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#1038: [DocLab] Iranian VR Artist Ali Eslami’s Experiments in Identity & Embodiment

by kentbyeJanuary 8, 2022

Ali Eslami is an Iranian artist who has been working with VR since 2014 & living in Amsterdam since 2018, and we talked about these projects that have been featured at DocLab since 2016:

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#1036: [DocLab] Victoria Mapplebeck’s Self-Shooting Smartphone Filmmaking, & Immersive Video & Audio

by kentbyeJanuary 8, 2022

Victoria Mapplebeck has been a storyteller for more than 30 years across different platforms, genres, and technologies. She's a self-shooting director who shifted to smartphone filmmaking, & more recently immersive 360 video & immersive sound. We...

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#1035: [DocLab] Anagram’s Experiential Non-Fiction Stories

by kentbyeJanuary 8, 2022

May Abdalla & Amy Rose are co-founders of Anagram, which has been exploring ways of telling non-fiction stories experientially using technology. There some of my favorite creators in this space, and they also think very deeply about the medium. We...

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#1034: [DocLab] Tamara Shogaolu’s “Un(re)solved” AR Installation & Web Interactive on Unsolved Civil Rights Crimes

by kentbyeJanuary 8, 2022

Tamara Shogaolu is an interdisciplinary artist & director who works in film and as a creative technologist that mixes analog with digital including VR, AR, and mixed media forms. We discussed these following immersive projects that she has had at...

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#1033: [DocLab] Rahima Gambo’s “A Rest Guide for a Tired Nigerian Artist” Book, Podcast, & Immersive Experience

by kentbyeJanuary 8, 2022

Rahima Gambo is a multimedia journalist based between Abuja, Nigeria & London, UK, and presented 'A Rest Guide for a Tired Nigerian Artist,' which is a both a podcast series, series of book, and an immersive experience that was presented at DocLab...

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#1032: [DocLab] Polymorf’s Sensory Design & the Smell of “Famous Deaths”

by kentbyeJanuary 8, 2022

Polymorpf is small design collective & studio based in Holland that creates of all kinds of different immersive experiences that usually revolving around the senses and the human body. I spoke with Polymorf founder Marcel van Brakel as well as Mark...

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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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#1023: Becoming the Hero in VR Immersive Theater Adventure of “MetaMovie Presents: Alien Rescue”

by kentbyeNovember 24, 2021

The MetaMovie Presents: Alien Rescue is one of the most immersive experiences I've had in VR. It's part Cinematic Adventure, part Immersive Theater, and part game that's fusing the affordances of each of these different mediums in a unique way...

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#1022: Biosonification of Fungi & Interspecies Communication with “Mycelia” performance in VRChat by Nanotopia, _ROOT_, & Metaverse Crew

by kentbyeNovember 21, 2021

Tosca Terán (aka Nanotopia) is an interdisciplinary artist at intersections of ecology, bioart, mycology, and sound, and she collaborated in creating the 'Mycelia' performance with the Metaverse Crew and Sara Lisa Vogl (aka _ROOT_) to bring her...

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#1021: Magical AR Tabletop Gaming with Tive Five: Jeri Ellsworth’s Epic Journey from Valve to castAR to Tilt Five

by kentbyeNovember 19, 2021

One of the most magical AR demos I've ever had a chance to see was Tilt Five at Augmented World Expo 2021. Jeri Ellsworth stumbled upon a complete paradigm shift towards AR while she was at Valve and accidentally had a beam splitter turned around...

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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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#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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#1009: Curating Immersive Stories & Building WebXR Events with FIVARS Founder Keram Malicki-Sánchez

by kentbyeOctober 15, 2021

The Festival of International Virtual and Augmented Reality Stories (FIVARS) is holding a hybrid event where the IRL component in LA starts today October 15th, and the virtual festival starts on October 22nd. FIVARS has been curating independent and...

