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Tonight TheWaveVR and Ash Koosha challenge the boundaries of music and take on tyranny with the power of VR.

Cats and VR

London-based electronic musician Ash Koosha will perform in the US for the first time via virtual reality in TheWaveVR. Originally from Iran, Koosha is currently hindered by Trump’s travel ban, which targets people from majority-Muslim countries and bars them from entering the United States.

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Blindfold Is A Disturbing VR Tale About The Torture Of Journalists

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

It’s a tense virtual reality experience that gives players a first-person view of the inside of an interrogation room. It’s short but urgent, a snippet of what it’s like to be a journalist in Iran who’s being forced to confess to crimes by an oppressive regime. I tried it earlier this week at Ink Stories’ Brooklyn-based office.

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How to guarantee privacy and safety in the metaverse: an interview with Kavya Pearlman

The Ghost Howls

What should the regulation look like when AI, PCI brain-computer interfaces, augmented reality, and virtual reality, will evolve? We used to do this in virtual reality, where we hosted a conference-like agenda. What should the regulation look like in these immersive worlds? We are only doing Zoom events.

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Q&A WITH SUPERWORLD ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE: MARJAN MOGHADDAM

ARVR

SW : I love the music and embedded texts you sometimes include in your work, in particular your own writing on your experience in Iran during the 1979 Islamic revolution. Would you have characterized yourself as an artist in Iran, or do you feel the revolution (and it’s aftershock) spurred you on in a particularly creative direction?

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Sundance 2021 Will Host Its New Frontier Program In VR

VRScout

(Lead Artists: Michèle Stephenson, Joe Brewster, Yasmin Elayat, Key Collaborators: James George, Alexander Porter, Rad Mora, Elliott Mitchell) — An immersive, episodic virtual reality experience where the participant travels through time and space to witness the connected historical experiences of racial injustice in America.

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I’m An Enemy Of The State In Blindfold VR – Day 1

VR Spies

Over the years I have done a lot of VR experiences that have had me a bit anxious but Blindfold has taken that anxiety to a whole new level! iNK Stories has brought a very chilling experience to the Rift that has the player locked in an Iranian prisons interrogation room. Needless to say it is a very uncomfortable feeling.

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EON Reality Announces Ambitious Expansion in Iran with the Launch of Spatial AI Center and Introduction of 10,000 Tailored Courses

EON Reality

This initiative marks an essential phase in EON Reality’s global strategy to transform education and workforce preparation through the innovative application of Spatial Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology.

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