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#1130: Combing Mythical Metaphors, Environmental Design, & Volumetric Cut Scenes in “Stay Alive, My Son”

by kentbyeOctober 10, 2022

The Stay Alive, My Son VR experience is an adaptation of Pin Yathay's memoir of his survival of the Cambodian genocide under the Khmer Rouge. Attorney turned immersive storyteller Victoria Bousis translated this book into a spatial journey that...

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#1129: XRMust is Building the IMDB of VR & Covering the Immersive Story Industry

by kentbyeOctober 10, 2022

XRMust is part online magazine covering the immersive storytelling industry through news and interviews, but it’s in process of aggregating thousands of immersive stories into a database that have been showing on the festival circuit (with a...

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#1121: Venice Immersive 2022 Competition Recap: 30+ Reviews of Immersive Stories

by kentbyeSeptember 12, 2022

Venice Immersive 2022 featured 30 immersive stories in competition with some of the fiercest competition yet. I’m joined by Pola Weiß to break down, analyze, & critique each one of the 30 experiences in competition starting with the three winners:...

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#1120: Kevin Mack’s Procedural Worldbuilding VRChat in for Venice Immersive Competition

by kentbyeAugust 31, 2022

Kevin Mack is a virtual reality artist who creates abstract and surreal art, and his first VRChat world called NAMUANKI has been selected as one of the 30 projects in competition at Venice Immersive. You take a tour through some of his organic...

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#1116: Magic Leap’s Origin Story & Goal of “Neurologically-True Reality” with Founder Rony Abovitz

by kentbyeJuly 27, 2022

Photo of The Beast Prototype courtesy of Rony AbovitzI had a chance to sit down with Magic Leap founder Rony Abovitz for two hours to unpack some of the many threads Magic Leap's behind origin story, including some of the underlying philosophical...

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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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#1112: OpenBCI’s Project Galea Hands-On & Fusion of Biometric & Physiological Data in VR

by kentbyeJuly 7, 2022

I had a chance to drop by the Brooklyn office of Brain Control Interface start-up OpenBCI in order to get a hands-on demo of Project Galea, which includes a range of different biometric and physiological sensors such as EOC, EMG, EDA, PPG sensors in...

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#1111: Tribeca XR: Panel on Making a Difference with Immersive Non-Fiction Stories

by kentbyeJuly 7, 2022

I moderated a Tribeca Talks Panel discussion on 'Making a Difference with Immersive Non-Fiction Stories' that on Sunday, June 12, 2022 where we focused on the structure and forms of immersive storytelling, and then reflected on the challenges and...

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#1110: Tribeca XR: Bringing Slow Media & the Tenderness of Now to AR Storytelling with “ReachYou”

by kentbyeJuly 7, 2022

ReachYou is an AR story that receives transmissions from the future in order to connect to the tenderness of the now. It's a slow media project aimed to create a portal into a story world that allows the audience to access emotion states of deep...

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#1109: Tribeca XR: “Planet City VR” is a Speculative Architecture Provocation on Who We Want to Be in the Future

by kentbyeJuly 7, 2022

Liam Young is a director and speculative architect who is designing regenerative futures via provocative thought experiments. Planet City VR is the provocation of centralizing all 10 billion humans on the planet to a city the size of Texas so that...

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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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#1104: Tribeca XR: “Evolver” is an Awe-Inspiring Fluid Dynamics Simulation of Human Blood Flow Giving an Embodied Experience of Interbeing

by kentbyeJuly 6, 2022

Marshmallow Laser Feast's latest piece Evolver premiered at the Tribeca Immersive festival, and it takes you inside the human body in a transcendent journey into how the blood flows through our heart and throughout our body. They collaborating with...

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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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#1096: IEEE XR Ethics: Education

by kentbyeJune 20, 2022

The Extended Reality (XR) Ethics in Education is the next paper in the series of the IEEE Global Initiative on the Ethics of Extended Reality.

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#1094: IEEE XR Ethics: Medical XR

by kentbyeJune 8, 2022

The Extended Reality (XR) Ethics in Medicine is the next paper in the series of the IEEE Global Initiative on the Ethics of Extended Reality. This paper explores the applications of medical XR, trends of telemedicine, AI assistant bots, and some...

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#1093: IEEE XR Ethics: Business, Economics, & Finance

by kentbyeJune 8, 2022

The new business models of the Metaverse have yet to be fully forged? Will the existing structures of surveillance capitalism be extended into the new frontiers of biometric & physiological data? Or will there be new emergent & disruptive models for...

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#1092: IEEE XR Ethics: Virtual Clones & the Right to Your Identity

by kentbyeJune 7, 2022

The next series in the IEEE XR Ethics series is deconstructing the paper title 'Who Owns Our Second Lives: Virtual Clones and the Right to Your Identity' featuring the lead author Thommy Eriksson - Researcher and Teacher Chalmers University in...

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#1091: IEEE XR Ethics: The Erosion of Privacy & Anonymity

by kentbyeJune 7, 2022

The ethical questions around privacy in virtual and augmented reality are some of the most pervasive, unanswered questions in XR with the top two questions being: What new types of intimate biometric & physiological data are available through XR...

