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Our film 'The Curious Life of Bill Mont' is premiering as part of SXSW 2020. You can find it on the Oculus TV app and you can watch it on your Oculus Go or Quest. Excited to have this film out into the world!

https://www.oculus.com/experiences/media/2573691436046070/1105019953216614/

Fellow rabbits. Fellow raccoons. Be bold. Be brave.

Daredevil Raccoon Climbs Minnesota Skyscraper and Becomes a Sensation The stranded raccoon’s mesmerizing hourslong ascent up 25 stories in St. Paul ended early Wednesday with a rescue and some cat food.

Friends! If you are at Sheffield Doc Fest come check out Meeting a Monster and other great VR films.

Sheffield Doc/Fest: Sheffield International Documentary Festival

Learn more about our film Meeting A Monster and some other timely pieces playing at Tribeca’s Virtual Arcade this year!

Virtual Reality Takes a Political Turn in the Trump Era From climate change to reforming white supremacists: At this year's Tribeca Film Festival, it's about the medium and the message.

RR FRIENDS! We've taken a long break but we are back with a new logo and exciting news.

Our film Meeting A Monster, directed by our creator Gabriela Arp, will be premiering this Saturday, and running through April 28, at .

Meeting a Monster examines the memories and motivations of former white supremacist Angela King. Through audio recordings, re-enactments, and present-day footage, the film invites the viewer to experience both the decisions that lured Angela into the white power movement as well as the encounters that led her out. While the monsters Angela encounters and imagines define much of her path towards a mindset of bias and hate, she is unable to discover the path out until she encounters the ultimate monster — herself.

Get tickets here: http://bit.ly/2vuzHuY. Thank you Angela King, Oculus VR For Good Creators Lab and Life After Hate for making this possible!

Can't wait to see you all!

Meeting a Monster | 2018 Tribeca Film Festival

Our co-founder Andrea Patiño shares the story behind her latest project "The Dangers of Deportation" with Remezcla. The virtual reality film is on display from April 20-23 at Indie Grits Film Festival in Columbia, South Carolina. If you're at the festival, please take a moment to experience it.

"...What we see in In Danger of Deportation is strikingly quotidien: We walk through people’s homes as they feed their children, sweat with them in the hot sun as they tend to the land, and bite our nails, too, as they are at the mercy of lawyers and officials, who decide whether or not they can stay in the country. One such story concerns a woman named Diana, who received a deportation order by ICE five years ago...“Before election day I was very tense, worried,” she says in the video. “Thinking what to do. How would we survive if we had to go back?”

http://remezcla.com/features/film/andrea-patino-virtual-reality-in-danger-of-deportation/?utm_content=bufferc7e28&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Andrea Patiño Uses Virtual Reality to Give Viewers the Experience of Living in Fear of Deportation We talked to Andrea Patiño about her groundbreaking documentary series that tells the stories of seven undocumented immigrants using virtual reality.

Any Floridians out there who'd like to mail Senator Rubio about the new administration's policy on refugees? We have postcards for you to write to him if you are concerned about the future of refugee resettlement programs in the US. Let us know if you or your organization would like some.

Friends! If you are in the Triangle area, come by the John Hope Franklin Center at Duke University to see our photo exhibit of Divided by the Sea. It will be up through March 3rd. We'd love to hear your thoughts if you go by!

If you want to see more of the project visit www.dividedbythesea.com

Learn about our latest project, Forward, a virtual reality project that recreates the human migration experience, and the Kaleidoscope VR and Oculus Development lab which is helping to incubate Forward, as well as the next generation of VR projects.

http://curious.kcrw.com/2016/12/the-future-of-the-future-of-entertainment-part-2

The future, of the future, of entertainment (Part 2) Virtual Reality The future, of the future, of entertainment (Part 2) Virtual Reality Dec 19, 2016 By Sean Dellorco Share Tweet Email Copy Link More Last week, KCRW headed up to Facebook HQ to preview the newest VR projects to come out of the first ever showcase between Oculus and DevLab. If you miss...

We're excited to announce that our project Divided by the Sea, which explores the Mediterranean refugee crisis through the lens of one town in Southern Italy, won GOLD in the Large Group Multimedia category at this year's College Photographer of the Year awards!

Our hope with the project was to help humanize migrants entering Europe, as well as the residents receiving them, exploring questions and systems of global mobility in the process.

Thank you to each individual who shared their personal experiences with migration, all of our partners and friends on the ground in Italy who made this project possible, UNC Center for Global Initiatives, Tripp Tuttle, Steven King and to Andy Roberson and Clinton King who designed and developed the website.

If you are in the North Carolina area, the project is being currently exhibited at the Fedex building at the The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. You can also see the collection of stories online at dividedbythesea.com.

https://www.cpoy.org/index.php?s=WinningImages&yr=71&c=331

71st College Photographer of the Year | Winning Images

On November 5 & 6, we premiered our cinematic virtual reality film Traces at the Indie Memphis Film Festival. We were joined by family members of Willie White, the main character of the film, the Memphis-based cast and Indie Memphis attendees. It was such a wonderful feeling to see so many different faces enjoying our film and getting to experience the memories of Ms. White. For more about the film, visit experiencetraces.com.

We are at a loss of words about the election results and are saddened and worried by the rise of a rhetoric of hatred that will likely affect many minorities and vulnerable communities across the country, not to mention many of the policies that could go into effect in the coming years.

We are committed to continue working on projects that shed light in the dark places and foster difficult conversations. We know that this is more important than ever and we will fight by collaborating with communities to ensure that their unique voices and experiences are heard.

Much love to everyone