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Virtual Reality applied to increasing comprehension of public policies, driving empathy, understanding the effects of climate change, etc.

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Amachi Pittsburgh

Amachi Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

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

New York Times AR Storytelling Gallery

New York Times AR Storytelling Gallery

New York Times Building, 8th Avenue, New York, NY, USA

Showcasing the NYT's 27 Published Experiments in AR Storytelling

inCitu

inCitu

New York, NY

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.

US Federal Virtual/Augmented Reality program

US Federal Virtual/Augmented Reality program

United States of America (the)

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.

Oculus VR for Good

Oculus VR for Good

Facebook, Hacker Way, Menlo Park, CA, USA

Facebook's collection of VR for social good stories

AR Hoverlay prototypes

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…

Journalism 360

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

SIM|ED

Columbia University, New York, NY, USA

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

RYOT news

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

CityScope LEGO city

CityScope LEGO city

MIT Media Lab

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

Holopolis 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...

Holopolis HiFi

[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…

SAFELAB

SAFELAB

1255 Amsterdam Ave, New York, NY 10027, USA

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

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