http://voicesofvr.com Designing for Virtual Reality Fri, 14 Sep 2018 23:28:32 +0000 en © 2018 Voices of VR Podcast Designing for Virtual Reality Kent Bye Voices of VR Podcast kent@kentbye.com http://voicesofvr.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/voices-of-vr-cover-image.jpg http://voicesofvr.com hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.1 Ken Wilber is a philosopher known for his “Integral Theory” framework that mapping of all dimensions of reality, consciousness, and stages of human development. He’s http://voicesofvr.com/694-ken-wilber-on-transformational-vr-maps-of-consciousness-integral-philosophy/ Fri, 14 Sep 2018 21:11:04 +0000 kentbye http://voicesofvr.com/?p=5628 No kentbye Howard Rose is a pioneer in creating medical applications for Virtual Reality, and I had a chance to catch up with him about his company http://voicesofvr.com/693-pain-management-other-medical-applications-of-vr/ Fri, 07 Sep 2018 17:19:00 +0000 kentbye http://voicesofvr.com/?p=5623 No kentbye Dinner Party is a short VR story that premiered at Sundance, and it uses the story of the alien abduction of Barney and Betty Hill http://voicesofvr.com/692-using-immersive-anxiety-to-symbolically-depict-racial-tension/ Wed, 05 Sep 2018 20:57:18 +0000 kentbye http://voicesofvr.com/?p=5618 No kentbye Morgan Mercer’s Vantage Point is creating virtual reality training experiences in order to cultivate the skills to break the stigma around sexual assault and and http://voicesofvr.com/691-using-vr-to-cultivate-culture-against-sexual-assault/ Thu, 30 Aug 2018 21:38:24 +0000 kentbye http://voicesofvr.com/?p=5610 No kentbye On April 4th, Jessica Outlaw released a survey of 600 regular virtual reality users about harassment experiences in VR, which was funded by Pluto VR. http://voicesofvr.com/690-survey-of-harassment-in-vr-cultural-dynamics-vs-tech-solutions/ Wed, 29 Aug 2018 16:55:13 +0000 kentbye http://voicesofvr.com/?p=5595 No kentbye Marlon Fuentes is a ethnomusicologist who looks at the culture of how people relate to music through an anthropological lens. He’s an emerging technologist who http://voicesofvr.com/689-ethnomusicology-new-music-rituals-in-vr/ Mon, 27 Aug 2018 23:11:48 +0000 kentbye http://voicesofvr.com/?p=5590 No kentbye Gabo Arora’s ZIKR: A Sufi Revival premiered at Sundance this year. It’s a 360-degree video capture of a number of different Sufi rituals, songs, and http://voicesofvr.com/688-a-sufi-zikr-as-social-vr-ritual/ Fri, 24 Aug 2018 19:19:36 +0000 kentbye http://voicesofvr.com/?p=5579 No kentbye Lawnmower Man director Brett Leonard is working on a project called Hollywood Rooftop, which is going to be shot both as an immersive 360 video http://voicesofvr.com/687-group-rituals-in-vr-2d-vs-3d-cinamatic-language-experiment/ Wed, 22 Aug 2018 22:10:47 +0000 kentbye http://voicesofvr.com/?p=5574 No kentbye I facilitated a panel discussion at the Decentralized Web Summit that brought together some of the leading virtual reality creators who have been integrating blockchain http://voicesofvr.com/686-panel-vr-blockchain-architecting-the-decentralized-metaverse/ Tue, 14 Aug 2018 19:11:59 +0000 kentbye http://voicesofvr.com/?p=5558 No kentbye Jules Urbach wants to create a photorealistic metaverse. He’s been working on rending technologies to render digital lightfields, and Otoy’s Octane renderer is used everywhere http://voicesofvr.com/685-otoys-render-token-ai-rendering-digital-lightfield-holodeck-walls/ Tue, 14 Aug 2018 19:09:12 +0000 kentbye http://voicesofvr.com/?p=5556 No kentbye Samantha Matthews Chase calls GDPR – General Data Portability Regulations rather than data protection. GDPR has forced many companies to make over a decade’s worth http://voicesofvr.com/684-insight-engineering-data-portability-identity-vr-the-iot-edge/ Tue, 14 Aug 2018 19:07:10 +0000 kentbye http://voicesofvr.com/?p=5553 No kentbye Janus VR has been implementing an IPFS distributed file system option for creators for the past couple of years. I talk to “Taco Dog” who http://voicesofvr.com/683-mesh-networks-distributed-metaverse-protocols-archiving-event-spaces/ Tue, 14 