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#1006: Preview of London Film Festival Expanded Selection of Immersive Stories with Ulrich Schrauth

by kentbyeOctober 6, 2021

The London Film Festival Expanded runs from October 6-17 with a total of 18 pieces of immersive stories and art, with 9 of those pieces available remotely via their LFF Expanse art gallery that is available for free on Viveport (with nine...

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#1004: ANANDALA is an Awe-Inspiring, Generative Art of Embodied AI that Cultivates Perpetual Novelty

by kentbyeSeptember 7, 2021

Kevin Mack's Anandala is an awe-inspiring piece of VR-native, generative, abstract art with some really compelling experiments in interactive, embodied NPC entities he calls 'blorts.' There are 130 of these blorts spread out throughout a massive...

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#1003: A Powerful Interactive Story about Schizophrenia in GOLIATH: PLAYING WITH REALITY

by kentbyeSeptember 7, 2021

GOLIATH: PLAYING WITH REALITY is an interactive VR story that explores the experience of schizophrenia & psychosis through the story of a Twitch Streamer named GoliathGames. It's a really strong piece of immersive storytelling balancing...

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#1002: KUSUNDA Tells a Powerful Immersive Story of a Language Falling Asleep

by kentbyeSeptember 7, 2021

Kusunda is a spatial documentary about a indigenous language in Nepal that is on the brink of going dormant and falling asleep. It's an incredibly powerful story that uses photogrammetry, Tilt Brush interpretations of oral history, and interactive...

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#1001: Sneak Peak of Venice VR Expanded 2021 + New VRChat Worlds Gallery

by kentbyeSeptember 1, 2021

The Venice VR Expanded portion of the Venice Film Festival opens today, and runs from September 1-19, 2021. I had a chance to talk to the co-creators Liz Rosenthal and Michel Reilhac to get a sneak peak of the 37 immersive storytelling projects with...

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#1000: Voices of VR Retrospective on the Ultimate Potential of Virtual Reality

by kentbyeAugust 28, 2021

Episode #1000 of the Voices of VR podcast is a special, three-hour retrospective featuring over 100 of the best answers I've received about the ultimate potential of VR over the past 7 years. I hope that it serves as a primer on the scope and...

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#995: Breonna’s Garden AR Experience as a Healing Balm to Share Memories of Those You Love with Lady PheOnix

by kentbyeJune 17, 2021

Breonna's Garden is an augmented reality experience that premiered at the 2021 Tribeca Film Festival that was created by Lady PheOnix in collaboration with Ju'Niyah Palmer to honor the life of her sister, Breonna Taylor. I found it to be a...

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#992: “Immersive Arcade” Retrospective of UK Immersive Storytelling by Digital Catapult in Museum of Other Realities

by kentbyeMay 7, 2021

The second volume of the Immersive Arcade Showcase featuring four immersive stories from the United Kingdom launches today as DLC within the Museum of Other Realities. The theme of the second volume is Memories & Dreams and features Vestige, Limbo...

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#990: Sneak Peak of Tribeca Immersive 2021 with Loren Hammonds

by kentbyeApril 29, 2021

The 29 immersive experiences that are a part of the Tribeca Immersive 2021 line-up were announced on Tuesday, April 29. There will be 11 Virtual Arcade experiences available starting on June 9 within the Museum of Other Realities, 5 Storyscape...

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#986: Live Mocap Theater Performance in UE4 with “Dream” by Royale Shakespeake Company & Marshmallow Laser Feast

by kentbyeMarch 24, 2021

Dream was a series of 10 live performances over 8 days that used motion captured actors who had virtual embodiments set within an immersive storyworld of Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream powered by the Unreal Engine. This project was a research...

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#984: Live Theater + VR Experiments with Kiira Benzing’s “Loveseat”

by kentbyeMarch 16, 2021

Kiira Benzing's Loveseat was an ambitious fusion of live theater performance with VR technologies that premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 2019. They performed live for the audience in Venice while wearing VR headets as their performances were...