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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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#1087: IndieWire Editor Eric Kohn on Deepening Critical Discourse within VR & Immersive Storytelling

by kentbyeMay 16, 2022

Eric Kohn has been a professional film critic for 15 years, and he’s currently the Executive Editor at Indiewire, the Vice President of Editorial Strategy, as well as the co-host of IndieWire’s Screen Talk podcast. IndieWire first...

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#1083: “Lustration” Afterlife Detective VR Episodic Series Explores Multi-Perspective Narratives

by kentbyeMay 13, 2022

Lustration is a 4-part episodic VR series illustrated within Quill that's in the fantasy, detective noir genre, and created by First Nation Creative Ryan Griffen. It allows you to change camera perspectives within Quill as it blends together aspects...

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#1078: Multi-perspective LIDAR Timelapse Art with ScanLAB Projects’ “FRAMERATE” to Think and Feel Different Time Scales

by kentbyeApril 1, 2022

FRAMERATE is a timelapse LIDAR art installation by ScanLAB Projects that showed at SXSW. It encourages the audience to 'think and feel in another time scale: geological time, seasonal time, tidal time.' I had a chance to talk with director & ScanLAB...

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#1074: Céline Tricart’s SXSW Keynote on Immersive Storytelling, Live Action Role Play, & Emotional Bleed

by kentbyeApril 1, 2022

Céline Tricart is an award-winning VR director who gave one of the main SXSW Keynotes about immersive storytelling, live action role play, and emotional bleed. She started as a writer, went to film school, made a cinematic VR documentary Sun Ladies...

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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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#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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#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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#1043: Philosopher David Chalmers’ Book “Reality+” May Change How You See Reality: VR is a Genuine Reality & We Can’t Prove We’re Not in a Simulation

by kentbyeJanuary 11, 2022

Philosopher David Chalmers has an amazing book called 'Reality+: Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy' that is being released on January 25th, and I was able to get early access and interview him about the many provocative ideas that he...

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#1042: [DocLab] MIT Open DocLab’s William Uricchio on Theory, Practice, & History of Immersive Documentary

by kentbyeJanuary 8, 2022

William Uricchio is a Professor of Comparitive Media Studies at MIT, who started Open Documentary Lab in 2012 as a research initiative to look at implications of emerging technologies & the implications for the work of documentary. The MIT Co...

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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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#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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#1030: XR Safety Initiative on Children in VR, Privacy, Tech Policy, & Recap of XR Safety Week

by kentbyeJanuary 7, 2022

I caught up with the XR Safety Initiative CEO & Founder Kavya Pearlman as well as Kristina Podnar, who is an independent Digital Policy Consultant, XRSI's Global Digital Policy Advisor, & the chair of XRSI's Metaverse Reality Check. We...

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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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#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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#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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#1011: E3XR Framework for Ethics, Education, & Eudaimonia with Joey Lee & Elliot Hu-Au

by kentbyeOctober 20, 2021

I talk with Joey J. Lee & Elliot Hu-Au about a paper they published in Frontiers of Virtual Reality called 'E3XR: An Analytical Framework for Ethical, Educational and Eudaimonic XR Design,' which looks at the intersection of XR ethics, best practice...

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#1010: Two Immersive Design Professors on Interdisciplinary Collaboration & Reflections on WebXR

by kentbyeOctober 17, 2021

The WebXR Design Summit was a 9-hour series of talks about immersive design & experiential design that was organized by Ben Erwin and his WebXR Polys Awards team on October 12th. I was the host and moderator for the day, but also helped to curate a...

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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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#999: The EFF on XR Privacy & How AR/VR Needs a Human Rights Framework + Timeline of UN Resolutions on Privacy

by kentbyeJuly 5, 2021

The Electronic Frontier Foundation is a non-profit that has been defending civil liberties & digital rights for over 30 years since it was first announced on July 10, 1990. My first conversation with the EFF was with Dave Maass at the VR Privacy...

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#998: Primer on the Contextual Integrity Theory of Privacy with Philosopher Helen Nissenbaum

by kentbyeJune 24, 2021

In her Contextual Integrity theory of privacy, Helen Nissembaum defines privacy as 'appropriate flows of information' where the appropriateness is defined by the context and its contextual informational norms. Contextual Integrity is a paradigm...

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#997: Debating XR Privacy Tech Policy with Ellysse Dick of Information Technology & Innovation Foundation

by kentbyeJune 23, 2021

Ellysse Dick is a policy analyst who has written 10 technology policy publications over the last year about VR & AR for the The Information Technology & Innovation Foundation. The ITIF is a non-partisan, non-profit tech policy think tank, who says...

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#994: Neuro-Rights Initiative: A Human Rights Approach to Preserving Mental Privacy with Rafael Yuste

by kentbyeJune 4, 2021

Neuroscientist researcher Rafael Yuste started the Columbia University's Neuro-Rights Initiative to promote an ethical framework to preserve a set of human rights within neuro-technologies. He co-authored a Nature paper titled 'Four ethical...

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