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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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XRA’s XR Industry Report: 2022 Highlights and Plans for 2023 and Beyond

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“Students in the classroom are using XR to learn everything from Greek mythology to microbiology. Transfr was also recognized for using VR training to enhance workforce development in areas such as career exploration in Alabama, Indiana, and Montana, and electrician training.

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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.