Aug 2018 19:05:46 +0000 kentbye http://voicesofvr.com/?p=5551 No kentbye The decentralized metaverse will require the transferring of A LOT of data. Distributed, peer-to-peer file systems like IPFS could provide the backbone of the decentralized http://voicesofvr.com/682-ipfs-distributed-file-storage-the-decentralized-metaverse/ Tue, 14 Aug 2018 19:04:30 +0000 kentbye http://voicesofvr.com/?p=5549 No kentbye Decentraland is a grand experiment of bringing together decentralized blockchain technologies and virtual worlds. Decentraland ICO raised over 26 million dollars, but it wasn’t without http://voicesofvr.com/681-decentraland-updates-on-the-virtual-real-estate-experiment/ Tue, 14 Aug 2018 19:02:01 +0000 kentbye http://voicesofvr.com/?p=5547 No kentbye ICOs are disrupting late stage venture capital. Shawn Cheng was working at the Vayner/RSE VC, but now he’s working with Ethereum co-founder Joe Lubin’s Consensys http://voicesofvr.com/680-icos-are-disrupting-vc-funding-ethereum-coopetition-is-challenging-vc-unicorn-dynamics/ Tue, 14 Aug 2018 19:00:25 +0000 kentbye http://voicesofvr.com/?p=5545 No kentbye The threat of forking a blockchain project is a catalyst for cooperation, which means that there are many parallels between the blockchain and open source http://voicesofvr.com/679-a-cryptocurrency-gift-economy-experiment-to-foster-collaborative-ecosystems/ Tue, 14 Aug 2018 18:57:45 +0000 kentbye http://voicesofvr.com/?p=5543 No kentbye High Fidelity and Janus VR announced in March that they were creating a Virtual Reality Blockchain Alliance in order to determine the protocols for the http://voicesofvr.com/678-vr-blockchain-alliance-on-identity-currency-ownership/ Tue, 14 Aug 2018 18:56:05 +0000 kentbye http://voicesofvr.com/?p=5541 No kentbye Cory Doctorow is a science fiction author, a co-editor for Boing Boing, and consultant to the Electronic Frontier Foundation. He’s been closely tracking the relationship http://voicesofvr.com/677-cory-doctorow-on-the-risks-of-permanent-regulatory-dominance/ Tue, 14 Aug 2018 18:54:35 +0000 kentbye http://voicesofvr.com/?p=5539 No kentbye There’s a tension on the web today between creating a safe space to be online versions the costs to censorship and free speech. Spam, bots, http://voicesofvr.com/676-aclus-jennifer-granick-on-surveillance-privacy-free-speech/ Tue, 14 Aug 2018 18:52:44 +0000 kentbye http://voicesofvr.com/?p=5537 No kentbye Brewster Kahle told me that the average of a web page on the Internet is 100 days before it either changes or disappears completely. Kahle http://voicesofvr.com/675-internet-archives-brewster-kahle-on-the-future-of-the-decentralized-web/ Tue, 14 Aug 2018 18:51:18 +0000 kentbye http://voicesofvr.com/?p=5535 No kentbye In “Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace,” Lawrence Lessig wrote about four socioeconomic regulators of society as being the law, cultural norms, economic markets, and http://voicesofvr.com/674-tech-law-culture-markets-a-holistic-look-at-the-decentralized-web-summit/ Tue, 14 Aug 2018 18:49:46 +0000 kentbye http://voicesofvr.com/?p=5533 No kentbye Pixel Ripped 1989 is one of the most ambitious and innovative VR experiences I’ve seen. It’s a multi-dimensional experience with 2D game within a VR http://voicesofvr.com/673-pixel-ripped-1989-the-sound-design-of-a-2d-game-within-a-vr-game/ Thu, 09 Aug 2018 17:30:31 +0000 kentbye http://voicesofvr.com/?p=5512 No kentbye Each of the founders of TribeXR wanted to learn how to become a DJ, but they never got around to it. So they all went http://voicesofvr.com/672-tribexr-dj-school-virtual-apprenticeships-immersive-education/ Wed, 08 Aug 2018 20:39:17 +0000 kentbye http://voicesofvr.com/?p=5507 No kentbye Electronauts is a cross between a simplified DJ simulator and improvisational music tool from Survios that is launching today. It’s releasing with over 40 electronic http://voicesofvr.com/671-electronauts-democratizes-remix-djing-musical-improvisation/ Tue, 07 Aug 2018 21:32:08 +0000 kentbye http://voicesofvr.com/?p=5499 No kentbye Kaliya Young (aka Identity Woman) has been working on digital identities for the past 