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#1710: When Integration Becomes Subordination: Big Tech Parallels in Carney’s Davos Speech & Untethering from the AI Big Brother

by kentbyeFebruary 14, 2026

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...

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#1709: Ian Hamilton on Getting Fired from UploadVR & Concerns on AI Authorship in News

by kentbyeFebruary 4, 2026

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...

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#1691: A Call for Human Friction Over AI Slop in “Deep Soup” Participatory Film Based on “Designing Friction” Manifesto

by kentbyeDecember 6, 2025

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...

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#1690: Asking Philosophical Questions on AI in “The Oracle: Ritual for the Future” with Poetic Immersive Performance

by kentbyeDecember 6, 2025

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...

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#1689: Making Post-Human Babies in “IVF-X” to Catalyze Philosophical Reflections on Reproduction

by kentbyeDecember 6, 2025

I interviewed Victorine Van Alphen about IVF-X on Saturday, April 8, 2023 at New Images in Paris, France.

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#1684: Playable Essay “individualism in the dead-internet age” Recaps Enshittification Against Indie Devs

by kentbyeDecember 6, 2025

I interviewed Nathalie Lawhead about individualism in the dead-internet age: an anti-big tech asset flip shovelware r̶a̶n̶t̶ manifesto on Monday, November 17, 2025 at IDFA DocLab in Amsterdam, Netherlands. This is a listener-supported podcast...

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#1682: Preview of IDFA DocLab’s 2025 Selection of “Perception Art” & Immersive Stories

by kentbyeNovember 12, 2025

IDFA DocLab is the immersive selection of non-fiction digital and immersive stories that is a part of the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA), and they’re having their 19th selection this year. DocLab founder Caspar Sonnen...

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#1681: VRChat Worldbuilder DrMorro on His Epic & Dreamlike Masterpieces

by kentbyeNovember 9, 2025

The VRChat worlds by DrMorro are truly incredible. They’re vast landscapes made of surreal mash-ups of various architecture styles and symbols that feels like you’re walking through a waking dream. His Organism Trilogy (Organism...

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#1680: Charlie Melcher’s “The Future of Storytelling” Book Surveys Over 50 Living Stories

by kentbyeNovember 4, 2025

Charles Melcher’s new book “The Future of Storytelling: How Immersive Experiences Are Transforming Our World” was released on November 4, 2025, and I had a chance to take an early look and interview Melcher. The book is broken up...

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#1676: 1st Place Spectacles Lensathon Team: Decisionator Object-Detection, AI Decision-Maker

by kentbyeOctober 26, 2025

At Snap’s Developer Conference of Lensfest, I did an interview with 1st place team in the Snap Spectacles Lensathon named Decisionator including Candice Branchereau, Marcin Polakowski, Volodymyr Kurbatov, and Inna Horobchuk. I also summarize...

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#1675: 2nd Place Spectacles Lensathon Team: CartDB Barcode-Scanning Nutrition App

by kentbyeOctober 26, 2025

At Snap’s Developer Conference of Lensfest, I did an interview with 2nd place team in the Snap Spectacles Lensathon named CartdB including Guillaume Dagens, Nigel Hartman, and Uttam Grandhi (the other team member Nicholas Ross had some prior...

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#1674: 3rd Place Spectacles Lensathon Team: Fireside Tales Collaborative Storytelling with GenAI

by kentbyeOctober 26, 2025

At Snap’s Developer Conference of Lensfest, I did an interview with 3rd place team in the Snap Spectacles Lensathon named Fireside Tales including Stijn Spanhove, Pavlo Tkachenko, and Yegor Ryabtsov. See more context in the rough transcript...

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#1672: Niantic Spatial’s Project Jade Demo Shows Latest Location-Aware, AI Tour Guide Innovations

by kentbyeOctober 26, 2025

I did an interview with Alicia Berry, Executive Producer at Niantic Spatial, and Asim Ahmed, Head of Product Marketing at Niantic Spatial, at Snap’s Developer Conference of Lensfest about their latest Project Jade Spectacles demo. See more...

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#1671: Reflecting on Snap’s AR Platform & Developer Tools Past and Future with Terek Judi

by kentbyeOctober 26, 2025

At Snap’s Developer Conference of Lensfest, I did an interview with Terek Judi who is working on Spectacles Product at Snap focusing on SnapOS, Platform, and Developer Tools. See more context in the rough transcript below, and if you’d...

