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Google Launches Social Awareness VR Initiative ‘Daydream Impact’

VRScout

Google Daydream will provide organizations with VR training and equipment rentals. That’s why Google is launching a new program dubbed Daydream Impact , with the hope of helping organizations and creators utilize virtual reality to take their programs to the next level.

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Google’s Daydream Impact Project Aims to Bolster Philanthropic Efforts With VR

Road to VR

Google’s newly announced Daydream Impact program is a philanthropy project that provides organizations, nonprofits, and advocates for change with resources, tools, and training to create immersive VR content to support their cause. Eastern Congo Initiative displays the struggles of living in the Congo and the resilience of its people.

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Oscar-Winning Director Kathryn Bigelow Discusses Her First VR Film ‘The Protectors’

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Here Be Dragons creator Imraan Ismail served as co-director of the virtual reality production, which recently shot in Garamba National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Daydream represents the initial maturation of cardboard and virtual reality within the Google Play ecosystem. Help get boots for instance.

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Google VR Film Explores Artisanal Gold Mine In Democratic Republic Of The Congo

VRScout

“Every day you may hold a piece of the Congo in the palm of your hand.”. That’s the opening line of a new VR film from the Google Conflict Minerals Campaign entitled The Journey of Gold. The powerful 360-degree experience explores an artisanal gold mine in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

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Sarah Hill of StoryUp VR

Everything VR & AR

On this episode we discuss a recent trip to Congo to capture a story about personal mobility devices that are necessary to help those in the area who have lost the use of their legs due to disease. Subscribe, Follow and Share Feedback To keep up with Everything VR & AR, make sure to subscribe to the show the on your favorite podcast app!

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The Right Displays for Challenging Tasks: XR on Oil Rigs, with Shell’s Michael Kaldenbach

XR for Business Podcast

If] we can’t make a podcast recording work, what are we supposed to do in an oil site in the middle of the Congo? When we started looking at these head-mounted displays about two years ago, we did try pretty much everything that’s out there in the market, ranging from the old-but-true Google Glass, to an ODG or Realwear.

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The Right Displays for Challenging Tasks: XR on Oil Rigs, with Shell’s Michael Kaldenbach

XR for Business Podcast

If] we can’t make a podcast recording work, what are we supposed to do in an oil site in the middle of the Congo? When we started looking at these head-mounted displays about two years ago, we did try pretty much everything that’s out there in the market, ranging from the old-but-true Google Glass, to an ODG or Realwear.