I interviewed Zeynep Abes about USC’s Immersive Archive Initiative on Thursday, June 18, 2026 at Augmented World Expo in Long Beach, California. Also be sure to check out my interview with Avinash Changa on the The Institute of Immersive...
I interviewed Christopher Stapleton about Augmented Imagination Framework for Conversational Embodied Stories on Tuesday, June 16, 2026 at Augmented World Expo in Long Beach, California. Here’s the recording of Stapleton’s AWE talk on...
I interviewed Brett Gaylor and Mike Wozniewski about HoloLabs Studio’s Abyss Vault LBE escape room experience on Thursday, June 18, 2026 at Augmented World Expo in Long Beach, California. Here’s their talk from AWE titled “Build VR...
I interviewed Jules Rimbaud about Excurio‘s worldwide expansion of their Location-Based Entertainment Immersive Expeditions on Wednesday, June 17, 2026 at Augmented World Expo in Long Beach, California. You can check out my previous interviews...
I interviewed Brett Renfer about Metropolitan Museum of Art Experiments with XR & AI on Wednesday, June 17, 2026 at Augmented World Expo in Long Beach, California. You can check out the The Temple of Dendur and Oceanic Art in Virtual Reality...
I interviewed Oregon Reality Lab founder Donna Davis, which is The University of Oregon’s Immersive Media Research & Education Lab. We chatted on Wednesday, June 17, 2026 at Augmented World Expo in Long Beach, California. This is a...
I interviewed Devon Marble about ArborXR on Immersive Training Trends on Tuesday, June 16, 2026 at Augmented World Expo in Long Beach, California. This is a listener-supported podcast through the Voices of VR Patreon. Music: Fatality : Play in new...
I interviewed Patrick Ascolese about Trip the Light and other Dark Arts Software projects on Tuesday, June 23, 2026.
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I interviewed Studio Syro’s Nick Ladd, Nicholas Saunders, and Peter Ariet about the app Spatial Mailbox on Thursday, June 18, 2026 at Augmented World Expo in Long Beach, California. This is a listener-supported podcast through the Voices of VR...
I interviewed Celeste Lear about Sustainable Impact Alliance XR, DJing in Social VR, Virtual Production, & TigerVision Immersive Displays on Wednesday, June 17, 2026 at Augmented World Expo in Long Beach, California. This is a listener-supported...
I interviewed Ines Said about Tanit XR on Wednesday, June 17, 2026 at Augmented World Expo in Long Beach, California.
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I interviewed Raven Resonance’s human interaction & software lead Parth Arora as well as founder Thomas Suarez about their Linux-based Raven Prism display glasses on Wednesday, June 17, 2026 at Augmented World Expo in Long Beach...
I interviewed Ziad Asghar about their Snapdragon Reality Elite announcement on Thursday, June 18, 2026 at Augmented World Expo in Long Beach, California. For more specifications and details, then be sure to check out the report from Road to...
I interviewed Ralph Jodice about XREAL AURA spatial computing glasses on Wednesday, June 17, 2026 at Augmented World Expo in Long Beach, California. This is a listener-supported podcast through the Voices of VR Patreon. Music: Fatality : Play in new...
I interviewed Russell Patton about Snap Specs on Tuesday, June 16, 2026 at Augmented World Expo in Long Beach, California.
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Agog is having their first open call on Climate Futures + Immersive Media that closes on June 12, 2026, at 11:59p PDT. Agog is “committing up to $1 million in grants to support innovators, technologists, artists, organizers, researchers...
I gave the opening keynote of the Meaningful XR Conference on May 30, 2026, and here’s the video version of my keynote talk titled: “Patterns of Meaning, Transformation, and Impact in XR” and here is the PDF of the slides with...
On May 28, 2026, Anagram released a report titled: “Results of Impact Study Carried Out for Mixed Reality Experience Impulse: Digest for General Public,” which was commission by Agog. This 43-page report was written by Dr. Alexandra...
The Immersive Impact Review launched on March 13, 2026 at 4p CDT in Austin Texas during SXSW, and they describe themselves as “a hybrid journalistic and academic magazine examining immersive media’s strive for social impact.” The first...
On March 30, 2026, Rec Room announced they would be closing on June 1, 2026 at noon PDT. I had a chance to speak to former Rec Room employee Shawn Whiting, who previously the roles of Head of Creators, Head of User Acquisition, and Head of Community...
On February 3rd, 2026, Joe Pine released The Transformation Economy, which is a follow-up to The Experience Economy co-written with James Gilmore and published in 1999. They identified a key pattern of how economic offerings have evolved beyond...
On April 5, 2016, Rust LTD’s Anton Hand released Hot Dogs, Horseshoes, & Hand Grenades (H3VR) in Early Access on Steam after seven weeks of development on this VR sandbox game that featured a handful of guns as well as some lawn games...
The Human Spatial Computing book was published by Oxford University Press on February 5, 2026, and I had a chance to interview the co-authors Reginé Gilbert and Doug North Cook a few weeks after it launched. They alternative as the lead author on...
BurnerSphere is part immersive documentary, party social VR platform, and part digital twin of Burning Man. It’s a standalone VR experience that launched in early alpha for both Quest and Steam on July 22, 2025. It’s an evolution of the...