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#1670: Snapchat’s Embodied Gaming Innovations with AR Developer Relations Head

by kentbyeOctober 26, 2025

I did an interview with Raag Harshavat, AR Developer Relations at Snapchat, at Snap’s Developer Conference of Lensfest. See more context in the rough transcript below. This is a listener-supported podcast through the Voices of VR Patreon...

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#1669: Snap’s Resh Sidhu on the Future of AR Commerce & Developer-Centered Innovation

by kentbyeOctober 26, 2025

I did an interview with Resh Sidhu, Senior Director of Innovation of Specs and Developer Marketing at Snap, at Snap’s Developer Conference of Lensfest. See more context in the rough transcript below. This is a listener-supported podcast...

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#1668: Snap Co-Founders Community Q&A about Specs 2026 Launch Plan

by kentbyeOctober 26, 2025

The snap co-founders of CEO Evan Spiegel and CTO Bobby Murphy typically have a community-driven Q&A after their Lensfest Keynote where they field over a dozen questions from Lensfest attendees. I’m including this in my coverage again this...

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#1667: Kickoff of Snap Lensfest 2025 Coverage & SnapOS 2.0 Announcements

by kentbyeOctober 26, 2025

This interview with Spectacles Community Manager Jesse McCulloch kicks off my coverage of Snap’s Developer Conference called Lensfest. Snap is gearing up for a consumer release of their Snap Specs AR glasses some time next year, and...

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#1655: Meta Horizon Studio News and Virtual Fashion with Paige Dansinger

by kentbyeSeptember 30, 2025

I did an interview with prolific Horizon world builder Paige Dansinger at Meta Connect about the latest Meta Horizon news including the new Meta Horizon Studio as well as Meta Horizon Engine. She also was wearing some custom, hand-made pants that...

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#1654: CNET’s Scott Stein’s Reflections on Meta Ray-Ban Display Glasses & Neural Band Implications

by kentbyeSeptember 30, 2025

I did an interview with Scott Stein at Meta Connect 2025 reflecting on the biggest news of the Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses and the associated Neural Band. Stein has been covering the XR industry since 2012, and always has some deep thoughts on the...

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#1653: XR Analyst Anshel Sag on Meta’s AI Glasses Strategy

by kentbyeSeptember 30, 2025

I did an interview with Moor Insights and Strategy principle XR Analyst Anshel Sag at Meta Connect to hear some of this latest thoughts on the biggest announcements, but also a broader reflection of how Meta is focusing on how these new AI glasses...

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#1652: Kick-off of Meta Connect Coverage with Meta Ray-Ban Display Glasses Insights from Norm Chan

by kentbyeSeptember 30, 2025

I did an interview with Norm Chan at Meta Connect about the Meta Ray-Ban Display Glasses and Meta Neural Band. Be sure to watch Chan’s full 58-minute Tested.com report including an interview with Meta CTO Andrew “Boz” Bosworth as...

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#1630: Keiichi Matsuda on Metaphors for AI Agents in XR User Experience: From Omniscient Gods to Animistic Familiars

by kentbyeAugust 2, 2025

Here’s my interview with Keiichi Matsuda, Designer and Director of Liquid City, that was conducted on Thursday, June 12, 2025 at Augmented World Expo in Long Beach, CA. In the introduction, I read through Matsuda’s essay titled...

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#1629: Niantic Spatial is Building an AI-Powered Map with Snap for AR Glasses & AI Agents

by kentbyeAugust 2, 2025

Here’s my interview with Alicia Berry (Executive Producer at Niantic Spatial) & Asim Ahmed (Head of Product Marketing at Niantic Spatial) that was conducted on Thursday, June 12, 2025 at Augmented World Expo in Long Beach, CA. Check out...

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#1628: Part 2: Caitlin Krause on “Digital Wellbeing” Theory and Practice with XR & AI (2025)

by kentbyeAugust 2, 2025

Here’s my interview with Caitlin Krause, Founder of Mindwise, that was conducted on Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at Augmented World Expo in Long Beach, CA. This is part 2 of 2 of my conversations with Krause, you can see part 1 from 2019 here. See...

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#1623: Qualcomm’s 2025 AWE Announcements and Android XR Partnerships with Ziad Asghar

by kentbyeAugust 2, 2025

Here’s my interview with Ziad Asghar, Qualcomm’s Senior Vice President & General Manager of XR & Spatial Computing, that was conducted on Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at Augmented World Expo in Long Beach, CA. See more context in the...

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#1611: Socratic Debate on Future of AI & XR from AWE 2025 Panel

by kentbyeAugust 2, 2025

Here’s the panel discussion of Socratic Dialogue on the Future of AI and Immersive Technology with Alvin Wang Graylin, Kent Bye, Louis Rosenberg, Leslie Shannon that was recorded on the main stage of Augmented World Expo on Thursday, June 12...

