moksha mobile xr bus - powered by ar miami

 Powered by AR Miami app and Moksha Arts Collective.

 The Moksha Mobile XR Bus "Magic Bus" carries fifteen Quest headsets and parks at after-school clubs, libraries, and weekend art walks. Inside, students enter a shared VR gallery that displays their own paintings. Outside, phones running the free AR Miami app reveal the same art GPS-anchored around the playground. Teachers can swap in new artworks by dragging JPEGs into a shared folder—both VR and AR update automatically. 

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 Step into the bus, slip on a headset, and find yourself in the very same seat—only now the windows open into a gallery floating in space.
Students board the bright-blue Magic Bus, settle into padded seats, and pull down a Quest visor. In an instant they re-appear inside a virtual twin of the bus, avatars of their friends waving beside them. A squeeze of the controller lets them stand, walk down the aisle, and step out into a floating gallery where ten-foot canvases—painted by their own classmates—hover against Miami’s skyline. They explore together, talk in real time, and snap in-world selfies before lifting the visor and returning to the real world outside. 

 Founded in 2009 as a 501(c)(3) in Miami’s Little Haiti, Moksha Arts Collective has staged more than 200 multimedia events—from the long-running Moksha Art Fair during Art Basel week to neighborhood drum circles and lecture series on ethnobotany. Its gallery shows have featured icons such as Alex Grey, Amanda Sage, and Luis Valle, while providing first runs to dozens of emerging local painters. mokshafamily.org

In 2017 Moksha opened a three-level gallery in VRChat, one of the earliest large-scale art worlds on that platform. The space has logged tens of thousands of avatar visits and keeps evolving each art season. brcvr.org

When Burning Man went virtual for the pandemic, Moksha’s VR world was formally accepted into BRCvr, the official “virtual playa,” in both 2020 and 2021, placing it alongside marquee camps and live DJ stages. jcfractal.combrcvr.org

• Hosts Art-Basel-adjacent Moksha Art Fair (since 2010) with 1 000+ annual visitors.
   
• Runs year-round programming at 7th Circuit Studios—panel talks, live murals, youth workshops. mokshafamily.org
   

The same team and Unity tool-set behind the Burning Man worlds now powers the Moksha Mobile XR Bus (“Magic Bus”)—linking a live VR gallery to GPS-anchored AR through the AR Miami app. The bus lets Title I students step into a headset, exit into a sky-high virtual gallery, and then discover those artworks pinned around their own playground—an evolution of Moksha’s long-standing mission to fuse art, technology, and community.