I interviewed Doug Liman (co-founder of 30 Ninjas), Max Spear (Product Lead of Android XR at Google), Julina Tatlock (co-founder of 30 Ninjas), & Jed Weintrob (co-founder of 30 Ninjas) about Asteroid on Saturday, August 30, 2025 at Venice Immersive in Venice, Italy.
Here’s all 30+ hours of my coverage from Venice Immersive 2025:
- #1650: Sneak Peak of Venice Immersive 2025 Selection with Curators Liz Rosenthal and Michel Reilhac
- #1750: Doug Liman’s “Asteroid” Short Immersive Film with Google Gemini Story Extension + Kickoff of Venice Immersive 2025 Coverage
- #1751: “Ghost Town” Narrative Integration in Puzzle Adventure with Exquisite Worldbuilding
- #1752: Blending Embodied Game & Narrative Genres with “One True Path, Part 1”
- #1753: Mixed Reality Town-Building and Sim Game “Wall Town Wonders”
- #1754: Screen Life Thriller “LILI” about Surveillance Fuses Game Design, Film, and MacBeth Adaptation
- #1755: Hand-Tracked Sign Language as Story Beat Triggers in “Eddie and I”
- #1756: Exploring Narrative Potential of Generative AI in “8pm and the Cat”
- #1757: Embody a Geranium in Immersive Comedy about Boredom in “The Great Escape”
- #1758: Reckoning with Mental Health Taboos in Japan with “If You See a Cat” Immersive Animation
- #1759: Mother-Daughter Team Explore Personal Challenges with Depression and Anxiety in “Mirage” Immersive Animation
- #1760: Immersive Fairy Tale about Automation with “The Sad Story of the Little Mouse Who Wanted to Become Somebody”
- #1761: Unpacking the Immersive Orchestral Mix of “1968” with Massimiliano Borghesi
- #1762: Fusing Experimental Immersive Animation with Cutting-Edge Orchestral Spatial Audio Mix in “1968”
- #1763: Blending Theater and 360 Video in “Re-Launching-Luigi-Broglio”
- #1764: Mixing Hand-Drawn Animation with 360 Video in “The Time Before”
- #1765: Immersive Action Thriller “Mulan 2125” Pushes the Edge of Graphical Fidelity
- #1766: Formula 1 LBE Experience “Black Cats & Chequered Flags” is an Immersive Biopic of Alberto Anscari
- #1767: Immersive Journey through Special Effects Pioneer Carlo Rambaldi’s Paintings in “Alien Perspective”
- #1768: Symbolic Journey through Lithuania’s Artist Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis’ Paintings in “Creation of the World”
- #1769: Mixed Reality Musical on Avatars and Identity in “First Virtual Suit”
- #1770: Eastern Philosophy-Inspired Fusion of Theater and XR with “Mnemosyne”
- #1771: Environmental Storytelling in “The Great Orator” VR Diorama with Generative AI Experiments
- #1772: Climate Change Spatial Montage “Out of Nowhere” Aspires to Move Towards Rewilding Prevention
- #1773: “Collective Body” Assigns Elemental Avatars Based Upon Archetypal Dance Movements
- #1774: Combining Live Dance and Music in Immersive LBE Performance “L’ombre (The Shadow)”
- #1775: The Continuous Spatial One-Shot of Backlight’s “La Magie Opera” LBE
- #1776: The Spatial Grammar Innovations of Dialectical Contrasts and Abstraction within “The Big Cube”
- #1777: Active Imagination, Associative Dream Logic, & Embodied Interactions in “Sense of Nowhere”
- #1778: Collaborative Social Game and Story of “Happy Shadow”
- #1779: “Heartbeat” Immersive, 1-on-1 Biometric Synchronization and Involuntary Collective Agency
- #1780: Recap of VRChat Worlds Gallery at Venice Immersive 2025 with Mike Salmon
- #1781: Winner of Venice Immersive 2025 “The Clouds Are Two Thousand Meters Up” Innovates on Gaussian Splats & Spatial Storytelling
- #1782: “A Long Goodbye” Wins 3rd Place Prize at Venice Immersive with Emotionally-Moving Story on Dementia and Spatial Grammar Innovations
- #1783: “Less Than 5gr of Saffron” Wins 2nd Place Prize at Venice Immersive with Spatial Poem Quill Animation
- #1784: The Incredible Spatial Transitions of “Dark Rooms” with Radical Consent Innovations
- #1785: The Landmark Achievements of “Blur” in Fusing Theater, Montage, Mixed Reality, and LBE VR
- #1786: Collective Reading Experience of “Constantinopoliad” Provokes Discussion on Defining “Immersive”
- #1787: Blending the Elements of Experiential Design & Process-Relational Foundations of the Elements
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