The Fall 2018 JOVRNALISM (JOURN 489) class had a special guest lecturer earlier in the semester: Rony Abovitz, the CEO of Magic Leap, one of the most talked about companies in the emerging Mixed Reality (they call it Spatial Computing) industry.
On the heels of the much anticipated LEAPcon event, Abovitz didn’t just Skype into the class, he “beamed” in via a telepresence robot shipped from Plantation, FL, the company’s headquarters. (more…)
This past week, JOVRNALISM traveled to Catalina Island to visit the USC Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies. The institute, which is an extension of USC Dornsife College of Letters and Sciences, researches different ways to implement environmental sustainability into everyday life.
Members of the homeless community and JOVRNALISM students collaborated to tell immersive stories about life on the streets of Los Angeles.
The project combined 360 videos, drones and photogrammetry to produce immersive experiences including augmented reality via Snapchat.
Launch the project site: http://homelessrealities.jovrnalism.io/
Using Snapchat’s Lens Studio, JOVRNALISM created augmented reality experiences about homelessness in Los Angeles and made the accessible through Snapchat.
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Our Homeless Realities project, produced by the Fall 2018 class, will be debuting at a public event held Saturday, February 16 at the Central Library in Downtown Los Angeles.
The event, which starts at 2PM, will not only feature the diverse and innovative experiences, but will also have a panel discussion with the students and the homeless participants that produced the stories.
The entire project will also launch across all the JOVRNALISM platforms, including on a project site: http://homelessrealities.jovrnalism.io
To learn more about the project, including the training the class offered the community, read this story by USC Annenberg.