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#1113: Matthew Ball’s “The Metaverse” Book is the Most Comprehensive Description of the Metaverse Stack

by kentbyeJuly 19, 2022

Matthew Ball's 'The Metaverse: And How It Will Revolutionize Everything' book (launching today) is the most comprehensive articulation of the Metaverse technology stack, as well as it's foundational principles catalyzing a paradigm shift from 2D...

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#1108: Tribeca XR: “LGBTQ+ VR Museum” Curates Touching Objects & Stories & Wins Inaugural Tribeca New Voices Award

by kentbyeJuly 6, 2022

The LGBTQ+ VR Museum won the inaugural Tribeca Immersive New Voices Award as it curated a number of really touching virtual objects, art, and stories from LGBTQ+ people. Antonia Forester started the project after discovering that there was not a...

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#1107: Tribeca XR: Emoji Gestures & Social VR Watch Party of 360 Video Survey of PoC Artists in Maine with “Exhibition A”

by kentbyeJuly 6, 2022

Exhibition A is 'A love letter to women of color written in virtual reality... showcases talent from the POC, immigrant, non-binary, LGBTQ, and Black communities in Portland, Maine.' I had a chance to speak with project creator and producer Janay...

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#1105: Tribeca XR: Embodiment Experiments in a Surrealist, Speculative, Feminist Eco-Fiction on Plastics Permeating the Body in “Plastisapians”

by kentbyeJuly 6, 2022

First-time VR artists Miri Chekhanovich & Édith Jorisch in collaboration with Dpt. and '>The NFB created some unique embodiment experiments within Plastisapians as they explored speculative futures about plastic permeating and changing our bodies...

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#1102: Tribeca XR: Ethically-Produced MoCap Database & Multi-Media Stories with “Black Movement Library: Movement Portraits”

by kentbyeJuly 6, 2022

Black Movement Library: Movement Portraits is a motion capture database project and series of experiences across different media by multi-media artist LaJuné McMillian. She wanted to see more black dancers represented in motion capture data, but...

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#1099: “The Infinite” Location-Based Experience Expands Cinematic VR Footage of the ISS into an Interactive Exploration

by kentbyeJune 22, 2022

The Infinite is a location-based VR experience that allows you to freely roam around an architectural abstraction of the International Space Station with friends and family, and it has 360 video photospheres that transport you to nearly 60 excerpts...

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#1098: Metaverse Standards Forum Unites Leading Standards Orgs & XR Companies Towards Open Metaverse Interoperability

by kentbyeJune 21, 2022

The Metaverse Standards Forum was announced today on June 21, 2022 as it 'brings together leading standards organizations and companies for industry-wide cooperation on interoperability standards needed to build the open metaverse.' There's lots of...

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#1097: IEEE XR Ethics: Metaverse and Its Governance

by kentbyeJune 20, 2022

The Metaverse and Its Governance is the final paper in the series of the IEEE Global Initiative on the Ethics of Extended Reality.

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#1095: Preview of Tribeca Immersive 2022 with Curator Ana Brzezinska

by kentbyeJune 8, 2022

I get a preview of Tribeca Immersive 2022 with curator Ana Brzezinska.

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#1090: IEEE XR Ethics: Diversity, Inclusion, & Accessibility

by kentbyeJune 6, 2022

Continuing on my series on XR Ethics in collaboration with the IEEE Global Initiative on the Ethics of Extended Reality, this episode dives into the White Paper on Diversity, Inclusion, & Accessibility featuring Isabel Guenette Thornton (Ph.D...

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#1089: IEEE Global Initiative on the Ethics of Extended Reality: Trolling, Harassment, and Online Safety

by kentbyeJune 4, 2022

The IEEE Global Initiative on the Ethics of Extended Reality has published the first eight white papers investigating different ethical aspects of virtual and augmented reality. This has been a collaboration with dozens of XR industry professionals...

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#1088: Croquet’s Browser-Based, Operating System for the Metaverse: An architectural & philosophical deep dive into real-time collaboration

by kentbyeMay 20, 2022

Croquet is an operating system within the context of a browser that serves as a virtual machine that enables bit-identical simulations across multiple computers synchronized via a dedicated network infrastructure of global reflectors. Croquet...

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#1079: New Tribeca Immersive Curator Ana Brzezińska’s Journey into VR & Virtual Event Production with Kaleidoscope VR

by kentbyeApril 28, 2022

On January 10th, Ana Brzezińska was announced to be the new Immersive Curator of the Tribeca Film Festival, and I had a chance to speak to her before this announcement to do a retrospective of her time that she spent as Kaleidoscope VR's Head of...

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#1075: Stereoscopic Compositing Innovations & “The Choice” Interactive Documentary Exploring Reproductive Rights in Texas

by kentbyeApril 1, 2022

The Choice is an interactive documentary that explores the issue of reproductive rights in Texas. The team uses a special stereoscopic compositing pipeline that combines depth sensor information with a stereo camera capture, but creates a shader to...

