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222 episodes
  • Privacy (73)
  • Embodiment (47)
  • Presence & Perception (40)
  • Neuroscience (33)
  • Consciousnes Hacking (26)
  • Identity (25)
  • Biometric Data (24)
  • Psychedelics (15)
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#782: Valve Index: The Future of PC VR, Hand Presence, & Impressions from Ian Hamilton & Kent Bye

by kentbyeJune 29, 2019

The Valve Index officially launches today, and it provides a strong vision for the future of high-end PC VR with solid tracking, fidelity, and hand-tracked Index controllers that provide a deep sense of hand presence. Valve sent me hardware to...

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#781: Experiential Design of Psychedelic Therapy: The Multiplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies & the Future of FDA-Approved MDMA

by kentbyeJune 24, 2019

The Multiplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies has been doing frontier research into the therapeutic uses of psychedelics for the past 33 years, and they're currently in Phase 3 FDA trials for MDMA-assisted psychotherapy for the treatment of...

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#780: Invoking Psychedelic Embodiment Experiences in VR with Radix Motion’s “MEU” Asynchronous Communication Platform

by kentbyeJune 24, 2019

Radix Motion is creating a trippy, asynchronous communication platform called MEU that starts to play with our experience of embodiment. CEO Sarah Hashkes is a cognitive neuroscientist who previously studied psychedelics through the lens of a...

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#779: Using VR as a Psychedelic Primer or Integration Tool with Andromeda Entertainment

by kentbyeJune 23, 2019

Andromeda Entertainment is creating and distributing immersive entertainment experiences for healing and self actualization. I previously talked with CEO Robin Arnott about his Sound Self experience, as well as a previous incarnation of Andromeda...

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#778: Brainwave Entrainment & the Frequency-Following Reponse of Light & Sound

by kentbyeJune 23, 2019

Larry Minikes is a technological pioneer in the consciousness hacking space having started in the space back in 1989 after seeing LED glasses at CES that flickered light in order to invoke different brainwave frequencies. Minikes went on to star AV...

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#777: Psychedelics & VR as Scaffolding to Reach Altered States of Consciousness + Experiential Medicine + Latent Human Potentials

by kentbyeJune 23, 2019

Dr. Cassandra Vieten is the president of the Institute of Noetic Sciences, who's current tagline is 'Informed by Science. Transformed by Experience.' Dr. Vieten gave an opening keynote at the Consciousness Hacking's Awakened Futures Summit where she...

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#776: Designing Music Rituals for Psychedelic Journeys with East Forest

by kentbyeJune 23, 2019

East Forest has been crafting musical rituals for psilocybin journeys for the past decade, and he just released a five-hour album titled 'Music For Mushrooms: A Soundtrack For The Psychedelic Practitioner' coincidentally just a few days after Denver...

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#775: The Four Styles of NeuroMeditation: Focus, Mindfulness, Quiet Mind, & Open Heart

by kentbyeJune 23, 2019

Dr. Jeff Tarrant founded the NeuroMeditation Institute in order to research the neuroscience principles of different meditation states. He came up with a taxonomy of four different types of NeuroMeditation that include Focus, Mindfulness, Quiet...

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#774: Muse Headband’s Real-Time Biofeedback for Immersive Meditation

by kentbyeJune 23, 2019

Muse is an immersive meditation device that provides real-time feedback on your mental activity, heart rate, breathing, and body movements. They've optimized the device for ease of use, and to assist in making the invisible and intangible process of...

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#773: Psychedelics + Technology + Meditation: Consciousness Hacking’s Awakened Futures Summit

by kentbyeJune 22, 2019

Consciousness Hacking produced the The Awakened Futures Summit in San Francisco on May 18th & 19th, looking at the intersection between psychedelics, technology, and meditation. Consciousness Hacking previously hosted a sold-out event on October...

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#772: Psychedelic Renaissance: Experiential Journalist Rak Razam on Shamanic Culture

by kentbyeJune 22, 2019

I recently attended Consciousness Hacking's Awakened Futures Summit that explored the cross-section of psychedelics, technology, and meditation. I ended up conducting 10 interviews totaling over 6 hours of conversations with neuroscientists...

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#769: Beat Saber 1-Year Retrospective & the Future of Embodied Music

by kentbyeJune 11, 2019

Beat Saber was launched on May 1, 2018, and has since sold over 1 million copies making it the most successful VR game ever. My first interview with the Beat Saber co-founders Jan Ilavsky and Jaroslav Beck was at GDC in March 2018, and I reached out...

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#767: THE COLLIDER: Exploring Power Dynamics with Your Body as the Platform

by kentbyeMay 16, 2019

The Collider is an immersive experience that uses your memories and your body as a platform to explore asymmetrical power dynamics with another person. It's a profound experience that pushes the limits of what it means to have you as the protagonist...

