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ROSE Creates Museum-Like AR Experience for Black History Month

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The two XR companies had also come together before to create an AR experience centered around the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, which was an important setting for a number of major events in Black history leading up to the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Exploring Black History in Medicine.

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Staten Island warehouse workers just voted to form the first Amazon union

Mashable VR

Welcome the 1st union in America for Amazon.". Votes are currently being counted for a second Amazon unionization effort in Bessemer, Alabama. But perhaps now, those workers in favor of unionizing in Alabama have reason to hope. The most recent count of the last box of ballots showed 2,050 Yes votes to 1,574 No votes.

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Largest Cave Art in North America Discovered in Alabama

GizModo VR

A team of researchers scanned the roof of a limestone cave in Alabama and discovered several massive Native American mud glyphs that are estimated to be about 1,500 years old. Read more.

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Policing In The Metaverse: What’s Happening Now

Bernard Marr

Administrators in Mobile, Alabama, recently voted to spend close to $50,000 on ten virtual reality headsets to help them provide crisis intervention training for their police force. According to statistics from Mental Health America , approximately 4% of U.S. Training for Mental Health Crises.

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Snap Earns $20m Grant to Back California Tech Industry

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Snap and the Corporate Flight from California California’s latest initiative aims to attract investors and jobs amid a massive migration of companies to other states like Texas, Alabama, North Carolina, and others. ” Doing so would offer “suggestions to develop regional strategies to help businesses prosper.”

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Abortion funds and reproductive justice networks need our help

Mashable VR

South/Southeast Access Reproductive Care Southeast (ARC Southeast) ARC Southeast is a reproductive justice organization providing practical support for Southerners in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina, and Tennessee. If you are in need of abortion travel funds, call (844) 900-8908.

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Lizzo's reality TV show is 100% good as hell

Mashable VR

We hit them with the best Big Grrrl dancers in America, and we make the crowd go crazy. There's Asia Banks , former captain of the Alabama State HoneyBeez, the first exclusively plus-size dance team at an HBCU, who shares her grief over losing her father who was killed by police. When I hit the stage, I hit the stage.

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