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Imagine the following scenario. You're designing a virtual reality experience. Your work needs to be top-notch, transcendent and inspiring. You're creating it to make a huge difference in someone's life, amid stressful circumstances. And your project must be ready for viewing, ten weeks from today. That's exactly what multiple award-winning new-media artist and VR evangelist Teri Yarbrow has been doing, with her "VR for Good" class at Savannah College of Art and Design. Working in collaboration with Hospice of Savannah, Teri and her students design virtual reality experiences for patients in both hospice and palliative care. Teri is the founder and creative director of MagikaVRX in Savannah, as well as the co-founder and creative director of design company Magika. She is also Professor of Digital Media and Immersive Reality at SCAD. And observations from her immersive-media students were the genesis of her "VR for Good" class, which Teri implemented in 2020. And they did it all in Z