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#766: Open AR Cloud: Interoperable Spatial Computing for All

by kentbyeMay 14, 2019

The Open AR Cloud is a volunteer organization whose mission statement is to 'drive the development of open and interoperable spatial computing technology, data, and standards to connect the physical and digital worlds for the benefit of all.'...

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#765: Spatial XR’s Creative Collaboration Demos with HoloLens 2

by kentbyeMay 11, 2019

Spatial XR creative collaboration platform has been featured in that past two Microsoft presentations at the Microsoft Build Keynote on Monday, May 6th as well as in the HoloLens 2 announcement at Mobile World Congress on Sunday, February 24, 2019...

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#764: VR Fund’s Tipatat Chennavasin on HoloLens 2 & The State of the VR & AR Industry

by kentbyeMay 11, 2019

The Venture Reality Fund general partner & co-founder Tipatat Chennavasin travels around the world tracking the progress of virtual and augmented reality, and I had a chance to catch up with him at Microsoft Build 2019 in order to get his...

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#763: Analyzing Microsoft’s Enterprise AR Strategy with XR Journalist Julien Bergounhoux

by kentbyeMay 9, 2019

French journalist Julien Bergounhoux has been covering the business applications for spatial computing for L'Usine Digitale over the past 6-7 years, and I had a chance to catch up with him following the Microsoft Build opening keynote. We talked...

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#762: HoloLens 2 & Azure Kinect with Microsoft Developer Relations Jesse McCulloch

by kentbyeMay 9, 2019

I got to do a hands-on demo with the HoloLens 2 at Microsoft Build, and then talk about my impressions with Microsoft Developer Relations Program Manager Jesse McCulloch. We talked about where HoloLens is at, more details on the 4th generation Azure...

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#760: Web-Based 3D with Microsoft’s Babylon.js JavaScript Framework & glTF

by kentbyeMay 6, 2019

Back at Microsoft Build 2018, I had a chance to talk to two of the lead programmers of Babylon.js, which is a JavaScript framework for building 3D immersive environments with HTML5 and WebGL. It's a framework that's similar to three.js or React 360...

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#757: Dream Logic & Symbolic Storytelling of Freud’s Interpretation of Dreams + Grieving the Death of Parents

by kentbyeApril 23, 2019

Graham Sack says that dream analysis and the language have film have co-evolved together as visual forms of symbolic communication, and he wanted to further that exploration in an experimental narrative series funded by Samsung VR. Sack and...

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The Man Behind Notre-Dame: 360 Video Documentary by Targo

by kentbyeApril 17, 2019

On April 15, 2019, the Notre-Dame Cathedral suffered a devastating fire. I recently had a chance to see a 360-degree VR documentary by Targo called The Man Behind Notre-Dame, which follows the Rector-Archpriest of Notre-Dame Patrick Chauvet and his...

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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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#753: AR Spatial Audio on Bose AR Frames & QuietComfort 35 Headphones

by kentbyeApril 8, 2019

The Bose AR platform with the Bose AR Frames and the QuietComfort 35 headphones was one of the most exciting announcements that happened at SXSW. These Bose AR Frames wearables feature spatialized audio and serve as a bluetooth headset that has an...

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#752: Unlocking Your Imagination with Audiojack’s Interactive Audio Landscapes

by kentbyeApril 4, 2019

The Bose AR House at SXSW 2019 featured the first round of interactive audio experiences that are integrated with the Bose AR Frames and Quick Connect 35 noise-cancelling headphones. Devices on the Bose AR platform have an accelerometer, gyroscope...

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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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#743: Storytelling in AR Panel at Sundance New Frontier 2019

by kentbyeFebruary 20, 2019

I moderated this 90-minute Sundance New Frontier panel discussion about immersive storytelling in AR and the role of virtual characters and conversational interfaces. It included Alice Wroe, who is the creative director of Magic Leaps digital human...

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#738: Imverse’s Real-Time Volumetric Capture with Voxels

by kentbyeFebruary 16, 2019

The Swiss-based company Imverse built a Voxel rendering engine that can do real-time volumetric capture. It powered the Elastic Time experience at New Frontier last year, and this year they collaborated with artist Maria Guta on Interlooper that...

