Virtual and Augmented Reality (VR, AR, MR)
Virtual Reality applied to increasing comprehension of public policies, driving empathy, understanding the effects of climate change, etc. This category includes spatial computing, Mixed Reality, and other related names for this tech.
Transfr Trek
Transfr Trek helps learners traverse the three phases of career exploration and onboard to career pathways in high-growth industries.
CareerViewXR
Explore amazing careers with CareerViewXR, an immersive career exploration platform that brings the jobsite to you.
CareerLabsVR
With CareerLabsVR, job seekers dive into a fully immersive and interactive experience; exploring careers and completing job-specific tasks.
Interplay Learning Career Exploration
With Career Exploration from Interplay, learners can virtually explore skilled trades careers like HVAC, plumbing, multi-family maintenance, and electrical using hands-on 3D simulations.
Auglinn
Drop notes and questions outdoors with augmented reality, and create 2D and 3D maps. Interact with citizens outdoors and let the city speak.
Dot Go
The first object interaction app for the visually impaired. iOS only.
Amachi Pittsburgh
Amachi Pittsburgh raises awareness and delivers services to give children a fighting chance in Allegheny County, and runs a VR pilot program to connect chidren with incaracerated parents
New York Times AR Storytelling Gallery
Showcasing the NYT's 27 Published Experiments in AR Storytelling
A Qualitative Exploration of Individual Experiences of Environmental Virtual Reality Through the Lens of Psychological Distance: Environmental Communication
How to increase public engagement in environmental issues is a central question in environmental communication and environmental psychology literatures.
Anti-Racism Extended Reality Studio
The Anti-Racism Extended Reality Studio, or UA-ARXRS hopes to test the capacity of immersive and interactive “extended reality” tools, including volumetric video capture, virtual reality and digital n...
Snap Lenses teach users American Sign Language
Snap has new Lenses that show users how to fingerspell in American Sign Language
inCitu
We take planning proposals out of city hall and onto their urban context, seamlessly communicating projects with a large, diverse audience to win community support while crowdsourcing stakeholders' fe...
Meta VR for Good
Meta's collection of VR for social good stories
SAFELAB
The SAFElab is a research initiative focused on examining the ways in which youth of color navigate violence on and offline.
The Colored Girls Museum VR
A VR museum tour of The Colored Girls Museum
RYOT news
This humanitarian aid worker attracted the famous mentor and launched a virtual reality film business acquired by Verizon AOL.
Journalism 360
Washington, D.C. – Eleven projects that seek to help develop and expand best practices in immersive storytelling, including narratives, ethics and production, will receive a share of $285,000 as winne...
AR Hoverlay prototypes
At the Center for Civic Media, we focus on creating or leveraging digital technology for social change. As an artist, a documentarian, and a creative coder with a do-good streak, I am exploring how…
CityScope LEGO city
Intervention SimulationAugmented Reality Decision Support Systems topredict and quantify the impact of disruptive interventions
Holopolis MR
Holopolis MR imagines the uses case in the near future, when MR headsets are more popularized
Holopolis HiFi
Holopolis HiFi uses the High Fidelity VR platform to create a virtual commons. It imagines a far future in which we can all connect to and immerse in public policy deliberation anytime we choose. This...
SIM|ED
SIM|ED is a tech incubator housed in the SAFElab at Columbia University School of Social Work.