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#918: Philosopher Lewis Gordon on Racism, Moral vs Political Responsibility, and Relational Metaphysics

by kentbyeJune 5, 2020

I had a conversation with philosopher Lewis Gordon at the American Philosophical Association Eastern Meeting in January 2019 that really stuck with me. He writes about the philosophy of racism, and takes a very holistic and systemic approach in...

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#916: Educators in VR Meetups & Virtual Conferences

by kentbyeMay 30, 2020

Back in November 2018, Daniel Dyboski-Bryant and Lorelle VanFossen started a regular meetup of Educators in VR within AltSpaceVR. They've been meeting consistently for the past year and a half, and they're currently hosting 5-8 gatherings per week...

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#913: All of Microsoft’s AR & AR Announcements from Microsoft Build with Director Greg Sullivan

by kentbyeMay 20, 2020

There were not a lot of AR or VR announcements that happened during the main keynotes of Microsoft Build 2020, but there were a number of announcements that I was covering as comprehensively as I could in real-time in this Twitter thread. But Azure...

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#912: Virtual Conference Lessons Learned from IEEE VR 2020 + Experiential Design Tradeoffs

by kentbyeMay 9, 2020

On March 6th, 2020, the IEEE VR announced a venue change on their website from Atlanta, Georgia to online in virtual reality for the academic conference set to happen between 22-26 March, 2020. The organizers of the IEEE VR conference had two weeks...

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#911: VTubers & Bridging Japan with France with Akihiko Shirai

by kentbyeMay 1, 2020

Akihiko Shirai has been doing research and development in VR live entertainment since 1995, and he's been a key liaison between the XR communities in Japan and France going back to 2004. Since June 2018 he's been researching vTuber (Virtual...

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#909: Laval Virtual’s AR/VR Business Intelligence with Marie Leblanc

by kentbyeMay 1, 2020

Laval Virtual has a AR/VR Business Intelligence division that tracks the use cases and evolution of XR applications, and produces a number of VR/AR newsfeed email lists and reports (like this free magazine on Health Applications of XR). I had a...

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#908: 22-Year History of Laval Virtual with Founder Simon Richir

by kentbyeMay 1, 2020

The first Laval Virtual Conference happened on 3-4 June, 1999 in Laval France, and had a chance to talk with the founder Simon Richir about the 20+ year history of Laval Virtual when I attended in 2019. It's an amazing history of the evolution of...

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#907: Tribeca Immersive’s Cinema360 Program Starts Virtual Screenings on Oculus TV

by kentbyeApril 17, 2020

The Tribeca Film Festival is releasing fifteen 360 videos that were programmed within their Cinema360 program for free via the Oculus TV platform, and they'll be available to watch until April 26th. This is a great opportunity to see a portion of...

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#905: VRChat: Empowering the Creativity of User-Generated Virtual Worlds & Avatars

by kentbyeApril 14, 2020

VRChat is one of the most popular social VR applications out there, and Chief Creator Officer Ron Millar recently told me that they had over 18,000 concurrent users this past weekend. I had a chance to catch up with the co-founders Jesse Joudrey &...

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#904 Sundance New Frontier Recap & Themes with Chief Curator Shari Frilot

by kentbyeMarch 13, 2020

In my final episode of my coverage from Sundance New Frontier 2020, I speak with chief curator Shari Frilot about some of the themes of the line-up of XR experiences that were programmed this year. There were a number of themes the embodiment...

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#903 Sundance New Frontier Behind-the-Scenes with Curator Milo Talwani

by kentbyeMarch 13, 2020

Milo Talwani (pronouns they/them) is a curator, and creative technologist who oversees the selection process for New Frontier at the Sundance Film Festival. They're also the technical coordinator for Tribeca Immersive, and they also help curate...

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#902 Sundance: ‘Metamorphic’ Explores Context-Dependent Embodiment & Social Dynamics with Remixed Quill Art

by kentbyeMarch 13, 2020

One of the most powerful explorations of embodiment at Sundance New Frontier 2020 was Metamorphic. The creators describe it as exploring the 'ephemeral nature of the self by allowing participants to redefine their relationships to their own bodies...

