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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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#906: “SoundSelf” & The Technodelic Manifesto: Using VR to Transform Consciousness

by kentbyeApril 15, 2020

SoundSelf is a technologically-mediated, psychedlic experience (aka 'technodelic') that is being released by Andromeda Media on Wednesday, April 22nd. Developer Robin Arnott has been working on it on 8 years now, and he just released a The...

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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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#900 Sundance: Combining Live Theater with Open World Exploration in ‘Anti-Gone’

by kentbyeMarch 12, 2020

Anti-Gone is a mixed reality play that features two actors performing in front of a wall that has an open, virtual world projected on it. One of the actors spends the majority of the time in VR navigating this world and interacting with the other...

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#899 Sundance: Comparing Film to VR in a Series of Film Essays in ‘A Machine for Viewing’

by kentbyeMarch 12, 2020

A Machine for Viewing was a series of three film essays that were shown to someone in virtual reality, whose first-person perspective was then projected onto the Egyptian movie theater screen at Sundance with a crowd who was watching the film essays...

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#898 Sundance: Questioning AI of Chomsky Trained with 60 Years of Data in ‘Chomsky vs Chomsky’

by kentbyeMarch 12, 2020

Chomsky vs Chomsky: First Encounter is a virtual reality experience where you get to interact with a virtual representation of Noam Chomsky, and essentially ask him any question that you want to. Trained on a corpus of 60 years worth of Chomsky...

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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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#892 Sundance: ‘Persuasion Machines’ is Architectural Storytelling Against Surveillance Capitalism

by kentbyeMarch 11, 2020

There have been a number of documentaries at Sundance over the past three years that have taken a critical lens the social impacts of technology including The Cleaners (2018), The Great Hack (2019), The Social Dilemma (2020), and Coded Bias (2020)...

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#884 VR for Good: WebXR, Design Challenges of the Wider Web, & the Future of Web Assembly with Trevor Flowers

by kentbyeJanuary 24, 2020

In the final interview of this VR for Good series, I'm featuring the WebXR Device API and how this represents a new open standard that allows for the easy creation and distribution of immersive content.

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#875 VR for Good: Inducing the Overview Effect in a ‘360° VR Space Safari’ from Khora VR

by kentbyeJanuary 24, 2020

The Ørsted 360° VR Space Safari by Khora VR is one of the best 360 video pieces I've seen.

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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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#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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#858 DocLab: Experiential Design & Interactive Documentary Insights from Julia Scott-Stevenson

by kentbyeDecember 12, 2019

Julia Scott-Stevenson got her practice-based Ph.D. on interactive and immersive documentaries (aka 'i-docs') and social impact with her i-doc Giving Time. She's now a research fellow of interactive factual media at the Digital Cultures Research...

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#857 DocLab: Ethical Lessons for VR from Documentary Studies with Mandy Rose

by kentbyeDecember 12, 2019

Professor Mandy Rose of the University of the West of England, Bristol is one of the three principle investigators of the Virtual Reality: Immersive Documentary Encounters project that's funded by the UK's Engineering and Physical Sciences Research...

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#855 DocLab: MIT Open Documentary Lab’s William Uricchio on Looking at VR with a Comparative Media Studies Lens

by kentbyeDecember 12, 2019

The MIT Open Documentary Lab held it's first official event back on Tuesday, March 20, 2012 a day-long summit called 'The New Arts of Documentary.' Part of the MIT Open Doc Lab's mission is to bring 'storytellers, technologists, and scholars...

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#854 DocLab: ARTE’s Kay Meseberg on Funding Immersive Storytelling & the History of New Mediums

by kentbyeDecember 12, 2019

ARTE is a French German television network that promotes cultural programming that was started in 1992, and they've been pioneers in the digital space for a long time. They've also funded over 60 VR projects over the past 5 years including many...

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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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#843 XR Ethics: Tony Parisi on Unity’s XR Ad Strategy + Future of AR Ads

by kentbyeNovember 5, 2019

Tony Parisi is the Head of AR/VR Ad Strategy at Unity Technologies, and he's committing to taking an ethical approach to advertising. Much of the advertising at Unity is done within the context of a mobile game, and so there is less pressure to...

