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Oculus Launches VR For Good in High Schools

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The first program, the 360 Filmmakers Challenge, partners nine San Francisco Bay Area high schools with professional filmmakers to create 3-5 minute 360° films about their communities. Student from Oakland High School filming his project for the 360 filmmaker challenge. Students reviewing their 360 video footage.

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Exposing Homelessness Through Eviction With ‘These Sleepless Nights’ Mixed Reality Mini-Doc

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The Magic Leap-powered AR exhibit premiers at the Venice Film Festival. Another primary goal of the group is to create awareness and help raise funds for organizations that focus on housing for the homeless in cities like Oakland and New York, such as the Tuff Shed program. .

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Artist’s AR Exhibit Shows Two Sides Of The Same Reality

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Growing up as a Chinese immigrant in Oakland, California, Estella Tse recalls her struggle having to navigate between her strict, traditional heritage – and her more liberal American upbringing, which encouraged individualism and freedom of expression.

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Oakland based VR studio Steel Wool raises $5 million from HTC.

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Formed in 2011 by creative veterans with more than 50 years of film and storytelling experience at Pixar Animation Studios and Lucasfilm, Steel Wool Studios experimented with narrative-driven gameplay experiences on mobile with the debut of 2D platformer Flyhunter Origins.

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NBA and Oculus Team Up For One Stellar Gear VR Experience

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In partnership with Facebook’s Oculus team, the NBA has released a VR documentary that runs a surprisingly 25-minutes long, taking you behind-the-scenes for the dramatic games in Oakland and Cleveland that led to the Cavaliers taking home their first championship. The film also lets viewers watch without trying to “find where the story is”.

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Creating Two Sides of the Same Reality

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Growing up in an immigrant family of Chinese descent and living in Oakland, California, Estella Tse recalls that she was always navigating a conflict between her traditional heritage – which mainly told her to “follow the rules” – and her more liberal American upbringing, which encouraged individualism and freedom of expression.

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Christopher Lafayette: Let’s build together an inclusive XR community

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I want companies to hire people that look like me that come from cities countries like east Oakland, Baltimore, Compton, Atlanta, Brazil, Detroit, Brooklyn, Nairobi, Zimbabwe, Johannesburg, New Orleans, and more. I’ve worked in many industries: music, health wellness, food, film, design, sports, education, and more….