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How the XR Community Celebrates Black History Month (Black Futures Month?)

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ROSE , a minority-owned New York-based digital agency focused on AR, worked with XR platform 8th Wall to create a digital model of the historic Edmund Pettus Bridge and augment every step with historically significant media and information regarding the civil rights movement of the 1960s. Virbela’s Black History Library.

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NewImages Festival Showed Me What VR Experiences Can Offer Beyond Games

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Showcasing many worldwide VR and AR projects, what immediately struck me is how VR filmmakers aren't shying away from difficult subjects. Noire looks at the civil rights struggle in '50s Alabama, while Letters From Drancy explores Marion Deichmann's journey after being separated from her mother during the Holocaust.

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