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Black Immersive Creators Grant
This highly targeted grant provides transformative support to address equity and historical underrepresentation within the immersive technology ecosystem. It ensures that foundational narratives, avatars, and architectures of the Metaverse are diverse, inclusive, and reflective of afro-futurist perspectives. The grant supports the creation or enhancement of immersive art projects, which can be ...
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Funds the production of a new original immersive project or sequel. This grant is an essential counterweight to the systemic inequities present in technology funding and game engine development.
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Open to Black immersive artists. The grant funds the creation or enhancement of an immersive art project. The project must be accessible to an audience in the United States within 12 months of the award and can take the form of an in-person, remote, virtual, or site-specific experience.
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