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#757: Dream Logic & Symbolic Storytelling of Freud’s Interpretation of Dreams + Grieving the Death of Parents

by kentbyeApril 23, 2019

Graham Sack says that dream analysis and the language have film have co-evolved together as visual forms of symbolic communication, and he wanted to further that exploration in an experimental narrative series funded by Samsung VR. Sack and...

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#747: Bringing Restorative Justice Practices in VR with Tyler Musgrave

by kentbyeMarch 16, 2019

Restorative Justice practices are an alternative form of justice that's a victim-centered that creates a space for offenders to own the harm done, and for victims to tell the story of their experiences of that harm directly to the offender. It's a...

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#746: Reflections on VR Shooters from Danny Bittman + General Update

by kentbyeMarch 16, 2019

There's a lot of intensity in the world right now, and it reminded me of a short excerpt about VR shooters from a longer conversation that I had with Danny Bittman back at Oculus Connect 4 in 2017. I think it speaks to some of what's happening in...

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#744: Women in VR Dicussion Sponsored by Mozilla

by kentbyeFebruary 20, 2019

Disclosure: Mozilla is financially sponsoring the Voices of VR podcast to collaborate on four different events in 2019, and our first collaboration was this conversation featuring the work of seven women within the XR space. Mozilla curated these...

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#743: Storytelling in AR Panel at Sundance New Frontier 2019

by kentbyeFebruary 20, 2019

I moderated this 90-minute Sundance New Frontier panel discussion about immersive storytelling in AR and the role of virtual characters and conversational interfaces. It included Alice Wroe, who is the creative director of Magic Leaps digital human...

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#733: Community Media PublicVR Labs + How Hyperlocal Organizing is an Emerging Trend for Brands

by kentbyeFebruary 12, 2019

Kathy Bisbee started the first publicly funded VR lab called PublicVR Lab, and she's leading an initiative for the 1500 community media centers in the United States to start offering kits and programs to help create community media immersive...

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#732: Zero Latency’s Free-Roaming, Player vs. Player VR Experience Emphasizes Communication & Collaboration

by kentbyeFebruary 8, 2019

Zero Latency just announced a free-roaming, player vs. player experience called Sol Raiders that will be available to play starting February 9th at one of there 20+ locations around the world. Most location-based VR experiences are co-op where you...

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#731: Natural & Intuitive Character Interactions in VR with “Wolves in the Walls”

by kentbyeFebruary 4, 2019

Wolves in the Walls is a narrative VR piece based upon a Neil Gaiman novel that explores object interactions and cultivating a connection to a virtual character. It's a project that originally started as a project within Oculus Story Studio, but was...

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#728: AI-Guided Dance to Express Collective Sentiment with Frankenstein AI

by kentbyeJanuary 25, 2019

Frankenstein AI from the Columbia Digital Storytelling Lab debuted at Sundance 2018. It was a cross-displinary collaboration that used machine learning, immersive theater, dance, and prompts for social interactions. I talk with choreographer Brandon...

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#723: “Pilgrim” is an Interactive AR Audio Documentary in the Streets of Amsterdam

by kentbyeDecember 28, 2018

Pilgrim is an AR audio documentary that I experienced at the IDFA DocLab premiere as I was walking through the streets of Amsterdam. Co-director Lauren Hutchinson captured audio stories of people as they were walking the Camino de Santiago trail in...

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#722: IDFA’s DocLab & “the Creative Treatment of Actuality”

by kentbyeDecember 21, 2018

The DocLab at the International Documentary Filmfestival Amsterdam (IDFA) was started in 2007 by Caspar Sonnen, and it's very similar to the New Frontier programming at Sundance as it's looking at how what new forms of storytelling is emerging from...

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#721: Introspective Hero’s Journey of Self-Reflection & Emotional Education with “Where Thoughts Go”

by kentbyeDecember 13, 2018

Where Thoughts Go: Prologue is one of my favorite VR storytelling experiences of the year, as I think that creator Lucas Rizzotto has discovered a number of different design innovations that push forward the storytelling potential of the VR medium...