15 years including helping facilitate the twice-a-year Internet Identity Workshop. These http://voicesofvr.com/670-a-primer-on-self-sovereign-identity-standards-with-kaliya-young/ Tue, 07 Aug 2018 01:23:14 +0000 kentbye http://voicesofvr.com/?p=5493 No kentbye Vint Cerf is a co-inventor of the Internet, and he’s currently working as a Vice President at Google at their Chief Internet Evangelist. With all http://voicesofvr.com/669-internet-co-inventor-vint-cerf-on-decentralized-internet-challenges/ Fri, 03 Aug 2018 23:29:45 +0000 kentbye http://voicesofvr.com/?p=5485 No kentbye Hotdogs, Horseshoes, and Hand Grenades (aka H3) is an open-ended sandbox VR experience where you can play with a variety of exotic firearms. It’s a http://voicesofvr.com/668-guns-money-morals-a-debate-on-the-ethics-of-vr-simulation-capitalism-the-limits-of-decentralized-techno-utopianism/ Tue, 31 Jul 2018 04:05:02 +0000 kentbye http://voicesofvr.com/?p=5474 No kentbye There is a lot of promise of a decentralized metaverse built on top of the open web, but the idealism of that promise isn’t yet http://voicesofvr.com/667-janusvrs-vesta-hub-is-the-beginnings-of-the-decentralized-metaverse/ Fri, 27 Jul 2018 22:05:45 +0000 kentbye http://voicesofvr.com/?p=5469 No kentbye The YouTube VR application just released some social viewing features as well as finally released a version for Gear VR, although there isn’t any specific http://voicesofvr.com/666-updates-on-youtube-vr-vr180-livestreaming-cameras-social-vr/ Thu, 26 Jul 2018 00:16:16 +0000 kentbye http://voicesofvr.com/?p=5461 No kentbye One of the recurring themes that was coming up at the IEEE VR academic conference was how VR is starting to catalyze interdisciplinary collaborations between http://voicesofvr.com/665-using-vr-for-interdisciplinary-collaboration-social-science-research/ Mon, 23 Jul 2018 20:58:24 +0000 kentbye http://voicesofvr.com/?p=5455 No kentbye I gave a talk about Metaphors of Presence at the Sandbox Immersive Festival in Qingdao, China where I talked about how Chinese Philosophy insights about http://voicesofvr.com/663-vr-in-china-taoist-buddhist-insights-into-the-yin-archetypal-story/ Wed, 04 Jul 2018 13:25:02 +0000 kentbye http://voicesofvr.com/?p=5452 No kentbye TPCast is a Chinese company that was one of the first in the world to provide a wireless VR peripheral solution that could viably eliminate http://voicesofvr.com/663-vr-in-china-wireless-vr-with-tpcast/ Wed, 04 Jul 2018 12:58:30 +0000 kentbye http://voicesofvr.com/?p=5450 No kentbye Visbit is a B2B, 360-video streaming distribution company based out of Silicon Valley, and co-founder and CEO CY Zhou is originally from China. I caught http://voicesofvr.com/662-vr-in-china-360-video-distribuion-with-visbit/ Wed, 04 Jul 2018 12:42:32 +0000 kentbye http://voicesofvr.com/?p=5448 No kentbye The VR hardware ecosystem in China is fairly self-contained, and Nolo VR ran a successful Kickstarter campaign to bring 6DoF hand tracking to mobile VR http://voicesofvr.com/661-vr-in-china-nolo-vrs-6dof-hardware-accessory/ Wed, 04 Jul 2018 12:26:15 +0000 kentbye http://voicesofvr.com/?p=5446 No kentbye The Nordic Trolls is a VR development company based in Beijing, China. I had a chance to catch up with the CEO Thorbjørn Olsen (originally http://voicesofvr.com/660-vr-in-china-nordic-trolls-game-development-studio/ Wed, 04 Jul 2018 12:05:52 +0000 kentbye http://voicesofvr.com/?p=5441 No kentbye LumièreVR’s Jenny Guo is building bridges between the East and West through virtual reality. She’s producing 360 content for the Netflix of China, & she’s http://voicesofvr.com/659-vr-in-china-bridging-the-east-west-with-lumierevrs-jenny-guo/ Wed, 04 Jul 2018 11:49:20 +0000 kentbye http://voicesofvr.com/?p=5439 No kentbye Eddie Lou is the founder of Sandman Studios in Beijing, and he is also the founder of the Sandbox Immersive Festival that took place in http://voicesofvr.com/658-vr-in-china-storytelling-sandbox-immersive-festival/ Wed, 04 Jul 2018 11:34:38 +0000 kentbye http://voicesofvr.com/?p=5416 No kentbye Danielle Perszyk is a cognitive scientist, and co-founder and lead scientist