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#896 Sundance: ‘All Kinds of Limbo’ is a Musical Performance for 20 People in Quests.

by kentbyeMarch 12, 2020

All Kinds of Limbo featured the ability to show a volumetric-captured, virtual reality performance to 20 users within the Oculus Quest. Nubiya Brandon narrates her experience of being a mixed-race woman in the United Kingdom, and takes a tour...

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#895 Sundance: ‘Book of Distance’ has Breakthrough Immersive Storytelling Innovations

by kentbyeMarch 12, 2020

The Book of Distance is one of the best VR narratives or immersive stories I've ever seen. Director Randall Okita tells the story of his grandfather Yonezo Okita's journey from Hiroshima, Japan to Canada in 1935 to begin a new life. It has some...

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#891 Sundance: Al Jazeera Uses VR & AR to Explore Life After Incarceration in ‘Still Here’

by kentbyeMarch 10, 2020

Al Jazeera Contrast is an immersive storytelling and media innovation studio that is interested in telling the stories of the Global South and communities of color. They premiered a multi-media experience at Sundance New Frontier called Still Here...

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#888 Sundance: ‘Breathe’ Visualizes How Breath Connects Us to Each Other in Social AR Experience

by kentbyeMarch 10, 2020

Breathe is a Magic Leap, mixed reality experience with four people in shared environment that uses a biometric sensor measuring chest movements in order to explore how our breathing connects us to each other and to the atmosphere. It's a powerful...

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#886 Sundance: Group Ritual in VR: ‘Atomu’ & the Kikiyu Tribal Mythology on Gender Identity

by kentbyeMarch 10, 2020

Atomu is a social VR experience that premiered at the Sundance New Frontier Biodigital Theater on Friday, January 24, 2020 by co-creators Shariffa Ali (half-Kenyan, half-Ethiopian) and Yetunde Dada (half-Zambian, half-Nigerian) who met growing up in...

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#885 Sundance: ‘Scarecrow’ is a 1:1 Immersive Theater VR Piece with Thermal Haptics

by kentbyeMarch 10, 2020

Scarecrow is an one-on-one immersive theater piece where you engage with an actor in virtual reality. Every person gets the same structure of a story, but the interactions are customized based upon your actions within the piece. There are a number...

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#882 VR for Good: Kai XR’s Inclusive & Accessible Education Kits

by kentbyeJanuary 24, 2020

Kai Frazier is a history teacher who decided to make a complete pivot into creating accessible and diverse educational content and kits for education. She curates 360 videos and produces content aimed for underrepresented minorities to be able to...

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#879 VR for Good: StoryFile is an Oral History Platform with a Conversational Interface

by kentbyeJanuary 24, 2020

StoryFile is an interactive storytelling platform that allows you to interact with someone as they tell their story. A comprehensive oral history could be as many as 1000 questions and 20 hours of content, and StoryFile's combination of a...

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#874 VR for Good: Using AR to Explore Contested Sites in New Orleans with Nancy Baker Cahill’s 4th Wall App

by kentbyeJanuary 24, 2020

Nancy Baker Cahill is an artist who is creating the 4th Wall App AR platform that distributes inclusive, augmented reality art at site-specific, locations that are contested in some way. She launched Battlegrounds: New Orleans in December 2019, and...

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#871 VR for Good: Breaking Taboos on Disability & Sexuality with ‘4-Feet Blind Date’ Cinematic VR

by kentbyeJanuary 24, 2020

On November 26, 2016, Rosario Perazolo gave a TEDxCórdoba talk about a wide range of cultural taboos she experiences as someone in a wheelchair. She talks about the transition of ooking at the world from the perspective of someone who was 5'7', but...

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#870 VR for Good: Update on Outreach & Engagement for ‘Traveling While Black’ with Roger Ross Williams

by kentbyeJanuary 24, 2020

I got an update from Traveling While Black director Roger Ross Williams after he's been traveling around the world at different outreach & engagement screenings. I did a deep dive discussion with Williams in my interview with him at the debut at...