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#717: VR Privacy Summit Organizer Highlights & Next Steps

by kentbyeNovember 23, 2018

The VR Privacy Summit happened on November 8th, and brought together representatives from the top XR companies, start-up companies, VR experts, medical academics, and legal experts to talk about the potential risks and benefits of having access to...

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#716: VR Privacy Summit: Medical Insights into VR Privacy + Health Benefits of Biometric Data

by kentbyeNovember 22, 2018

The medical professionals at the VR Privacy summit has a lot of interesting insights into how they navigate issues around informed consent in medical research through Institutional Review Boards, and perhaps how privacy policies for companies need a...

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#715: VR Privacy Summit: Open Web Privacy Lessons for the Immersive Web

by kentbyeNovember 21, 2018

Mozilla Mixed Reality's Diane Hosfelt says, 'The immersive web has all of the problems of the 2D web, they're just magnified and they're harder.' She says the the privacy challeges around biometric data privacy are even more dire because you can't...

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#714: VR Privacy Summit: Electronic Frontier Foundation on Privacy on the Web

by kentbyeNovember 20, 2018

The VR Privacy Summit happened at Standord University on November 8th to explore pressing issues around biometric data privacy in virtual reality. There were around 50 representatives from around the VR industry with representatives from nearly all...

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#713: Moving Through Grief of Suicide through a Spatial Story in VR with “Homestay”

by kentbyeNovember 8, 2018

Paisley Smith's Homestay is a deeply powerful spatial story that explores her family's journey of grief from the death by suicide of an international student that they were hosting. She shares her journey of how to best tell this story in VR with...

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#710: XR & the Deepest Socio-Political & Economic Context: The Malleability of Reality

by kentbyeOctober 29, 2018

VRLA co-founder Cosmo Scharf talks about some of the deepest levels of our current socio-political and economic context, and how VR & AR can teach us that our beliefs and perception of reality is malleable. Cosmo says that we're suffering form a...

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#708: Indiecade’s Sam Roberts on the Future of Play as Immersive & Experiential

by kentbyeOctober 23, 2018

Indiecade is the International Festival of Play, and Festival Director Sam Roberts curates innovations in game play and interaction paradigms that explore the questions of: What do I do? What happens when I do it? And how do I do it? Roberts sees an...

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#707: Spatial Reality Art Show & Self-Service Immersive Art

by kentbyeOctober 19, 2018

The Spatial Reality: Artists Explore the Future of XR show is running from October 12 to 28 at the Ayzenberg spce gallery in Pasenda, CA. I had a chance to see all of the pieces in the show, and then talk with the curator Jesse Damiani about my...

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#705: Magic Leap LEAPCon & Empowering Artists to Innovate with AR

by kentbyeOctober 16, 2018

In this podcast episode, I share some of my take aways from Magic Leap's LEAPcon as well as talk with the creators behind the Sigur Ros interactive music experience called Tónandi, which is the best interactive AR experience that I've had so far. I...

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#701: Experiential Design of Cause-Based Marketing with Empact Labs + OC5 Highlights

by kentbyeOctober 4, 2018

Brands are looking to cause-based marketing & creating interactive experiences in order to provide customers an opportunity to participate in the story of brand that has a deeper purpose and mission that they're trying to achieve. Immersive...

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#695: Diversity Training & Testing for Implicit Bias with Debias VR

by kentbyeSeptember 18, 2018

Clorama Dorvilias' Debias VR is using virtual reality to make diversity training more immersive, interactive, and fun. There are various controversies around the Implicit Association Tests (IAT) that are related towards how far the abstractions of...

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#694: Ken Wilber on Transformational VR, Maps of Consciousness, & Integral Philosophy

by kentbyeSeptember 15, 2018

Ken Wilber is a philosopher known for his 'Integral Theory' framework that mapping of all dimensions of reality, consciousness, and stages of human development. He's synthesized maps and models from various Buddhist wisdom traditions, psychology...

