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RioFoneHack project
RioFoneHack – A taste of Brazil and childhood September 9, 2015

Nell Frizzell experiences ZU-UK’s RioFoneHack project and finds push-button phones curiously sentimental. Have you ever walked past a ringing telephone and picked it up? It opened up a whole peck […]

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What does it mean to “buy” digital art? August 6, 2015

How do you buy or sell a piece of digital art? Sam Sedgman explores notions of ownership in a digital age. Six months ago, an artist called Michael Green tried […]

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Generating empathy through virtual reality July 18, 2015

Increasingly, NGOs, games designers and filmmakers are using virtual reality to build support for social causes. Rachel Segal Hamilton finds out how and asks them what questions this raises… How […]

Lady holding VR headset in Clouds Over Sidra project
UN’s first Oculus 3D film puts you inside a Syrian Refugee camp March 16, 2015

The United Nations has collaborated with filmmaker Chris Milk to make its first virtual reality film. Clouds Over Sidra brings viewers closer to the Syrian conflict by transporting them into […]