Through artificial intelligence, users of the VR headset can have a "conversation" with Auerbacher, asking about her encounters with heartbreaking loss and occasional heroism. The project is a collaboration between Los Angeles-based company StoryFile, the World Jewish Congress and Facebook-owner Meta, which billed it as the first AI and metaverse Holocaust education experience in Germany. 'Resilience and tenacity'StoryFile co-founder Stephen Smith, who has worked in Holocaust education for three decades, said the technology allows users to "talk to history through the people who went through it". Now travelling the globe as a book author and educator, Auerbacher told the German parliament last year on International Holocaust Remembrance Day that it was essential to fight the spreading "cancer" of hatred. Auerbacher said she wanted the new VR and AI technology to be one more weapon in the war against disinformation and hate speech.

Source: The Star June 07, 2023 10:01 UTC