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Meta makes fundraising easier ahead of Earth Day

Mashable VR

Starting this month, the center will highlight climate action steps for individuals and add new data visualizations for country-specific emission levels. The company also added interactive wildlife conservation experiences for users of its virtual reality system Meta Quest.

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Startups Weekly: Chinese investors double down on African startups

TechCrunch VR

Chinese actors investing heavily in African mobile consumer platforms lends to looking at new data-privacy and security issues for the continent.” Kenya’s Twiga Foods eyes West Africa after Goldman investment. African fintech startup OPay gains $120M from Chinese investors .

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Photos from Ukraine’s war-torn borders depict the quiet pain of displacement

Mashable VR

During her time with the IOM, Everett witnessed the organization as they formalized the refugee registration process, logged data, and set up a humanitarian corridor to move refugees from the borders of Moldova to Romania. The agency had also set up a partnership with Airbnb to provide immediate housing for refugees. Credit: Alissa Everett.

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SIGGRAPH 2019 Conference Will Feature Four World-Premiere VR/AR Experiences

VRScout

Project Jua – Project Jua is an interactive VR experience that raises awareness of the impact of not having easy access to electricity, taking the player to a rural farm in Kenya to experience firsthand the challenges of living off the grid to discover an African solar power solution that is improving lives.

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The 2020 Sundance Film Festival Is Absolutely Stacked With Experimental Immersive Media

VRScout

Since its inception, Sundance’s New Frontier programming block has featured an incredible lineup of experimental content, incorporating everything from AR, VR, and AI, to big data, biotech, facial recognition, and even rocket travel. How are your likes, shares, selfies, and devices being used against you?

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Tribeca Film Festival’s Virtual Arcade Steps Up VR Game For 2018

VRScout

Narrated by Lupita Nyong’o, My Africa is a 360-degree documentary short dedicated to covering the impressive efforts by Northern Kenya tribes to protect African wildlife from poachers. Key data visualizations highlighting the amount of nuclear weapons currently in existence was literally shocking.

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Why Smells Are So Difficult To Simulate For Virtual Reality

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Having served with the US military in Iraq, Kenya and Djibouti, one of his key research interests is getting former soldiers to don VR headsets so they can face up to, and overcome, their traumatic memories. So getting out the car the first thing we would smell was rose. That has stuck with me until today.”. Consciousness-altering Scents.