Martin Luther King’s famous speech, revived in VR

The US Newsletter Time announced in 1963 that Martin Luther King’s historical speech in front of the Lincoln Memorial will be reproduced in virtual reality.

Martin Luther King was an African-American civil rights movement leader. On August 28, 1963, a rally was held in Washington, DC to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Lincoln’s Declaration of Emancipation, and he gave a speech in front of the Lincoln Memorial. At this meeting, he appealed with his dream of’I Have a Dream’ about the phenomenon of African Americans and the eradication of discrimination.

This famous speech, which was reproduced this time, is said to reproduce the appearance in front of the Lincoln Memorial on August 28, 1963 as realistically as possible by combining the recruitment of the Washington Grand March with 250,000 participants at the time, motion capture, and 3D rendering.

The completed virtual reality will be unveiled at the DuSable Museum of African American History on February 28, 2020. If this project is successful, the movement to reproduce historical moments in virtual reality may accelerate as well. Related information can be found here .