 2019 which lasted until 2022 and resurfaced again in 2025 as VIRIS was still in its infancy and bug fixes were being rolled out to users. The product was secretly developed by LENZ with a Z as Gates, researchers and the medical industry became less confident that enough vaccines could be produced to successfully combat COVID-19 and future pandemics given the widespread damage to economic, social, political and healthcare systems in the wake of COVID-19.

[[File:bayer bill gates.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Gates, Bayer executives and healthcare/agriculture officials at the "Zero By 40 Meeting" 2019]]

=== Project Implementation: 2020-2026 ===

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation already had prior experience with Bayer as Bill Gates had attended a conference to eradicate Malaria by 2040 which he attended in 2019. Due to these prior connections The project to design VIRIS was quickly implemented in the winter of 2020 leading into 2021 as immense funding from The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Bayer pushed the project ahead quite quickly. Consequently, Model X, the company’s initial offering was in the hands of consumers in 2021. This had an immediate impact as users were able to stay away from people and areas that contained any harmful pathogens and this initially accelerated the disappearance of COVID-19 despite reports of a lack of worldwide adherence to social distancing measures.
Rates of Illness steadily declined after Model X was released although a mutated strain of COVID-19 resurfaced in 2025. It was revealed that the resurgence of viral activity was due to a major software bug which incorrectly identified unsafe areas as pathogen-free and vice versa.
Through the discovery of the software bug In Model X update 1.06 it was revealed that VIRIS had many serious social implications as stigma surrounded those with viral activity – and they were often wrongly identified. Some critics argue that the bug issues and stigmatization should be blamed on the growing divide between Gates and Bayer, as the two tried to take LENZ with a Z in different directions. Gates wanted to make (product) more accessible worldwide while Bayer wanted to continue raising the price and marketing Model X to grow the business.

=== Good, Bad and Model Y: 2026-2040 ===

After working out many of the software issues, VIRIS became crucial to eliminating the spread of disease and increasing overall health of the global population. Cures for cancer and HIV became more promising as researchers and the healthcare industry could focus more directly on new areas as preventing pandemics became a secondary concern.
As Governments and NGOs alike had to focus less on illnesses, they turned to fighting against equality issues and realized that VIRIS had negative societal affects as well. Health outcomes of low-income families remained low as they struggled to afford Model X and this disproportionately affected oppressed members of society based on race, gender and sexuality.
Some school boards used VIRIS as a teaching tool to introduce children to public health education and supplied Model X to all students, while many private institutions closed their doors to students who did not have VIRIS due to associated risk, further deepening the wealth gap associated with private schooling.

==== Model Y: 2034 ====

Model Y was seen as a vast improvement over Model X and further protected users, but was also direct proof to critics that VIRIS disparately protected only the wealthy with its retail price of $1500. With its new features, many also began to worry about government agencies and LENZ with a Z collecting data and conducting surveillance on VIRIS users. Model Y also opened the door for new learning opportunities and modalities as the captioning upgrade made second-language learning more accessible and allowed for digital literacy alphanumeric literacy learning to occur simultaneously. This came with a caveat though, as those who could not afford VIRIS were further disadvantaged in the learning system as a result of these resources being out of reach.

=== Onwards: 2040- ===

With the release of Model Z expected soon, many humanitarian organizations are calling for LENZ with a Z to subsidize the cost of VIRIS to low income users or to make the base model, X free so that income, and racialized disparities existing in society are eliminated. Many have argued that VIRIS played a role in exacerbating equity issues worldwide despite alleviating pressure on the global healthcare system.

== Education (Jee-ae Joanna) ==

Revolutionary contact lenses, VIRIS, opened new avenues of change and modification within the education system. VIRIS became an overarching invention, of which its impacts filtrated school curriculums, school funding systems and the pedagogical approaches used in classrooms.

==== Distribution and accessibility ====
Since its launch in 2020, VIRIS proposed multiple concerns of equal access and distribution of the technology amongst students and teachers. Private school institutions remain to exclusively accept students who can afford VIRIS, due to the associated risks of opening doors to those who do not have the contact lenses. This policy further increased economic disparities, between families in public schooling and those in the private schooling system. Consequently, such unequal distribution and accessibility led to an expected increase of positive COVID-19 cases in public schools. [[File:education_virus.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Classroom study of VIRIS]]]]

In the same way school boards provide students with technological resources like iPads and Chromebooks, a similar initiative was put in place by The Ministry of Education in 2028 to fund Ontario public school boards, in order to provide students with the virus-detecting technology. This initiative raised issues of inequitable funding, due to unequal distribution of investment money between school districts and regions. More populous areas, saw greater amounts of funding, compared to cases in smaller, less populous regions and districts. As of 2040, schools situated on Indigenous reserves remain inadequately unfunded by the government to provide students and teachers with VIRIS lenses.

==== New Pedagogical Approaches ====
Since the outbreak of COVID-19 in late 2019, there has been a global manifestation of fear towards viruses and bacteria. For this reason, teachers of Grade 3 students or younger, are instructed to employ different pedagogical approaches when teaching the concept of bacteria and viruses. The concept of VIRIS is explained through multimodal teaching pedagogies. Kids are taught that the colour red and the icon “!”, symbolizes “bad” and “harmful”, as a result, one should not go near or touch the area, object or person. On the other hand, the colour green is taught to be a “safe colour”. A feature of VIRIS Model Y signals beeping sounds when someone is entering a red zone. As a result, children are taught in school that certain sounds are associated with danger. Such teaching pedagogies are constructed in relation to multimodal and multimedia pedagogies that integrate diverse semiotics to enhance learning. As society is now vastly digital, similar representations of icons, colours and signs on phones and computers, are used to teach the concept of unsafe infected zones and zones that are safe.

VIRIS has become a teaching tool for second-language acquisition, otherwise known as, L2 learning. The caption feature of Model Y enables students to listen to teachers and peers speak in English, while simultaneously viewing captions in their native language. This feature on VIRIS has been compared to duo-lingual texts, used as pedagogical methods to teach ESL learners by using multiple semiotics from one’s native language and the English language. The duo-lingual feature on VIRIS Model Y has not only made positive impacts on an educational level, but also in the social lives of ESL learners, who now have an easier time communicating and interacting with other peers who only speak English. Moreover, VIRIS Model Y has been used in French classes, to enhance the linguistic proficiency of students, particularly the oral and listening competence of FSL learners.

==== Curriculum Reforms ====
VIRIS has become an overarching invention that has revolutionized social, cultural, economic and political contexts of the world. As a result, in 2026 The Ministry of Education released updated Kindergarten - Grade 12 curriculums, with modified and adapted curriculum goals and expectations.
Social Sciences and Humanities (a course offered at the secondary level), saw significant adaptations in its curriculum, particular in the following subsections: Equity Studies, Health Studies, Sociology and Psychology. In the same way schools address issues of race and intersectionality, teachers teach students about societal, racial and economic discrimination and marginalization created from the invention of VIRIS.

VIRIS has also been integrated in the Science curriculums for students in Grade 7-12, each with a highlighted unit focusing on the symptoms, side effects and functions of VIRIS lenses. Science teachers use VIRIS as case studies and science experiments to teach students the biological interaction between the human eye and brain, in relation to the virus-detecting lenses. Moreover, VIRIS is integrated in history curriculums, as The Ministry of Education found it vital for students to have a profound understanding of the historical events and contexts that have led us to today’s world of VIRIS lenses.

== Group Members ==

World 8

2020-12-01T03:56:47Z

JoannA: /* Education */

== VIRIS ==

[[File:smallscreent.jpg|250px|thumb|right|VIRIS Model X]]

[[File:crazy-lens-cyborg-a.jpg|250px|thumb|right|VIRIS Model Y]]

[[File:person.jpg|500px|thumb|right|VIRIS Vision: the lenses give information on person you are looking at for more than 3 seconds]]

VIRIS is a revolutionary contact lens system which allows one to detect any particles which may threaten human health as well as identify citizens who have compromised immune systems. Since 2020 this device has been known to improve public health and look out for the wellbeing of citizens.

There are currently two different models of the device. The first being the standard version, Model X. The Model X is able to detect virus particles - even if they are airborne. They can detect if someone is sick with a viral infection regardless of whether they are showing symptoms or not. Limitations to this model are its lack of ability to fully identify any bacterial infections such as Strep Throat. Moreover, Model X is not able to calculate contagion levels.

The second, and most recent model of VIRIS is Model Y. Model Y offers advanced features. Model Y will give one the ability to view someone’s brief family history, including the country their parents were born in, and any genetic diseases associated with the family. These advanced lenses collect the personal information of the user including legal name, sex, current health-status as well as the age of the individual. Moreover, Model Y offers a bonus feature that allows one to understand different languages. The most recent update allows one to read captions in their preferred language when someone is speaking a different language.

Minimum network requirement to operate this device is a 4G network and also has Wi-Fi capabilities to use. The Model X is now the most affordable device available at a price point of $650-$700 CAD. Model Y, however, is the most widely used and the most expensive at a price point of $1500-$2000 CAD.

=== Initial Release ===

At the beginning of the VIRIS life cycle there were some people who were initially skeptical. LENZ with a Z was quite thorough in their research and development for this product- testing on voluntary people from almost every ethnicity, health status, and gender and weight. Many concerns were regarding whether this product would damage one's natural eye sight. Dr. Ojo - an expert optometrist- made it clear that LENZ with a Z's technology does not further damage natural human eye sight nor does it cause damage to already healthy eyes.

Early Innovators of this technology encouraged the public to accept the benefits of this product and with consistent rising cases of COVID-19 in 2020 it was clear that the human race needed a tool to further understand just how easily transferable the virus was. Once specialists of WHO were involved with LENZ with a Z VIRIS was almost instantly accepted by the public.

=== Is VIRIS for you? ===

The development of VIRIS has brought innovation for safety and improving public health. Many public sectors such as public parks, shopping malls, and public schools understand that not everyone will be able to afford this technology and so the use of VIRIS is completely up to the individual to use or not. In a number of private sectors; however, VIRIS has become a requirement to wear and has become part of uniform in many office buildings and private schools.

==== Children and VIRIS ====

In all models of VIRIS a Children's mode was developed for young kids ages 6-10. This setting was created to first introduce kids into learning about public health and safety. It offers a simplistic representation of the cleanliness of a space before they enter it. Moreover, if children attempt to approach a red zone there is a warning "beeping" sound that the child can hear. It does not provide information to children about the personal information of an individual.

[[File:safe.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Example of what children see through VIRIS lens in a safe environment]]

[[File:danger.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Example of what children see through VIRIS lens in a high-risk environment]]

==== Safety Concerns ====

To get the full experience of VIRIS and ensure that VIRIS lenses last for a full 3 years it is essential to follow the cleaning procedures included in the VIRIS package. A sample cleaning kit is included with a first-time purchase of VIRIS and various subscriptions are available to receive the full cleaning set.

