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#1707: War Journalist Turns to Immersive Art to Shatter Our Numbness Through Feeling. “In 36,000 Ways” is a Revelatory Embodied Poem by Karim Ben Khelifa

by kentbyeDecember 6, 2025

I interviewed Karim Ben Khelifa about In 36,000 Ways on Sunday, November 16, 2025 at IDFA DocLab in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Here are the 26 episodes and more than 24 hours of coverage from my IDFA DocLab 2025 coverage: #1682: Preview of IDFA...

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#1706: Using Immersive Journalism to Document Genocide in Gaza with “Under the Same Sky”

by kentbyeDecember 6, 2025

I interviewed Khalil Ashawi, Sami Sultan, & Hail Khalaf about Under the Same Sky on Saturday, November 15, 2025 at IDFA DocLab in Amsterdam, Netherlands. This is a listener-supported podcast through the Voices of VR Patreon. Music: Fatality :...

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#1705: The Art of Designing Emergent Social Dynamics with Ontroerend Goed’s “Handle with Care”

by kentbyeDecember 6, 2025

I interviewed Alexander Devriendt about Handle with Care on Wednesday, December 3, 2025.

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#1704: “Lesbian Simulator” is an Interactive VR Narrative Masterclass Balancing Levity, Pride, & Naming of Homophobic Threats

by kentbyeDecember 6, 2025

I interviewed Iris van der Meule about Lesbian Simulator on Tuesday, November 18, 2025 at IDFA DocLab in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

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#1703: “Reality Looks Back” Uses Quantum Possibility Metaphors & Gaussian Splats to Challenge Notions of Reality

by kentbyeDecember 6, 2025

I interviewed Anne Jeppesen & Omid Zarei about Reality Looks Back on Tuesday, November 18, 2025 at IDFA DocLab in Amsterdam, Netherlands. This is a listener-supported podcast through the Voices of VR Patreon. Music: Fatality : Play in new window...

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#1702: “Coded Black” Creates Experiential Black History by Combining Horror Genres with Open World Exploration

by kentbyeDecember 6, 2025

I interviewed Maisha Wester about Coded Black on Monday, November 17, 2025 at IDFA DocLab in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

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#1701: Public Art Installation “Nothing to See Here” Uses Perception Art to Challenge Our Notions of Reality

by kentbyeDecember 6, 2025

I interviewed Celine Daemen about Nothing to See Here on Monday, November 17, 2025 at IDFA DocLab in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

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#1700: Update on Co-Creating XR Distribution Field Initiative & Toolkits from MIT Open DocLab

by kentbyeDecember 6, 2025

I interviewed Sarah Wolozin, Scarlett Kim, Julia Scott-Stevenson about MIT Open DocLab’s Co-Creating XR Distribution Field Initiative on Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at IDFA DocLab in Amsterdam, Netherlands. This is a listener-supported...

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#1696: Speculative Architecture Meets the Immersive Dome in Sergey Prokofyev’s “Eternal Habitat”

by kentbyeDecember 6, 2025

I interviewed Sergey Prokofyev about Eternal Habitat on Monday, November 17, 2025 at IDFA DocLab in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

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#1695: “Another Place” Takes a Liminal Architectural Stroll into Memories of Another Time and Place

by kentbyeDecember 6, 2025

I interviewed Domenico Singha Pedroli about Another Place on Saturday, November 15, 2025 at IDFA DocLab in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

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#1694: Reimagining Amsterdam’s Red Light District in “Unimaginable Red” Open World Game

by kentbyeDecember 6, 2025

I interviewed Vitor Freire & Monique Grimord about Unimaginable Red on Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at IDFA DocLab in Amsterdam, Netherlands. This is a listener-supported podcast through the Voices of VR Patreon. Music: Fatality : Play in new...

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#1693: A Survey of the Indie Immersive Dome Community Trends with “The Rift” Directors & 4Pi Productions

by kentbyeDecember 6, 2025

I interviewed Janire Najera & Matthew Wright about The Rift on Monday, November 17, 2025 at IDFA DocLab in Amsterdam, Netherlands. This is a listener-supported podcast through the Voices of VR Patreon. Music: Fatality : Play in new window |...

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#1692: Playful Remixing of Scanned Animal Body Parts in “We Are Dead Animals”

by kentbyeDecember 6, 2025

I interviewed Maarten Isaak de Heer about We Are Dead Animals on Saturday, November 15, 2025 at IDFA DocLab in Amsterdam, Netherlands. This is a listener-supported podcast through the Voices of VR Patreon. Music: Fatality : Play in new window |...