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#1071: Overview of 16 Winners of Peabody Awards for Interactive & Digital Storytelling & the Process of Going Beyond Fixed Categories

by kentbyeMarch 25, 2022

The Peabody Awards have expanded beyond the traditional categories of Entertainment, News, Podcast & Radio, Documentary, Arts, & Public Service, and into new formats of Digital and Interactive Storytelling that include Transmedia Storytelling...

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#1069: Forensic Architecture’s Spatial Storytelling Innovations Awarded with Peabody Institution Award

by kentbyeMarch 24, 2022

Forensic Architecture is an innovative interdisciplinary, non-profit research group that uses the tools & techniques of architecture to tell spatial stories of state-sponsored violence and human rights. Their 79 investigations since 2010 have be...

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#1068: “Notes on Blindness” VR Experience Receives a Legacy Peabody Award for Interactive Storytelling

by kentbyeMarch 24, 2022

The immersive story of Notes on Blindness: Into the Darkness (2016) VR experience (Quest, Rift) was awarded with a Legacy Peabody Award for Digital & Interactive Storytelling along with 15 other projects on Thursday, March 24th. This experience has...

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#1067: Nonny de la Peña Wins a Legacy Peabody Award for Her Work in Immersive Journalism, A Retrospective Interview

by kentbyeMarch 24, 2022

Nonny de la Peña was one of the 16 Legacy Peabody Award recipients honoring historical work as a part of their new Digital & Interactive Storytelling Award. Specifically, de la Peña is receiving a Field Building honor for her body of work that has...

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#1066: “Composition” is an Amazingly Delightful Interactive Music Experience Installation with Projection Mapping

by kentbyeMarch 21, 2022

One of my favorite experiences from SXSW was Vincent Morisset's Composition, which is a physical installation of a table with blocks that serves as the interface of a interactive music piece that continually shifts the algorithm for how it generates...

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#1063: Indigenous Poet’s Journey from Doc Subject to Co-Writer on Award-Winning VR Story “On the Morning You Wake (To the End of the World)”

by kentbyeMarch 21, 2022

On the Morning You Wake (To the End of the World) won the best XR Experience at SXSW, and is set to be released this week on March 24th, 2022. (UPDATE 3/24: It's now been released and can be found here.) It's an amazingly well-told story about how...

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#1061: Immersive Theater 1-on-1 Experiments in “Gumball Dreams” VRChat World Adaptation

by kentbyeMarch 21, 2022

Gumball Dreams is the latest immersive theatre production in VRChat by The Ferryman Collective, who previously produced Welcome to Respite: The Severance Theory. They just had their World Premiere last week participating in competition at SXSW, and...

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#1060: Using VR to Tell Native American Stories with OurWorlds & “Choctaw Code Talkers 1918”

by kentbyeMarch 21, 2022

I talk with the creators of Choctaw Code Talkers 1918, Kilma Lattin, Founder & CEO of OurWorlds as well as Catherine Eng, Co-founder & CTO of OurWorlds, who are bringing Native American Stories to VR with their platform. OurWorlds won the SXSW EDU...

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#1059: Overview of SXSW 2022 XR Experiences & Events with Lead Programmer Blake Kammerdiener

by kentbyeMarch 9, 2022

There are nearly 40 XR experiences and special events programmed as a part of the physical SXSW festival in Austin, and I spoke with lead programmer Blake Kammerdiener to get the full run down of the 12 pieces in the XR Experience Competition, 21...

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#1058: Building Blocks of the Metaverse are Interoperable Standards: Summarizing the MetaTraversal Initiative Conversations

by kentbyeMarch 2, 2022

There's a lot of debates about the Metaverse, and whether or not it's complete BS or if it's the natural evolution of the Internet as a culmination of a spatial computing revolution that's been evolving human computer interaction from 2D frames to...

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#1057: What Parents Should Know about Social VR, Understanding Social VR Harassment, & Parental Guidance for the Metaverse with Lance G. Powell, Jr.

by kentbyeFebruary 26, 2022

There are a lot of unsupervised children in different social VR applications, and hopefully this interview with Lance G. Powell, Jr. about his article Parental Guide for the Metaverse can be a part of helping inform parents about some best practices...

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#1054: Immersive Wire Newsletter’s Tom Ffiske on his new book “The Metaverse: A Professional Guide”

by kentbyeFebruary 3, 2022

Tom Ffiske publishes the Immersive Wire Newsletter, and on February 2, 2022 he announced the release of his latest book called The Metaverse: A Professional Guide, which is available on Amazon. The metaverse has certainly seen an increase of...

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#1053: Decolonizing the History of the India-Pakistan Partition with Embodied Stories of Forced Migration in VR with “Child of Empire”

by kentbyeFebruary 2, 2022

The Child of Empire is an immersive story that tells the story of the India-Pakistan Partition of 1947, which is one of the largest forced migrations in human history. It uses puppet theatre-styled motion graphics in the beginning to provide a crash...