Notifications are sent to smartphones to remind customers that they must clean their lenses after every use at the end of the day. Failure to do so will lead to difficulty in putting the lenses on in the next use. This safety feature is to ensure that the natural eye remains clean and healthy.

For regular contact lens users or those who wear corrective glasses a prescription VIRIS is available - the cleaning procedures are similar with a few added steps outlined in the VIRIS cleaning kit.

== History ==
VIRIS was created in 2020 by LENZ with a Z, a startup created by Bill Gates, Canadian university researchers and Bayer, an international pharmaceutical company. VIRIS was conceptualized as a response to the COVID-19 Pandemic that began in 2019 which lasted until 2022 and resurfaced again in 2025 as VIRIS was still in its infancy and bug fixes were being rolled out to users. The product was secretly developed by LENZ with a Z as Gates, researchers and the medical industry became less confident that enough vaccines could be produced to successfully combat COVID-19 and future pandemics given the widespread damage to economic, social, political and healthcare systems in the wake of COVID-19.

[[File:bayer bill gates.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Gates, Bayer executives and healthcare/agriculture officials at the "Zero By 40 Meeting" 2019]]

=== Project Implementation: 2020-2026 ===

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation already had prior experience with Bayer as Bill Gates had attended a conference to eradicate Malaria by 2040 which he attended in 2019. Due to these prior connections The project to design VIRIS was quickly implemented in the winter of 2020 leading into 2021 as immense funding from The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Bayer pushed the project ahead quite quickly. Consequently, Model X, the company’s initial offering was in the hands of consumers in 2021. This had an immediate impact as users were able to stay away from people and areas that contained any harmful pathogens and this initially accelerated the disappearance of COVID-19 despite reports of a lack of worldwide adherence to social distancing measures.
Rates of Illness steadily declined after Model X was released although a mutated strain of COVID-19 resurfaced in 2025. It was revealed that the resurgence of viral activity was due to a major software bug which incorrectly identified unsafe areas as pathogen-free and vice versa.
Through the discovery of the software bug In Model X update 1.06 it was revealed that VIRIS had many serious social implications as stigma surrounded those with viral activity – and they were often wrongly identified. Some critics argue that the bug issues and stigmatization should be blamed on the growing divide between Gates and Bayer, as the two tried to take LENZ with a Z in different directions. Gates wanted to make (product) more accessible worldwide while Bayer wanted to continue raising the price and marketing Model X to grow the business.

=== Good, Bad and Model Y: 2026-2040 ===

After working out many of the software issues, VIRIS became crucial to eliminating the spread of disease and increasing overall health of the global population. Cures for cancer and HIV became more promising as researchers and the healthcare industry could focus more directly on new areas as preventing pandemics became a secondary concern.
As Governments and NGOs alike had to focus less on illnesses, they turned to fighting against equality issues and realized that VIRIS had negative societal affects as well. Health outcomes of low-income families remained low as they struggled to afford Model X and this disproportionately affected oppressed members of society based on race, gender and sexuality.
Some school boards used VIRIS as a teaching tool to introduce children to public health education and supplied Model X to all students, while many private institutions closed their doors to students who did not have VIRIS due to associated risk, further deepening the wealth gap associated with private schooling.

==== Model Y: 2034 ====

Model Y was seen as a vast improvement over Model X and further protected users, but was also direct proof to critics that VIRIS disparately protected only the wealthy with its retail price of $1500. With its new features, many also began to worry about government agencies and LENZ with a Z collecting data and conducting surveillance on VIRIS users. Model Y also opened the door for new learning opportunities and modalities as the captioning upgrade made second-language learning more accessible and allowed for digital literacy alphanumeric literacy learning to occur simultaneously. This came with a caveat though, as those who could not afford VIRIS were further disadvantaged in the learning system as a result of these resources being out of reach.

=== Onwards: 2040- ===

With the release of Model Z expected soon, many humanitarian organizations are calling for LENZ with a Z to subsidize the cost of VIRIS to low income users or to make the base model, X free so that income, and racialized disparities existing in society are eliminated. Many have argued that VIRIS played a role in exacerbating equity issues worldwide despite alleviating pressure on the global healthcare system.

== Education - Jee-ae Joanna ==

Revolutionary contact lenses, VIRIS, opened new avenues of change and modification within the education system. VIRIS became an overarching invention, of which its impacts filtrated school curriculums, school funding systems and the pedagogical approaches used in classrooms.

==== Distribution and accessibility ====
Since its launch in 2020, VIRIS proposed multiple concerns of equal access and distribution of the technology amongst students and teachers. Private school institutions remain to exclusively accept students who can afford VIRIS, due to the associated risks of opening doors to those who do not have the contact lenses. This policy further increased economic disparities, between families in public schooling and those in the private schooling system. Consequently, such unequal distribution and accessibility led to an expected increase of positive COVID-19 cases in public schools. [[File:education_virus.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Classroom study of VIRIS]]]]

In the same way school boards provide students with technological resources like iPads and Chromebooks, a similar initiative was put in place by The Ministry of Education in 2028 to fund Ontario public school boards, in order to provide students with the virus-detecting technology. This initiative raised issues of inequitable funding, due to unequal distribution of investment money between school districts and regions. More populous areas, saw greater amounts of funding, compared to cases in smaller, less populous regions and districts. As of 2040, schools situated on Indigenous reserves remain inadequately unfunded by the government to provide students and teachers with VIRIS lenses.

==== New Pedagogical Approaches ====
Since the outbreak of COVID-19 in late 2019, there has been a global manifestation of fear towards viruses and bacteria. For this reason, teachers of Grade 3 students or younger, are instructed to employ different pedagogical approaches when teaching the concept of bacteria and viruses. The concept of VIRIS is explained through multimodal teaching pedagogies. Kids are taught that the colour red and the icon “!”, symbolizes “bad” and “harmful”, as a result, one should not go near or touch the area, object or person. On the other hand, the colour green is taught to be a “safe colour”. A feature of VIRIS Model Y signals beeping sounds when someone is entering a red zone. As a result, children are taught in school that certain sounds are associated with danger. Such teaching pedagogies are constructed in relation to multimodal and multimedia pedagogies that integrate diverse semiotics to enhance learning. As society is now vastly digital, similar representations of icons, colours and signs on phones and computers, are used to teach the concept of unsafe infected zones and zones that are safe.

VIRIS has become a teaching tool for second-language acquisition, otherwise known as, L2 learning. The caption feature of Model Y enables students to listen to teachers and peers speak in English, while simultaneously viewing captions in their native language. This feature on VIRIS has been compared to duo-lingual texts, used as pedagogical methods to teach ESL learners by using multiple semiotics from one’s native language and the English language. The duo-lingual feature on VIRIS Model Y has not only made positive impacts on an educational level, but also in the social lives of ESL learners, who now have an easier time communicating and interacting with other peers who only speak English. Moreover, VIRIS Model Y has been used in French classes, to enhance the linguistic proficiency of students, particularly the oral and listening competence of FSL learners.

==== Curriculum Reforms ====
VIRIS has become an overarching invention that has revolutionized social, cultural, economic and political contexts of the world. As a result, in 2026 The Ministry of Education released updated Kindergarten - Grade 12 curriculums, with modified and adapted curriculum goals and expectations.
Social Sciences and Humanities (a course offered at the secondary level), saw significant adaptations in its curriculum, particular in the following subsections: Equity Studies, Health Studies, Sociology and Psychology. In the same way schools address issues of race and intersectionality, teachers teach students about societal, racial and economic discrimination and marginalization created from the invention of VIRIS.

VIRIS has also been integrated in the Science curriculums for students in Grade 7-12, each with a highlighted unit focusing on the symptoms, side effects and functions of VIRIS lenses. Science teachers use VIRIS as case studies and science experiments to teach students the biological interaction between the human eye and brain, in relation to the virus-detecting lenses. Moreover, VIRIS is integrated in history curriculums, as The Ministry of Education found it vital for students to have a profound understanding of the historical events and contexts that have led us to today’s world of VIRIS lenses.

== Group Members ==

World 8

2020-12-01T03:55:56Z

JoannA: /* Education */

== VIRIS ==

[[File:smallscreent.jpg|250px|thumb|right|VIRIS Model X]]

[[File:crazy-lens-cyborg-a.jpg|250px|thumb|right|VIRIS Model Y]]

[[File:person.jpg|500px|thumb|right|VIRIS Vision: the lenses give information on person you are looking at for more than 3 seconds]]

VIRIS is a revolutionary contact lens system which allows one to detect any particles which may threaten human health as well as identify citizens who have compromised immune systems. Since 2020 this device has been known to improve public health and look out for the wellbeing of citizens.

There are currently two different models of the device. The first being the standard version, Model X. The Model X is able to detect virus particles - even if they are airborne. They can detect if someone is sick with a viral infection regardless of whether they are showing symptoms or not. Limitations to this model are its lack of ability to fully identify any bacterial infections such as Strep Throat. Moreover, Model X is not able to calculate contagion levels.

The second, and most recent model of VIRIS is Model Y. Model Y offers advanced features. Model Y will give one the ability to view someone’s brief family history, including the country their parents were born in, and any genetic diseases associated with the family. These advanced lenses collect the personal information of the user including legal name, sex, current health-status as well as the age of the individual. Moreover, Model Y offers a bonus feature that allows one to understand different languages. The most recent update allows one to read captions in their preferred language when someone is speaking a different language.

Minimum network requirement to operate this device is a 4G network and also has Wi-Fi capabilities to use. The Model X is now the most affordable device available at a price point of $650-$700 CAD. Model Y, however, is the most widely used and the most expensive at a price point of $1500-$2000 CAD.

=== Initial Release ===

At the beginning of the VIRIS life cycle there were some people who were initially skeptical. LENZ with a Z was quite thorough in their research and development for this product- testing on voluntary people from almost every ethnicity, health status, and gender and weight. Many concerns were regarding whether this product would damage one's natural eye sight. Dr. Ojo - an expert optometrist- made it clear that LENZ with a Z's technology does not further damage natural human eye sight nor does it cause damage to already healthy eyes.

Early Innovators of this technology encouraged the public to accept the benefits of this product and with consistent rising cases of COVID-19 in 2020 it was clear that the human race needed a tool to further understand just how easily transferable the virus was. Once specialists of WHO were involved with LENZ with a Z VIRIS was almost instantly accepted by the public.

=== Is VIRIS for you? ===

The development of VIRIS has brought innovation for safety and improving public health. Many public sectors such as public parks, shopping malls, and public schools understand that not everyone will be able to afford this technology and so the use of VIRIS is completely up to the individual to use or not. In a number of private sectors; however, VIRIS has become a requirement to wear and has become part of uniform in many office buildings and private schools.

==== Children and VIRIS ====

In all models of VIRIS a Children's mode was developed for young kids ages 6-10. This setting was created to first introduce kids into learning about public health and safety. It offers a simplistic representation of the cleanliness of a space before they enter it. Moreover, if children attempt to approach a red zone there is a warning "beeping" sound that the child can hear. It does not provide information to children about the personal information of an individual.

