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The Official US Civil Rights Trail Book Adds AR Experience to Engage the Young Generations

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This idea inspired Lee Sentell, Alabama Tourism Department Director, to create the US Civil Rights Trail in 2004. Readers will find QR codes throughout the book, and each code launches an AR experience that focuses on key moments and prominent figures involved in the fight for civil rights. How the AR Experience Works.

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Journey to Freedom and Equality: How an AR Experience Makes History Come Alive

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In a bid to give us a glimpse of the past, USA TODAY launched Seven Days of 1961 , a multimedia series that also offers an AR experience of the pivotal events that transpired in May 1961. Trouble in Alabama. During their stop in Atlanta, the Freedom Riders learned that trouble was brewing in Alabama.

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ROSE Creates Museum-Like AR Experience for Black History Month

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This year, the theme is Black Health and Wellness and ROSE has created a mobile-based AR experience that takes users into a virtual museum of Black contributions to medicine over the course of 300 years of American history, from 1721 to 2021. Black History And Medicine AR Experience: A Museum in Your Living Room. How can that be?

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BRINK Traveler – the Photogrammetry-Based AR and VR App Brings the World Close to You

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Due to restrictions still in force, many countries are still off-limits for US tourists. However, an innovative photogrammetry-based AR and VR app promises to bring the world closer to you. To create the AR and VR app, BRINK XR combined aerial (drone) photography and land photographs using cameras on tripods. The VR App .

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Best Of Fest: Tribeca 2023 Immersive+ Lineup

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As a multi-user, non-interactive augmented reality (AR) piece, Colored explored the protest of Claudette Colvin who, at 15 years old, refused to give up a bus seat to a white passenger in Alabama just nine months before Rosa Parks did so. Credit: Tribeca Colored This work felt like the future of documentary storytelling.

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‘BRINK Traveler’ Takes You on Photorealistic Hikes in VR, Coming to Quest & Steam September 9th

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You’ll be able to explore a few of the most impressive natural formations in the United States and Iceland, including Horseshoe Canyon, White Pocket, Mount Morrison, Mount Whitney, Alabama Hills, The Wave, Arches National Park, the North and South side of Death Valley National Park, Antelope Canyon, Crystal Crag, and Haifoss waterfall.

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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.