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Festival Review: Tribeca’s Mixed Bag of 360 Video Experiences

May 4, 2020April 24, 2020 by Emory Craig

Every year, we do our festival review of the VR films (or 360 videos) at the Tribeca film festival. This year, the VR experiences in the Cinema360 program are a mixed bag. They range from compelling …

Google VR Film Explores Gold Mining in the DRC

April 23, 2020September 16, 2018 by Emory Craig

The latest Google VR film, “The Journey of Gold”, explores the issue of gold mining in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. As you may know, over five million people have died from resource extraction conflicts …

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Emory Craig spoke at the XR in Education Summit at Yale University on "The Future of XR."

Maya Georgieva was on a panel at the Saleforce conference, "The Evolution and Power of Disruptive Technologies" in San Francisco.

We'll be at the EDUCAUSE Annual Conference in Chicago with a Preconference workshop and other sessions the week of October 14th.

We'll be at the OC6 conference and reporting on the latest news from Oculus in San Jose on Sept. 25th and 26th.

We're on an XR and Learning panel at the The Chronicle of Higher Education and HP Leadership Summit, September 17, 2019, at The City University of New York (CUNY) The Graduate School.

We're at several conferences this summer, including AWE, SIGGRAPH 2019, and Singularity University's Global Summit.

We're delighted to be joining faculty in the College of Nursing at Sacred Heart University for a full day Professional Development Workshop, "Augmented and Virtual Reality Applications in Nursing Education." June 2019.

Ready for a discussion on "Ethics and Digital Fluency in VR and Immersive Learning Environments"? Join us at the NYS-CIO Conference in June 2019.

We are speaking at the United Nations Learning Forum on "Immersive Learning and The Future of Work," June 2019.

Emory Craig will be speaking at the AI Everything Summit in Dubai, "Who Can You Trust? Welcome to the Future of AI-driven Avatars in XR." May 1, 2019.

Join us on the Future Trends Forum with Bryan Alexander at 2:00pm (EST) on Feb. 28th for an interactive discussion and update on Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed Reality for Education.

We're at the EDUCAUSE-ELI Annual Meeting in Anaheim to do a 360 Video workshop, a Discussion on VR and Empathy, and the release of the Horizon Report

Emory Craig and Jesse Damiani discuss the future of VR, AR, and XR on the AV Life Podcast.

Emory Craig is speaking at the AIM North conference on VR and AI as Catalysts for Innovation in Learning, Nov. 7th

Emory Craig is speaking at the OECD Workshop on DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY FOR SCIENCE AND INNOVATION at OsloMet University in Norway, Nov. 5-6th

We're at the EDUCAUSE Annual Conference in Denver to do a Preconference workshop on 360° Video and other sessions on VR during the week of Oct. 29th.

Maya Georgieva did an Ignite talk on Storytelling at the Connected Learning Summit at the MIT Media Lab on August 1.