[[File:safe.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Example of what children see through VIRIS lens in a safe environment]]

[[File:danger.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Example of what children see through VIRIS lens in a high-risk environment]]

==== Safety Concerns ====

To get the full experience of VIRIS and ensure that VIRIS lenses last for a full 3 years it is essential to follow the cleaning procedures included in the VIRIS package. A sample cleaning kit is included with a first-time purchase of VIRIS and various subscriptions are available to receive the full cleaning set.

Notifications are sent to smartphones to remind customers that they must clean their lenses after every use at the end of the day. Failure to do so will lead to difficulty in putting the lenses on in the next use. This safety feature is to ensure that the natural eye remains clean and healthy.

For regular contact lens users or those who wear corrective glasses a prescription VIRIS is available - the cleaning procedures are similar with a few added steps outlined in the VIRIS cleaning kit.

== History ==
VIRIS was created in 2020 by LENZ with a Z, a startup created by Bill Gates, Canadian university researchers and Bayer, an international pharmaceutical company. VIRIS was conceptualized as a response to the COVID-19 Pandemic that began in 2019 which lasted until 2022 and resurfaced again in 2025 as VIRIS was still in its infancy and bug fixes were being rolled out to users. The product was secretly developed by LENZ with a Z as Gates, researchers and the medical industry became less confident that enough vaccines could be produced to successfully combat COVID-19 and future pandemics given the widespread damage to economic, social, political and healthcare systems in the wake of COVID-19.

[[File:bayer bill gates.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Gates, Bayer executives and healthcare/agriculture officials at the "Zero By 40 Meeting" 2019]]

=== Project Implementation: 2020-2026 ===

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation already had prior experience with Bayer as Bill Gates had attended a conference to eradicate Malaria by 2040 which he attended in 2019. Due to these prior connections The project to design VIRIS was quickly implemented in the winter of 2020 leading into 2021 as immense funding from The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Bayer pushed the project ahead quite quickly. Consequently, Model X, the company’s initial offering was in the hands of consumers in 2021. This had an immediate impact as users were able to stay away from people and areas that contained any harmful pathogens and this initially accelerated the disappearance of COVID-19 despite reports of a lack of worldwide adherence to social distancing measures.
Rates of Illness steadily declined after Model X was released although a mutated strain of COVID-19 resurfaced in 2025. It was revealed that the resurgence of viral activity was due to a major software bug which incorrectly identified unsafe areas as pathogen-free and vice versa.
Through the discovery of the software bug In Model X update 1.06 it was revealed that VIRIS had many serious social implications as stigma surrounded those with viral activity – and they were often wrongly identified. Some critics argue that the bug issues and stigmatization should be blamed on the growing divide between Gates and Bayer, as the two tried to take LENZ with a Z in different directions. Gates wanted to make (product) more accessible worldwide while Bayer wanted to continue raising the price and marketing Model X to grow the business.

=== Good, Bad and Model Y: 2026-2040 ===

After working out many of the software issues, VIRIS became crucial to eliminating the spread of disease and increasing overall health of the global population. Cures for cancer and HIV became more promising as researchers and the healthcare industry could focus more directly on new areas as preventing pandemics became a secondary concern.
As Governments and NGOs alike had to focus less on illnesses, they turned to fighting against equality issues and realized that VIRIS had negative societal affects as well. Health outcomes of low-income families remained low as they struggled to afford Model X and this disproportionately affected oppressed members of society based on race, gender and sexuality.
Some school boards used VIRIS as a teaching tool to introduce children to public health education and supplied Model X to all students, while many private institutions closed their doors to students who did not have VIRIS due to associated risk, further deepening the wealth gap associated with private schooling.

==== Model Y: 2034 ====

Model Y was seen as a vast improvement over Model X and further protected users, but was also direct proof to critics that VIRIS disparately protected only the wealthy with its retail price of $1500. With its new features, many also began to worry about government agencies and LENZ with a Z collecting data and conducting surveillance on VIRIS users. Model Y also opened the door for new learning opportunities and modalities as the captioning upgrade made second-language learning more accessible and allowed for digital literacy alphanumeric literacy learning to occur simultaneously. This came with a caveat though, as those who could not afford VIRIS were further disadvantaged in the learning system as a result of these resources being out of reach.

=== Onwards: 2040- ===

With the release of Model Z expected soon, many humanitarian organizations are calling for LENZ with a Z to subsidize the cost of VIRIS to low income users or to make the base model, X free so that income, and racialized disparities existing in society are eliminated. Many have argued that VIRIS played a role in exacerbating equity issues worldwide despite alleviating pressure on the global healthcare system.

== Education ==

Revolutionary contact lenses, VIRIS, opened new avenues of change and modification within the education system. VIRIS became an overarching invention, of which its impacts filtrated school curriculums, school funding systems and the pedagogical approaches used in classrooms.

==== Distribution and accessibility ====
Since its launch in 2020, VIRIS proposed multiple concerns of equal access and distribution of the technology amongst students and teachers. Private school institutions remain to exclusively accept students who can afford VIRIS, due to the associated risks of opening doors to those who do not have the contact lenses. This policy further increased economic disparities, between families in public schooling and those in the private schooling system. Consequently, such unequal distribution and accessibility led to an expected increase of positive COVID-19 cases in public schools. [[File:education_virus.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Classroom study of VIRIS]]]]

In the same way school boards provide students with technological resources like iPads and Chromebooks, a similar initiative was put in place by The Ministry of Education in 2028 to fund Ontario public school boards, in order to provide students with the virus-detecting technology. This initiative raised issues of inequitable funding, due to unequal distribution of investment money between school districts and regions. More populous areas, saw greater amounts of funding, compared to cases in smaller, less populous regions and districts. As of 2040, schools situated on Indigenous reserves remain inadequately unfunded by the government to provide students and teachers with VIRIS lenses.

==== New Pedagogical Approaches ====
Since the outbreak of COVID-19 in late 2019, there has been a global manifestation of fear towards viruses and bacteria. For this reason, teachers of Grade 3 students or younger, are instructed to employ different pedagogical approaches when teaching the concept of bacteria and viruses. The concept of VIRIS is explained through multimodal teaching pedagogies. Kids are taught that the colour red and the icon “!”, symbolizes “bad” and “harmful”, as a result, one should not go near or touch the area, object or person. On the other hand, the colour green is taught to be a “safe colour”. A feature of VIRIS Model Y signals beeping sounds when someone is entering a red zone. As a result, children are taught in school that certain sounds are associated with danger. Such teaching pedagogies are constructed in relation to multimodal and multimedia pedagogies that integrate diverse semiotics to enhance learning. As society is now vastly digital, similar representations of icons, colours and signs on phones and computers, are used to teach the concept of unsafe infected zones and zones that are safe.

VIRIS has become a teaching tool for second-language acquisition, otherwise known as, L2 learning. The caption feature of Model Y enables students to listen to teachers and peers speak in English, while simultaneously viewing captions in their native language. This feature on VIRIS has been compared to duo-lingual texts, used as pedagogical methods to teach ESL learners by using multiple semiotics from one’s native language and the English language. The duo-lingual feature on VIRIS Model Y has not only made positive impacts on an educational level, but also in the social lives of ESL learners, who now have an easier time communicating and interacting with other peers who only speak English. Moreover, VIRIS Model Y has been used in French classes, to enhance the linguistic proficiency of students, particularly the oral and listening competence of FSL learners.

==== Curriculum Reforms ====
VIRIS has become an overarching invention that has revolutionized social, cultural, economic and political contexts of the world. As a result, in 2026 The Ministry of Education released updated Kindergarten - Grade 12 curriculums, with modified and adapted curriculum goals and expectations.
Social Sciences and Humanities (a course offered at the secondary level), saw significant adaptations in its curriculum, particular in the following subsections: Equity Studies, Health Studies, Sociology and Psychology. In the same way schools address issues of race and intersectionality, teachers teach students about societal, racial and economic discrimination and marginalization created from the invention of VIRIS.

VIRIS has also been integrated in the Science curriculums for students in Grade 7-12, each with a highlighted unit focusing on the symptoms, side effects and functions of VIRIS lenses. Science teachers use VIRIS as case studies and science experiments to teach students the biological interaction between the human eye and brain, in relation to the virus-detecting lenses. Moreover, VIRIS is integrated in history curriculums, as The Ministry of Education found it vital for students to have a profound understanding of the historical events and contexts that have led us to today’s world of VIRIS lenses.

== Group Members ==

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== VIRIS ==

[[File:smallscreent.jpg|250px|thumb|right|VIRIS Model X]]

[[File:crazy-lens-cyborg-a.jpg|250px|thumb|right|VIRIS Model Y]]

[[File:person.jpg|500px|thumb|right|VIRIS Vision: the lenses give information on person you are looking at for more than 3 seconds]]

VIRIS is a revolutionary contact lens system which allows one to detect any particles which may threaten human health as well as identify citizens who have compromised immune systems. Since 2020 this device has been known to improve public health and look out for the wellbeing of citizens.

There are currently two different models of the device. The first being the standard version, Model X. The Model X is able to detect virus particles - even if they are airborne. They can detect if someone is sick with a viral infection regardless of whether they are showing symptoms or not. Limitations to this model are its lack of ability to fully identify any bacterial infections such as Strep Throat. Moreover, Model X is not able to calculate contagion levels.

The second, and most recent model of VIRIS is Model Y. Model Y offers advanced features. Model Y will give one the ability to view someone’s brief family history, including the country their parents were born in, and any genetic diseases associated with the family. These advanced lenses collect the personal information of the user including legal name, sex, current health-status as well as the age of the individual. Moreover, Model Y offers a bonus feature that allows one to understand different languages. The most recent update allows one to read captions in their preferred language when someone is speaking a different language.

Minimum network requirement to operate this device is a 4G network and also has Wi-Fi capabilities to use. The Model X is now the most affordable device available at a price point of $650-$700 CAD. Model Y, however, is the most widely used and the most expensive at a price point of $1500-$2000 CAD.

=== Initial Release ===

At the beginning of the VIRIS life cycle there were some people who were initially skeptical. LENZ with a Z was quite thorough in their research and development for this product- testing on voluntary people from almost every ethnicity, health status, and gender and weight. Many concerns were regarding whether this product would damage one's natural eye sight. Dr. Ojo - an expert optometrist- made it clear that LENZ with a Z's technology does not further damage natural human eye sight nor does it cause damage to already healthy eyes.

Early Innovators of this technology encouraged the public to accept the benefits of this product and with consistent rising cases of COVID-19 in 2020 it was clear that the human race needed a tool to further understand just how easily transferable the virus was. Once specialists of WHO were involved with LENZ with a Z VIRIS was almost instantly accepted by the public.

