Associated Press 09/25/2015

Bill Clinton appears in virtual-reality movie on Africa

As world leaders descend on the United Nations this weekend, former President Bill Clinton will be taking them to East Africa through virtual reality. Viewers with special goggles will be able to follow Clinton's travels in eight minutes.

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Fast Company 09/25/2015

Bill Clinton Is The First U.S. President In Virtual Reality

Two days ago, I found myself facing Bill Clinton, listening to the former U.S. president talk passionately about the work he and his foundation, the Clinton Global Initiative, have been doing in Africa.

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US News 09/25/2015

Bill Clinton Appears In Short Virtual-reality Movie To Promote Projects In Africa

As world leaders descend on the United Nations this weekend, former President Bill Clinton will be taking them to East Africa through virtual reality. Viewers with special goggles will be able to follow Clinton's travels...

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Tech Crunch 09/25/2015

Bill Clinton Appears In Virtual-reality Movie On Africa

As I mentioned during my VR panel at TC Disrupt last week, Bill Clinton has been messing around with virtual reality. Today, Felix & Paul Studios’ production “Inside Impact: East Africa” has...

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Business Insider 09/25/2015

Bill Clinton Appears In Virtual-reality Movie On Africa

In a seven-minute movie, viewers with special goggles will be able to follow Clinton's travels. Footage was captured last spring with 360-degree cameras. What you see through the goggles changes as you move your head left, right and even up or down.

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Gizmodo 09/25/2015

Virtual Reality Put Me Face-to-Face With Bill Clinton In His Office

The towers of Midtown Manhattan sparkled in the distance as I sat across a gleaming desk from Bill Clinton. Bill (I can call him Bill, right?) smiled—I thought, man, that vegan diet is working for him!—as he began telling me, in that signature hoarse voice...

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Global Citizen 10/22/2015

Want to visit East Africa with President Bill Clinton? Just press play

Take poverty in a place like East Africa, for example. Most folks are at least generally aware of the hardships millions face in economically challenged countries like Kenya, but how many people outside East Africa will ever have the chance to go to Kenya and see that poverty up close?

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Creativity 10/30/2015

Clinton Becomes the First President to Step Into Virtual Reality

The President had teamed with agency Matter Unlimited, a shop dedicated to helping clients do good through their marketing, to create a 360-degree film promoting the efforts of his organization the Clinton Foundation and the Clinton Global Initiative...

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Tech Insider 10/15/2015

I went to Africa with Bill Clinton in virtual reality — now I’m convinced VR is the future of doing good

Bill Clinton stared into my eyes as he spoke. "This spring, I traveled to Africa to see firsthand how thousands of people are lifting up their families and their communities through cooperation." It was a perfectly nice day in New York City...

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Wall Street Journal 11/27/2015

Charities Use Virtual Reality to Draw in Donors

The goal of a virtual-reality film shown during the September annual meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative was to “drive collaborative action,” according to Bryan Mochizuki, its director of marketing.

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Wired 03/01/2016

VR Films Work Great for Charity. What About Changing Minds?

New inventions, whether they’re gadgets or startups or biotech advancements, always come with some promise to “change the world.” Some do. Most don’t. A rare few find revolutionary uses that go far beyond what their creators initially envisioned. (Congrats, Google. Sorry, Google Glass.)

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Devex 02/01/2016

Does development need virtual reality?

Sitting in the office swivel chair, I was skeptical that anything would make me look and act like the people around me spinning in circles, gaping and pointing, pointing their chins up and down and all around. I pulled the headphones over my ears, fastened the headset to my face, and waited for the start of a virtual reality film titled “Inside Impact: East Africa.”

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