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CNN Style takes a quick look at a brand new effort to enlist the public’s help in preserving cultural heritage as it is being quickly destroyed by conflict in Ukraine.

PwC (PricewaterhouseCoopers) aimed to prove the efficacy of virtual reality-based learning by comparing a traditional classroom training on inclusive leadership (and its existing eLearning counterpart) with a bespoke VR experience based around the same lessons.

This WCVB news broadcast highlights a hometown Boston company, PTC, and how they are able to provide customers with a platform for remote support and expert mentorship through their Vuforia Chalk software.

Top shelf Japanese department store Isetan has moved its flagship store in Shinjuku entirely into virtual reality with a new smartphone app. As a response to COVID-19, the century-old retailer followed prevailing online shopping trends but leveraged a custom VR app to recreate the high-touch buying experience that its customers have come to expect.

Launched in 2017, Contrast is a bold experiment in storytelling that brings Al Jazeera’s signature focus on the lives of those in underreported global locales to the burgeoning world of immersive media.

China Plus profiles the collaboration between the University of Witwatersrand and Perot Museum of Nature and Science that led to their Dinaledi Chamber VR app. The free download allows users to embark on a journey to spend time with some of humanity’s most recently discovered ancestors, Homo naledi.

Starting from a very low-tech mockup made from tape and safety glasses, Embodied Labs has created their Alzheimers training resource to teach caregivers of both professional and family varieties about the day to day experience of living with the disorder.

Reuters reports on groundbreaking research conducted in the UK between the University of Kent and St Andrew’s Healthcare in which eight patients living with dementia were presented with a series of virtual reality experiences meant to recall fond memories from their own lives.

Founded by Dr Madhu Viswanathan, the Market Place Literacy Project “aims to engender knowledge and skills, self-confidence and awareness of rights” in its participants. These principles are being taught through 360º video content, putting global students in the shoes of Tanzanians.

By using AR, Looking Glass users are able to see “an alternate city” where Pittsburgh’s Black residents were able to thrive and feel welcome for generations in the mid-20th century.

The Quint takes a look at Project Dastaan, an ambitious endeavor to document the stories of dozens of refugees of the 1947 Partition of India while they are still able to tell them. Despite surviving a displacement of millions of people, many refugees have not been able to return home for up to seven decades.

Montana’s KPAX 8 shares a broadcast about a military veteran in Billings who has recently come off his depression and anxiety medications using Virtual Reality games. Darwin Oak credits Firewall with his progress in dealing with trauma.

As a thesis project, Product Designer Jessy Escobedo developed PlannAR, a mobile platform for participatory urban planning. PlannAR offers communities the chance to interface directly with urban planners, city officials, developers and other stakeholders in a much more open and entertaining feedback process.

Charlotte, North Carolina’s metropolitan museums have used augmented reality to enhance visitor engagement and education by layering docent-led video tours of specific works onto the in-person experience.

The national police force in The Netherlands has been making use of 3D scanners of various types to document crime scenes.