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Breonna’s Garden: An AR Experience to Foster Healing

ARPost

Healing and reconciliation come in many forms, and projects such as Breonna’s Garden demonstrate how emerging tech such as augmented reality can be used to provide a safe space to process grief. See Also: The Role of Virtual Reality in the Fight Against Racial Inequity.

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

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The experience will make its world premiere at SXSW next month and will also be in Breonna’s hometown of Louisville Kentucky for her birthday, June 5. “With Breonna’s Garden, we’re not associating Breonna Taylor with her pain, we’re associating her with her purpose, which was helping people heal,” said PheØnix.

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The mixed messages of Microsoft’s Hololens2: very few corporate use cases and lots of limitations

Robert Scoble

Just last summer I visited the factories of Boeing, Tesla, Ford, and Louisville Slugger. That’s the magic of augmented reality. That’s like saying having two pennys today is greatly increased wealth when you only had one yesterday. Thanks to my lot in life I’ve gotten to travel to see a lot of jobs.