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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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#736: Integrating Taste into Narrative & Navigating an Unconscious Matrix of Memories & Associations

by kentbyeFebruary 16, 2019

One of the most visceral experiences I had at Sundance New Frontier this year was Marshmallow Laser Feast's Sweet Dreams, which incorporated taste as part of the narrative in a surrealist virtual reality story world called Luscious Delicious Land...

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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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#731: Natural & Intuitive Character Interactions in VR with “Wolves in the Walls”

by kentbyeFebruary 4, 2019

Wolves in the Walls is a narrative VR piece based upon a Neil Gaiman novel that explores object interactions and cultivating a connection to a virtual character. It's a project that originally started as a project within Oculus Story Studio, but was...

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#729: AI Voice Commands Enable Diplomacy as a Gameplay Mechanic with “Starship Commander”

by kentbyeJanuary 25, 2019

Human Interact's Starship Commander uses AI-enabled, voice-activated commands in order to participate within an interactive story. It was recently was released as a location-based entertainment arcade game, and I first talked to Alexander Mejia...

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#728: AI-Guided Dance to Express Collective Sentiment with Frankenstein AI

by kentbyeJanuary 25, 2019

Frankenstein AI from the Columbia Digital Storytelling Lab debuted at Sundance 2018. It was a cross-displinary collaboration that used machine learning, immersive theater, dance, and prompts for social interactions. I talk with choreographer Brandon...

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#725: Discovering Storytelling Potential of VR/AR through Immersive Journalism with USC’s Robert Hernandez

by kentbyeJanuary 16, 2019

Robert Hernandez is a Digital Journalism Professor at USC, and he serves a sort of innovation lab to see how journalists can use emerging technologies to tell stories. I talk with him about some of his projects including 'The Deported: Life Beyond...

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#723: “Pilgrim” is an Interactive AR Audio Documentary in the Streets of Amsterdam

by kentbyeDecember 28, 2018

Pilgrim is an AR audio documentary that I experienced at the IDFA DocLab premiere as I was walking through the streets of Amsterdam. Co-director Lauren Hutchinson captured audio stories of people as they were walking the Camino de Santiago trail in...

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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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#709: Qualcomm: The Future of XR is Mobile & XR as the Next Computing Platform

by kentbyeOctober 26, 2018

Qualcomm believes that the future of XR is mobile. TechCrunch published rumors published that the Oculus Rift 2 headset was being cancelled, which catalyzed a larger discussion about the degree to which Facebook/Oculus is committed to VR on the...

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#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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#685: Otoy’s Render Token, AI rendering, & Digital Lightfield Holodeck Walls

by kentbyeAugust 15, 2018

Jules Urbach wants to create a photorealistic metaverse. He's been working on rending technologies to render digital lightfields, and Otoy's Octane renderer is used everywhere from baking scenes in Unity's real-time game engine to rendering the...

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#683: Mesh Networks, Distributed Metaverse Protocols, & Archiving Event Spaces

by kentbyeAugust 15, 2018

Janus VR has been implementing an IPFS distributed file system option for creators for the past couple of years. I talk to 'Taco Dog' who was the catalyst behind helping to architect the protocol foundations of the decentralized metaverse.He has...

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#682: IPFS Distributed File Storage & the Decentralized Metaverse

by kentbyeAugust 15, 2018

The decentralized metaverse will require the transferring of A LOT of data. Distributed, peer-to-peer file systems like IPFS could provide the backbone of the decentralized metaverse.I talk with David Dias who is one of the developers of IPFS about...

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#681: Decentraland: Updates on the Virtual Real Estate Experiment

by kentbyeAugust 15, 2018

Decentraland is a grand experiment of bringing together decentralized blockchain technologies and virtual worlds. Decentraland ICO raised over 26 million dollars, but it wasn't without controversy where 5-9 whales came in to buy up all of the tokens...

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#680: ICOs are Disrupting VC Funding & Ethereum Coopetition is Challenging VC Unicorn Dynamics

by kentbyeAugust 15, 2018

ICOs are disrupting late stage venture capital. Shawn Cheng was working at the Vayner/RSE VC, but now he's working with Ethereum co-founder Joe Lubin's Consensys where he's helping to manage a portfolio of over 40 blockchain companies. Cheng talks...

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#679: A Cryptocurrency Gift Economy Experiment to Foster Collaborative Ecosystems

by kentbyeAugust 14, 2018

The threat of forking a blockchain project is a catalyst for cooperation, which means that there are many parallels between the blockchain and open source development dynamics. It also means that the value of a blockchain project comes more from a...