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#759: Oculus Quest, Privacy, & Facebook’s Walled Garden: A Discussion with Oculus’ Director of Content Ecosystem

by kentbyeMay 3, 2019

The Oculus Quest is a gamechanger for the VR industry as the inside-out tracking is an engineering marvel, & the untethered experience lowers the friction for being to easy jump into VR. My biggest hesitations with the Quest have more to do with my...

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#755: Your Body as a Mixer: Traverse Spatial Audio Platform + Bose AR with Jessica Brillhart

by kentbyeApril 12, 2019

Jessica Brillhart's Vrai Pictures & Superbright launched a spatial audio platform at SXSW called Traverse, and they premiered a spatialized audio experience that turned your body into a mixer. As you walked around a space, then your movements...

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#749: Using VR Horror as Fear Resistance Training + Sound Healing & Psychedelic Culture

by kentbyeMarch 28, 2019

Torkom Ji tells the story of how he used Resident Evil 7 VR as a form of fear resistance training, and transformational shadow work to overcome his fears. He’s also a co-founder of Visual Reality, which is bringing psychedelic culture and visionary...

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#737: Looping Real-Time, Volumetric, Embodied Interactions with “Interlooped”

by kentbyeFebruary 16, 2019

Interlooped allows you to record real-time, volumetric capture segments of yourself where you layer these loops while interacting with recorded and real-time interactions of other people. It's a trippy experience that shows the power of real-time...

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#735: Translating Embodied Movement Practices like Yoga into VR with Melissa Painter & Lululemon

by kentbyeFebruary 14, 2019

Embody was an experience at the Sundance New Frontier that started to blend Yoga movement practices into virtual reality. VR artist and MAP Design Lab founder Melissa Painter collaborated with Lululemon's Whitespace Innovation team in order to...

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#734: AR + Projection Map Storytelling with “The Dial:” Blending Layers of Digital Reality

by kentbyeFebruary 12, 2019

Your brain can fuse together so many different layers of reality so seamlessly that it's quite flexible and capable of blending the digital and the real in a way that will soon be completely indistinguishable. The Dial at Sundance New Frontier...

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#724: Iranian Ali Eslami’s Speculative Design of a Virtual City

by kentbyeJanuary 2, 2019

Ali Eslami is an award-winning Iranian virtual reality developer who has recently taken an artist residency in Amsterdam in order to continue his speculative design of a virtual city. Eslami's premiered False Mirror at the International Documentary...

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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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#704: Embodied Game Design & Experiential Design Insights from Robin Hunicke

by kentbyeOctober 9, 2018

Robin Hunicke is the co-founder of Funomena, which recently released Luna. I had a chance to catch up with Hunicke at Oculus Connect 5 where she shared her insights into embodied game design, game design theory, experiential design, and some of the...

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#703: The Hierarchy of Being: Embodiment in Virtual Reality

by kentbyeOctober 9, 2018

Oculus employees Yelena Rachitsky and Isabel Tewes gave a great talk at Oculus Connect 5 titled 'The Hierarchy of Being.' It's a great melding of theory and practice of the impacts of embodiment on the phenomenological experience of a VR experience...

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#700: Six Psychonauts on VR, Psychedelics, & Consciousness Transformation

by kentbyeSeptember 26, 2018

I had an opportunity to moderate a panel featuring six psychonauts who are exploring the intersection between Psychedelics, VR, and consciousness transformation at the VRTO conference in Toronto, Canada on June 16th, 2018. The participants from left...

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#699: Using Real-Time Biofeedback & VR to Train Positive Thinking with Healium XR

by kentbyeSeptember 26, 2018

I talk with StoryUp XR CEO Sarah Hill about an experience that they collaborated on called Healium XR in order to use biofeedback with VR to train positive thinking. They're using a commercial, off-the-shelf EEG Muse headband to detect the...

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#697: A Tour of Phenomenological Philosophers & Embodied Insights into VR

by kentbyeSeptember 20, 2018

Nicolas Goyer is a writer and philosopher who takes a tour through phenomenology & post-modern philosophy, and how the can provide insights into immersion, embodiment, imagination, mythology, and the human experience experience for experiential...

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#696: Metaphors of Presence & Experiential Design Keynote Talk at Symposium iX

by kentbyeSeptember 19, 2018

Metaphors of Presence & Experiential Design keynote talk that I gave at the Symposium iX conference in Montreal covers provides some concrete metaphors for presence, explores the connections between the Yin and Yang concepts of Chinese Philosophy...

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

#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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#684: Insight Engineering: Data Portability, Identity, VR, & The IoT Edge

#684: Insight Engineering: Data Portability, Identity, VR, & The IoT Edge

by kentbyeAugust 15, 2018

Samantha Matthews Chase calls GDPR - General Data Portability Regulations rather than data protection. GDPR has forced many companies to make over a decade's worth of our data available to use, and Chase sees this as a goldmine that can be mined for...