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#1691: A Call for Human Friction Over AI Slop in “Deep Soup” Participatory Film Based on “Designing Friction” Manifesto

by kentbyeDecember 6, 2025

I interviewed Luna Maurer & Roel Wouters about Deep Soup on Tuesday, November 18, 2025 at IDFA DocLab in Amsterdam, Netherlands. You can also check out their Designing Friction Manifesto. This is a listener-supported podcast through the Voices...

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#1690: Asking Philosophical Questions on AI in “The Oracle: Ritual for the Future” with Poetic Immersive Performance

by kentbyeDecember 6, 2025

I interviewed Victorine van Alphen about The Oracle: Ritual for the Future on Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at IDFA DocLab in Amsterdam, Netherlands. This is a listener-supported podcast through the Voices of VR Patreon. Music: Fatality : Play in new...

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#1689: Making Post-Human Babies in “IVF-X” to Catalyze Philosophical Reflections on Reproduction

by kentbyeDecember 6, 2025

I interviewed Victorine Van Alphen about IVF-X on Saturday, April 8, 2023 at New Images in Paris, France.

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#1688: Hacking Gamer Hardware and Stereotypes in “Gamer Keyboard Wall Piece #2”

by kentbyeDecember 6, 2025

I interviewed Sjef van Beers about Gamer Keyboard Wall Piece #2 on Saturday, November 15, 2025 at IDFA DocLab in Amsterdam, Netherlands. This is a listener-supported podcast through the Voices of VR Patreon. Music: Fatality : Play in new window |...

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#1687: Text-Based Adventure Theatrical Performance “MILKMAN ZERO: The First Delivery”

by kentbyeDecember 6, 2025

I interviewed Matt Romein about MILKMAN ZERO: The First Delivery on Monday, November 17, 2025 at IDFA DocLab in Amsterdam, Netherlands. This is a listener-supported podcast through the Voices of VR Patreon. Music: Fatality : Play in new window |...

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#1686: 15 Years of Hand-Written Letters about the Internet in “Life Needs Internet 2010–2025” Installation

by kentbyeDecember 6, 2025

I interviewed Jeroen van Loon about Life Needs Internet 2010–2025 on Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at IDFA DocLab in Amsterdam, Netherlands. This is a listener-supported podcast through the Voices of VR Patreon. Music: Fatality : Play in new window |...

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#1685: Immersive Liner Notes of Hip-Hop Album “AÜTO/MÖTOR” Uses three.js & HTML 1.0 Aesthetics

by kentbyeDecember 6, 2025

I interviewed Albert Johnson about A Ü T O / M Ö T O R on Sunday, November 16, 2025 at IDFA DocLab in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

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#1684: Playable Essay “individualism in the dead-internet age” Recaps Enshittification Against Indie Devs

by kentbyeDecember 6, 2025

I interviewed Nathalie Lawhead about individualism in the dead-internet age: an anti-big tech asset flip shovelware r̶a̶n̶t̶ manifesto on Monday, November 17, 2025 at IDFA DocLab in Amsterdam, Netherlands. This is a listener-supported podcast...

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#1683: “Feedback VR: An Antifuturist Musical” Wins Immersive Non-Fiction Award at IDFA DocLab 2025

by kentbyeDecember 6, 2025

I interviewed Claudix Vanesix, Cocompi & Aaron Medina about Feedback VR, un musical antifuturista on Sunday, November 16, 2025 at IDFA DocLab in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Here are the 26 episodes and more than 24 hours of coverage from my IDFA...

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#1682: Preview of IDFA DocLab’s 2025 Selection of “Perception Art” & Immersive Stories

by kentbyeNovember 12, 2025

IDFA DocLab is the immersive selection of non-fiction digital and immersive stories that is a part of the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA), and they’re having their 19th selection this year. DocLab founder Caspar Sonnen...

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#1681: VRChat Worldbuilder DrMorro on His Epic & Dreamlike Masterpieces

by kentbyeNovember 9, 2025

The VRChat worlds by DrMorro are truly incredible. They’re vast landscapes made of surreal mash-ups of various architecture styles and symbols that feels like you’re walking through a waking dream. His Organism Trilogy (Organism...

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#1680: Charlie Melcher’s “The Future of Storytelling” Book Surveys Over 50 Living Stories

by kentbyeNovember 4, 2025

Charles Melcher’s new book “The Future of Storytelling: How Immersive Experiences Are Transforming Our World” was released on November 4, 2025, and I had a chance to take an early look and interview Melcher. The book is broken up...

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#1679: The Matrix at Cosm Expands Film Beyond the Frame with Cinematic Shared Reality

by kentbyeNovember 4, 2025

The Matrix at Cosm in LA opened on June 6th, 2025, which leverages Cosm’s 87-foot, 12K+ LED immersive dome to show this classic film within a 16×9 frame while the additional space beyond the frame was filled with over 50 different scenes...