=== Is VIRIS for you? ===

The development of VIRIS has brought innovation for safety and improving public health. Many public sectors such as public parks, shopping malls, and public schools understand that not everyone will be able to afford this technology and so the use of VIRIS is completely up to the individual to use or not. In a number of private sectors; however, VIRIS has become a requirement to wear and has become part of uniform in many office buildings and private schools.

==== Children and VIRIS ====

In all models of VIRIS a Children's mode was developed for young kids ages 6-10. This setting was created to first introduce kids into learning about public health and safety. It offers a simplistic representation of the cleanliness of a space before they enter it. Moreover, if children attempt to approach a red zone there is a warning "beeping" sound that the child can hear. It does not provide information to children about the personal information of an individual.

[[File:safe.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Example of what children see through VIRIS lens in a safe environment]]

[[File:danger.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Example of what children see through VIRIS lens in a high-risk environment]]

==== Safety Concerns ====

To get the full experience of VIRIS and ensure that VIRIS lenses last for a full 3 years it is essential to follow the cleaning procedures included in the VIRIS package. A sample cleaning kit is included with a first-time purchase of VIRIS and various subscriptions are available to receive the full cleaning set.

Notifications are sent to smartphones to remind customers that they must clean their lenses after every use at the end of the day. Failure to do so will lead to difficulty in putting the lenses on in the next use. This safety feature is to ensure that the natural eye remains clean and healthy.

For regular contact lens users or those who wear corrective glasses a prescription VIRIS is available - the cleaning procedures are similar with a few added steps outlined in the VIRIS cleaning kit.

== History ==
VIRIS was created in 2020 by LENZ with a Z, a startup created by Bill Gates, Canadian university researchers and Bayer, an international pharmaceutical company. VIRIS was conceptualized as a response to the COVID-19 Pandemic that began in 2019 which lasted until 2022 and resurfaced again in 2025 as VIRIS was still in its infancy and bug fixes were being rolled out to users. The product was secretly developed by LENZ with a Z as Gates, researchers and the medical industry became less confident that enough vaccines could be produced to successfully combat COVID-19 and future pandemics given the widespread damage to economic, social, political and healthcare systems in the wake of COVID-19.

[[File:bayer bill gates.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Gates, Bayer executives and healthcare/agriculture officials at the "Zero By 40 Meeting" 2019]]

=== Project Implementation: 2020-2026 ===

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation already had prior experience with Bayer as Bill Gates had attended a conference to eradicate Malaria by 2040 which he attended in 2019. Due to these prior connections The project to design VIRIS was quickly implemented in the winter of 2020 leading into 2021 as immense funding from The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Bayer pushed the project ahead quite quickly. Consequently, Model X, the company’s initial offering was in the hands of consumers in 2021. This had an immediate impact as users were able to stay away from people and areas that contained any harmful pathogens and this initially accelerated the disappearance of COVID-19 despite reports of a lack of worldwide adherence to social distancing measures.
Rates of Illness steadily declined after Model X was released although a mutated strain of COVID-19 resurfaced in 2025. It was revealed that the resurgence of viral activity was due to a major software bug which incorrectly identified unsafe areas as pathogen-free and vice versa.
Through the discovery of the software bug In Model X update 1.06 it was revealed that VIRIS had many serious social implications as stigma surrounded those with viral activity – and they were often wrongly identified. Some critics argue that the bug issues and stigmatization should be blamed on the growing divide between Gates and Bayer, as the two tried to take LENZ with a Z in different directions. Gates wanted to make (product) more accessible worldwide while Bayer wanted to continue raising the price and marketing Model X to grow the business.

=== Good, Bad and Model Y: 2026-2040 ===

After working out many of the software issues, VIRIS became crucial to eliminating the spread of disease and increasing overall health of the global population. Cures for cancer and HIV became more promising as researchers and the healthcare industry could focus more directly on new areas as preventing pandemics became a secondary concern.
As Governments and NGOs alike had to focus less on illnesses, they turned to fighting against equality issues and realized that VIRIS had negative societal affects as well. Health outcomes of low-income families remained low as they struggled to afford Model X and this disproportionately affected oppressed members of society based on race, gender and sexuality.
Some school boards used VIRIS as a teaching tool to introduce children to public health education and supplied Model X to all students, while many private institutions closed their doors to students who did not have VIRIS due to associated risk, further deepening the wealth gap associated with private schooling.

==== Model Y: 2034 ====

Model Y was seen as a vast improvement over Model X and further protected users, but was also direct proof to critics that VIRIS disparately protected only the wealthy with its retail price of $1500. With its new features, many also began to worry about government agencies and LENZ with a Z collecting data and conducting surveillance on VIRIS users. Model Y also opened the door for new learning opportunities and modalities as the captioning upgrade made second-language learning more accessible and allowed for digital literacy alphanumeric literacy learning to occur simultaneously. This came with a caveat though, as those who could not afford VIRIS were further disadvantaged in the learning system as a result of these resources being out of reach.

=== Onwards: 2040- ===

With the release of Model Z expected soon, many humanitarian organizations are calling for LENZ with a Z to subsidize the cost of VIRIS to low income users or to make the base model, X free so that income, and racialized disparities existing in society are eliminated. Many have argued that VIRIS played a role in exacerbating equity issues worldwide despite alleviating pressure on the global healthcare system.

== Education ==

Revolutionary contact lenses, VIRIS, opened new avenues of change and modification within the education system. VIRIS became an overarching invention, of which its impacts filtrated school curriculums, school funding systems and the pedagogical approaches used in classrooms.

==== Distribution and accessibility ====
Since its launch in 2020, VIRIS proposed multiple concerns of equal access and distribution of the technology amongst students and teachers. Private school institutions remain to exclusively accept students who can afford VIRIS, due to the associated risks of opening doors to those who do not have the contact lenses. This policy further increased economic disparities, between families in public schooling and those in the private schooling system. Consequently, such inequal distribution and accessibility led to an expected increase of positive COVID-19 cases in public schools. [[File:education virus.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Classroom study of VIRIS]]]]

In the same way school boards provide students with technological resources like iPads and Chromebooks, a similar initiative was put in place by The Ministry of Education in 2028 to fund Ontario public school boards, in order to provide students with the virus-detecting technology. This initiative raised issues of inequitable funding, due to inequal distribution of investment money between school districts and regions. More populous areas, saw greater amounts of funding, compared to cases in smaller, less populous regions and districts. As of 2040, schools situated on Indigenous reserves remain inadequately unfunded by the government to provide students and teachers with VIRIS lenses.

==== New Pedagogical Approaches ====
Since the outbreak of COVID-19 in late 2019, there has been a global manifestation of fear towards viruses and bacteria. For this reason, teachers of Grade 3 students or younger, are instructed to employ different pedagogical approaches when teaching the concept of bacteria and viruses. The concept of VIRIS is explained through multimodal teaching pedagogies. Kids are taught that the colour red and the icon “!”, symbolizes “bad” and “harmful”, as a result, one should not go near or touch the area, object or person. On the other hand, the colour green is taught to be a “safe colour”. A feature of VIRIS Model Y signals beeping sounds when someone is entering a red zone. As a result, children are taught in school that certain sounds are associated with danger. Such teaching pedagogies are constructed in relation to multimodal and multimedia pedagogies that integrate diverse semiotics to enhance learning. As society is now vastly digital, similar representations of icons, colours and signs on phones and computers, are used to teach the concept of unsafe infected zones and zones that are safe.

VIRIS has become a teaching tool for second-language acquisition, otherwise known as, L2 learning. The caption feature of Model Y enables students to listen to teachers and peers speak in English, while simultaneously viewing captions in their native language. This feature on VIRIS has been compared to duo-lingual texts, used as pedagogical methods to teach ESL learners by using multiple semiotics from one’s native language and the English language. The duo-lingual feature on VIRIS Model Y has not only made positive impacts on an educational level, but also in the social lives of ESL learners, who now have an easier time communicating and interacting with other peers who only speak English. Moreover, VIRIS Model Y has been used in French classes, to enhance the linguistic proficiency of students, particularly the oral and listening competence of FSL learners.

==== Curriculum Reforms ====
VIRIS has become an overarching invention that has revolutionized social, cultural, economic and political contexts of the world. As a result, in 2026 The Ministry of Education released updated Kindergarten - Grade 12 curriculums, with modified and adapted curriculum goals and expectations.
Social Sciences and Humanities (a course offered at the secondary level), saw significant adaptations in its curriculum, particular in the following subsections: Equity Studies, Health Studies, Sociology and Psychology. In the same way schools address issues of race and intersectionality, teachers teach students about societal, racial and economic discrimination and marginalization created from the invention of VIRIS.

VIRIS has also been integrated in the Science curriculums for students in Grade 7-12, each with a highlighted unit focusing on the symptoms, side effects and functions of VIRIS lenses. Science teachers use VIRIS as case studies and science experiments to teach students the biological interaction between the human eye and brain, in relation to the virus-detecting lenses. Moreover, VIRIS is integrated in history curriculums, as The Ministry of Education found it vital for students to have a profound understanding of the historical events and contexts that have led us to today’s world of VIRIS lenses.

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2020-12-01T03:40:16Z

JoannA: /* Curriculum Reforms */

== VIRIS ==

[[File:smallscreent.jpg|250px|thumb|right|VIRIS Model X]]

[[File:crazy-lens-cyborg-a.jpg|250px|thumb|right|VIRIS Model Y]]

[[File:person.jpg|500px|thumb|right|VIRIS Vision: the lenses give information on person you are looking at for more than 3 seconds]]

VIRIS is a revolutionary contact lens system which allows one to detect any particles which may threaten human health as well as identify citizens who have compromised immune systems. Since 2020 this device has been known to improve public health and look out for the wellbeing of citizens.

There are currently two different models of the device. The first being the standard version, Model X. The Model X is able to detect virus particles - even if they are airborne. They can detect if someone is sick with a viral infection regardless of whether they are showing symptoms or not. Limitations to this model are its lack of ability to fully identify any bacterial infections such as Strep Throat. Moreover, Model X is not able to calculate contagion levels.

The second, and most recent model of VIRIS is Model Y. Model Y offers advanced features. Model Y will give one the ability to view someone’s brief family history, including the country their parents were born in, and any genetic diseases associated with the family. These advanced lenses collect the personal information of the user including legal name, sex, current health-status as well as the age of the individual. Moreover, Model Y offers a bonus feature that allows one to understand different languages. The most recent update allows one to read captions in their preferred language when someone is speaking a different language.

Minimum network requirement to operate this device is a 4G network and also has Wi-Fi capabilities to use. The Model X is now the most affordable device available at a price point of $650-$700 CAD. Model Y, however, is the most widely used and the most expensive at a price point of $1500-$2000 CAD.

=== Initial Release ===

At the beginning of the VIRIS life cycle there were some people who were initially skeptical. LENZ with a Z was quite thorough in their research and development for this product- testing on voluntary people from almost every ethnicity, health status, and gender and weight. Many concerns were regarding whether this product would damage one's natural eye sight. Dr. Ojo - an expert optometrist- made it clear that LENZ with a Z's technology does not further damage natural human eye sight nor does it cause damage to already healthy eyes.

