Ru is a transgender woman who works as a hospice nurse in Ohio, and since 2018 has been involved as an immersive artists, virtual DJ, and event producer holding weekly events in her psychedelic space called Kaleidosky, which is nominated for Best...
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The Troll Project was created by Ruth Diaz, who has a doctorate in clinical psychology and focuses on XR community design, in order to explore the root causes of trolling, but also tackling the issue head on within social VR spaces with some...
Today Niantic’s 8th Wall is announcing Niantic Studio, which is “a new visual interface for Niantic 8th Wall developers that offers an entirely new way to build immersive 3D and XR experiences.” It’s essentially a web-based game engine using three...
YouTuber Brad Lynch (aka SadlyItsBradley) has completely replaced all of his computer screens with an Apple Vision Pro, even going as far as getting a headless Mac Book Pro that does not even have a screen. He’s been using the Apple Vision Pro for...
On June 12, 2024, VRChat announced they were laying off 30% of their staff, and they posted a letter to all employees sent from CEO Graham Gaylor that said, “We’re reducing the size of our team by around 30% and saying goodbye to many talented team...
Raindance Immersive 2024 opened last weekend in VRChat, and will run for the next four weekends featuring the latest innovations of virtual culture with 77% of experiences happening on social VR platforms and 69% that feature VRChat. I spoke at...
Curator Ana Brzezińska announced the Tribeca Immersive 2024 line-up on May 23, 2024 mentioning that “this year we are not presenting any VR/AR experiences,” but rather that they’re pivoting this year to featuring eight immersive art pieces by six...
ILM Immersive & Marvel Studios is releasing What If…?: An Immersive Story exclusively on Apple Vision Pro tomorrow, and I had a chance to take an early look and speak with producer and executive producer Shereif Fattouh as well as technical art...
The 77th edition of the Cannes Film Festival is featuring an inaugural Immersive Competition with eight pieces in competition along with six pieces outside of competition. I had a chance to speak with Elie Lavasseur, the Head of Immersive...
One of the most common ways to describe the experience of VR is through the lens of presence, and in this episode I’m going to do a deep dive into the existing academic literature of presence in order to more fully contextualize my approach to it...