The Lincoln Center for Performing Arts has been stage a variety of different types of immersive experiences as a part of their interdisciplinary programming, and I had a chance to catch up the lead immersive programmer Jordana Leigh at Venice...
The CIIIC is the Creative Industries Immersive Impact Coalition based out of the Netherlands, which will be spending about €200 Million in Public Funding over the next five years. It is a really exciting development in Europe that is promoting the...
I interviewed SXSW XR Experience 2026 curator Blake Kammerdiener about this year’s selection, and how immersive artists are using Generative AI in a series of different projects. Below is the selection (ordered from longest to shortest). This...
This is the panel discussion of Mission Responsible 3 featuring the winners of the Polys Ombudsperson of the year including: Kent Bye (2020), Avi Bar-Zeev (2021), Brittan Heller (2022), Micaela Mantegna (2023), Ingrid Kopp (2024), and Nonny de la...
Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney gave a rousing speech at the World Economic Forum on January 20, 2026 about the rupture of the rules-based order of the globalized economy, and he emphasized the need to build new coalitions to sustain the...
On Wednesday, January 28, 2026, Ian Hamilton announced on Bluesky that “I’ve been fired from UploadVR.” He was the editor in chief at UploadVR, and he wrote a Substack post titled “Ian is Typing” on January 30th...
I interviewed Andrew M. Davis about his forthcoming book titled Whitehead’s Universe: A Prismatic Introduction on Thursday, December 4, 2025. It’s absolutely the best introduction to Alfred North Whitehead’s work in Process...
I interviewed Karim Ben Khelifa about In 36,000 Ways on Sunday, November 16, 2025 at IDFA DocLab in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Here are the 26 episodes and more than 24 hours of coverage from my IDFA DocLab 2025 coverage: #1682: Preview of IDFA...
I interviewed Khalil Ashawi, Sami Sultan, & Hail Khalaf about Under the Same Sky on Saturday, November 15, 2025 at IDFA DocLab in Amsterdam, Netherlands. This is a listener-supported podcast through the Voices of VR Patreon. Music: Fatality :...
I interviewed Alexander Devriendt about Handle with Care on Wednesday, December 3, 2025.
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I interviewed Iris van der Meule about Lesbian Simulator on Tuesday, November 18, 2025 at IDFA DocLab in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
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I interviewed Anne Jeppesen & Omid Zarei about Reality Looks Back on Tuesday, November 18, 2025 at IDFA DocLab in Amsterdam, Netherlands. This is a listener-supported podcast through the Voices of VR Patreon. Music: Fatality : Play in new window...
I interviewed Maisha Wester about Coded Black on Monday, November 17, 2025 at IDFA DocLab in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
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I interviewed Celine Daemen about Nothing to See Here on Monday, November 17, 2025 at IDFA DocLab in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
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I interviewed Sarah Wolozin, Scarlett Kim, Julia Scott-Stevenson about MIT Open DocLab’s Co-Creating XR Distribution Field Initiative on Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at IDFA DocLab in Amsterdam, Netherlands. This is a listener-supported...
I interviewed Avinash Changa about The Institute of Immersive Perservation on Tuesday, November 18, 2025 at IDFA DocLab in Amsterdam, Netherlands. This is a listener-supported podcast through the Voices of VR Patreon. Music: Fatality : Play in new...
I interviewed Amy Rose about first year of the Undershed at the Watershed on Saturday, November 15, 2025 at IDFA DocLab in Amsterdam, Netherlands. This is a listener-supported podcast through the Voices of VR Patreon. Music: Fatality : Play in new...
I interviewed Martijn de Waal about revitalizing civic engagement through immersive art on Sunday, November 16, 2025 at IDFA DocLab in Amsterdam, Netherlands. This is a listener-supported podcast through the Voices of VR Patreon. Music: Fatality :...
I interviewed Sergey Prokofyev about Eternal Habitat on Monday, November 17, 2025 at IDFA DocLab in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
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I interviewed Domenico Singha Pedroli about Another Place on Saturday, November 15, 2025 at IDFA DocLab in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
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I interviewed Vitor Freire & Monique Grimord about Unimaginable Red on Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at IDFA DocLab in Amsterdam, Netherlands. This is a listener-supported podcast through the Voices of VR Patreon. Music: Fatality : Play in new...
I interviewed Janire Najera & Matthew Wright from 4PI Productions and CULTVR Lab about The Rift on Monday, November 17, 2025 at IDFA DocLab in Amsterdam, Netherlands. This is a listener-supported podcast through the Voices of VR Patreon. Music:...
I interviewed Maarten Isaak de Heer about We Are Dead Animals on Saturday, November 15, 2025 at IDFA DocLab in Amsterdam, Netherlands. This is a listener-supported podcast through the Voices of VR Patreon. Music: Fatality : Play in new window |...
I interviewed Luna Maurer & Roel Wouters about Deep Soup on Tuesday, November 18, 2025 at IDFA DocLab in Amsterdam, Netherlands. You can also check out their Designing Friction Manifesto. This is a listener-supported podcast through the Voices...
I interviewed Victorine van Alphen about The Oracle: Ritual for the Future on Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at IDFA DocLab in Amsterdam, Netherlands. This is a listener-supported podcast through the Voices of VR Patreon. Music: Fatality : Play in new...
I interviewed Victorine Van Alphen about IVF-X on Saturday, April 8, 2023 at New Images in Paris, France.
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