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.

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.

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.

The Smithsonian’s X 3D digitization program has been transforming this venerable institution’s extensive collections and on-going scientific projects into a globally accessible library of wildly accurate, online 3D models.

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.

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.

Audi, famous for its stylish, tech-forward German vehicles for decades, continues to push the boundaries of in-car technologies with its new Q4 e-tron. “e-tron” is Audi-speak for “electric” making the small cross-over a future-facing EV option.

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.

REEKON tools invites us into their development lab to preview the ROCK jobsite app running on Apple Vision Pro. The app enables the wearer to link measurements to a floating info panel that can be pinned anywhere within the jobsite.

The BBC, venerable news organization and purveyor of countless visionary documentaries and educational films via traditional formats, is exploring the potential for creating meaningful media in augmented reality.

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

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.

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.

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.