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A man wearing VR goggles is seen next to a screen depicting Holocaust survivor Inge Auerbacher at the Meta hub in Berlin on June 6, 2023. (Tobias Schwarz/AFP)
June 7, 2023, 7:00 pm
In first, artificial intelligence used for Holocaust education
Visitors in Berlin can converse with an AI-generated avatar based on interviews held with a survivor of the Theresienstadt concentration camp
By Deborah Cole
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The city of Yokohama (Courtesy)
March 19, 2023, 9:17 am
Yokohama transforms into a tech innovation hub of East Asia
The city aims to attract foreign talent in technology and research to become a powerhouse beyond Japan’s shores
By Todd Fong
This July 22, 2019, photo taken from video gives a 360-degree view of Ramadan prayers on the plateau of the Dome of the Rock, which can be seen in The Holy City, a virtual reality experience in the metaverse. (The Holy City VR via AP)
August 8, 2022, 3:06 am
From the Western Wall to Mecca: VR lets virtual pilgrims explore world’s holy sites
Users can tuck a prayer note into a crack of the Western Wall, join thousands of worshipers during Ramadan at the Al-Aqsa Mosque or circle around the Kaaba
By LUIS ANDRES HENAO
Illustrative: A visitor interacts with a display through a virtual reality goggles at the Saatchi Gallery in London, on Sunday, December 23, 2018. (AP Photo/Raphael Satter)
November 18, 2021, 7:03 pm
Israeli startups prepare to play major role in building metaverse
‘Creative reality’ startup D-ID, and VR/AR company Glimpse Group partner to bring ‘life’ into a futuristic virtual world
By Ricky Ben-David
Illustrative graphic of the Spike application running on the Oculus Quest 2 VR headset (Spike/Courtesy)
October 29, 2021, 2:42 pm
Israeli startup Spike partners with newly rebranded Meta, launches VR email app
The Herzliya-based company says it is the first Israeli developer to have software available for the Oculus Quest 2 headset; Facebook renaming aimed at focus on ‘metaverse’
By ToI Staff and Agencies
The main gallery in Jerusalem's Musrara museum, now using digital reality to display a new exhibit during the 2020 coronavirus (Courtesy Musrara)
September 26, 2020, 7:11 pm
A Jerusalem museum ventures into VR and 3D imaging to open new exhibit
Musrara brings to life portraits and videos of an exchange program with Native Americans in new digital format
By Jessica Steinberg
Amanda Friedeman takes a question from a student directed to Holocaust survivor Adina Sella, as she is displayed as a three-dimensional hologram at the Take A Stand Center in the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center on October 26, 2017, in Skokie, Illinois. (Joshua Lott/AFP)
January 10, 2020, 5:20 pm
The ‘virtual’ future of Holocaust education is already here
From recreating the Nuremberg Trials to a virtual reality ‘walk-through’ of Auschwitz-Birkenau, new gaming technology is replacing face-to-face encounters with Holocaust survivors
By Matt Lebovic
Jacob Maslow
November 28, 2019, 12:29 pm
Jacob Maslow
The future of Augmented and Virtual Reality
Advanced technologies show off the future uses of augmented reality to Israelis who were slower to adopt video games than other countries
Salem Barameh, executive director of the Palestine Institute for Public Diplomacy, uses a headset for the 'Palestine VR' tour guide application, on October 10, 2019, in the West Bank city of Ramallah. (Abbas Momani/AFP)
October 30, 2019, 6:46 pm
Banned by Israel from visiting? There’s an app for that
Palestine VR includes narrated tours of sites in East Jerusalem, West Bank that US congresswomen Tlaib and Omar planned to visit before entry ban over Israel boycott support
By AFP and ToI Staff
In this file photo taken on August 22, 2019 Jonas Rothe, founder and CEO of Timeride, a company offering virtual reality tours through a still-divided Berlin, poses next to Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin, Germany. (Tobias Schwarz/AFP)
October 26, 2019, 3:21 pm
30 years later, Berlin Wall comes back to life with virtual reality
German startup offering visitors and history buffs an ‘authentic’ and immersive Cold War-era tour of the divided capital
By Deborah Cole
A gif created of the Sufi ritual, from 'Zikr: A Sufi Revival' (Courtesy 'Zikr' filmmakers)
August 28, 2019, 10:42 am
Ancient Sufi dancing rituals go VR at Israel’s National Library
‘Zikr: A Sufi Revival’ offers film festival-goers an experiential viewing of an ancient branch of Islam
By Hannah Harnest
The IDF reveals what it says is the longest cross-border attack tunnel dug by Hezbollah from Lebanon into Israel, May 29, 2019. (Israel Defense Forces)
August 27, 2019, 4:16 pm
With virtual reality, Israeli soldiers train in simulated terror tunnels
IDF using computer technology to teach troops to navigate Hamas and Hezbollah underground passages
By Alexandra Vardi
Michael Eisenberg of Aleph VC, left, and Bradley Tusk, the founder and CEO of Tusk Holdings, during the recording of the Firewall Special Israel Edition podcast (Courtesy)
July 25, 2019, 11:48 am
LISTEN: How an Israeli startup plans to use drones to visit the world
1st in a series of 7 Israeli startup podcasts: Through unmanned aerial vehicles, XTEND wants people to access new physical realities and give them the ability to ‘fly’
Tal Melenboim
July 1, 2019, 4:33 pm
Tal Melenboim
Exploring the blurry lines between humans, VR and AR
Israeli AI startups such as orCam, Woo, Wizer, Aquant, and Wibbitz are pushing the frontiers of what’s possible with artificial intelligence across a range of industries
Alon Melchner, the CEO of Mixed Place, an Israeli startup that develops mixed reality technologies (Courtesy)
February 28, 2019, 5:48 pm
Startup sees mixed reality, a blend of virtual and real worlds, as the future
Shopping, touring and more will be revolutionized through use of MR lenses, says Israeli firm Mixed Place, whose tools it says will expedite people’s interaction with 3D images
By Shoshanna Solomon
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