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#692: Using Immersive Anxiety to Symbolically Depict Racial Tension

by kentbyeSeptember 6, 2018

Dinner Party is a short VR story that premiered at Sundance, and it uses the story of the alien abduction of Barney and Betty Hill to metaphorically explore the racial tension of interracial marriage in the early 1960s. I spoke to writers Laura...

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#691: Using VR to Cultivate Culture Against Sexual Assault

by kentbyeAugust 31, 2018

Morgan Mercer's Vantage Point is creating virtual reality training experiences in order to cultivate the skills to break the stigma around sexual assault and and to overcome the bystander effect. They're using the affordances of VR & 360 video in...

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#690: Survey of Harassment in VR: Cultural Dynamics vs Tech Solutions

by kentbyeAugust 29, 2018

On April 4th, Jessica Outlaw released a survey of 600 regular virtual reality users about harassment experiences in VR, which was funded by Pluto VR.

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#689: Ethnomusicology & New Music Rituals in VR

by kentbyeAugust 28, 2018

Marlon Fuentes is a ethnomusicologist who looks at the culture of how people relate to music through an anthropological lens. He's an emerging technologist who is tracking how virtual reality provides new opportunities for new culture to develop...

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#688: A Sufi Zikr as Social VR Ritual

by kentbyeAugust 25, 2018

Gabo Arora's ZIKR: A Sufi Revival premiered at Sundance this year. It's a 360-degree video capture of a number of different Sufi rituals, songs, and dances, but it had a real-time, social VR experience overlaid on top of the live action footage...

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#687: Group Rituals in VR + 2D vs 3D Cinamatic Language Experiment

by kentbyeAugust 23, 2018

Lawnmower Man director Brett Leonard is working on a project called Hollywood Rooftop, which is going to be shot both as an immersive 360 video as well as a 2D film. It's an experiment to discover some of the unique cinematic storytelling...

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#686: Panel: VR & Blockchain + Architecting the Decentralized Metaverse

by kentbyeAugust 15, 2018

I facilitated a panel discussion at the Decentralized Web Summit that brought together some of the leading virtual reality creators who have been integrating blockchain technologies and creating the foundations of the decentralized metaverse.We...

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#683: Mesh Networks, Distributed Metaverse Protocols, & Archiving Event Spaces

by kentbyeAugust 15, 2018

Janus VR has been implementing an IPFS distributed file system option for creators for the past couple of years. I talk to 'Taco Dog' who was the catalyst behind helping to architect the protocol foundations of the decentralized metaverse.He has...

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#682: IPFS Distributed File Storage & the Decentralized Metaverse

by kentbyeAugust 15, 2018

The decentralized metaverse will require the transferring of A LOT of data. Distributed, peer-to-peer file systems like IPFS could provide the backbone of the decentralized metaverse.I talk with David Dias who is one of the developers of IPFS about...

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#680: ICOs are Disrupting VC Funding & Ethereum Coopetition is Challenging VC Unicorn Dynamics

by kentbyeAugust 15, 2018

ICOs are disrupting late stage venture capital. Shawn Cheng was working at the Vayner/RSE VC, but now he's working with Ethereum co-founder Joe Lubin's Consensys where he's helping to manage a portfolio of over 40 blockchain companies. Cheng talks...

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#678: VR Blockchain Alliance on Identity, Currency, & Ownership

by kentbyeAugust 14, 2018

High Fidelity and Janus VR announced in March that they were creating a Virtual Reality Blockchain Alliance in order to determine the protocols for the global interoperability of VR.I had a chance to talk to the co-founders of Janus VR and High...

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#676: ACLU’s Jennifer Granick on Surveillance, Privacy, & Free Speech

by kentbyeAugust 14, 2018

There’s a tension on the web today between creating a safe space to be online versions the costs to censorship and free speech. Spam, bots, trolls, harassment, hate speech, and terrorism are on the frontlines of making the web an unpleasant place to...

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#675: Internet Archive’s Brewster Kahle on the Future of the Decentralized Web

by kentbyeAugust 14, 2018

Brewster Kahle told me that the average of a web page on the Internet is 100 days before it either changes or disappears completely. Kahle realized that you can’t run a culture when you have no institutional memory, and so he started the Internet...

