Imagine watching Martin Luther King Jr give his iconic speech live.
That's the intense personal moment organisers are striving for with a one-of-a-kind virtual reality exhibit opening Friday at Chicago's DuSable Museum of African American History. Called"The March", it captures the 1963 March on Washington during which King delivered his iconic"I Have a Dream" address.
Creators said it was inspired by an archive image of King giving a different speech on the National Mall, shot from his perspective looking out., which features King in a March issue, worked with companies including a production studio run by actress Viola Davis and her husband, Julius Tennon. Davis narrates part of the project.
After that, attendees are outfitted with heavy virtual reality headsets that block out the outside world and replace it with three-dimensional glimpses of Aug 28, 1963, on the National Mall. In what sometimes looks like a video game, visitors march along Constitution Avenue and then stand in the crowd of some 250,000.
Tramz declined to discuss how the project got the estate's backing. Messages left for Atlanta-based Intellectual Properties Management, which manages King's estate and controls rights to his works and images, weren't returned.
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