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#983: Sneak Peak of SXSW Online XR Program with Curator Blake Kammerdiener Neural Input

by kentbyeMarch 13, 2021

SXSW Online is happening March 16-20, and I had a chance to get a sneak peak of the SXSW Online XR world in VRChat and talk with the chief curator of the SXSW Virtual Cinema program Blake Kammerdiener about the program and special events that he's...

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#981: Worldbuilding with the Guild of Future Architects’ Futurist Writer’s Room: “Traveling the Interstitium with Octavia Butler”

by kentbyeFebruary 23, 2021

One of my favorite pieces at Sundance New Frontier 2021 this year was a series of four open web experiences created as a part of the piece Traveling the Interstitium with Octavia Butler. Born out of The Guild of Future Architects' Futurist Writer...

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#980: Designing Community Worldbuilding Conversations with “Beyond the Breakdown”

by kentbyeFebruary 18, 2021

Worldbuilding and speculative design was a big theme at Sundance New Frontier 2021, and I had a chance to participate in an experience that facilitated a collaborative & deliberative process of worldbuilding that was called Beyond the Breakdown...

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#979: “Nightsss:” From Erotic Poem to Immersive Poetry to Neuroscience Research

by kentbyeFebruary 18, 2021

Nightss is an sensual experience that's structured around an erotic Polish-language poem by Weronika Lewandowska that uses dance and spatial metaphors in VR to create an immersive poem. She collaborated with co-director and co-screenwriter Sandra...

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#977: “The Changing Same:” Volumetric Storytelling Innovations, Connecting the Past to the Present with the Cycles of Racial Terror

by kentbyeFebruary 18, 2021

The Changing Same is one of the most ambitious pieces of volumetric filmmaking yet since it combines all sorts of volumetric capture techniques with Scatter's new Depthkit Studio multi-depth sensor set up, photogrammetry, and a fusion of rigged...

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#975: Critic’s Roundtable for Sundance New Frontier 2021

by kentbyeFebruary 3, 2021

After watching the 14 immersive experiences at Sundance New Frontier 2021, I invited three other immersive critics for a roundtable discussion unpacking each of the experiences inlucing CNET's Joan Solsman, Forbes contributor Jesse Damiani, and...

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#973: Sundance New Frontier 2021 Sneak Peak + Virtual Film Parties & Gatherings

by kentbyeJanuary 19, 2021

Sundance New Frontier 2021 features 14 immersive experiences that will be accessible via the $25 Sundance Explorer pass starting on Friday, January 29th until Wednesday, February 3, 2021. The New Frontier site will also be hosting virtual premiere...

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#970: Retrospective of 2020 Immersive Storytelling Residency at UNCSA’s METL

by kentbyeJanuary 8, 2021

Note: This is a sponsored content post from the University University of North Carolina School of the ArtsI was a mentor for the UNCSA's Media + Emerging Technology Lab's Immersive Storytelling Residency program in 2020, which was a 6-month program...

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#969: Retrospective of “The Devouring” Epic Horror Adventure, New Social Gameplay in VRChat, & Prefabs Community Tools

by kentbyeDecember 22, 2020

The Devouring is an epic, 5-6 hour horror adventure game within VRChat that launched on August 14, 2020. It quickly went viral in the VRChat community because it was a unique, shared experience that had a vast world to explore, an evocative...

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#967: Open Call for Immersive Storytelling Residency Program 2021 at UNCSA

by kentbyeDecember 15, 2020

Note: This is a sponsored content post from the University University of North Carolina School of the Arts

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#964: Allegations of Facebook Blocking & Cloning Fitness Tracker YUR Fit by a Former Co-Founder Cix Liv

by kentbyeDecember 3, 2020

On October 4th, YUR Fit co-founder Cix Liv spoke out on social media about his frustrations in collaborating with Facebook as an independent developer by saying, 'they will block you from the store without reason, break your application, try to...

