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...
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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 clickable footnotes...
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 Sierra, and...
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 issue theme...
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, cooking, and...
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 original...
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...