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Sundance 2021 Will Host Its New Frontier Program In VR

VRScout

(Lead Artists: Michèle Stephenson, Joe Brewster, Yasmin Elayat, Key Collaborators: James George, Alexander Porter, Rad Mora, Elliott Mitchell) — An immersive, episodic virtual reality experience where the participant travels through time and space to witness the connected historical experiences of racial injustice in America.

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Blindfold Is A Disturbing VR Tale About The Torture Of Journalists

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

It’s a tense virtual reality experience that gives players a first-person view of the inside of an interrogation room. It’s short but urgent, a snippet of what it’s like to be a journalist in Iran who’s being forced to confess to crimes by an oppressive regime. I tried it earlier this week at Ink Stories’ Brooklyn-based office.

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How to guarantee privacy and safety in the metaverse: an interview with Kavya Pearlman

The Ghost Howls

This is the reason why we are bringing in so many global experts, many governments, many multidisciplinary human rights advocates, child safety advocates, and policy people from all around the world to the Metaverse Safety Week. We used to do this in virtual reality, where we hosted a conference-like agenda.

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