Virtual Reality applied to increasing comprehension of public policies, driving empathy, understanding the effects of climate change, etc.
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
Showcasing the NYT's 27 Published Experiments in AR Storytelling
Snap has new Lenses that show users how to fingerspell in American Sign Language
How to increase public engagement in environmental issues is a central question in environmental communication and environmental psychology literatures.
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.
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.
Facebook's collection of VR for social good stories
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…
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
SIM|ED is a tech incubator housed in the SAFElab at Columbia University School of Social Work.
This humanitarian aid worker attracted the famous mentor and launched a virtual reality film business acquired by Verizon AOL.
Intervention SimulationAugmented Reality Decision Support Systems topredict and quantify the impact of disruptive interventions
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...
[image] 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 SAFElab is a research initiative focused on examining the ways in which youth of color navigate violence on and offline.