At the recent Augmented World Expo (AWE) Asia meeting, delegates heard how Pfizer had trained large numbers of its Covid vaccine production staff using VR. They chose VR because the production line needed to be operating 24/7 during the pandemic and so could not be stopped for training purposes. The company deployed 500 Meta Quest 2 headsets loaded with a … Read More
December VR/AR News #1: Gender and tech, murder in VR and dinosaurs
Craig Newmark, the founder of craigslist, highlights five women in VR as part of the Women Startup Challenge, which is “showcasing and funding innovative, women-led startups focusing on Artificial Intelligence (AI), Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) that are solving problems for people, businesses and the planet.” Newmark’s picks include Liv Erickson, a VR developer at Microsoft who was part … Read More
Welcome to Empathetic Media!
This is the inaugural post for what will be a journal of EM’s development over the next year and beyond. The next year is particularly important given that it is a fellowship at the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute at the University of Missouri that has enabled me to get this project off the ground.