at Oscillations who is using neuroscience theory of synchrony in order to make predictions http://voicesofvr.com/657-using-neuroscience-theory-for-experiential-design-the-nature-of-consciousness/ Sat, 23 Jun 2018 14:36:47 +0000 kentbye http://voicesofvr.com/?p=5403 No kentbye Our stores of the past shape our future. There is a growing movement to use augmented reality technologies to reclaim suppressed histories by creating site-specific http://voicesofvr.com/656-racial-justice-using-ar-to-reclaim-history-with-site-specific-context/ Mon, 18 Jun 2018 13:34:53 +0000 kentbye http://voicesofvr.com/?p=5396 No kentbye Sound Self developer Robin Arnott is starting a publishing label named Orpheus Technodelics to curate and distribute consciousness hacking VR experiences. “Technodelics” are digital psychedelics http://voicesofvr.com/655-orpheus-technodelics-consciousness-hacking-vr-experiences/ Mon, 11 Jun 2018 21:50:56 +0000 kentbye http://voicesofvr.com/?p=5387 No kentbye I talk with Jason Edward Lewis about the Aboriginal Territories in Cyberspace initiative, as well as the two 2167 Indigenous Storytelling in VR that he http://voicesofvr.com/654-indigenous-futurism-aboriginal-territories-in-cyberspace-with-jason-edward-lewis/ Fri, 08 Jun 2018 16:45:58 +0000 kentbye http://voicesofvr.com/?p=5379 No kentbye LISTEN TO THIS EPISODE OF THE VOICES OF VR PODCAST This is a listener-supported podcast through the Voices of VR Patreon. Music: Fatality Support Voices http://voicesofvr.com/653-indian-philosophy-insights-into-vr-presence-the-five-koshas/ Wed, 23 May 2018 13:45:58 +0000 kentbye http://voicesofvr.com/?p=5376 No kentbye LISTEN TO THIS EPISODE OF THE VOICES OF VR PODCAST This is a listener-supported podcast through the Voices of VR Patreon. Music: Fatality Support Voices http://voicesofvr.com/652-design-principles-for-embodiment/ Wed, 23 May 2018 13:43:41 +0000 kentbye http://voicesofvr.com/?p=5373 No kentbye LISTEN TO THIS EPISODE OF THE VOICES OF VR PODCAST Here’s a bit more information on the game mechanics of Light Strike Array: https://twitter.com/i/moments/942110609348337664 This http://voicesofvr.com/651-anime-inspired-embodied-game-design-the-spectacle-of-vr-esports-with-light-strike-array/ Wed, 23 May 2018 13:41:32 +0000 kentbye http://voicesofvr.com/?p=5371 No kentbye I talk with flow artist Swan about the story of behind the Beat Saber viral videos, and what it means to add style to VR http://voicesofvr.com/650-flow-artist-swan-on-stylized-embodiment-the-story-behind-beat-sabers-viral-videos/ Wed, 23 May 2018 13:33:43 +0000 kentbye http://voicesofvr.com/?p=5369 No kentbye I talked with Cix Liv, the CEO of Liv, about their mixed reality hardware and software solutions. Mixed reality shows what it feels like to http://voicesofvr.com/649-livs-mixed-reality-shows-the-nuances-of-human-movement-in-vr/ Wed, 23 May 2018 13:29:14 +0000 kentbye http://voicesofvr.com/?p=5367 No kentbye Google announced some new features for ARCore at Google I/O last week including Sceneform to help Java developers integrated 3D content into apps, augmented images http://voicesofvr.com/648-new-arcore-features-google-io-highlights-open-questions-about-ethics-privacy/ Sat, 19 May 2018 04:26:20 +0000 kentbye http://voicesofvr.com/?p=5338 No kentbye May 16th is the five-year anniversary for Silicon Valley Virtual Reality meetup, and founder Karl Krantz is announcing a couple of new initiatives as SVVR http://voicesofvr.com/647-merging-irl-events-with-vr-via-svvrs-reality-portals-metaverse-intiative/ Wed, 16 May 2018 19:25:01 +0000 kentbye http://voicesofvr.com/?p=5331 No kentbye Google’s mission statement is to “organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful,” and so it’s a natural fit that they’d be http://voicesofvr.com/646-immersive-education-with-google-expeditions-ar-virtual-tours/ Mon, 14 May 2018 17:55:28 +0000 kentbye http://voicesofvr.com/?p=5320 No kentbye The Oculus Go was released on Tuesday, May 1st at the Facebook F8 developer conference, and it is a self-contained, 3-DoF mobile VR HMD with http://voicesofvr.com/645-oculus-go-open-questions-around-facebook-privacy-free-speech-virtual-governance/ Mon, 07 May 2018 19:14:11 +0000 kentbye http://voicesofvr.com/?p=5314 No kentbye Beat Saber is a rhythm game that is like an embodied puzzle game that creates a visceral connection to 10 custom music tracks. It’s similar http://voicesofvr.com/644-beat-saber-lets-you-become-the-music-through-puzzles-your-body-solves/ Tue, 01 May 2018 15:56:38 +0000 kentbye http://voicesofvr.com/?p=5308 No kentbye Matt Miesnieks is creating an AR cloud with 6D.AI, which aims to “synchronize 3D computer vision data across devices, time and space” in order to http://voicesofvr.com/643-matt-miesnieks-on-the-state-of-the-ar-ecosystem/ Tue, 01 May 2018 11:28:07 +0000 kentbye http://voicesofvr.com/?p=5303 No kentbye One of the things that inspires me to do the Voices of VR podcast is being able to talk with hundreds of people listening for http://voicesofvr.com/642-experiential-design-insights-from-chinese-philosophy-natural-philosophy/ Wed, 25 Apr 2018 23:20:47 +0000 kentbye http://voicesofvr.com/?p=5292 No kentbye Oculus will be releasing a new Privacy Policy and Terms of Service tomorrow that will go into effect on May 20th, just five days before http://voicesofvr.com/461-oculus-privacy-architects-on-their-open-ended-privacy-policy-biometric-data/ Thu, 19 Apr 2018 14:00:05 +0000 kentbye http://voicesofvr.com/?p=5281 No kentbye John Root co-founded VRLA with Cosmo Scharf in 2014, and it has organically grown into a thriving VR event with over 10,000 attendees in the http://voicesofvr.com/640-john-root-on-vrla-ar-privacy-esports-in-vr/ Sat, 14 Apr 2018 00:29:23 +0000 kentbye http://voicesofvr.com/?p=5276 No kentbye Keiichi Matsuda went from being a dystopian filmmaker to becoming the vice president of design at hand-tracking company Leap Motion. Matsuda is probably the most http://voicesofvr.com/639-ar-as-the-democratization-of-architecture-hands-on-spatial-computing-leap-motions-north-star-ar-hmd/ Mon, 09 Apr 2018 23:17:01 +0000 kentbye http://voicesofvr.com/?p=5267 No kentbye The open metaverse is going to be built on web standards like the WebXR Device API (formly WebVR), but the larger community of web developers http://voicesofvr.com/638-updates-on-the-decentralized-metaverse-webvr-a-frame-supermedium-vr/ Fri, 06 Apr 2018 01:46:26 +0000 kentbye http://voicesofvr.com/?p=5262 No kentbye The future of VR storytelling will be immersive and interactive. Yelena Rachitsky is an executive producer of experiences at Oculus, and she’s been inspired by http://voicesofvr.com/637-the-yang-and-the-yin-of-immersive-storytelling-with-oculus-yelena-rachitsky/ Tue, 03 Apr 2018 02:32:04 +0000 kentbye http://voicesofvr.com/?p=5254 No kentbye Ready Player One was released on March 29th, and the current VR experience that comes the closest to realizing the vision of the OASIS depicted http://voicesofvr.com/636-vrchat-is-the-closest-vr-experience-to-the-oasis-in-ready-player-one/ Sat, 31 Mar 2018 19:27:44 +0000 kentbye http://voicesofvr.com/?p=5244 No kentbye What is happening with the VR industry? Is the adoption and growth still on target to support a vibrant and diverse ecosystem of independent VR http://voicesofvr.com/635-candid-assessment-of-the-vr-industry-from-a-leading-indie-developer/ Tue, 27 Mar 2018 23:39:06 +0000 kentbye http://voicesofvr.com/?p=5240 No kentbye Ela Darling calls herself the “Queen of VR porn” as she co-founded CAM4 and became the first virtual reality cam girl from VR tech integrations http://voicesofvr.com/634-vr-porn-livestreaming-emotional-intimacy-with-cam4vr/ Mon, 19 Mar 2018 09:35:19 +0000 kentbye http://voicesofvr.com/?p=5234 No kentbye The VR Unicorns use a rapid iteration, game jamming approach to VR development, and co-founder Julie Heyde does daily playtesting and quality assurance gathering feedback http://voicesofvr.com/633-julie-heyde-on-using-vr-for-consensual-trolling-personal-pain-management/ Thu, 15 Mar 2018 22:39:58 +0000 kentbye http://voicesofvr.com/?p=5226 No kentbye Darryll Starr is a former game developer who now teaching underprivileged youth how to create VR experiences with Unity at the David E Glover