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#1050: Embedding Indigenous Relationality & Practice of Bearing Witness in “This is Not a Ceremony” 360 Video

by kentbyeJanuary 28, 2022

This is Not a Ceremony is a cinematic VR piece that asks us to 'collectively bear witness to tragic events in the lives of two Indigenous men — Adam North Peigan and Brian Sinclair — and entrusts us to share what we've seen and heard.' It uses 360...

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#1048: Gamesbeat Panel on Metaverse Ethics

by kentbyeJanuary 26, 2022

I was invited to participate on panel on Metaverse Ethics at Gamesbeat's Into the Metaverse 2 summit on January 26, 2022. Privacy in XR was the biggest theme and open question that each of the panelists focused on. This is a recording of the...

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#1044: Preview of Sundance New Frontier 2022 with Chief Curator Shari Frilot

by kentbyeJanuary 20, 2022

The Sundance New Frontier 2022 selection of 15 immersive stories is available starting today until January 30th, and I had a chance to speak with chief curator Shari Frilot an overview of this year's selection. Access to New Frontier Spaceship and...

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#1031: IDFA DocLab 15-year Retrospective with Founder Caspar Sonnen

by kentbyeJanuary 7, 2022

The IDFA DocLab is celebrating it's 15th year anniversary, and I collaborated with DocLab to produce a series of a dozen interviews reflecting on the evolution of immersive storytelling and interactive documentaries since 2007. I'm kicking off the...

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#1029: Breathtaking VR Shots from Space in Latest Episode of Felix & Paul’s Emmy-Winning “Space Explorers: The ISS Experience”

by kentbyeDecember 22, 2021

Felix & Paul Studios just released Episode #3 of their Space Explorers: ISS Experience, which features some absolutely stunning & breathtaking shots captured outside of the International Space Station. They gave a sneak peak of some of this footage...

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#1026: Four Quillsfest VR Commissions by Theatre Makers & XR Artists Produced by Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Artizen, & Museum of Other Realities

by kentbyeDecember 9, 2021

The Oregon Shakespeare Festival in collaboration with Artizen producers Ana Brzezińska and René J. Pinnell commissioned & produced four VR pieces that premiered at the inaugural Quillsfest, which was a two-day event November 19-20 held within the...

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#1025: Full-Body Tracked Dance Performance on Identity & Avatar Discrimination in “Exploring Home” with Sara Lisa Vogl

by kentbyeDecember 3, 2021

Exploring Home is a full-body tracked, dance performance in a VRChat world that premiered at Venice VR Expanded 2021. It explores issues around identity, avatar representations, being outcast and discriminated against, and it's a unique blend of...

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#1018: Unpacking Protopia Futures Framework: Deconstructing DUNE & Critiquing Metaverse Sci-Fi with Monika Bielskyte

by kentbyeNovember 6, 2021

Monika Bielskyte is a world designer, immersive artist, science fiction critic, and cultivator of Protopia Futures (@ProtopiaFutures on Instagram), which is a an intersectional design practice that was distilled down into a Protopia Futures...

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#1017: Virtual Beings Summit Recap: Incentive Design, Web3, & Virtual Worlds to Train AGI with Edward Saatchi

by kentbyeNovember 4, 2021

The third annual Virtual Beings & Virtual Societies Summit happened on October 29-30, and I had a chance to attend and unpack it with the co-founder of Fable Studio and instigator of a new Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) called the The...

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#1016: Unpacking Connect 2021 with Road to VR’s Ben Lang: Facebook to Meta Rebrand, Metaverse & Interoperability Aspirations, & XR Privacy

by kentbyeNovember 3, 2021

Connect 2021 happened on Thrusday October 28, 2021 where Facebook rebranded to Meta on their path towards becoming a Metaverse company, and they provided a lot of vague, speculative designs for some of the social experiences that they can imagine...

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#1015: Blending Immersive Theater with Social VR & VRChat Worldbuilding with “Welcome to Respite”

by kentbyeOctober 27, 2021

The Severance Theory: Welcome to Respite is a VR adaptation of an immersive theatre piece of the same name originally produced in 2019 by CoAct Productions founder Lyndsie Scoggin. Immersive theatre & VR performer Deirdre Lyons did some voice work...

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#1014: Recap of the AR/VR Policy Conference with ITIF & XR Association: Privacy Legislation Still the Biggest Open Question

by kentbyeOctober 25, 2021

On October 21, there was a five-hour AR/VR Policy Conference organized by the Information Technology & Innovation Foundation as well as XR Association covering some other public policy issues relevant to XR technologies, but also really focused on...

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#1013: Parisi’s Metaverse Manifesto: Unpacking His Seven Rules for the Metaverse

by kentbyeOctober 23, 2021

Tony Parisi published really great Metaverse manifesto on October 22nd titled The Seven Rules for the Metaverse, which attempts to rein in some of the more hyperbolic musings about what the Metaverse is or could be.

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