I gave a lecture about “Blending the Elements of Experiential Design” on Saturday, June 6, 2026 at Seattle XR in Seattle, Washington. (PDF of Slides]
[More updates coming soon].
You can find links to my 30+ hours of my coverage from Venice Immersive 2025 across 39 episodes. I’ve categorized the experiences according to these “elemental genres,” which is looking at the top two elemental centers of gravity. You can listen to this episode or watch the video version of “The Blending the Elements on Experiential Design” YouTube on for more details.
- #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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