Early Innovators of this technology encouraged the public to accept the benefits of this product and with consistent rising cases of COVID-19 in 2020 it was clear that the human race needed a tool to further understand just how easily transferable the virus was. Once specialists of WHO were involved with LENZ with a Z VIRIS was almost instantly accepted by the public.

=== Is VIRIS for you? ===

The development of VIRIS has brought innovation for safety and improving public health. Many public sectors such as public parks, shopping malls, and public schools understand that not everyone will be able to afford this technology and so the use of VIRIS is completely up to the individual to use or not. In a number of private sectors; however, VIRIS has become a requirement to wear and has become part of uniform in many office buildings and private schools.

==== Children and VIRIS ====

In all models of VIRIS a Children's mode was developed for young kids ages 6-10. This setting was created to first introduce kids into learning about public health and safety. It offers a simplistic representation of the cleanliness of a space before they enter it. Moreover, if children attempt to approach a red zone there is a warning "beeping" sound that the child can hear. It does not provide information to children about the personal information of an individual.

[[File:safe.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Example of what children see through VIRIS lens in a safe environment]]

[[File:danger.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Example of what children see through VIRIS lens in a high-risk environment]]

==== Safety Concerns ====

To get the full experience of VIRIS and ensure that VIRIS lenses last for a full 3 years it is essential to follow the cleaning procedures included in the VIRIS package. A sample cleaning kit is included with a first-time purchase of VIRIS and various subscriptions are available to receive the full cleaning set.

Notifications are sent to smartphones to remind customers that they must clean their lenses after every use at the end of the day. Failure to do so will lead to difficulty in putting the lenses on in the next use. This safety feature is to ensure that the natural eye remains clean and healthy.

For regular contact lens users or those who wear corrective glasses a prescription VIRIS is available - the cleaning procedures are similar with a few added steps outlined in the VIRIS cleaning kit.

== History ==
VIRIS was created in 2020 by LENZ with a Z, a startup created by Bill Gates, Canadian university researchers and Bayer, an international pharmaceutical company. VIRIS was conceptualized as a response to the COVID-19 Pandemic that began in 2019 which lasted until 2022 and resurfaced again in 2025 as VIRIS was still in its infancy and bug fixes were being rolled out to users. The product was secretly developed by LENZ with a Z as Gates, researchers and the medical industry became less confident that enough vaccines could be produced to successfully combat COVID-19 and future pandemics given the widespread damage to economic, social, political and healthcare systems in the wake of COVID-19.

[[File:bayer bill gates.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Gates, Bayer executives and healthcare/agriculture officials at the "Zero By 40 Meeting" 2019]]

=== Project Implementation: 2020-2026 ===

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation already had prior experience with Bayer as Bill Gates had attended a conference to eradicate Malaria by 2040 which he attended in 2019. Due to these prior connections The project to design VIRIS was quickly implemented in the winter of 2020 leading into 2021 as immense funding from The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Bayer pushed the project ahead quite quickly. Consequently, Model X, the company’s initial offering was in the hands of consumers in 2021. This had an immediate impact as users were able to stay away from people and areas that contained any harmful pathogens and this initially accelerated the disappearance of COVID-19 despite reports of a lack of worldwide adherence to social distancing measures.
Rates of Illness steadily declined after Model X was released although a mutated strain of COVID-19 resurfaced in 2025. It was revealed that the resurgence of viral activity was due to a major software bug which incorrectly identified unsafe areas as pathogen-free and vice versa.
Through the discovery of the software bug In Model X update 1.06 it was revealed that VIRIS had many serious social implications as stigma surrounded those with viral activity – and they were often wrongly identified. Some critics argue that the bug issues and stigmatization should be blamed on the growing divide between Gates and Bayer, as the two tried to take LENZ with a Z in different directions. Gates wanted to make (product) more accessible worldwide while Bayer wanted to continue raising the price and marketing Model X to grow the business.

=== Good, Bad and Model Y: 2026-2040 ===

After working out many of the software issues, VIRIS became crucial to eliminating the spread of disease and increasing overall health of the global population. Cures for cancer and HIV became more promising as researchers and the healthcare industry could focus more directly on new areas as preventing pandemics became a secondary concern.
As Governments and NGOs alike had to focus less on illnesses, they turned to fighting against equality issues and realized that VIRIS had negative societal affects as well. Health outcomes of low-income families remained low as they struggled to afford Model X and this disproportionately affected oppressed members of society based on race, gender and sexuality.
Some school boards used VIRIS as a teaching tool to introduce children to public health education and supplied Model X to all students, while many private institutions closed their doors to students who did not have VIRIS due to associated risk, further deepening the wealth gap associated with private schooling.

==== Model Y: 2034 ====

Model Y was seen as a vast improvement over Model X and further protected users, but was also direct proof to critics that VIRIS disparately protected only the wealthy with its retail price of $1500. With its new features, many also began to worry about government agencies and LENZ with a Z collecting data and conducting surveillance on VIRIS users. Model Y also opened the door for new learning opportunities and modalities as the captioning upgrade made second-language learning more accessible and allowed for digital literacy alphanumeric literacy learning to occur simultaneously. This came with a caveat though, as those who could not afford VIRIS were further disadvantaged in the learning system as a result of these resources being out of reach.

=== Onwards: 2040- ===

With the release of Model Z expected soon, many humanitarian organizations are calling for LENZ with a Z to subsidize the cost of VIRIS to low income users or to make the base model, X free so that income, and racialized disparities existing in society are eliminated. Many have argued that VIRIS played a role in exacerbating equity issues worldwide despite alleviating pressure on the global healthcare system.

== Education ==

Revolutionary contact lenses, VIRIS, opened new avenues of change and modification within the education system. VIRIS became an overarching invention, of which its impacts filtrated school curriculums, school funding systems and the pedagogical approaches used in classrooms.

==== Distribution and accessibility ====
Since its launch in 2020, VIRIS proposed multiple concerns of equal access and distribution of the technology amongst students and teachers. Private school institutions remain to exclusively accept students who can afford VIRIS, due to the associated risks of opening doors to those who do not have the contact lenses. This policy further increased economic disparities, between families in public schooling and those in the private schooling system. Consequently, such inequal distribution and accessibility led to an expected increase of positive COVID-19 cases in public schools.

In the same way school boards provide students with technological resources like iPads and Chromebooks, a similar initiative was put in place by The Ministry of Education in 2028 to fund Ontario public school boards, in order to provide students with the virus-detecting technology. This initiative raised issues of inequitable funding, due to inequal distribution of investment money between school districts and regions. More populous areas, saw greater amounts of funding, compared to cases in smaller, less populous regions and districts. As of 2040, schools situated on Indigenous reserves remain inadequately unfunded by the government to provide students and teachers with VIRIS lenses.

==== New Pedagogical Approaches ====
Since the outbreak of COVID-19 in late 2019, there has been a global manifestation of fear towards viruses and bacteria. For this reason, teachers of Grade 3 students or younger, are instructed to employ different pedagogical approaches when teaching the concept of bacteria and viruses. The concept of VIRIS is explained through multimodal teaching pedagogies. Kids are taught that the colour red and the icon “!”, symbolizes “bad” and “harmful”, as a result, one should not go near or touch the area, object or person. On the other hand, the colour green is taught to be a “safe colour”. A feature of VIRIS Model Y signals beeping sounds when someone is entering a red zone. As a result, children are taught in school that certain sounds are associated with danger. Such teaching pedagogies are constructed in relation to multimodal and multimedia pedagogies that integrate diverse semiotics to enhance learning. As society is now vastly digital, similar representations of icons, colours and signs on phones and computers, are used to teach the concept of unsafe infected zones and zones that are safe.

VIRIS has become a teaching tool for second-language acquisition, otherwise known as, L2 learning. The caption feature of Model Y enables students to listen to teachers and peers speak in English, while simultaneously viewing captions in their native language. This feature on VIRIS has been compared to duo-lingual texts, used as pedagogical methods to teach ESL learners by using multiple semiotics from one’s native language and the English language. The duo-lingual feature on VIRIS Model Y has not only made positive impacts on an educational level, but also in the social lives of ESL learners, who now have an easier time communicating and interacting with other peers who only speak English. Moreover, VIRIS Model Y has been used in French classes, to enhance the linguistic proficiency of students, particularly the oral and listening competence of FSL learners.

==== Curriculum Reforms ====
VIRIS has become an overarching invention that has revolutionized social, cultural, economic and political contexts of the world. As a result, in 2026 The Ministry of Education released updated Kindergarten - Grade 12 curriculums, with modified and adapted curriculum goals and expectations.
Social Sciences and Humanities (a course offered at the secondary level), saw significant adaptations in its curriculum, particular in the following subsections: Equity Studies, Health Studies, Sociology and Psychology. In the same way schools address issues of race and intersectionality, teachers teach students about societal, racial and economic discrimination and marginalization created from the invention of VIRIS.

VIRIS has also been integrated in the Science curriculums for students in Grade 7-12, each with a highlighted unit focusing on the symptoms, side effects and functions of VIRIS lenses. Science teachers use VIRIS as case studies and science experiments to teach students the biological interaction between the human eye and brain, in relation to the virus-detecting lenses. Moreover, VIRIS is integrated in history curriculums, as The Ministry of Education found it vital for students to have a profound understanding of the historical events and contexts that have led us to today’s world of VIRIS lenses.

World 8

2020-12-01T03:40:00Z

JoannA: /* Distribution and accessibility */

== VIRIS ==

[[File:smallscreent.jpg|250px|thumb|right|VIRIS Model X]]

[[File:crazy-lens-cyborg-a.jpg|250px|thumb|right|VIRIS Model Y]]

[[File:person.jpg|500px|thumb|right|VIRIS Vision: the lenses give information on person you are looking at for more than 3 seconds]]

VIRIS is a revolutionary contact lens system which allows one to detect any particles which may threaten human health as well as identify citizens who have compromised immune systems. Since 2020 this device has been known to improve public health and look out for the wellbeing of citizens.

There are currently two different models of the device. The first being the standard version, Model X. The Model X is able to detect virus particles - even if they are airborne. They can detect if someone is sick with a viral infection regardless of whether they are showing symptoms or not. Limitations to this model are its lack of ability to fully identify any bacterial infections such as Strep Throat. Moreover, Model X is not able to calculate contagion levels.

The second, and most recent model of VIRIS is Model Y. Model Y offers advanced features. Model Y will give one the ability to view someone’s brief family history, including the country their parents were born in, and any genetic diseases associated with the family. These advanced lenses collect the personal information of the user including legal name, sex, current health-status as well as the age of the individual. Moreover, Model Y offers a bonus feature that allows one to understand different languages. The most recent update allows one to read captions in their preferred language when someone is speaking a different language.