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#869 VR for Good: Using AR to Explore Moral Dilemmas of Anthropomorphized Virtual Beings with Asad J. Malik’s ‘Jester’s Tale’

by kentbyeJanuary 24, 2020

Asad J. Malik is an augmented reality artist and director who created Terminal 3, which premiered at Tribeca 2018, and Jester's Tale, which premiered at Sundance 2019.

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#868 VR for Good: The Unity for Humanity Contest by Unity Technologies

by kentbyeJanuary 24, 2020

Amy Zimmerman is a senior producer on the innovation group for media & entertainment at Unity Technologies, and she helped to start the Unity for Humanity contest there. We talk about her inspiration for the project, and what type of projects that...

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#867 VR for Good: Vulcan Productions on Funding Environmental XR Productions & Hosting the Impact Reality Summit

by kentbyeJanuary 24, 2020

Vulcan Productions has been producing social impact films and XR experiences since 1997, when it was founded by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, who passed away in October 2018. Their four main topics they're focused on are climate change, ocean...

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#865 VR for Good: ‘We Live in an Ocean of Air’ Location-Based Entertainment Experience from Marshmallow Laser Feast

by kentbyeJanuary 23, 2020

Marshmallow Laser Feast is one of my favorite studios with projects like Into the Eyes of an Animal, Treehugger, Sweet Dreams, & We Live in An Ocean of Air. Most of their work has only shown at Film Festivals like Sundance or Tribeca, but last year...

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#864 VR for Good: Kaleidoscope VR is Connecting XR Artists with Funders at the Impact Reality Summit

by kentbyeJanuary 23, 2020

René Pinnell originally created Kaleidoscope VR in order to show immersive art and stories around the world. After talking with creators, he realized that the biggest blocker for creating immersive art was securing funding and resources to make the...

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#863: UNCSA Immersive Storytelling Residency Program

by kentbyeDecember 17, 2019

Note: This is a sponsored content post from the University University of North Carolina School of the ArtsThe Media + Emerging Technology Lab (METL) is situated within the film school of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, and they...

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#861 DocLab: Dome Projections & Inspiring Action on Climate Change with Michaela French’s “Climate Crimes”

by kentbyeDecember 12, 2019

Michaela French has been making large-scale immersive, full dome experiences since 1999, and at IDFA DocLab she was showing her Climate Crimes piece, which explores the complex relationship between global air pollution, climate change and human...

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#860 DocLab: Critiquing Power Dynamics of Architectural Digital Recreations with Astrid Feringa

by kentbyeDecember 12, 2019

Astrid Feringa had a video essay installation at the IDFA DocLab where she was critiquing how the British Institute of Digital Archaeology was using photogrammetry to reconstruct a piece of destroyed architecture. What are the ethics around...

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#859 DocLab Founder Caspar Sonnen on Domesticating Reality, AI, & XR Distribution Experiments

by kentbyeDecember 12, 2019

Caspar Sonnen founded the DocLab as a part of the International Documentary Festival in Amsterdam (IDFA) in 2007 after a period of being really skeptical about some of the early overstated and inflated claims of the transformative power of...

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#852 DocLab: Using AR to Explore Gender Identity at a Pop-Up Clothes Store with Rob Eagle’s “Through the Wardrobe”

by kentbyeDecember 12, 2019

Through the Wardrobe was an augmented reality experience by Rob Eagle about gender identity that took place in a pop-up shop in the hallways of Amsterdam's Central Station. The IDFA DocLab had three storefronts in Central Station this year during...

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#851 DocLab: Using VR to Visualize Language Extinction with Lena Herzog’s “Last Whispers”

by kentbyeDecember 12, 2019

Last Whispers is a virtual reality experience that visualizes the extinction of languages around the world. Director Lena Herzog says that there are about 7,000 active languages on the planet, but that we're loosing one to two languages a week due...

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#849 DocLab: Preserving Avant-garde Digital Culture & VR Embodiment Explorations with Ali Eslami’s “Nerd_Funk”

by kentbyeDecember 12, 2019

Ali Eslami is an Iranian VR creator whose livelong project is an ever-expanding virtual city called False Mirror, and he was showing off the latest edition at IDFA DocLab called Nerd_Funk. Nerd_Funk is a surrealistic, guided tour through an...

