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27Jan/17Off

Can Virtual Reality Fight Fake News?

gallery-1484983490-screen-shot-2017-01-21-at-12305-amAs Americans on all sides of the issues mobilized and protested this past weekend, the Ryot Girls had their biggest task yet: record the landscape-1484980395-screen-shot-2017-01-21-at-12421-amprotests, format them for virtual reality (VR), and pump them—ASAP—to Facebook's 360 platform, where they will live, as the Shark Tank team says, in perpetuity. (If you can't handle the 40-minute live-stream, a 4-minute recap of the day's events is available on YouTube in both virtual reality and 2-D formats.)

"We decided to have an all-woman crew," managing editor Averie Timm says, "because we felt like these protests [before, during, and after] the Women's March are some of the most historic moments for feminists in our lifetime. What better way to cover it than with an all-female team?"

See the full story here: http://www.elle.com/culture/career-politics/news/a42327/virtual-reality-protests/

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