Education http://voicesofvr.com/632-bringing-vr-to-underprivileged-communities-with-the-glover-center/ Mon, 12 Mar 2018 21:52:29 +0000 kentbye http://voicesofvr.com/?p=5221 No kentbye The Columbia Digital Storytelling Lab had a design research project at Sundance that is exploring new models of cooperative storytelling and collaborative sensemaking, but it http://voicesofvr.com/631-using-ai-to-drive-conversations-create-culture-foster-understanding/ Fri, 09 Mar 2018 18:41:58 +0000 kentbye http://voicesofvr.com/?p=5215 No kentbye Each year, the Sundance New Frontier features VR experiences, films, and live performances that push the boundaries of storytelling. Cory McAbee did live performance of http://voicesofvr.com/630-a-live-musical-graphic-novel-lecture-cory-mcabees-mixed-modality-performance/ Thu, 08 Mar 2018 19:49:58 +0000 kentbye http://voicesofvr.com/?p=5209 No kentbye The Sundance Film Festival’s New Frontier Program featured over 20 different VR, AR, and AI experiences that were pushing the boundaries of immersive storytelling. After http://voicesofvr.com/629-embodied-storytelling-innovations-from-sundance-2018-with-shari-frilot/ Wed, 07 Mar 2018 17:04:07 +0000 kentbye http://voicesofvr.com/?p=5200 No kentbye Tony Parisi is the Head of AR & VR strategy at Unity so he has an insider’s perspective of not only where the VR and http://voicesofvr.com/628-vr-2025-current-future-state-of-vr-ar-industry/ Fri, 02 Mar 2018 17:33:40 +0000 kentbye http://voicesofvr.com/?p=5192 No kentbye The full release of CloudGate Studios’ VR survival game Island 359 is now available, and there’s some special embodiment features for anyone who has 1-3 http://voicesofvr.com/627-virtualself-full-body-tracking-in-cloudgate-studios-island-359/ Wed, 28 Feb 2018 18:03:25 +0000 kentbye http://voicesofvr.com/?p=5183 No kentbye Felix & Paul Studios had two experiences at Sundance this year. One featured the training of NASA astronauts in Space Explorers, and the other was http://voicesofvr.com/626-exploring-space-experiential-modulation-of-time-with-felix-paul-studios/ Sat, 24 Feb 2018 01:13:34 +0000 kentbye http://voicesofvr.com/?p=5176 No kentbye Holonet is an open source project that implements the Decentralized Identity Specifications for open web VR platforms like WebXR. A self-sovereign identity system could enable http://voicesofvr.com/625-decentralizing-identity-in-vr-with-holonet-self-sovereign-identity/ Wed, 21 Feb 2018 22:19:25 +0000 kentbye http://voicesofvr.com/?p=5163 No kentbye Rose Colored by INVAR Studios & Adam Cosco won the award for best live-acton VR experience at the Advanced Imaging Society’s Lumiere Awards on February http://voicesofvr.com/624-exploring-near-future-moral-quandaries-with-invar-studios/ Mon, 19 Feb 2018 18:54:10 +0000 kentbye http://voicesofvr.com/?p=5154 No kentbye At SIGGRAPH 2017, NVIDIA was showing off their Isaac Robot that had been trained to play dominos within a virtual world environment of NVIDIA’s Project http://voicesofvr.com/623-training-ai-robots-in-vr-with-nvidias-project-holodeck/ Wed, 14 Feb 2018 20:23:12 +0000 kentbye http://voicesofvr.com/?p=5145 No kentbye The Sun Ladies VR is an amazing story about a group of Yazidi women from the Northern Iraq community of Sinjar, who escaped as sex http://voicesofvr.com/622-the-making-of-sun-ladies-vr-former-isis-sex-slaves-create-an-all-female-fighting-unit/ Fri, 09 Feb 2018 01:12:16 +0000 kentbye http://voicesofvr.com/?p=5134 No kentbye Tender Claws‘ Virtual Virtual Reality is a Daydream-exclusive interactive story that won the best VR experience at the 2017 Google Play Awards VR, and it’s http://voicesofvr.com/621-balancing-player-control-authorial-control-with-virtual-virtual-reality/ Mon, 05 Feb 2018 22:13:30 +0000 kentbye http://voicesofvr.com/?p=5121 No kentbye Tender Claws, the creators of the award-winning interactive VR narrative Virtual Virtual Reality, premiered a new, site-specific, interactive AR narrative experience at the Sundance New http://voicesofvr.com/620-ar-ai-storytelling-innovations-from-tenderclaws-tendar/ Sat, 03 Feb 2018 00:08:46 +0000 kentbye http://voicesofvr.com/?p=5112 