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The Line: Experience Flow and Reflection with an Elite Swimmer in 360 degree video

Immersive, Sports / By Anastasia Sotiropoulos

This immersive VR experience takes viewers beneath the surface, following Roy as he swims through memory and reflection. Overlapping his movements in the water, his voice narrates a story of discipline and self-discovery. He recalls waking up at 5:45 AM for years, giving up weekends and logging nearly 10,000 hours in the pool.

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Discovering the Stanford Dish in 360: From Space Missions to Snowy Sledding

Immersive, News / By Nikolas Liepins

Perched in the Stanford foothills is a still-working relic that has helped everything from NASA Mars missions to collecting bounced signals from the moon. Nowadays, it’s primarily used to track objects in space, to communicate with low-orbit satellites and assist in other general space assignments.

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‘It’s A Win-Win’: Food Recovery Programs In The Bay Area Reduce Food Waste While Feeding The Hungry

Environment, Immersive, News / By Hannah Freitag

Approximately 35% of all food produced annually in the U.S. goes to waste, while one in eight households experience food insecurity.

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A picture of a gymnastics gym. There are uneven bars and several women who are doing various exercises.

Tumbling To The Top: An Immersive Look At Stanford Women’s Gymnastics Team

Immersive, Sports / By Kalyn Epps

In a sport known for its artistic feats of athleticism, the members of the Stanford Women’s gymnastics team draw on their own power and that of their teammates to stick the landing.

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A woman walks between planters filled with vegetables

Florence Fang Community Farm offers food, fresh produce, community space in Bayview-Hunters Point

Immersive, News / By Natasha Jessen-Petersen

The Florence Fang Community Farm is a pocket of food and fresh produce in the midst of Bayview-Hunters Point’s food desert. It’s the second most-productive urban farm in the city.

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How a pro beach volleyball hopeful climbed the ranks in Northern California

Immersive, News, Sports / By Melissa Newcomb, Syler Peralta-Ramos

With no formal training, Ansgar Grunseid is currently ranked by the California Beach Volleyball Association as 49th in the state and is one of the best players in Northern California.

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From Cambria to Gaviota, a battle for the future of the California Coast

Immersive, News, Projects / By Elissa Miolene

For decades, communities across central California have fought – both for and against – the creation of the Chumash Heritage National Marine Sanctuary.

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A mother and her two small children sit in their kitchen.

‘A recipe for disaster’: The pandemic’s toll on working parents

Data Hub, Immersive, News, Projects / By Caroline Ghisolfi

Since the beginning of the pandemic, California’s job market has lost the largest percentage of parents of school children in the country, trailing only Nevada and Michigan, an analysis of U.S. Census Household Pulse Survey data shows.

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