Minimum network requirement to operate this device is a 4G network and also has Wi-Fi capabilities to use. The Model X is now the most affordable device available at a price point of $650-$700 CAD. Model Y, however, is the most widely used and the most expensive at a price point of $1500-$2000 CAD.

=== Initial Release ===

At the beginning of the VIRIS life cycle there were some people who were initially skeptical. LENZ with a Z was quite thorough in their research and development for this product- testing on voluntary people from almost every ethnicity, health status, and gender and weight. Many concerns were regarding whether this product would damage one's natural eye sight. Dr. Ojo - an expert optometrist- made it clear that LENZ with a Z's technology does not further damage natural human eye sight nor does it cause damage to already healthy eyes.

Early Innovators of this technology encouraged the public to accept the benefits of this product and with consistent rising cases of COVID-19 in 2020 it was clear that the human race needed a tool to further understand just how easily transferable the virus was. Once specialists of WHO were involved with LENZ with a Z VIRIS was almost instantly accepted by the public.

=== Is VIRIS for you? ===

The development of VIRIS has brought innovation for safety and improving public health. Many public sectors such as public parks, shopping malls, and public schools understand that not everyone will be able to afford this technology and so the use of VIRIS is completely up to the individual to use or not. In a number of private sectors; however, VIRIS has become a requirement to wear and has become part of uniform in many office buildings and private schools.

==== Children and VIRIS ====

In all models of VIRIS a Children's mode was developed for young kids ages 6-10. This setting was created to first introduce kids into learning about public health and safety. It offers a simplistic representation of the cleanliness of a space before they enter it. Moreover, if children attempt to approach a red zone there is a warning "beeping" sound that the child can hear. It does not provide information to children about the personal information of an individual.

[[File:safe.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Example of what children see through VIRIS lens in a safe environment]]

[[File:danger.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Example of what children see through VIRIS lens in a high-risk environment]]

==== Safety Concerns ====

To get the full experience of VIRIS and ensure that VIRIS lenses last for a full 3 years it is essential to follow the cleaning procedures included in the VIRIS package. A sample cleaning kit is included with a first-time purchase of VIRIS and various subscriptions are available to receive the full cleaning set.

Notifications are sent to smartphones to remind customers that they must clean their lenses after every use at the end of the day. Failure to do so will lead to difficulty in putting the lenses on in the next use. This safety feature is to ensure that the natural eye remains clean and healthy.

For regular contact lens users or those who wear corrective glasses a prescription VIRIS is available - the cleaning procedures are similar with a few added steps outlined in the VIRIS cleaning kit.

== History ==
VIRIS was created in 2020 by LENZ with a Z, a startup created by Bill Gates, Canadian university researchers and Bayer, an international pharmaceutical company. VIRIS was conceptualized as a response to the COVID-19 Pandemic that began in 2019 which lasted until 2022 and resurfaced again in 2025 as VIRIS was still in its infancy and bug fixes were being rolled out to users. The product was secretly developed by LENZ with a Z as Gates, researchers and the medical industry became less confident that enough vaccines could be produced to successfully combat COVID-19 and future pandemics given the widespread damage to economic, social, political and healthcare systems in the wake of COVID-19.

[[File:bayer bill gates.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Gates, Bayer executives and healthcare/agriculture officials at the "Zero By 40 Meeting" 2019]]

=== Project Implementation: 2020-2026 ===

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation already had prior experience with Bayer as Bill Gates had attended a conference to eradicate Malaria by 2040 which he attended in 2019. Due to these prior connections The project to design VIRIS was quickly implemented in the winter of 2020 leading into 2021 as immense funding from The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Bayer pushed the project ahead quite quickly. Consequently, Model X, the company’s initial offering was in the hands of consumers in 2021. This had an immediate impact as users were able to stay away from people and areas that contained any harmful pathogens and this initially accelerated the disappearance of COVID-19 despite reports of a lack of worldwide adherence to social distancing measures.
Rates of Illness steadily declined after Model X was released although a mutated strain of COVID-19 resurfaced in 2025. It was revealed that the resurgence of viral activity was due to a major software bug which incorrectly identified unsafe areas as pathogen-free and vice versa.
Through the discovery of the software bug In Model X update 1.06 it was revealed that VIRIS had many serious social implications as stigma surrounded those with viral activity – and they were often wrongly identified. Some critics argue that the bug issues and stigmatization should be blamed on the growing divide between Gates and Bayer, as the two tried to take LENZ with a Z in different directions. Gates wanted to make (product) more accessible worldwide while Bayer wanted to continue raising the price and marketing Model X to grow the business.

=== Good, Bad and Model Y: 2026-2040 ===

After working out many of the software issues, VIRIS became crucial to eliminating the spread of disease and increasing overall health of the global population. Cures for cancer and HIV became more promising as researchers and the healthcare industry could focus more directly on new areas as preventing pandemics became a secondary concern.
As Governments and NGOs alike had to focus less on illnesses, they turned to fighting against equality issues and realized that VIRIS had negative societal affects as well. Health outcomes of low-income families remained low as they struggled to afford Model X and this disproportionately affected oppressed members of society based on race, gender and sexuality.
Some school boards used VIRIS as a teaching tool to introduce children to public health education and supplied Model X to all students, while many private institutions closed their doors to students who did not have VIRIS due to associated risk, further deepening the wealth gap associated with private schooling.

==== Model Y: 2034 ====

Model Y was seen as a vast improvement over Model X and further protected users, but was also direct proof to critics that VIRIS disparately protected only the wealthy with its retail price of $1500. With its new features, many also began to worry about government agencies and LENZ with a Z collecting data and conducting surveillance on VIRIS users. Model Y also opened the door for new learning opportunities and modalities as the captioning upgrade made second-language learning more accessible and allowed for digital literacy alphanumeric literacy learning to occur simultaneously. This came with a caveat though, as those who could not afford VIRIS were further disadvantaged in the learning system as a result of these resources being out of reach.

=== Onwards: 2040- ===

With the release of Model Z expected soon, many humanitarian organizations are calling for LENZ with a Z to subsidize the cost of VIRIS to low income users or to make the base model, X free so that income, and racialized disparities existing in society are eliminated. Many have argued that VIRIS played a role in exacerbating equity issues worldwide despite alleviating pressure on the global healthcare system.

== Education ==

Revolutionary contact lenses, VIRIS, opened new avenues of change and modification within the education system. VIRIS became an overarching invention, of which its impacts filtrated school curriculums, school funding systems and the pedagogical approaches used in classrooms.

==== Distribution and accessibility ====
Since its launch in 2020, VIRIS proposed multiple concerns of equal access and distribution of the technology amongst students and teachers. Private school institutions remain to exclusively accept students who can afford VIRIS, due to the associated risks of opening doors to those who do not have the contact lenses. This policy further increased economic disparities, between families in public schooling and those in the private schooling system. Consequently, such inequal distribution and accessibility led to an expected increase of positive COVID-19 cases in public schools.

In the same way school boards provide students with technological resources like iPads and Chromebooks, a similar initiative was put in place by The Ministry of Education in 2028 to fund Ontario public school boards, in order to provide students with the virus-detecting technology. This initiative raised issues of inequitable funding, due to inequal distribution of investment money between school districts and regions. More populous areas, saw greater amounts of funding, compared to cases in smaller, less populous regions and districts. As of 2040, schools situated on Indigenous reserves remain inadequately unfunded by the government to provide students and teachers with VIRIS lenses.

==== New Pedagogical Approaches ====
Since the outbreak of COVID-19 in late 2019, there has been a global manifestation of fear towards viruses and bacteria. For this reason, teachers of Grade 3 students or younger, are instructed to employ different pedagogical approaches when teaching the concept of bacteria and viruses. The concept of VIRIS is explained through multimodal teaching pedagogies. Kids are taught that the colour red and the icon “!”, symbolizes “bad” and “harmful”, as a result, one should not go near or touch the area, object or person. On the other hand, the colour green is taught to be a “safe colour”. A feature of VIRIS Model Y signals beeping sounds when someone is entering a red zone. As a result, children are taught in school that certain sounds are associated with danger. Such teaching pedagogies are constructed in relation to multimodal and multimedia pedagogies that integrate diverse semiotics to enhance learning. As society is now vastly digital, similar representations of icons, colours and signs on phones and computers, are used to teach the concept of unsafe infected zones and zones that are safe.

VIRIS has become a teaching tool for second-language acquisition, otherwise known as, L2 learning. The caption feature of Model Y enables students to listen to teachers and peers speak in English, while simultaneously viewing captions in their native language. This feature on VIRIS has been compared to duo-lingual texts, used as pedagogical methods to teach ESL learners by using multiple semiotics from one’s native language and the English language. The duo-lingual feature on VIRIS Model Y has not only made positive impacts on an educational level, but also in the social lives of ESL learners, who now have an easier time communicating and interacting with other peers who only speak English. Moreover, VIRIS Model Y has been used in French classes, to enhance the linguistic proficiency of students, particularly the oral and listening competence of FSL learners.

==== Curriculum Reforms ====
VIRIS has become an overarching invention that has revolutionized social, cultural, economic and political contexts of the world. As a result, in 2026 The Ministry of Education released updated Kindergarten - Grade 12 curriculums, with modified and adapted curriculum goals and expectations.
Social Sciences and Humanities (a course offered at the secondary level), saw significant adaptations in its curriculum, particular in the following subsections: Equity Studies, Health Studies, Sociology and Psychology. In the same way schools address issues of race and intersectionality, teachers teach students about societal, racial and economic discrimination and marginalization created from the invention of VIRIS.
VIRIS has also been integrated in the Science curriculums for students in Grade 7-12, each with a highlighted unit focusing on the symptoms, side effects and functions of VIRIS lenses. Science teachers use VIRIS as case studies and science experiments to teach students the biological interaction between the human eye and brain, in relation to the virus-detecting lenses. Moreover, VIRIS is integrated in history curriculums, as The Ministry of Education found it vital for students to have a profound understanding of the historical events and contexts that have led us to today’s world of VIRIS lenses.

World 8

2020-12-01T03:39:26Z

JoannA: /* Curriculum Reforms */

== VIRIS ==

[[File:smallscreent.jpg|250px|thumb|right|VIRIS Model X]]

[[File:crazy-lens-cyborg-a.jpg|250px|thumb|right|VIRIS Model Y]]

[[File:person.jpg|500px|thumb|right|VIRIS Vision: the lenses give information on person you are looking at for more than 3 seconds]]

VIRIS is a revolutionary contact lens system which allows one to detect any particles which may threaten human health as well as identify citizens who have compromised immune systems. Since 2020 this device has been known to improve public health and look out for the wellbeing of citizens.

There are currently two different models of the device. The first being the standard version, Model X. The Model X is able to detect virus particles - even if they are airborne. They can detect if someone is sick with a viral infection regardless of whether they are showing symptoms or not. Limitations to this model are its lack of ability to fully identify any bacterial infections such as Strep Throat. Moreover, Model X is not able to calculate contagion levels.

