Tech company Mursion is employing white actors to play people of color in diversity training programs using virtual reality — and the practice is raising some controversy in the acting and media world ...

A tech company that provides human resources training to some of the world’s largest corporations has been using white actors to portray people of color in virtual reality simulations about diversity, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. A former tech executive covering AI, XR and The Metaverse for Forbes. Mursion (a foreshortened form of Immersion) is used as an ...

CW: This article includes discussions of blackface and racial stereotypes. Stop us if you’ve seen this one before: A group of white people decide to don blackface, or some variation of thereof, in an ...

San Francisco, CA, Aug. 17, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Inc. magazine today revealed that Mursion, the industry leader in immersive simulated training for essential workplace skills, is on the annual Inc ...

San Francisco, California, Oct. 20, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Mursion, the industry leading human-powered AI platform for practicing and developing essential workplace skills, today announced the ...

What if virtual-reality avatars could teach humans empathy–in the real world, not in the realms of gaming or science fiction? In some workplaces, that’s already happening. Mursion, a San Francisco ...

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 30, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Mursion, the industry leader in immersive virtual reality training for emotional intelligence in the workplace, today announced it has closed a $20 million ...