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#674: Tech, Law, Culture, & Markets: A Holistic Look at the Decentralized Web Summit

by kentbyeAugust 14, 2018

In “Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace,” Lawrence Lessig wrote about four socioeconomic regulators of society as being the law, cultural norms, economic markets, and architecture/code (i.e. technology). All of these four factors combine in order to...

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#668: Guns, Money, & Morals: A Debate on the Ethics of VR Simulation, Capitalism, & the Limits of Decentralized Techno-Utopianism

by kentbyeJuly 31, 2018

Hotdogs, Horseshoes, and Hand Grenades (aka H3) is an open-ended sandbox VR experience where you can play with a variety of exotic firearms. It's a puzzle game where you have to figure out how to activate, load, and fire a huge range of different...

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#667: JanusVR’s Vesta Hub is the Beginnings of the Decentralized Metaverse

by kentbyeJuly 28, 2018

There is a lot of promise of a decentralized metaverse built on top of the open web, but the idealism of that promise isn't yet matching the quality & stability of experiences from centralized, native applications built on top of Unity or Unreal...

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#665: Using VR for Interdisciplinary Collaboration & Social Science Research

by kentbyeJuly 24, 2018

One of the recurring themes that was coming up at the IEEE VR academic conference was how VR is starting to catalyze interdisciplinary collaborations between different academic fields including computer science, social science, neuroscience, and...

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#659: VR in China: Bridging the East & West with LumiereVR’s Jenny Guo

by kentbyeJuly 4, 2018

LumièreVR's Jenny Guo is building bridges between the East and West through virtual reality. She's producing 360 content for the Netflix of China, & she's a consultant building cross-cultural collaborations & helping companies navigate the VR...

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#658: VR in China: Storytelling & Sandbox Immersive Festival

by kentbyeJuly 4, 2018

Eddie Lou is the founder of Sandman Studios in Beijing, and he is also the founder of the Sandbox Immersive Festival that took place in Qingdao China on June 23-27, 2018. I was able to travel to Qingdao for the festival, and the next seven podcasts...

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#656: Racial Justice: Using AR to Reclaim History with Site-Specific Context

by kentbyeJune 18, 2018

Our stores of the past shape our future. There is a growing movement to use augmented reality technologies to reclaim suppressed histories by creating site-specific AR art installations that challenge institutionally-backed narratives. Glenn...

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#654: Indigenous Futurism & Aboriginal Territories in Cyberspace with Jason Edward Lewis

by kentbyeJune 8, 2018

I talk with Jason Edward Lewis about the Aboriginal Territories in Cyberspace initiative, as well as the two 2167 Indigenous Storytelling in VR that he helped to produce. How do we reckon the past, present, and the future, and what types of...

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#651: Anime-Inspired, Embodied Game Design & the Spectacle of VR eSports with “Light Strike Array”

by kentbyeMay 23, 2018

Here's a bit more information on the game mechanics of Light Strike Array:

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#648: New ARCore Features, Google I/O Highlights, & Open Questions about Ethics & Privacy

by kentbyeMay 19, 2018

Google announced some new features for ARCore at Google I/O last week including Sceneform to help Java developers integrated 3D content into apps, augmented images to trigger immersive AR experiences off of trained images, and cloud anchors to...

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#647: Merging IRL events with VR via SVVR’s Reality Portals & Metaverse Intiative

by kentbyeMay 17, 2018

May 16th is the five-year anniversary for Silicon Valley Virtual Reality meetup, and founder Karl Krantz is announcing a couple of new initiatives as SVVR reorganizes itself as a public-benefit corporation. They're going to be formally announcing...

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#640: John Root on VRLA, AR, Privacy, & eSports in VR

by kentbyeApril 14, 2018

John Root co-founded VRLA with Cosmo Scharf in 2014, and it has organically grown into a thriving VR event with over 10,000 attendees in the Los Angeles Convention Center. VRLA is a non-profit where funding from sponsors helps to support about half...

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