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#1610: Scouting XR & AI Infrastructure Trends with Nokia’s Leslie Shannon

by kentbyeAugust 2, 2025

Here’s my interview with Leslie Shannon, Nokia’s Head of Trend and Innovation Scouting, that was conducted on Tuesday, June 10, 2025 at Augmented World Expo in Long Beach, CA. See more context in the rough transcript below. This is a...

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#1609: Framework for Personalized, Responsive XR Stories with Narrative Futurist Joshua Rubin

by kentbyeAugust 2, 2025

Here’s my interview with Joshua Rubin, Interactive Emmy-Winning Narrative Director, Immersive Storyteller, and Narrative Futurist, that was conducted on Tuesday, June 10, 2025 at Augmented World Expo in Long Beach, CA. We talked about his talk...

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#1602: Part 3: Jason Marsh on Telling Data Stories with Flow Immersive (2025)

by kentbyeAugust 2, 2025

Here’s my interview with Jason Marsh, Founder and CEO of Flow Immersive, that was conducted on Thursday, June 12, 2025 at Augmented World Expo in Long Beach, CA. This is part 3 of 3 of my conversations with Marsh, you can see part 1 from 2018...

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#1585: Debating AI Project and a Curating Taiwanese LBE VR Exhibition at Museum of Moving Image

by kentbyeJuly 18, 2025

I spoke with Michaela Ternasky Holland about her project The Gr(ai)t Debate at Onassis ONX Summer Showcase 2025 as well as the Portals of Solitude: Virtual Realities from Taiwan show she curated at the Museum of Moving Image. See more context in the...

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#1568: A Process-Relational Philosophy View on AI, Intelligence, & Consciousness with Matt Segall

by kentbyeJune 4, 2025

I’ve spoken to Whitehead scholar Matt Segall a couple of times before, and I was really keen to catch up with him to hear his process-relational and process philosophical takes on AI, intelligence and consciousness. I was responding to a piece...

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#1563: Deconstructing AI Hype with “The AI Con” Authors Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna

by kentbyeMay 23, 2025

We are in the middle of a hype cycle peak around AI as there are a lot of hyperbolic claims being made about the capabilities and performance of large-language models (LLMs). Computational Linguist Emily M. Bender and Sociologist Alex Hanna have...

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Promo image for Creature Feature 2025 XR Gaming Showcase at IGN on May 19th

#1562: Highlights of Creature’s IGN XR Gaming Showcase + State of VR Vibe Check with Doug North Cook

by kentbyeMay 19, 2025

The Creature label features a lot of really innovative VR and MR games with rich and innovative gameplay mechanics, and they just featured three new games, a new DLC pack, and lots of updates about the games in a half-hour Creature Feature gaming...

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PHI Residencies, PHI Immersive XR for Impact

#1561: PHI and Agog Collaborate on Immersive Residency on XR for Impact, Artist Retrospective, and Application Details

by kentbyeMay 7, 2025

NOTE: This sponsored episode was produced by Kent Bye in partnership with PHI and participation from Agog: Immersive Media Institute and immersive artist Peter Burr. PHI and Agog: Immersive Media Institute are collaborating on the PHI Immersive: XR...

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#1553: The Story of Kunstkraftwerk Leipzig, and the Multi-Channel Video Translation of “Origins – Life’s Epic Journey”

by kentbyeMarch 29, 2025

There was an projection-based immersive experience called ORIGINS – LIFE’S EPIC JOURNEY that was originally formatted for a digital art museum in Germany called Kunstkraftwerk Leipzig, but it was translated into a three-channel video...

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#1550: “EchoVision” Answers the Question ‘What is it like to see like a bat?’ with Mixed Reality, AI, & Haptics

by kentbyeMarch 29, 2025

ECHOVISION is the latest experience from multi-disciplinary artist Jiabao Li that has three major parts. The first part is a mobile-phone based mixed reality experience that does a metaphoric translation of echolocation by using LiDAR to detect your...

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#1548: “1906 Atlanta Race Massacre” Uses Phone-Based AR to Volumetrically Tell a Forgotten History

by kentbyeMarch 29, 2025

1906 ATLANTA RACE MASSACRE is a phone-based AR experience directed by Nonny de la Peña that digs into the forgotten history of the violent attacks on the black community by white mobs incited by race-baiting politicians and newspapers. The arc of...