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#842 XR Ethics: W3C Lead Strategist on the Battle for Safety & Privacy on the Web

by kentbyeNovember 5, 2019

Wendy Seltzer is the Lead Strategist and Counsel for the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), and she says that the concerns of privacy and security on the web have been taking up a lot of her time lately. I had a chance to talk to her at Mozilla's View...

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#841 XR Ethics: Ethical Web Principles from the W3C Technical Architecture Group

by kentbyeNovember 5, 2019

The W3C Technical Architecture Group (TAG) published a set of Ethical Web Principles on May 30, 2019 in order to provide an ethical framework when evaluating new standards. The TAG group doesn't have any formal power in the W3C, but their...

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#840 XR Ethics: Privacy-First Architecture for the Open Web

by kentbyeNovember 5, 2019

Selena Deckelmann is the Senior Director of Firefox Browser Engineering, and she gave a great talk at Mozilla's View Source conference titled 'Our privacy and the web' that covered a lot of the work that she's been doing to protect user privacy...

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#839 XR Ethics: The Challenges of Privacy Engineering with Diane Hosfelt

by kentbyeNovember 5, 2019

Mozilla's Diane Hosfelt is the Privacy and Security Lead on Mozilla’s Mixed Reality Team, and I had a chance to sit down with her again a two months after our SIGGRAPH panel discussion. Hosfelt has been spending a lot of time writing academic papers...

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#838 XR Ethics: SIGGRAPH Panel on Privacy-First Architectures & Ethical Design

by kentbyeNovember 5, 2019

At the VR Privacy Summit in November 2018, I met a number of privacy engineers who were actively implementing privacy-first architectures. I wanted to bring together some a group of these forward-thinking privacy architects together for a more...

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#837 XR Ethics: EFF’s Danny O’Brien on the State of Civil Liberties Online

by kentbyeNovember 5, 2019

Danny O'Brien is the Director of Strategy at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which has been around since 1990. He describes it as the ACLU for geeks on the Internet as they're made up of technologists, activists, and lawyers who are trying to...

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#836 XR Ethics: AWE Talk on Ethical & Moral Dilemmas of Mixed Reality

by kentbyeNovember 5, 2019

The Virtual World Society provided me an opportunity to give a main stage talk at Augmented World Expo on the Ethical and Moral Dilemmas of Mixed Reality. I tried to lay out as many of the ethical implications of XR as I could in this talk after...

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#834 XR Ethics: Eye Tracking Privacy Risks + HoloLens History with Avi Bar-Zeev

by kentbyeNovember 5, 2019

Avi Bar-Zeev has been involved with immersive technologies for over 27 years, including working on the very first prototypes of Microsoft's HoloLens back in 2010. He's mostly been working on secret projects for the last 11 years, and so I got was...

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#833 XR Ethics: Open AR Cloud Panel Discussion on XR Privacy

by kentbyeNovember 5, 2019

Open AR Cloud held it's first symposium before the start of Augmented World Expo this year, and I participated on a panel discussion on XR Privacy & Security which included the following panelists:

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#832 XR Ethics: SXSW Panel on XR Ethics

by kentbyeNovember 5, 2019

For the past seven months, I've been investigating the topic of ethics in XR by participating on a number of panel discussions, conducting interviews, and presenting talks. At SXSW this year, I was invited by Rory DuBoff, who is Accenture...

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#831 XR Ethics: HTC Creative Labs’ Daniel Robbins on Values-Driven Design for AR Prototypes

by kentbyeOctober 15, 2019

Ethics in Mixed Reality is a hot topic, and I moderated a panel discussion at SIGGRAPH. This panel was attended by a number of people in the immersive industry including HTC's Daniel Robbins, who works as a principal UX designer at HTC Creative Labs...

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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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#829 OC6: VR YouTuber Nathie on the VR Content Ecosystem, Side Quest, & VR Influencer Dynamics

by kentbyeOctober 11, 2019

Nathaniel de Jong is a VR content creator on YouTube as 'Nathie' who is focusing on Virtual Reality games. I had a chance to talk with him at the Oculus Connect about the VR content ecosystem for games, the curation policies of Oculus and the...

