Science & Technology

#ShowUp Stories: Kealoha | Hilo, HI

Meet Kealoha, whose masculine and feminine identity and powerful gift of Hawaiian healing helps others find their way.

Everyone has a reason to #ShowUp – in spirit and in person, at parades and marches, in cities big and small. This year we traveled to Prides all across America to talk to members of the LGBTQ+ community and their allies about why they show up.

For more stories, visit pride.google.com

Nat & Friends: VR for Creativity Sneak Peek

Nat & Friends explore how virtual reality is creating new possibilities for artists and creators, thanks to tools like Tilt Brush, Blocks, Mindshow, and 360 cameras. Full video here → https://g.co/go/NFvirtual2 | More in the description below ↓

Check out the Tilt Brush Sketches gallery → https://vr.google.com/sketches/

Check out Blocks →https://vr.google.com/blocks/

Playlist of JUMP videos → https://goo.gl/FxvmUy

Web VR Experiments you can try out (w/ a headset or on your laptop) → https://www.webvrexperiments.com/

More info about VR at Google → https://vr.google.com/

Subscribe to Nat & Friends on YouTube → https://goo.gl/CEsJyN

Follow Nat & Friends on Twitter → https://twitter.com/NatAndFriends

Nat & Friends: Virtual Reality Sneak Peek

Nat meets people from Daydream Labs, Expeditions, and Google Research to try as many VR demos as she can. Watch the full video here → https://g.co/go/NFvirtual

More info about Google VR → https://vr.google.com/

Subscribe to Nat & Friends on YouTube → https://goo.gl/CEsJyN

Follow Nat & Friends on Twitter → https://twitter.com/NatAndFriends

We all have a reason to #ShowUp

This Pride, we can all #ShowUp. In spirit and in person. At parades and marches, in cities big and small. To make this Pride bigger, louder, and prouder than ever before. Because Pride is for all of us to celebrate and for all of us to defend.

This summer, we’re traveling to parades, marches, and festivals across the country to document stories as people #ShowUp for Pride across America. Experience them all at http://pride.google

Refugee.Info Hub: Providing vital information to refugees

In 2015, thousands of refugees were landing on the Greek islands every day. Information on the ground was scarce, so Google started working with the International Rescue Committee and Mercy Corps to build Refugee.Info Hub–a mobile site providing information, like where to get medical attention and how to find refugee camps. Refugee.Info continues to provide thousands of people with vital information every month.

To support IRC visit rescue.org

NetHope: Providing Internet access to refugees

In response to the European refugee crisis in 2015, Google volunteers started working with NetHope engineers like llias to bring Internet access to camps throughout Greece and the Balkan region. The Internet is a necessity for refugees and it gives them hope–it means they can access information, educational resources and communicate with loved ones.

To support NetHope visit nethope.org

Maher’s Story

When Maher was 18 and living in Iraq, he used Google Translate to teach himself English. Forced from his home by violence, his story continues today in America – day by day, word by word.