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

#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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#673: “Pixel Ripped 1989:” The Sound Design of a 2D Game within a VR Game

by kentbyeAugust 9, 2018

Pixel Ripped 1989 is one of the most ambitious and innovative VR experiences I've seen. It's a multi-dimensional experience with 2D game within a VR game within an immersive story. You're in a VR world set in 1989 while also playing a Game Boy-like...

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#670: A Primer on Self-Sovereign Identity Standards with Kaliya Young

by kentbyeAugust 7, 2018

Kaliya Young (aka Identity Woman) has been working on digital identities for the past 15 years including helping facilitate the twice-a-year Internet Identity Workshop. These workshops lead to the Rebooting the Web of Trust workshops and the...

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#657: Using Neuroscience Theory for Experiential Design + The Nature of Consciousness

by kentbyeJune 23, 2018

Danielle Perszyk is a cognitive scientist, and co-founder and lead scientist at Oscillations who is using neuroscience theory of synchrony in order to make predictions for how to direct attention and tell stories using body and gestures without any...

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#655: Orpheus Technodelics is Publishing Consciousness Hacking VR Experiences

by kentbyeJune 12, 2018

Sound Self developer Robin Arnott is starting a publishing label named Orpheus Technodelics to curate and distribute consciousness hacking VR experiences. 'Technodelics' are digital psychedelics that provide peak experiences, and Arnott hopes till...

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#653: Indian Philosophy Insights into VR Presence: The Five Koshas

by kentbyeMay 23, 2018

I speak with Mike Sapiro about the Indian Philosophy concept of the five koshas and insights that might provide into VR presence.

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#652: Design Principles for Embodiment

by kentbyeMay 23, 2018

I speak to Cris Beasley about her design principles for embodiment.

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#650: Flow Artist Swan on Stylized Embodiment: The Story Behind Beat Saber’s Viral Videos

by kentbyeMay 23, 2018

I talk with flow artist Swan about the story of behind the Beat Saber viral videos, and what it means to add style to VR with embodiment and VR.

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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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#645: Oculus Go + Open Questions Around Facebook, Privacy, Free Speech, & Virtual Governance

by kentbyeMay 8, 2018

The Oculus Go was released on Tuesday, May 1st at the Facebook F8 developer conference, and it is a self-contained, 3-DoF mobile VR HMD with a price of $199 that is optimized for media consumption and social VR interactions. Facebook showed off four...

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#644: Beat Saber Lets You Become the Music Through Puzzles Your Body Solves

by kentbyeMay 1, 2018

Beat Saber is a rhythm game that is like an embodied puzzle game that creates a visceral connection to 10 custom music tracks. It's similar to Soundboxing and Audio Shield, but you use extended light sabers rather than your fists, which makes you...

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#641: Oculus’ Privacy Architects on their Open-Ended Privacy Policy & Biometric Data

by kentbyeApril 19, 2018

Oculus will be releasing a new Privacy Policy and Terms of Service tomorrow that will go into effect on May 20th, just five days before the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) privacy law enforcement deadline of May 25th. I had a chance...

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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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#629: Embodied Storytelling Innovations from Sundance 2018 with Shari Frilot

by kentbyeMarch 7, 2018

The Sundance Film Festival's New Frontier Program featured over 20 different VR, AR, and AI experiences that were pushing the boundaries of immersive storytelling. After seeing all of the experiences, I had a chance to unpack and analyze the larger...

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#627: VirtualSelf Full Body Tracking in Cloudgate Studios’ “Island 359”

by kentbyeFebruary 28, 2018

The full release of CloudGate Studios' VR survival game Island 359 is now available, and there's some special embodiment features for anyone who has 1-3 of HTC's Vive Trackers. They've developed an adaptive system that uses 1 tracking puck on your...

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#625: Decentralizing Identity in VR with Holonet & Self-Sovereign Identity

by kentbyeFebruary 22, 2018

Holonet is an open source project that implements the Decentralized Identity Specifications for open web VR platforms like WebXR. A self-sovereign identity system could enable the seamless portability of your avatar identity across multiple sites...

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#620: AR & AI Storytelling Innovations from Tender Claws’ “TendAR”

by kentbyeFebruary 3, 2018

Tender Claws, the creators of the award-winning interactive VR narrative Virtual Virtual Reality, premiered a new, site-specific, interactive AR narrative experience at the Sundance New Frontier called TendAR. It was a social augmented reality...

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#603: Soundboxing: VR Exercise, Capturing Embodiment, & Virtual Economy Architecture

by kentbyeDecember 14, 2017

Soundboxing is a VR rhythm game that has found a community of people who use it for exercising in VR, with some people reporting that they've lost up to 50 pounds from playing it. Soundboxing is similar to Audioshield in that you punch orbs set to...

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