ImagineAR has announced that they have partnered with and Black Voice Foundation and Footsteps to Freedom to provide a white-label AR app subscription platform.
It is a three-year partnership agreement meant to give augmented reality experiences to bring primary source artifacts, heroic stories of the Underground Railroad, and history to life. The AR subscription platform will incorporate books, artifacts, and paper that are 200+ years old.
“ImagineAR will be recognized as a national sponsor for these programs, which reflects the company’s commitment to diversity, inclusion and, more importantly, conversations of historical empathy and learning each other.” – Alen Paul Silverrstieen, CEO, ImagineAR mentioned in a statement.
“The Footsteps to Freedom/Black Voice Foundation work is important to keep history engaging and impactful for teachers and the hundreds of thousands of students they represent. These organizations truly understand the enormous potential of integrating augmented reality for history tours and traveling empathy exhibits.” – Silverrstieen.
Black Voice Foundation, founded in 1988, has organized many educators on immersive trips of the Underground Railroad. The immersive experience allows visitors to look through the eyes of abolitionists and freedom seekers.
“ImagineAR is an advanced digital immersive communication platform which will deliver the impact of our work in historical empathy with next-generation mobile experiences. We are expecting to introduce this AR program to over 50 school districts and over 1 million students in Southern California (San Bernardino, Riverside, and Los Angeles counties). We are truly excited to integrate AR into our exhibits and Underground Railroad tours.” – Hardy Brown II, Managing Principal of Footsteps to Freedom and Chairman of the Black Voice Foundation.
“After learning of the 24-year track record of Footsteps to Freedom and the Underground Railroad tours for teachers, we knew that becoming a national sponsor would be a great addition to bring history to life with mobile augmented reality for the next generation.” – Silverrstieen.
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