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#1542: Exploring the Paradox of Narratively Critiquing AI While Also Using AI to Make “The Last Practice”

by kentbyeMarch 29, 2025

The final AI-related piece this year was THE LAST PRACTICE, which I unfortunately have not had a chance to see yet because there were a number of technical glitches that prevented me from seeing it on site. I did however have a chance to remotely...

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#1541: Virtual Being Engages in Socratic Monologue Comparing AI to Sugar in “Sweet!” Installation

by kentbyeMarch 29, 2025

Another AI-based project at SXSW this year was SWEET! by Dutch designer and artist René van Engelenburg of DROPSTUFF MEDIA. This is a projection-mapped physical installation designed to facilitate a very brief conversation with an OpenAI LLM-driven...

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#1540: Hacking AI for Black Representation & the Future Dreaming of Archival Collections with Tamara Shogaolu

by kentbyeMarch 29, 2025

Curating archives was a theme that I also explored in a conversation with Tamara Shogaolu about her piece ORYZA: HEALING GROUND that premiered at DocLab 2024. She was at SXSW showing the interactive AR story game ANOUSCHKA exploring the memories of...

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Into the Scaniverse app from Niantic

#1525: Niantic’s “Into the Scaniverse” Maps Over 50k Gaussian Splats from Around the World on Quest and WebXR

by kentbyeFebruary 27, 2025

Niantic launched their Into the Scaniverse application on Quest 3 on February 26th, 2025 that features over 50,000 Gaussian Spats from 120 different countries. They originally launched the WebXR version on December 10th, 2024 at IntoTheScaniverse...

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Mission Responsible 2 poster for Polys Ombudsperson of the Year group discussion

#1523: XR & AI Ethics & State of the Industry Discussion with Polys Ombudsperson Winners

by kentbyeFebruary 21, 2025

The latest Polys Ombudsperson of the Year is Ingrid Kopp, and previous winners Brittan Heller, Michaela Montagna, and myself gathered again on December 8 2024 to reflect on the current state of the XR industry as well as the specific ethical...

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#1515: VR Researcher Julia Scott-Stevenson on Embodiment in Story & Why Docs are Perfect to Explore AI

by kentbyeDecember 23, 2024

I interviewed VR researcher Julia Scott Stevenson at IDFA DocLab 2024 about her research into embodiment and AI within the context of immersive stories as well as her work around climate change. See the transcript down below for more context on our...

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#1514: Creating GenAI Flower Ecosystem with “Future Botanica” AR App

by kentbyeDecember 23, 2024

I interviewed co-directors Marcel van Brakel and Hazal Ertürkan about Future Botanica that showed at IDFA DocLab 2024. See the transcript down below for more context on our conversation. This is a listener-supported podcast through the Voices of VR...

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#1513: From News Scan to GenAI Irish Sean-nós Songs in “You Can Sing Me on My Way” Audio Installation

by kentbyeDecember 23, 2024

I interviewed director Seán Hannan about You Can Sing Me on My Way that showed at IDFA DocLab 2024. See the transcript down below for more context on our conversation. This is a listener-supported podcast through the Voices of VR Patreon. Music:...

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#1507: From Selfies to Virtual Offspring, “Ancestors” Turns Strangers into Family and Intergenerational Speculative Futures

by kentbyeDecember 23, 2024

I interviewed director Steye Hallema about Ancestors that showed at IDFA DocLab 2024. See the transcript down below for more context on our conversation. This is a listener-supported podcast through the Voices of VR Patreon. Music: Fatality : Play...

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#1504: Open World, GenAI Podcast “Drift” Reflects on Climate Change from 500 Years in the Future

by kentbyeDecember 23, 2024

I interviewed co-directors Nienke Huitenga and Lieven Heeremans about Drift that showed at IDFA DocLab 2024. See the transcript down below for more context on our conversation. This is a listener-supported podcast through the Voices of VR Patreon...

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#1502: Candid Audio Clips Juxtaposed with Poetic GenAI Video in “Sincerely Victor Pike”

by kentbyeDecember 23, 2024

I interviewed director Gregor Petrikovič about Sincerely Victor Pike that showed at IDFA DocLab 2024. You can watch this short film here. See the transcript down below for more context on our conversation. This is a listener-supported podcast...

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#1496: Using GenAI to Recreate Erased Family Photos with “Burn From Absence” 4-Channel Video

by kentbyeDecember 23, 2024

I interviewed director Emeline Courcier about Burn From Absence that showed at IDFA DocLab 2024. See the transcript down below for more context on our conversation. This is a listener-supported podcast through the Voices of VR Patreon. Music:...

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