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

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Trouble in Alabama. During their stop in Atlanta, the Freedom Riders learned that trouble was brewing in Alabama. When they arrived in Anniston, Alabama, the group was met with violence by members of the Ku Klux Klan, led by William Chappell. Members of the group were beaten. This event then gained widespread media attention.

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NewImages Festival Showed Me What VR Experiences Can Offer Beyond Games

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Venice Immersive was a big eye-opener last year and that recently continued in Paris, when I attended last month's NewImages Festival and its XR Market. 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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VR Simulation Teaches Canadian Children The Importance Of Road Safety

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Using a VR headset to look around and a standard video game controller to move, kids are immersed in a virtual world complete with a two-lane road in which they must cross. “In our system, the children are fully immersed in the pedestrian environment,” continues Morrongiello. What’s the catch?

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

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The real Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama was the site of many civil rights marches, including those of Martin Luther King Jr’s march from Selma to Montgomery. Microsoft’s Immersive Museum. Initially, this primarily meant a combination of curated libraries of existing 360° video and original recorded immersive content.

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Snap Earns $20m Grant to Back California Tech Industry

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Previously, the social media giant unveiled its Spectacles solution, which was a pair of smart glasses with cameras attached that recorded video and uploaded footage to its platform. In the agreement, Snap will allocate the funds for building its AR devices. The firm is expected to receive the funds in 2025.

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2018 Highlights: Award-winning VR gloves, global customers, and a growing team

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VR immerses itself into pop culture. This year marked the release of Steven Spielberg’s blockbuster adaptation of Ready Player One , prompting a wave of curiosity about the state of immersive technology and its use cases. Destin’s video is approaching two million views and hit YouTube’s front page. Fortunately, we had an answer.

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Big XR News from Boeing, ENGAGE XR, Apple, and Meta

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Many XR firms are distributing immersive workplace solutions to a range of enterprise end-users, and at the same time, vendors are working on providing extensive product portfolios. A paradigm-shifting XR moment is inbound, but which firms will lead the immersive space race? XR looks to be picking up in the public consciousness.

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