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#848 DocLab: Humanizing the MH17 Plane Crash from a Ukranian Point of View with VR

by kentbyeDecember 12, 2019

On July 17th, 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was a scheduled passenger flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur that was shot down while flying over eastern Ukraine killing all 298 on board. This has been huge news in the Netherlands, and when...

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#846 DocLab: Deep Fake of a Synthesized Nixon Speech that Never Happened

by kentbyeDecember 12, 2019

In the Event of a Moon Disaster uses AI deep fake and speech synthesis technology to produce a Nixon speech that never happened. Bill Safire wrote a contingency speech on July 18, 1969 for President Richard Nixon to read in the event that something...

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#844 XR Ethics: An XR Ethics Manifesto

by kentbyeNovember 5, 2019

This is an XR Ethics Manifesto that I presented at Greenlight's XR Strategy Conference on October 18, 2019. This is the culmination of seven focused months of panel discussions, interviews, and talks exploring many of the nuances of ethics and...

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#830 OC6: Facebook Horizon, Oculus Connect vs SVVR, & Bringing VR to University Libraries with Jon Oakes

by kentbyeOctober 11, 2019

Jon Oakes is the Technology Labs Coordinator at the San Jose State University Library, and he's also been quite involved in helping to organize the Silicon Valley Virtual Reality Meetup and Conference. He held a VR Connect gathering at SJSU the day...

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#828 OC6: Tested’s Norm Chan on OC6 highlights & the Future of XR input

by kentbyeOctober 11, 2019

Tested editor Norm Chan has been covering the evolution of Virtual Reality since seeing a early prototype of the Oculus Rift at CES 2013, which was after the initial debut at E3 2012 & the successful Kickstarter in August 2012. So Chan has been...

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#827 OC6: Quest Hand Tracking, Branded XR, & a Debate on Ethics vs Pragmatism in XR with Andre Elijah

by kentbyeOctober 11, 2019

Andre Elijah is an independent VR developer who recently launched Viewport Interactive working on branded experiences for car companies and beyond. We talk about the Elixir Quest Handracking demo that he tried at Oculus Connect 6, and how it shifted...

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#826 OC6: Inclusive Design & the Deeper Ethical Context of Experiential Design with Doug North Cook

by kentbyeOctober 11, 2019

Doug North Cook is an assistant professor at Chatham University, and he holds an immersive design residency at Fallingwater architectural landmark in Pittsburg. North Cook is trying to synthesize the many different design frameworks and principles...

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#822: Dreams & Symbolic Language of VR: Dream Logic, Metaphor, & Cultural Heritage of “Bodyless”

by kentbyeSeptember 24, 2019

Bodyless was one of my favorite VR experiences that I saw at the Venice International Film Festival. The experience was the most like walking into someone else's dream that I've ever had in VR. The experience alternated between an on-rails guided...

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#815: Neuroscience & VR: Music, Body Sway, & Synchrony at the Institute for Music and the Mind

by kentbyeSeptember 12, 2019

Laurel Trainor is the Director of McMaster Institute for Music and the Mind, which has a LIVElab concert hall for 100 people that allows her to do a lot of studies in the relationship between musical performance and how it's received by an audience...

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#801: Dynamic Architecture & Digital Campfires for Social VR Gatherings

by kentbyeAugust 26, 2019

Yasmin Yesilipek is an architecture student at the Architectural Association who has been primarily focusing on virtual reality. She's been creating spaces for online gatherings, and trying to recreate a campfire digitally through experimenting with...

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#800: How VR is Changing Architecture Education & The Symposium on the Architecture for the Immersive Internet at the Architectural Association

by kentbyeAugust 26, 2019

Space Popular is a multidisciplinary design and research practice led by Lara Lesmes & Fredrik Hellberg, and they've been architecture students for the last eight years about spatial design as well as the latest immersive technologies. They've been...

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#795: VR Artist Amelia Winger-Bearskin: Designing with Metaphors & Indigenous Perspectives on Time & Individuality

by kentbyeAugust 12, 2019

Amelia Winger-Bearskin is a VR director & performance artist who is building communities for artists, creators, and technologies working in emerging technology. She uses metaphor as her primary method for exploring emerging technologies like virtual...

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