Dr. Joel Beeson (l-r), Emily Pelland, Erin Irwin, Mary Kay McFarland test shoot a spherical image on top of Trapper’s building in Selma, Al. on April 29, 2015. Virtual Reality ← Emily Pelland, of Morgan State University, uses the Ricoh Theta camera to create a spherical image of the Battle of Selma reenactment on April 26, 2015 in Selma, Al to be included in a VR story about Selma, Al. The still images are rendered onto the connected smartphone shortly after the image is captured through the camera’s Wi-Fi. WVU student Kelsey Staggers, top, and Morgan State student Maya Gilmore film while reporting on a local coffee roasting company for the Bridging Selma project in Selma, Alabama. →