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The 10 most innovative augmented and virtual reality companies of 2025

Fast Company Tech

Excurio For bringing virtual reality experiencesand audiencesto museums Excurio builds immersive, historically accurate installations that feature a shared virtual reality for up to 100 simultaneous attendees. Other exhibits focus on the history of Notre Dame and the evolution of life on Earth across nine eras and landscapes.

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How does your nonprofit involve the local community in its programs and initiatives?

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Here’s a summary of some of the best answers we received: Partner with Local Businesses and Offer Valuable Information As a historical society, we obviously link with other history-focused nonprofits, but we have developed many other relationships in both the public and private sectors. Our community has an active Main Street program.

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This futuristic $6,000 chair was designed with data from the Polaris Dawn mission

Fast Company Tech

Artist and industrial design icon Ross Lovegrove s work has always looked like the space-age future and he has now partnered up with SpaceX on a project that sees him revisiting one of his most famous pieces from the past: The Bernhardt Go chair. Jude Childrens Research Hospital. It took us a while to find somebody who would take that risk.

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He went undercover to catch art thieves. Now he’s using tech to stop forgeries

Fast Company Tech

Formed in 2004 in response to the looting of Iraqi museums and growing international art trafficking, the Art Crime Team was designed as a specialized unit of agents trained in cultural property law, art history, and international smuggling. It no longer required sophisticated training or access to museum archives.

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9 LGBTQ creators discuss not backing down from Pride

Mashable Tech

From drag legend Kim Chi to history-maker Tona Brown, these individuals are not letting billionaires get them down. Mashable caught up with a group of queer creators rolling with the changes of the 2020s and who continue to innovate and spread messages of hope and inclusivity.

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Beyond the Walls: A Post Museum Career

Museum 2.0

I asked my friend, Paul Bowers, to share some of his thoughts about leaving museums. If you have thoughts about leaving museums or why you're staying, reach out. Beyond the walls – a post-museum career There’s a lot of talk about people leaving their museums jobs – if you’re thinking that way, this might help.

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AI robots can already carve stone statues. Entire buildings are next

Fast Company Tech

Using an $8 million round of venture capital funding, the 2-year-old company is turning this aging warehouse into a modern stonecutting factory capable of quickly producing highly detailed decorative facades, museum-grade marble sculptures, and towering stone monuments. It’s also one humans have relied on for millennia.