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#1678: Wevr on VR LBE as a “New Cinema,” a 10-Year Retrospective

by kentbyeNovember 4, 2025

I had a chance to catch up with Wevr’s CEO and co-founder Neville Spiteri, which has been making location-based VR experiences for the last decade in what he calls a “New Cinema.” See more context in the rough transcript below...

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#1674: 3rd Place Spectacles Lensathon Team: Fireside Tales Collaborative Storytelling with GenAI

by kentbyeOctober 26, 2025

At Snap’s Developer Conference of Lensfest, I did an interview with 3rd place team in the Snap Spectacles Lensathon named Fireside Tales including Stijn Spanhove, Pavlo Tkachenko, and Yegor Ryabtsov. See more context in the rough transcript...

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#1658: Kiira Benz Part 3: Immersive Storytelling Career Retrospective (2025)

by kentbyeSeptember 30, 2025

Here is my third and final interview of a trilogy of interviews with Kiira Benz. This was conducted at Meta Connect 2025, and serves as a sort of career retrospective of Benz’s journey into immersive storytelling. You can check out our...

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#1657: Kiira Benz Part 2: “Finding Pandora X” Bringing Immersive Theatre to VRChat (2020)

by kentbyeSeptember 30, 2025

I did an interview with Kiira Benz and Joanna Popper during my remote coverage of Venice Immersive 2020, where her Finding Pandora X project won the Best VR Immersive User Experience award. This is a second in a trilogy of interviews with Benz, and...

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#1656: Kiira Benz Part 1: “Runnin'” Large-Scale Volumetric Music Video (2019)

by kentbyeSeptember 30, 2025

I’m featuring a trilogy of interviews with Kiira Benz (formerly known as Kiira Benzing) with this first part covering her Runnin’ music video piece that showed at Sundance 2019 and won the top prize at SXSW 2019. I’ll follow up...

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Render of the EXP Rosemont building that will be operated by PHI Studio

#1651: PHI’s EXP Rosemont Location Expands Their LBE Distribution Network to US & Collaboration with Excurio

by kentbyeSeptember 12, 2025

PHI Studio sponsored today’s episode to highlight that they are expanding their location-based entertainment distribution network to the United States with their EXP Rosemont location in the greater Chicago, IL area that is opening to the...

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#1650: Sneak Peak of Venice Immersive 2025 Selection with Curators Liz Rosenthal and Michel Reilhac

by kentbyeAugust 17, 2025

I spoke with Venice Immersive curators Liz Rosenthal & Michel Reilhac about sneak peak of their 2025 selection, which is their largest selection yet. See more context in the rough transcript below. Here’s an Venice Immersive Program Cheat...

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#1648: Vast Hand-Painted “Natura’s Queendom” Wins Raindance Immersive Best Art World

by kentbyeAugust 17, 2025

I spoke with Anders Fray (aka Ders) & Starheart about Natura’s Queendom as a part of my Raindance Immersive 2025 coverage. See more context in the rough transcript below. This is a listener-supported podcast through the Voices of VR...

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#1647: Virtual Art Exhibition Innovations in Jessien’s “What is Virtual Art?” VRChat World

by kentbyeAugust 17, 2025

I spoke with Jessien about his Virtual Museum of Virtual Art as well as his latest What is Virtual Art? VRChat World exhibition as a part of my Raindance Immersive 2025 coverage. We also talk about his previous Raindance award-winning world...

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#1646: “The Continuous Present” Combines Poetry, Music, & Giant Immersive Sculptures to Win Raindance Immersive Best Art Experience

by kentbyeAugust 17, 2025

I spoke with ReVerse Butcher & Kylie Supski about The Continuous Present as a part of my Raindance Immersive 2025 coverage. See more context in the rough transcript below. This is a listener-supported podcast through the Voices of VR Patreon...

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#1645: “Hommage” Adventure Inspired by Moebius’ Art Collaboratively Built in Resonite

by kentbyeAugust 17, 2025

I spoke with Nanotopia & Rixx about Hommage as a part of my Raindance Immersive 2025 coverage. See more context in the rough transcript below. This is a listener-supported podcast through the Voices of VR Patreon. Music: Fatality : Play in new...

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#1643: Studio Penrose’s “Our Precious Autumn” Short Film Shot in VRChat Wins Raindance Award

by kentbyeAugust 17, 2025

I spoke with Khang Lu, Quinn Heptig, & Eliza Zhang about their short film shot in VRChat called Our Precious Autumn as a part of my Raindance Immersive 2025 coverage. See more context in the rough transcript below. This is a listener-supported...