No kentbye The HaptX Glove that was showed at Sundance was one of the most convincing haptics experiences that I’ve had in VR. While it was still http://voicesofvr.com/619-grabbing-virtual-objects-with-the-haptx-glove-formerly-axonvr/ Thu, 01 Feb 2018 23:08:22 +0000 kentbye http://voicesofvr.com/?p=5105 No kentbye Dinner Party is an immersive exploration of Betty and Barney Hill’s alien abduction story that premiered at the Sundance New Frontier. Rather than using normal http://voicesofvr.com/618-dinner-party-is-a-symbolic-exploration-of-alien-abduction-race-in-america/ Thu, 01 Feb 2018 02:10:23 +0000 kentbye http://voicesofvr.com/?p=5096 No kentbye Sundance New Frontier had a solid line-up of VR experiences this year with a number of immersive storytelling innovations including SPHERES: Songs of Spacetime, which http://voicesofvr.com/617-journey-into-a-black-hole-with-spheres-songs-of-spacetime/ Tue, 30 Jan 2018 22:18:29 +0000 kentbye http://voicesofvr.com/?p=5086 No kentbye Jeremy Bailenson founding director of Stanford University’s Virtual Human Interaction Lab, and his latest book Experience on Demand traces his academic journey through virtual reality. http://voicesofvr.com/616-jeremy-bailensons-academic-journey-in-vr-with-experience-on-demand/ Mon, 29 Jan 2018 21:25:53 +0000 kentbye http://voicesofvr.com/?p=5078 No kentbye Live Action Role Playing (LARPing) is something that emerged out of table top games like Dungeons & Dragons in the 1970s driven by a desire http://voicesofvr.com/615-larping-the-future-of-live-action-role-playing-in-immersive-entertainment/ Fri, 26 Jan 2018 17:47:54 +0000 kentbye http://voicesofvr.com/?p=5076 No kentbye Tommy Honton is an experiential designer in the immersive theater space, and he’s helped to design interactive narratives that can handle a range of different http://voicesofvr.com/614-designing-around-disruptive-audience-members-for-interactive-narratives/ Wed, 24 Jan 2018 17:49:11 +0000 kentbye http://voicesofvr.com/?p=5071 No kentbye John Bucher wrote a book titled “Storytelling for Virtual Reality: Methods and Principles for Crafting Immersive Narratives” where he includes interviews with dozens of VR http://voicesofvr.com/613-storytelling-in-vr-from-a-depth-psychological-mythological-perspective/ Thu, 18 Jan 2018 13:35:33 +0000 kentbye http://voicesofvr.com/?p=5059 No kentbye Miyubi is Felix & Paul Studios’ first scripted narrative piece that is 40 minutes in length, and it transports you to the early 1980s as http://voicesofvr.com/611-capturing-group-dynamics-with-felix-pauls-miyubi/ Mon, 15 Jan 2018 20:59:10 +0000 kentbye http://voicesofvr.com/?p=5054 No kentbye Punchdrunk’s immersive theater piece of Sleep No More opened in March 2011, and it’s inspired countless experiential designers of immersive theater, and virtual and augmented http://voicesofvr.com/611-sleep-no-more-creative-producer-on-blurring-the-lines-of-reality-with-punchdrunks-immersive-theater/ Tue, 09 Jan 2018 19:48:28 +0000 kentbye http://voicesofvr.com/?p=5049 No kentbye The Immersive Design Summit brought together over 150 of the top experiential designers from around the world, mostly from the performance community of immersive theater http://voicesofvr.com/610-designing-escape-rooms-with-laura-e-hall/ Tue, 09 Jan 2018 00:10:42 +0000 kentbye http://voicesofvr.com/?p=5036 No kentbye The Columbia University School of the Arts’ Digital Storytelling Lab has been conducting interactive storytelling experiments to create guidelines, rules, and structures for facilitating emergent http://voicesofvr.com/609-collaborative-storytelling-guidelines-from-columbia-universitys-digital-storytelling-lab/ Fri, 05 Jan 2018 05:42:39 +0000 kentbye http://voicesofvr.com/?p=5030 No kentbye VRChat is becoming one of the top streamed VR game as different Twitch personalities like pokelawls, dyrus, greekgodx, and LIRIK and YouTube personalities Jameskii & http://voicesofvr.com/608-live-streaming-vr-on-twitch-with-zimtok5/ Wed, 03 Jan 2018 00:38:37 +0000 kentbye http://voicesofvr.com/?p=5018 No kentbye OSSIC’s Jason Riggs told me at CES last year that the future