2024-12-03T13:44:11-05:00 https://archinect.com/features/article/146212120/rendered-reality-the-vr-journalism-of-emblematic-group Nicholas Korody 2016-01-25T11:15:00-05:00 >2018-01-30T06:16:04-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/96/96l34flqiylfpbdv.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>&ldquo;We took all the 911 phone calls &ndash; because this is all we know, I mean everyone is conjecturing and everything, but this is all we know &ndash; and we animated them,&rdquo; explained Michael Licht, co-founder and executive producer for the <a href="http://www.emblematicgroup.com/" target="_blank">Emblematic Group</a>, sitting in his Santa Monica laboratory. Helmed by Licht and the journalist Nonny de la Pe&ntilde;a, the Group has pioneered the use of virtual reality technologies for journalism, using original audio and other information from real events as the source material for virtual reconstructions.</p>