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#1637: VRChat Doc “The Architect Across Realities” Features MR Design Innovations in Japan

by kentbyeAugust 17, 2025

I spoke with Jiyue Human about VRChat Doc The Architect Across Realities as a part of my Raindance Immersive 2025 coverage. See more context in the rough transcript below. This is a listener-supported podcast through the Voices of VR Patreon. Music:...

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#1633: iNK Stories 2018: “Fire Escape” Multi-Threaded Murder Mystery in VR

by kentbyeAugust 17, 2025

I spoke with Navid Khonsari about Fire Escape at the Vancouver International Film Festival 2018. See more context in the rough transcript below. This is a listener-supported podcast through the Voices of VR Patreon. Music: Fatality : Play in new...

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#1632: iNK Stories 2018: Embodied Interactions in Vérité VR “Hero” on Bombing Aftermath

by kentbyeAugust 17, 2025

I spoke with Navid Khonsari, Vassiliki Khonsari, & Brooks Brown about Hero at Sundance 2018. See more context in the rough transcript below. This is a listener-supported podcast through the Voices of VR Patreon. Music: Fatality : Play in new...

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#1631: iNK Stories 2017: GDC Narrative Innovations Showcase Highlights

by kentbyeAugust 17, 2025

I spoke with Navid Khonsari about the GDC Narrative Innovations Showcase Highlights at GDC 2017. See more context in the rough transcript below. This is a listener-supported podcast through the Voices of VR Patreon. Music: Fatality : Play in new...

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#1618: Producing Live Sports for Cosm’s Immersive Dome with Ryan Cole

by kentbyeAugust 2, 2025

Here’s my interview with Ryan Cole, Vice President of Video Technology at Cosm, that was conducted on Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at Augmented World Expo in Long Beach, CA. See more context in the rough transcript below. This is a listener...

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#1614: Story Behind “Escape Artist” 2024 Polys WebXR Awards Winner

by kentbyeAugust 2, 2025

Here’s my interview about the WebXR experience called Escape Artist with James C. Kane (who at the time was Technical Director at Paradowski), Andy Wise (Vice President of Creative Technology at Paradowski), & Ayushman Johri (3D Artist at...

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#1609: Framework for Personalized, Responsive XR Stories with Narrative Futurist Joshua Rubin

by kentbyeAugust 2, 2025

Here’s my interview with Joshua Rubin, Interactive Emmy-Winning Narrative Director, Immersive Storyteller, and Narrative Futurist, that was conducted on Tuesday, June 10, 2025 at Augmented World Expo in Long Beach, CA. We talked about his talk...

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#1608: AWE Hall of Famer Brenda Laurel on “Computers as Theater” Book, Ethics, and VR for Ecological Thinking

by kentbyeAugust 2, 2025

Here’s my interview with Brenda Laurel, Board of Virtual World Society, VR Artist, Theorist, Writer, Speaker, Designer, author of five books including Computers as Theatre, that was conducted on Wednesday, May 29, 2019 at Augmented World Expo...

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#1585: Debating AI Project and a Curating Taiwanese LBE VR Exhibition at Museum of Moving Image

by kentbyeJuly 18, 2025

I spoke with Michaela Ternasky Holland about her project The Gr(ai)t Debate at Onassis ONX Summer Showcase 2025 as well as the Portals of Solitude: Virtual Realities from Taiwan show she curated at the Museum of Moving Image. See more context in the...

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#1567: Tribeca Immersive Curators on the 2025 Selection of Impact Projects Curated by Onassis ONX, Agog, & Tribeca

by kentbyeJune 4, 2025

I spoke with the curators of Tribeca Immersive 2025 Jazia Hammoudi and Casey Baltes to unpack the 11 impact project that are being feature in this year’s selection. We also talk about Tribeca’s new collaboration with Onassis ONX and...

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#1566: Raindance Immersive Curators on the 2025 Selection of Immersive Art on Social VR Platforms

by kentbyeJune 4, 2025

I spoke with Raindance Immersive curators Mária Rakušanová, Joe Hunting, Fangs about the 2025 selection of projects across 8 different categories. Tune in to get all of the latest tips from this year’s selection that is mostly happening on...

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#1565: “D-Day: The Camera Soldier” by Targo Stories Pushes Immersive Documentary Innovations on Apple Vision Pro

by kentbyeJune 4, 2025

I spoke with producer Victor Agulhon of Targo Stories about their collaboration with TIME Studios to produce D-Day: The Camera Soldier, which he calls the most technologically advance immersive documentary produced up to this point. They took...

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