{"id":339498,"date":"2017-04-28T04:55:04","date_gmt":"2017-04-27T20:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/?p=1482519"},"modified":"2017-04-28T04:55:04","modified_gmt":"2017-04-27T20:55:04","slug":"google-brings-hamilton-experiences-to-students-in-the-theater-and-virtual-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/google-brings-hamilton-experiences-to-students-in-the-theater-and-virtual-reality\/","title":{"rendered":"Google brings \u2018Hamilton\u2019 experiences to students in the theater and virtual reality"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Yesterday, Google\u2019s philanthropic arm, Google.org, gave 5,000 high school students across the country a chance to see the smash hit Hamilton: An American Musical<\/em>.\u00a0All of this was possible thanks to an $800,000 grant from the company which worked in collaboration with the\u00a0Gilder-Lehrman Institute to cap off the students\u2019 six-week unit on the founding of America with a matinee of the oft-praised hip hop historical.<\/p>\n

I had a chance to meet up with some of the lucky high school students yesterday at the musical\u2019s San Francisco location where 24 Bay Area high schools assembled to watch the performance. Students across\u00a0Chicago and New York City also made way to the musical yesterday.<\/p>\n

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Google is bringing 5k students across the US to see Hamilton today and launching a 6-part Google Expeditions VR tour through Ham’s life pic.twitter.com\/7Q8NoURCOP<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Lucas Matney (@Lucas_Matney) April 26, 2017<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote><\/div>\n

The phrases \u201cBest play I\u2019ve ever seen,\u201d \u201cAwesome,\u201d and \u201cThis was so cool,\u201d were uttered at least a few times each but the most poignant insights came from high school students who saw the play as a chance to humanize the historical figures beneath the powdered wigs and\u00a0bonnets.<\/p>\n

Much in the way that the immersive qualities of \u201cHamilton\u201d and the familiar style of the play\u2019s hip hop soundtrack have made people empathize with centuries-old historical figures, Google is hoping that its virtual reality Expeditions<\/a> program can cause students to\u00a0more easily identify with historical events by taking on different viewpoints.<\/p>\n

Alongside yesterday\u2019s field trip,\u00a0Gilder-Lehrman is launching six new virtual reality tours on Google\u2019s Expedition VR platform that brings students closer to the real life of the ten-dollar founding father.<\/p>\n

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The tours look at hallmark\u00a0historical moments in America\u2019s history like the ratification of the constitution, the revolutionary war and the presidency of George Washington.\u00a0The institute is also\u00a0making\u00a0a number\u00a0of rare artifacts and documents\u00a0available for online viewing on the\u00a0Google Arts and Culture<\/a>\u00a0portal.<\/p>\n

The depth of the experiences available in Expeditions\u00a0are\u00a0in some ways held up\u00a0by the technical limitations of the Cardboard platform, but the ability to utilize largely available mobile hardware to do so greatly increases its\u00a0accessibility for students in classrooms across the country and world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\"\" Yesterday, Google’s philanthropic arm, Google.org, gave 5,000 high school students across the country a chance to see the smash hit Hamilton: An American Musical.\u00a0All of this was possible thanks to an $800,000 grant from the company which worked in collaboration with the\u00a0Gilder-Lehrman Institute to cap off the students’ six-week unit on the founding of America with a matinee of… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n

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