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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.

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.

Australian Broadcasting Company (ABC)’s Science program, Catalyst visits a fitness center where VR headsets and joysticks are every bit as impactful as the free weights and treadmills.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Following up on his waist-deep in the rising sea address to COP26, Tuvalu’s foreign minister, Simon Kofe announced his nation’s plans to create a digital copy of the country for preservation through the Metaverse.

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.