AR Enthusiasts,

We’re looking forward to continuing the conversation about how AR and VR can help in the fight against climate change (and save the world!). We’ll be featuring select finalists and winners of the $100,000 XR Prize Challenge: Fight Climate Change! All four of our speakers will show their ground-breaking and award-winning work, with two of them leading projects focused right here in NY!

See more about the challenge here: https://www.awexr.com/xrprize

Join at: https://awe.live/

SCHEDULE: 5:00 - 6:00pm

1. Ori Inbar (Cofounder of AWE and Super Ventures) and Dace Campbell (AWE XR Prize Competition Manager and XR for Good Program Director) will host the event, overview the XR Prize Challenge, and moderate the discussion.
2. Ed Harrison (Under the Skin), featuring the XR Prize grand prize-winning project, “Between Two Worlds.” Our Augmented Reality app invites viewers to experience wildlife art as they’ve never seen before. Scanning the endangered animals brings them to life and reveals the threats to their habitats.
3. Dana Chermesh (InCitu), featuring the XR Prize category-winning project, “InCitu.” inCitu brings future cities to life through Augmented Reality to foster collaboration around the process of urban change.
4. Daniel Sauter (Urban Systems Lab), featuring the XR Prize finalist project, “Ocellus XR.” Visualizing Climate Risk, Vulnerability and Equity in NYC.
5. Kim Grinfeder (University of Miami), featuring the XR Prize category-winning project, “Mangrove City.” Mangrove City is a VR experience designed for middle school students to explore the crucial role of mangrove forests in protecting coastal communities and mitigating climate change.

Q&A and member announcements.

See you there! Ori