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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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#821: Dreams & Symbolic Language of VR: The Embodied Metaphors of “The Key”

by kentbyeSeptember 24, 2019

The Key is an immersive narrative that won the Tribeca Storyscapes and the Grand Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival. It uses embodied metaphors and dream logic as a mode of storytelling, and these innovations are extremely effective and powerful...

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#820: Dreams & Symbolic Language of VR: Stop Motion Innovations of “Gymnasia”

by kentbyeSeptember 24, 2019

Maciek Szczerbowski & Chris Lavis of Clyde Henry Productions are stop motion artists at Clyde behind who wanted to deliver a dream while you're awake. They collaborated with Félix & Paul Studios and the National Film Board Interactive of Canada on...

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#819: Neuroscience & VR: STRIVR is Leading the VR Training Revolution from Elite NFL Athletes to Walmart Employees

by kentbyeSeptember 12, 2019

There's been a virtual reality training revolution that's been slowly brewing over the last five years, and STRIVR has been at the forefront of innovation working with everyone from elite athletes in the NFL to thousands of Walmart employees. STRIVR...

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#817: Neuroscience & VR: Computational Neuroscience, Perception, Machine Learning, & the Dream of Restoring Lost Senses

by kentbyeSeptember 12, 2019

Joel Zylberberg has a background in physics and cosmology, but then he got interested in theoretical neuroscience and he's been researching the nature of perception in humans and in machines through the lens of computational neuroscience. He's the...

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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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#813: Neuroscience & VR: DIY BCI with REINVENT & Neurorehabilitation with VR

by kentbyeSeptember 12, 2019

Dr. Sook-Lei Liew is an assistant professor at the University of Southern California, and the director of the Neural Plasticity & Neurorehabilitation Labatory at USC. At IEEE VR 2017, she was showing off a DIY Brain Computer Interface called...

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#812: Neuroscience & VR: Neurable Brain-Computer Interface & Telekinetic Presence

by kentbyeSeptember 12, 2019

Neurable is building a brain-computer interface that integrates directly into the virtual reality headset. Neurable uses dry EEG sensors from Wearable Sensing, which means that it doesn't require gel in order to get a good signal from the EEG making...

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#811: Neuroscience & VR: Experiential Medicine for Self Improvement & the Power of Neuroplasticity with Adam Gazzaley

by kentbyeSeptember 12, 2019

UCSF professor Adam Gazzaley is a pioneer in the realm of experiential medicine as he's getting a video game approved by the FDA for ADHD treatment. He's a co-founder of Akili Interactive and the chief scientist at JAZZ Venture partners, where he's...

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#808: Neuroscience & VR: Panel Discussion at GDC 2018 on Biosensor-Driven VR Development

by kentbyeSeptember 12, 2019

The Canadian Institute for Advanced Research invited me to moderate a panel discussion at GDC titled 'The Future of VR: Neuroscience and Biosensor Driven Development' featuring CIFAR scholars Craig Chapman and Alona Fyshe, as well as Jake Stauch...

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#806: Interdisciplinary Design at the Intersection of Theater & Architecture + Volumetric Capture Experiments

by kentbyeAugust 26, 2019

Alex Coulombe's Agile Lens takes an interdisciplinary approach to immersive technologies at the intersection between theater and architecture. He was showing off a demo piece called That Kind of Guy at XR for Change, which explored a variety of...

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#805: The Frontiers of Speculative Design with Three Recent Graduates of Architecture

by kentbyeAugust 26, 2019

I speak with three recent graduates of architecture school about how they're using virtual spaces for speculative design. Paula Strunden is working with the interface between physical objects and mixed reality environments. Nicholas Zembashi uses...

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#804: Minimalist Design Experiments of Light, Sound, & Shape within “Phenomenology”

by kentbyeAugust 26, 2019

Richard Lemarchand directed a minimalist VR experience with the USC Game Innovation Lab

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