With educators and experts from around the country in attendance, the two-day Miami XR 2026 conference explored the different ways extended reality is making an impact in the world. Pictured above, Walt Disney Imagineering executives Bruce Vaughn and Kyle Laughlin discuss how they got into the immersive storytelling field with Tom Merrick (right), lecturer of interactive media and senior director of XR Initiatives at the Frost Institute for Data Science and Computing. (Photo by Debora Cabrera for the University of Miami)
Overtown opened its arms to Casey Munga nine years ago. That’s when the single mother of one moved to the historic Miami neighborhood after becoming homeless and nearly losing her son to a bout with sepsis that left him in a wheelchair. “We were traumatized because of what happened to us,” she recalled. “When we moved to Overtown, no one knew us, but we were never treated like strangers. Read more “Environmental Justice Clinic Law Fights for Overtown”→