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#963: “Inside COVID-19”: A Doctor’s Personal Battle with the Virus + Immersive Medical Visualizations

by kentbyeNovember 23, 2020

Inside COVID-19 is a new 360 video series that premiered on Oculus TV on Friday, November 20, 2020, and it features Dr. Josiah Child who manages emergency departments at five different hospitals. Dr. Child contracted COVID-19, and this film takes us...

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#962: “Star Wars: Tales from the Galaxy’s Edge” Moves a Step Closer to Storyliving in VR + Accessibility Innovations

by kentbyeNovember 19, 2020

The new Star Wars: Tales from the Galaxy's Edge VR experience releases today, and I had a chance to play through it and talk to a couple of the creators from ILMxLab about their latest steps towards their vision of 'storyliving.' It represents a lot...

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#957: How FIVARS Festival is Using WebXR to Deliver 360 Video

by kentbyeOctober 29, 2020

I talk with the founder of the FIVARS VR & AR story festival Keram Malicki-Sánchez & WebXR developer James Baicoianu to talk about how the repurposed the open source JanusXR code in order to create a platform to deliver 360 video. It's a pioneering...

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#956: Sneak Peak of Raindance Immersive’s 50 hours of VR selections from Oct 28 to Nov 7

by kentbyeOctober 28, 2020

Mária Rakušanová got her start in the VR industry in 2014 when she was a product marketer for the Gear VR at Samsung. Her job meant that she would watch a lot of immersive content that she would use to market this stand-alone, mobile VR headset. In...

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#955: Voice Worldbuilding with “Starship Commander” Cinematic Arcade Adventure + Indie VR Documentary

by kentbyeOctober 24, 2020

Human Interact's Alexander Mejia has a hard time describing what exactly Starship Commander: Arcade is. For movie lovers, he says it's a choose-your-adventure narrative where your the main character of your own movie. For gamers, he calls it a...

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#950: Darkfield Radio’s Binaural Audio Performances Blur the Lines of Reality

by kentbyeOctober 3, 2020

Darkfield Radio have released a couple of binaural audio performances that transform your home into a immersive audio stage. Their experiences are intended to be experienced with another person, each of their own mobile phones at a specific time so...

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#949: My Wife & I Can’t Stop Talking About “Gnomes & Goblins”

by kentbyeOctober 1, 2020

My wife, Wonder Bright, has absolutely fallen in love with the VR experience Gnomes & Goblins. Her mindset and approach to the game was almost totally opposite from my own. While I focused trying to solve the scavenger hunt puzzles within their core...

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#948: Exquisite Worldbuilding in “Gnomes & Goblins” & Design Challenges of Onboarding New Users & Satisfying Hardcore VR Gamers

by kentbyeOctober 1, 2020

The full release of Gnomes & Goblins was released on September 23, 2020, and it has some of the most sophisticated worldbuilding that I've seen in VR so far. Hollywood director Jon Favreau started to collaborate with Wevr's Jake Rowell and Neville...

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#947: Training AI in a Story World: “Agence” Dynamic Film Combines Reinforcement Learning with Immersive Storytelling

by kentbyeSeptember 28, 2020

The creators of Agence call it a 'dynamic film,' but it's part immersive story with game-like interactions and puzzles where you engage with either traditional heuristic game AI bots or bots trained through reinforcement learning processes. There's...

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#941: Critics Roundtable on Venice VR Expanded 2020 with Pola Weiß & Kathryn Yu

by kentbyeSeptember 12, 2020

I'm joined by Pola Weiß (Founder, VR Stories / VR Geschichten) & Kathryn Yu (Executive Editor, No Proscenium) to talk about nearly all of the 44 experiences that were a part of the Venice VR Expanded 2020 edition running from September 2 to 12. We...

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