The second, and most recent model of VIRIS is Model Y. Model Y offers advanced features. Model Y will give one the ability to view someone’s brief family history, including the country their parents were born in, and any genetic diseases associated with the family. These advanced lenses collect the personal information of the user including legal name, sex, current health-status as well as the age of the individual. Moreover, Model Y offers a bonus feature that allows one to understand different languages. The most recent update allows one to read captions in their preferred language when someone is speaking a different language.

Minimum network requirement to operate this device is a 4G network and also has Wi-Fi capabilities to use. The Model X is now the most affordable device available at a price point of $650-$700 CAD. Model Y, however, is the most widely used and the most expensive at a price point of $1500-$2000 CAD.

=== Initial Release ===

At the beginning of the VIRIS life cycle there were some people who were initially skeptical. LENZ with a Z was quite thorough in their research and development for this product- testing on voluntary people from almost every ethnicity, health status, and gender and weight. Many concerns were regarding whether this product would damage one's natural eye sight. Dr. Ojo - an expert optometrist- made it clear that LENZ with a Z's technology does not further damage natural human eye sight nor does it cause damage to already healthy eyes.

Early Innovators of this technology encouraged the public to accept the benefits of this product and with consistent rising cases of COVID-19 in 2020 it was clear that the human race needed a tool to further understand just how easily transferable the virus was. Once specialists of WHO were involved with LENZ with a Z VIRIS was almost instantly accepted by the public.

=== Is VIRIS for you? ===

The development of VIRIS has brought innovation for safety and improving public health. Many public sectors such as public parks, shopping malls, and public schools understand that not everyone will be able to afford this technology and so the use of VIRIS is completely up to the individual to use or not. In a number of private sectors; however, VIRIS has become a requirement to wear and has become part of uniform in many office buildings and private schools.

==== Children and VIRIS ====

In all models of VIRIS a Children's mode was developed for young kids ages 6-10. This setting was created to first introduce kids into learning about public health and safety. It offers a simplistic representation of the cleanliness of a space before they enter it. Moreover, if children attempt to approach a red zone there is a warning "beeping" sound that the child can hear. It does not provide information to children about the personal information of an individual.

[[File:safe.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Example of what children see through VIRIS lens in a safe environment]]

[[File:danger.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Example of what children see through VIRIS lens in a high-risk environment]]

==== Safety Concerns ====

To get the full experience of VIRIS and ensure that VIRIS lenses last for a full 3 years it is essential to follow the cleaning procedures included in the VIRIS package. A sample cleaning kit is included with a first-time purchase of VIRIS and various subscriptions are available to receive the full cleaning set.

Notifications are sent to smartphones to remind customers that they must clean their lenses after every use at the end of the day. Failure to do so will lead to difficulty in putting the lenses on in the next use. This safety feature is to ensure that the natural eye remains clean and healthy.

For regular contact lens users or those who wear corrective glasses a prescription VIRIS is available - the cleaning procedures are similar with a few added steps outlined in the VIRIS cleaning kit.

== History ==
VIRIS was created in 2020 by LENZ with a Z, a startup created by Bill Gates, Canadian university researchers and Bayer, an international pharmaceutical company. VIRIS was conceptualized as a response to the COVID-19 Pandemic that began in 2019 which lasted until 2022 and resurfaced again in 2025 as VIRIS was still in its infancy and bug fixes were being rolled out to users. The product was secretly developed by LENZ with a Z as Gates, researchers and the medical industry became less confident that enough vaccines could be produced to successfully combat COVID-19 and future pandemics given the widespread damage to economic, social, political and healthcare systems in the wake of COVID-19.

[[File:bayer bill gates.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Gates, Bayer executives and healthcare/agriculture officials at the "Zero By 40 Meeting" 2019]]

=== Project Implementation: 2020-2026 ===

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation already had prior experience with Bayer as Bill Gates had attended a conference to eradicate Malaria by 2040 which he attended in 2019. Due to these prior connections The project to design VIRIS was quickly implemented in the winter of 2020 leading into 2021 as immense funding from The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Bayer pushed the project ahead quite quickly. Consequently, Model X, the company’s initial offering was in the hands of consumers in 2021. This had an immediate impact as users were able to stay away from people and areas that contained any harmful pathogens and this initially accelerated the disappearance of COVID-19 despite reports of a lack of worldwide adherence to social distancing measures.
Rates of Illness steadily declined after Model X was released although a mutated strain of COVID-19 resurfaced in 2025. It was revealed that the resurgence of viral activity was due to a major software bug which incorrectly identified unsafe areas as pathogen-free and vice versa.
Through the discovery of the software bug In Model X update 1.06 it was revealed that VIRIS had many serious social implications as stigma surrounded those with viral activity – and they were often wrongly identified. Some critics argue that the bug issues and stigmatization should be blamed on the growing divide between Gates and Bayer, as the two tried to take LENZ with a Z in different directions. Gates wanted to make (product) more accessible worldwide while Bayer wanted to continue raising the price and marketing Model X to grow the business.

=== Good, Bad and Model Y: 2026-2040 ===

After working out many of the software issues, VIRIS became crucial to eliminating the spread of disease and increasing overall health of the global population. Cures for cancer and HIV became more promising as researchers and the healthcare industry could focus more directly on new areas as preventing pandemics became a secondary concern.
As Governments and NGOs alike had to focus less on illnesses, they turned to fighting against equality issues and realized that VIRIS had negative societal affects as well. Health outcomes of low-income families remained low as they struggled to afford Model X and this disproportionately affected oppressed members of society based on race, gender and sexuality.
Some school boards used VIRIS as a teaching tool to introduce children to public health education and supplied Model X to all students, while many private institutions closed their doors to students who did not have VIRIS due to associated risk, further deepening the wealth gap associated with private schooling.

==== Model Y: 2034 ====

Model Y was seen as a vast improvement over Model X and further protected users, but was also direct proof to critics that VIRIS disparately protected only the wealthy with its retail price of $1500. With its new features, many also began to worry about government agencies and LENZ with a Z collecting data and conducting surveillance on VIRIS users. Model Y also opened the door for new learning opportunities and modalities as the captioning upgrade made second-language learning more accessible and allowed for digital literacy alphanumeric literacy learning to occur simultaneously. This came with a caveat though, as those who could not afford VIRIS were further disadvantaged in the learning system as a result of these resources being out of reach.

=== Onwards: 2040- ===

With the release of Model Z expected soon, many humanitarian organizations are calling for LENZ with a Z to subsidize the cost of VIRIS to low income users or to make the base model, X free so that income, and racialized disparities existing in society are eliminated. Many have argued that VIRIS played a role in exacerbating equity issues worldwide despite alleviating pressure on the global healthcare system.

== Education ==

Revolutionary contact lenses, VIRIS, opened new avenues of change and modification within the education system. VIRIS became an overarching invention, of which its impacts filtrated school curriculums, school funding systems and the pedagogical approaches used in classrooms.

==== Distribution and accessibility ====
Since its launch in 2020, VIRIS proposed multiple concerns of equal access and distribution of the technology amongst students and teachers. Private school institutions remain to exclusively accept students who can afford VIRIS, due to the associated risks of opening doors to those who do not have the contact lenses. This policy further increased economic disparities, between families in public schooling and those in the private schooling system. Consequently, such inequal distribution and accessibility led to an expected increase of positive COVID-19 cases in public schools.

In the same way school boards provide students with technological resources like iPads and Chromebooks, a similar initiative was put in place by The Ministry of Education in 2028 to fund Ontario public school boards, in order to provide students with the virus-detecting technology. This initiative raised issues of inequitable funding, due to inequal distribution of investment money between school districts and regions. More populous areas, saw greater amounts of funding, compared to cases in smaller, less populous regions and districts. As of 2040, schools situated on Indigenous reserves remain inadequately unfunded by the government to provide students and teachers with VIRIS lenses.

==== Distribution and accessibility ====
Since the outbreak of COVID-19 in late 2019, there has been a global manifestation of fear towards viruses and bacteria. For this reason, teachers of Grade 3 students or younger, are instructed to employ different pedagogical approaches when teaching the concept of bacteria and viruses. The concept of VIRIS is explained through multimodal teaching pedagogies. Kids are taught that the colour red and the icon “!”, symbolizes “bad” and “harmful”, as a result, one should not go near or touch the area, object or person. On the other hand, the colour green is taught to be a “safe colour”. A feature of VIRIS Model Y signals beeping sounds when someone is entering a red zone. As a result, children are taught in school that certain sounds are associated with danger. Such teaching pedagogies are constructed in relation to multimodal and multimedia pedagogies that integrate diverse semiotics to enhance learning. As society is now vastly digital, similar representations of icons, colours and signs on phones and computers, are used to teach the concept of unsafe infected zones and zones that are safe.

VIRIS has become a teaching tool for second-language acquisition, otherwise known as, L2 learning. The caption feature of Model Y enables students to listen to teachers and peers speak in English, while simultaneously viewing captions in their native language. This feature on VIRIS has been compared to duo-lingual texts, used as pedagogical methods to teach ESL learners by using multiple semiotics from one’s native language and the English language. The duo-lingual feature on VIRIS Model Y has not only made positive impacts on an educational level, but also in the social lives of ESL learners, who now have an easier time communicating and interacting with other peers who only speak English. Moreover, VIRIS Model Y has been used in French classes, to enhance the linguistic proficiency of students, particularly the oral and listening competence of FSL learners.

==== Curriculum Reforms ====
VIRIS has become an overarching invention that has revolutionized social, cultural, economic and political contexts of the world. As a result, in 2026 The Ministry of Education released updated Kindergarten - Grade 12 curriculums, with modified and adapted curriculum goals and expectations.
Social Sciences and Humanities (a course offered at the secondary level), saw significant adaptations in its curriculum, particular in the following subsections: Equity Studies, Health Studies, Sociology and Psychology. In the same way schools address issues of race and intersectionality, teachers teach students about societal, racial and economic discrimination and marginalization created from the invention of VIRIS.
VIRIS has also been integrated in the Science curriculums for students in Grade 7-12, each with a highlighted unit focusing on the symptoms, side effects and functions of VIRIS lenses. Science teachers use VIRIS as case studies and science experiments to teach students the biological interaction between the human eye and brain, in relation to the virus-detecting lenses. Moreover, VIRIS is integrated in history curriculums, as The Ministry of Education found it vital for students to have a profound understanding of the historical events and contexts that have led us to today’s world of VIRIS lenses.

World 8

2020-12-01T03:38:44Z

JoannA:

== VIRIS ==

[[File:smallscreent.jpg|250px|thumb|right|VIRIS Model X]]

[[File:crazy-lens-cyborg-a.jpg|250px|thumb|right|VIRIS Model Y]]

[[File:person.jpg|500px|thumb|right|VIRIS Vision: the lenses give information on person you are looking at for more than 3 seconds]]

VIRIS is a revolutionary contact lens system which allows one to detect any particles which may threaten human health as well as identify citizens who have compromised immune systems. Since 2020 this device has been known to improve public health and look out for the wellbeing of citizens.

