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VR For Awareness Takes Over Tribeca Film Festival

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Tribeca Immersive’s Virtual Arcade in particular hosts a striking amount of important topics that utilize VR technology to impact audiences and help them better empathize with those affected. The 8-minute experience uses the Samsung Gear VR to give you an in depth, and at times unsettling look into the increasingly hostile situation.

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Oscar-Winning Director Kathryn Bigelow Discusses Her First VR Film ‘The Protectors’

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Here Be Dragons creator Imraan Ismail served as co-director of the virtual reality production, which recently shot in Garamba National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Being dropped into the environment through technology heightens your awareness of the stakes and drives home the brutality of the poaching.

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