of music is going to be immersive and interactive. Interactive sound design where http://voicesofvr.com/607-principles-of-immersive-sound-design-with-sally-kellaway/ Fri, 29 Dec 2017 21:29:31 +0000 kentbye http://voicesofvr.com/?p=5005 No kentbye Emilie Joly says that the rules of interaction are the stories within interactive narratives, and Apelab is creating the Spatial Stories plug-in and toolset in http://voicesofvr.com/606-workflow-for-interactive-narratives-with-spatial-stories-toolset/ Thu, 21 Dec 2017 15:27:49 +0000 kentbye http://voicesofvr.com/?p=4999 No kentbye Otoy is a rendering company that pushing the limits of digital light fields and physically-based rendering. Now that Otoy’s Octane Renderer has shipped in Unity, http://voicesofvr.com/605-future-of-mixed-reality-lightfields-with-otoy/ Mon, 18 Dec 2017 23:52:31 +0000 kentbye http://voicesofvr.com/?p=4994 No kentbye Over the past couple of years, Danny Bittman has logged over 1800 hours in programs like Tiltbrush & Google Blocks on his way to becoming http://voicesofvr.com/604-danny-bittmans-journey-to-full-time-vr-artist/ Fri, 15 Dec 2017 22:00:41 +0000 kentbye http://voicesofvr.com/?p=4985 No kentbye Soundboxing is a VR rhythm game that has found a community of people who use it for exercising in VR, with some people reporting that http://voicesofvr.com/603-soundboxing-vr-exercise-capturing-embodiment-virtual-economy-architecture/ Wed, 13 Dec 2017 21:10:40 +0000 kentbye http://voicesofvr.com/?p=4977 No kentbye After talking to a lot of independent VR storytellers, Kaleidoscope VR’s René Pinnell identified that funding was one of the biggest blockers for continued experimentation. http://voicesofvr.com/602-funding-landscape-for-cinematic-vr-with-kaleidoscope-vr/ Tue, 12 Dec 2017 00:27:15 +0000 kentbye http://voicesofvr.com/?p=4967 No kentbye Linda Jacobson got into VR when she helped organize the 1990 CyberArts International gathering of artists and technologists who were using virtual reality technologies. She http://voicesofvr.com/601-vr-in-the-90s-bootstrapping-the-commercial-vr-industry/ Fri, 08 Dec 2017 00:48:32 +0000 kentbye http://voicesofvr.com/?p=4957 No kentbye Jaron Lanier is a pioneer of the first commercially-available virtual reality systems with his VPL Research Inc startup that was founded in 1984. He has http://voicesofvr.com/600-jaron-laniers-journey-into-vr-dawn-of-the-new-everything/ Tue, 05 Dec 2017 00:34:03 +0000 kentbye http://voicesofvr.com/?p=4950 No kentbye Every culture around the world has their own beliefs around what happens to us after we die, and virtual reality may be a great medium http://voicesofvr.com/599-visualizing-bardo-states-from-the-tibetan-book-of-the-dead-in-vr/ Fri, 01 Dec 2017 00:00:42 +0000 kentbye http://voicesofvr.com/?p=4945 No kentbye In 1978, a number of film scholars gathered at a conference in Brighton to re-evaluate the early days of film in terms of a developing http://voicesofvr.com/598-cinema-of-attractions-what-vr-can-learn-from-the-early-days-of-film/ Tue, 28 Nov 2017 15:53:14 +0000 kentbye http://voicesofvr.com/?p=4940 No kentbye Stanford’s Virtual Human Interaction Lab (VHIL) premiered an experience called Becoming Homeless: A Human Experience at the Tribeca Film Festival in April. It was an http://voicesofvr.com/597-becoming-homeless-stanfords-empathy-experiment-in-embodied-perspective-taking/ Thu, 23 Nov 2017 05:01:41 +0000 kentbye http://voicesofvr.com/?p=4934 No kentbye Cognitive scientist and phenomenologist Lynda Joy Gerry got into virtual reality after seeing the body swap experiments by Machine to Be Another as well as http://voicesofvr.com/596-researching-empathy-in-vr-with-cognitive-science-phenomenology/ Mon, 20 Nov 2017 18:44:04 +0000 kentbye http://voicesofvr.com/?p=4923 No kentbye STRIVR started as a VR training platform for elite athletes for college and professional quarterbacks, but they’ve been recently expanding into corporate training for Walmart. http://voicesofvr.com/595-the-neuroscience-of-vr-training-with-strivrs-michael-casale/ Fri, 17 Nov 2017 23:04:29 +0000 kentbye http://voicesofvr.com/?p=4917 No kentbye