There are currently two different models of the device. The first being the standard version, Model X. The Model X is able to detect virus particles - even if they are airborne. They can detect if someone is sick with a viral infection regardless of whether they are showing symptoms or not. Limitations to this model are its lack of ability to fully identify any bacterial infections such as Strep Throat. Moreover, Model X is not able to calculate contagion levels.

The second, and most recent model of VIRIS is Model Y. Model Y offers advanced features. Model Y will give one the ability to view someone’s brief family history, including the country their parents were born in, and any genetic diseases associated with the family. These advanced lenses collect the personal information of the user including legal name, sex, current health-status as well as the age of the individual. Moreover, Model Y offers a bonus feature that allows one to understand different languages. The most recent update allows one to read captions in their preferred language when someone is speaking a different language.

Minimum network requirement to operate this device is a 4G network and also has Wi-Fi capabilities to use. The Model X is now the most affordable device available at a price point of $650-$700 CAD. Model Y, however, is the most widely used and the most expensive at a price point of $1500-$2000 CAD.

=== Initial Release ===

At the beginning of the VIRIS life cycle there were some people who were initially skeptical. LENZ with a Z was quite thorough in their research and development for this product- testing on voluntary people from almost every ethnicity, health status, and gender and weight. Many concerns were regarding whether this product would damage one's natural eye sight. Dr. Ojo - an expert optometrist- made it clear that LENZ with a Z's technology does not further damage natural human eye sight nor does it cause damage to already healthy eyes.

Early Innovators of this technology encouraged the public to accept the benefits of this product and with consistent rising cases of COVID-19 in 2020 it was clear that the human race needed a tool to further understand just how easily transferable the virus was. Once specialists of WHO were involved with LENZ with a Z VIRIS was almost instantly accepted by the public.

=== Is VIRIS for you? ===

The development of VIRIS has brought innovation for safety and improving public health. Many public sectors such as public parks, shopping malls, and public schools understand that not everyone will be able to afford this technology and so the use of VIRIS is completely up to the individual to use or not. In a number of private sectors; however, VIRIS has become a requirement to wear and has become part of uniform in many office buildings and private schools.

==== Children and VIRIS ====

In all models of VIRIS a Children's mode was developed for young kids ages 6-10. This setting was created to first introduce kids into learning about public health and safety. It offers a simplistic representation of the cleanliness of a space before they enter it. Moreover, if children attempt to approach a red zone there is a warning "beeping" sound that the child can hear. It does not provide information to children about the personal information of an individual.

[[File:safe.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Example of what children see through VIRIS lens in a safe environment]]

[[File:danger.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Example of what children see through VIRIS lens in a high-risk environment]]

==== Safety Concerns ====

To get the full experience of VIRIS and ensure that VIRIS lenses last for a full 3 years it is essential to follow the cleaning procedures included in the VIRIS package. A sample cleaning kit is included with a first-time purchase of VIRIS and various subscriptions are available to receive the full cleaning set.

Notifications are sent to smartphones to remind customers that they must clean their lenses after every use at the end of the day. Failure to do so will lead to difficulty in putting the lenses on in the next use. This safety feature is to ensure that the natural eye remains clean and healthy.

For regular contact lens users or those who wear corrective glasses a prescription VIRIS is available - the cleaning procedures are similar with a few added steps outlined in the VIRIS cleaning kit.

== History ==
VIRIS was created in 2020 by LENZ with a Z, a startup created by Bill Gates, Canadian university researchers and Bayer, an international pharmaceutical company. VIRIS was conceptualized as a response to the COVID-19 Pandemic that began in 2019 which lasted until 2022 and resurfaced again in 2025 as VIRIS was still in its infancy and bug fixes were being rolled out to users. The product was secretly developed by LENZ with a Z as Gates, researchers and the medical industry became less confident that enough vaccines could be produced to successfully combat COVID-19 and future pandemics given the widespread damage to economic, social, political and healthcare systems in the wake of COVID-19.

[[File:bayer bill gates.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Gates, Bayer executives and healthcare/agriculture officials at the "Zero By 40 Meeting" 2019]]

=== Project Implementation: 2020-2026 ===

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation already had prior experience with Bayer as Bill Gates had attended a conference to eradicate Malaria by 2040 which he attended in 2019. Due to these prior connections The project to design VIRIS was quickly implemented in the winter of 2020 leading into 2021 as immense funding from The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Bayer pushed the project ahead quite quickly. Consequently, Model X, the company’s initial offering was in the hands of consumers in 2021. This had an immediate impact as users were able to stay away from people and areas that contained any harmful pathogens and this initially accelerated the disappearance of COVID-19 despite reports of a lack of worldwide adherence to social distancing measures.
Rates of Illness steadily declined after Model X was released although a mutated strain of COVID-19 resurfaced in 2025. It was revealed that the resurgence of viral activity was due to a major software bug which incorrectly identified unsafe areas as pathogen-free and vice versa.
Through the discovery of the software bug In Model X update 1.06 it was revealed that VIRIS had many serious social implications as stigma surrounded those with viral activity – and they were often wrongly identified. Some critics argue that the bug issues and stigmatization should be blamed on the growing divide between Gates and Bayer, as the two tried to take LENZ with a Z in different directions. Gates wanted to make (product) more accessible worldwide while Bayer wanted to continue raising the price and marketing Model X to grow the business.

=== Good, Bad and Model Y: 2026-2040 ===

After working out many of the software issues, VIRIS became crucial to eliminating the spread of disease and increasing overall health of the global population. Cures for cancer and HIV became more promising as researchers and the healthcare industry could focus more directly on new areas as preventing pandemics became a secondary concern.
As Governments and NGOs alike had to focus less on illnesses, they turned to fighting against equality issues and realized that VIRIS had negative societal affects as well. Health outcomes of low-income families remained low as they struggled to afford Model X and this disproportionately affected oppressed members of society based on race, gender and sexuality.
Some school boards used VIRIS as a teaching tool to introduce children to public health education and supplied Model X to all students, while many private institutions closed their doors to students who did not have VIRIS due to associated risk, further deepening the wealth gap associated with private schooling.

==== Model Y: 2034 ====

Model Y was seen as a vast improvement over Model X and further protected users, but was also direct proof to critics that VIRIS disparately protected only the wealthy with its retail price of $1500. With its new features, many also began to worry about government agencies and LENZ with a Z collecting data and conducting surveillance on VIRIS users. Model Y also opened the door for new learning opportunities and modalities as the captioning upgrade made second-language learning more accessible and allowed for digital literacy alphanumeric literacy learning to occur simultaneously. This came with a caveat though, as those who could not afford VIRIS were further disadvantaged in the learning system as a result of these resources being out of reach.

=== Onwards: 2040- ===

With the release of Model Z expected soon, many humanitarian organizations are calling for LENZ with a Z to subsidize the cost of VIRIS to low income users or to make the base model, X free so that income, and racialized disparities existing in society are eliminated. Many have argued that VIRIS played a role in exacerbating equity issues worldwide despite alleviating pressure on the global healthcare system.

== Education ==

Revolutionary contact lenses, VIRIS, opened new avenues of change and modification within the education system. VIRIS became an overarching invention, of which its impacts filtrated school curriculums, school funding systems and the pedagogical approaches used in classrooms.

==== Distribution and accessibility ====
Since its launch in 2020, VIRIS proposed multiple concerns of equal access and distribution of the technology amongst students and teachers. Private school institutions remain to exclusively accept students who can afford VIRIS, due to the associated risks of opening doors to those who do not have the contact lenses. This policy further increased economic disparities, between families in public schooling and those in the private schooling system. Consequently, such inequal distribution and accessibility led to an expected increase of positive COVID-19 cases in public schools.

In the same way school boards provide students with technological resources like iPads and Chromebooks, a similar initiative was put in place by The Ministry of Education in 2028 to fund Ontario public school boards, in order to provide students with the virus-detecting technology. This initiative raised issues of inequitable funding, due to inequal distribution of investment money between school districts and regions. More populous areas, saw greater amounts of funding, compared to cases in smaller, less populous regions and districts. As of 2040, schools situated on Indigenous reserves remain inadequately unfunded by the government to provide students and teachers with VIRIS lenses.

==== Distribution and accessibility ====
Since the outbreak of COVID-19 in late 2019, there has been a global manifestation of fear towards viruses and bacteria. For this reason, teachers of Grade 3 students or younger, are instructed to employ different pedagogical approaches when teaching the concept of bacteria and viruses. The concept of VIRIS is explained through multimodal teaching pedagogies. Kids are taught that the colour red and the icon “!”, symbolizes “bad” and “harmful”, as a result, one should not go near or touch the area, object or person. On the other hand, the colour green is taught to be a “safe colour”. A feature of VIRIS Model Y signals beeping sounds when someone is entering a red zone. As a result, children are taught in school that certain sounds are associated with danger. Such teaching pedagogies are constructed in relation to multimodal and multimedia pedagogies that integrate diverse semiotics to enhance learning. As society is now vastly digital, similar representations of icons, colours and signs on phones and computers, are used to teach the concept of unsafe infected zones and zones that are safe.

VIRIS has become a teaching tool for second-language acquisition, otherwise known as, L2 learning. The caption feature of Model Y enables students to listen to teachers and peers speak in English, while simultaneously viewing captions in their native language. This feature on VIRIS has been compared to duo-lingual texts, used as pedagogical methods to teach ESL learners by using multiple semiotics from one’s native language and the English language. The duo-lingual feature on VIRIS Model Y has not only made positive impacts on an educational level, but also in the social lives of ESL learners, who now have an easier time communicating and interacting with other peers who only speak English. Moreover, VIRIS Model Y has been used in French classes, to enhance the linguistic proficiency of students, particularly the oral and listening competence of FSL learners.

==== Curriculum Reforms ====
VIRIS has become an overarching invention that has revolutionized social, cultural, economic and political contexts of the world. As a result, in 2026 The Ministry of Education released updated Kindergarten - Grade 12 curriculums, with modified and adapted curriculum goals and expectations.
Social Sciences and Humanities (a course offered at the secondary level), saw significant adaptations in its curriculum, particular in the following subsections: Equity Studies, Health Studies, Sociology and Psychology. In the same way schools address issues of race and intersectionality, teachers teach students about societal, racial and economic discrimination and marginalization created from the invention of VIRIS.
VIRIS has also been integrated in the Science curriculums for students in Grade 7-12, each with a highlighted unit focusing on the symptoms, side effects and functions of VIRIS lenses. Science teachers use VIRIS as case studies and science experiments to teach students the biological interaction between the human eye and brain, in relation to the virus-detecting lenses. Moreover, VIRIS is integrated in history curriculums, as The Ministry of Education found it vital for students to have a profound understanding of the historical events and contexts that have led us to today’s world of VIRIS lenses.