Syria: citizen journalists film war in virtual reality with Nobel Prizewinners
by Ola AljariFor Europeans, it is hard to grasp the daily reality of living in a war zone, or to understand why hundreds of thousands of Syrians risk their lives to seek asylum here. The war is complicated, and has been going on for so long that many TV viewers and newspaper readers experience ‘compassion fatigue’. But citizen journalists in the region are trying new ways to engage the audience, using Virtual Reality (VR).
SMART is a Syrian news agency that was founded in 2013. The first movie SMART produced using virtual reality was about Jesr AlShughur, a city in…
