video game from 2014 that has seen its popularity soar since Russian President Vladimir Putin’s troops descended on the country last week.
The immersive efforts are at present still a scrappy and fragmented undertaking. But taken as a whole, they hint at a new and possibly more effective way to influence public opinion; such sites could even eventually become another front in the information wars.11 Bit has seen sales of the game soar 2,500 percent since the invasion began last week, Miechowski said. The company will donate all profits from sales through at least this Thursday to the Red Cross’s Ukrainian relief efforts.
Furman and his wife were in their apartment in Kyiv last week when a car was leaving for the western city of Ivano-Frankivsk, farther from the war’s likely front. He secured spots for them and set about figuring out what to take, since there was only room for each to bring one backpack. He had to leave his camera behind.They arrived in Ivano-Frankivsk after a 28-hour drive. Furman and his wife are now holed up in an apartment with a half-dozen friends. During a talk with a reporter at 11 p.m.
Reface, a popular Kyiv-based app that uses AI to enable the playful prospect of putting users’ faces on the video bodies of famous people, has set about remaking its cutting-edge app as a kind of Ukrainian-war messaging tool.