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TIME’s new cover: Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy and the fight for equality now.

This image is created from a historically precise 3-D rendering of King from The March, a virtual reality experience ti.me/2HHGIvw

Digital Domain captured the expressions, movements and spirit of King so that he could appear digitally in The March, which TIME has produced in partnership with the civil rights leader’s estate ti.me/2PbCdxt

The experience, which is executive-produced and narrated by actor @violadavis, draws on more than a decade of research in machine learning and human anatomy to create a visually striking re-creation of the country’s National Mall circa 1963 — and of King himself

Digital Domain sent a crew to the National Mall and used photogrammetry—a method of extracting measurements and other data from photographs—to digitally map the site of the march

Hours of research went into transforming that data into a vision of the National Mall from five decades ago, checking the period accuracy of every building, bus or streetlight set to be digitized

Activists who participated in the real march were consulted, as were historians, to help recreate the feeling of being there, and archived audio recordings from that day fleshed out the virtual environment

The March launches at the Dusable Museum of African American History on Feb. 28. Read more here: ti.me/2ufll1H

The March is made possible by @amfam #MarchOn