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#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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#677: Cory Doctorow on the Risks of Permanent Regulatory Dominance

by kentbyeAugust 14, 2018

Cory Doctorow is a science fiction author, a co-editor for Boing Boing, and consultant to the Electronic Frontier Foundation. He’s been closely tracking the relationship between Tech, Law, Culture, & Markets, and he is seeing a concerning pattern...

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#676: ACLU’s Jennifer Granick on Surveillance, Privacy, & Free Speech

by kentbyeAugust 14, 2018

There’s a tension on the web today between creating a safe space to be online versions the costs to censorship and free speech. Spam, bots, trolls, harassment, hate speech, and terrorism are on the frontlines of making the web an unpleasant place to...

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#675: Internet Archive’s Brewster Kahle on the Future of the Decentralized Web

by kentbyeAugust 14, 2018

Brewster Kahle told me that the average of a web page on the Internet is 100 days before it either changes or disappears completely. Kahle realized that you can’t run a culture when you have no institutional memory, and so he started the Internet...

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#674: Tech, Law, Culture, & Markets: A Holistic Look at the Decentralized Web Summit

by kentbyeAugust 14, 2018

In “Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace,” Lawrence Lessig wrote about four socioeconomic regulators of society as being the law, cultural norms, economic markets, and architecture/code (i.e. technology). All of these four factors combine in order to...

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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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#669: Internet Co-Inventor Vint Cerf on Decentralized Internet Challenges

by kentbyeAugust 4, 2018

Vint Cerf is a co-inventor of the Internet, and he's currently working as a Vice President at Google at their Chief Internet Evangelist. With all of the ethical discussions about the dangers of centralization of power and influence for censorship...

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#667: JanusVR’s Vesta Hub is the Beginnings of the Decentralized Metaverse

by kentbyeJuly 28, 2018

There is a lot of promise of a decentralized metaverse built on top of the open web, but the idealism of that promise isn't yet matching the quality & stability of experiences from centralized, native applications built on top of Unity or Unreal...

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#666: Updates on YouTube VR, VR180 Livestreaming Cameras, & Social VR

by kentbyeJuly 26, 2018

The YouTube VR application just released some social viewing features as well as finally released a version for Gear VR, although there isn't any specific updates on if or when there will be an Oculus Go or Oculus Rift version released. When I asked...

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#663: VR in China: Wireless VR with TPCast

by kentbyeJuly 4, 2018

TPCast is a Chinese company that was one of the first in the world to provide a wireless VR peripheral solution that could viably eliminate the cable tether of a VR HMD. I talk with co-founder David Jiang at CES 2017 about some of the early...

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#662: VR in China: 360 Video Distribuion with Visbit

by kentbyeJuly 4, 2018

Visbit is a B2B, 360-video streaming distribution company based out of Silicon Valley, and co-founder and CEO CY Zhou is originally from China. I caught up with CY at CES 2017 to talk about some of the basic streaming services and application SDK...

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#661: VR in China: Nolo VR’s 6DoF Hardware Accessory

by kentbyeJuly 4, 2018

The VR hardware ecosystem in China is fairly self-contained, and Nolo VR ran a successful Kickstarter campaign to bring 6DoF hand tracking to mobile VR headsets, but also giving access to your SteamVR library through your mobile phone.

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#656: Racial Justice: Using AR to Reclaim History with Site-Specific Context

by kentbyeJune 18, 2018

Our stores of the past shape our future. There is a growing movement to use augmented reality technologies to reclaim suppressed histories by creating site-specific AR art installations that challenge institutionally-backed narratives. Glenn...

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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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#649: LIV’s Mixed Reality Shows the Nuances of Human Movement in VR

by kentbyeMay 23, 2018

I talked with Cix Liv, the CEO of Liv, about their mixed reality hardware and software solutions. Mixed reality shows what it feels like to be in VR better than any other depiction, and Cix is really interested to see how mixed reality is going to...

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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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#647: Merging IRL events with VR via SVVR’s Reality Portals & Metaverse Intiative

by kentbyeMay 17, 2018

May 16th is the five-year anniversary for Silicon Valley Virtual Reality meetup, and founder Karl Krantz is announcing a couple of new initiatives as SVVR reorganizes itself as a public-benefit corporation. They're going to be formally announcing...

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