The first object interaction app for the visually impaired. iOS only.

• apps
• 2023 Webby Awards

• Emerging tech
• Assistive and Accessible Tech
• Virtual and Augmented Reality (VR, AR, MR)

Amachi Pittsburgh raises awareness and delivers services to give children a fighting chance in Allegheny County, and runs a VR pilot program to connect chidren with incaracerated parents

• Virtual and Augmented Reality (VR, AR, MR)

Showcasing the NYT's 27 Published Experiments in AR Storytelling

• Instagram

• Media
• Virtual and Augmented Reality (VR, AR, MR)

Snap has new Lenses that show users how to fingerspell in American Sign Language

• Snap
• Deaf

• Assistive and Accessible Tech
• Virtual and Augmented Reality (VR, AR, MR)
• Civic features

The Anti-Racism Extended Reality Studio, or UA-ARXRS hopes to test the capacity of immersive and interactive “extended reality” tools, including volumetric video capture, virtual reality and digital narrative.

• racial equity

• Virtual and Augmented Reality (VR, AR, MR)

How to increase public engagement in environmental issues is a central question in environmental communication and environmental psychology literatures.

• research
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Peer-reviewed research
• Academia
• Virtual and Augmented Reality (VR, AR, MR)

We take planning proposals out of city hall and onto their urban context, seamlessly communicating projects with a large, diverse audience to win community support while crowdsourcing stakeholders' feedback.

• apps
• cities

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Urban planning

Washington, D.C. – Eleven projects that seek to help develop and expand best practices in immersive storytelling, including narratives, ethics and production, will receive a share of $285,000 as winners ... Read More

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Journalism

SIM|ED is a tech incubator housed in the SAFElab at Columbia University School of Social Work.

• The Tech
• The People
• Emerging tech

Holopolis HiFi uses the High Fidelity VR platform to create a virtual commons. It imagines a far future in which we can all connect to and immerse in public policy deliberation anytime we choose. This may be h…

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Virtual and Augmented Reality (VR, AR, MR)

Holopolis MR imagines the uses case in the near future, when MR headsets are more popularized. It turns on the GPS with computer vision feature so that the users can bump into virtual public forums such as a forum setup next to the priority seats. Mature of mixed reality enables “engaging” civic engagement Despite the naming war of AR/VR/MR/XR, the substance of connecting information, overlaying visualization and designing interaction between real and virtual world brought us to a journey t...

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Virtual and Augmented Reality (VR, AR, MR)

Intervention SimulationAugmented Reality Decision Support Systems topredict and quantify the impact of disruptive interventions

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Urban planning

At the Center for Civic Media, we focus on creating or leveraging digital technology for social change. As an artist, a documentarian, and a creative coder with a do-good streak, I am exploring how…

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Virtual and Augmented Reality (VR, AR, MR)

The Federal VR and AR Program is a collaborative hub for the research and refinement of VR and AR business cases and pilot programs across government.

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Virtual and Augmented Reality (VR, AR, MR)

This humanitarian aid worker attracted the famous mentor and launched a virtual reality film business acquired by Verizon AOL.

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Virtual and Augmented Reality (VR, AR, MR)

A VR museum tour of The Colored Girls Museum

• museums
• racial equity

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech Projects

The SAFElab is a research initiative focused on examining the ways in which youth of color navigate violence on and offline.

• racial equity

• The Tech
• The People
• Learn about civic tech

Meta's collection of VR for social good stories

• The Tech
• The People
• Emerging tech