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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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#646: Immersive Education with Google Expeditions, AR, & Virtual Tours

by kentbyeMay 14, 2018

Google's mission statement is to 'organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful,' and so it's a natural fit that they'd be a leader in creating educational experiences for AR & VR. Google Expeditions continues 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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#643: Matt Miesnieks on the State of the AR Ecosystem

by kentbyeMay 1, 2018

Matt Miesnieks is creating an AR cloud with 6D.AI, which aims to 'synchronize 3D computer vision data across devices, time and space' in order to enable 'persistent content, occlusion, and real-time shared experiences.' Miesnieks has founded a...

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#639: AR as the Democratization of Architecture, Hands-On Spatial Computing, & Leap Motion’s North Star AR HMD

by kentbyeApril 10, 2018

Keiichi Matsuda went from being a dystopian filmmaker to becoming the vice president of design at hand-tracking company Leap Motion. Matsuda is probably the most famous for his HYPER-REALITY dystopian filmthat imagined an commodified & gamified AR...

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#638: Updates on the Decentralized Metaverse: WebVR, A-Frame, & Supermedium VR

by kentbyeApril 6, 2018

The open metaverse is going to be built on web standards like the WebXR Device API (formly WebVR), but the larger community of web developers has been waiting to fully commit to building immersive WebVR experiences until there's universal support in...

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#631: Using AI to Drive Conversations, Create Culture, & Foster Understanding

by kentbyeMarch 9, 2018

The Columbia Digital Storytelling Lab had a design research project at Sundance that is exploring new models of cooperative storytelling and collaborative sensemaking, but it was also on the bleeding edge of integrating technologies ranging from...

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#630: A Live Musical Graphic Novel Lecture: Cory McAbee’s Mixed Modality Performance

by kentbyeMarch 9, 2018

Each year, the Sundance New Frontier features VR experiences, films, and live performances that push the boundaries of storytelling. Cory McAbee did live performance of a piece called Deep Astronomy and the Romantic Sciences, which combines elements...

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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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#626: Exploring Space & Experiential Modulation of Time with Felix & Paul Studios

by kentbyeFebruary 24, 2018

Felix & Paul Studios had two experiences at Sundance this year. One featured the training of NASA astronauts in Space Explorers, and the other was a time-lapse VR story featuring characters from Wes Anderson's Ilse of Dogs film in front half with a...

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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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#624: Exploring Near-Future Moral Quandaries with INVAR Studios

by kentbyeFebruary 19, 2018

Rose Colored by INVAR Studios & Adam Cosco won the award for best live-acton VR experience at the Advanced Imaging Society's Lumiere Awards on February 12th. I previously interviewed Cosco at VRLA last year, and I had a chance to talk with INVAR's...

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#623: Training AI & Robots in VR with NVIDIA’s Project Holodeck

by kentbyeFebruary 15, 2018

At SIGGRAPH 2017, NVIDIA was showing off their Isaac Robot that had been trained to play dominos within a virtual world environment of NVIDIA's Project Holodeck. They're using Unreal Engine to simulate interactions with people in VR to train a robot...

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#622: The Making of “Sun Ladies VR:” Former ISIS Sex Slaves Create an All-Female Fighting Unit

by kentbyeFebruary 9, 2018

The Sun Ladies VR is an amazing story about a group of Yazidi women from the Northern Iraq community of Sinjar, who escaped as sex slaves and started an all-female unit to fight ISIS. ISIS raided the Sinjar District in August 2014 and massacred over...

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#621: Balancing Player Control & Authorial Control with “Virtual Virtual Reality”

by kentbyeFebruary 6, 2018

Tender Claws' Virtual Virtual Reality is a Daydream-exclusive interactive story that won the best VR experience at the 2017 Google Play Awards VR, and it's one of my personal favorite interactive narratives within VR. Virtual Virtual Reality (aka...

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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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#619: Grabbing Virtual Objects with the HaptX Glove (Formerly AxonVR)

by kentbyeFebruary 2, 2018

The HaptX Glove that was showed at Sundance was one of the most convincing haptics experiences that I've had in VR. While it was still primitive, I was able to grab a virtual object in VR, and for the first time have enough haptic feedback to...

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#618: “Dinner Party” is a Symbolic Exploration of Alien Abduction & Race in America

by kentbyeFebruary 1, 2018

Dinner Party is an immersive exploration of Betty and Barney Hill's alien abduction story that premiered at the Sundance New Frontier. Rather than using normal alien abduction tropes, writers Laura Wexler & Charlotte Stoudt chose to use the spatial...

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#612: Capturing Group Dynamics with Felix & Paul’s “Miyubi”

by kentbyeJanuary 16, 2018

Miyubi is Felix & Paul Studios' first scripted narrative piece that is 40 minutes in length, and it transports you to the early 1980s as you embody an imminently obsolete toy robot. Felix & Paul instructed the individual actors to unexpectedly try...

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#607: Principles of Immersive Sound Design with Sally Kellaway

by kentbyeDecember 30, 2017

OSSIC's Jason Riggs told me at CES last year that the future of music is going to be immersive and interactive. Interactive sound design where user agency is considered a part of the experience is a key ingredient to creating fully immersive audio...

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#605: Future of Mixed Reality Lightfields with Otoy

by kentbyeDecember 19, 2017

Otoy is a rendering company that pushing the limits of digital light fields and physically-based rendering. Now that Otoy's Octane Renderer has shipped in Unity, they're pivoting from focusing on licensing their rendering engine to selling cloud...

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#593: AUTO: A Future Realistic 360-video on the Human Impact of Technology

by kentbyeNovember 10, 2017

Auto is a 360-video and morality tale available on Jaunt that takes a near-future look at the human impact of automation and emerging technology. It's not a grotesque satire in the vein of Black Mirror, but it's done in a more of a future realistic...

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#587: Samsung’s VR Strategy with Tom Harding, Director of Immersive Products

by kentbyeOctober 25, 2017

Without explicitly announcing a new specific product, Samsung quietly implied that they may be developing a new standalone mobile VR HMD during a session during their developer conference last week. While there were no big VR announcements during...

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#584: Google’s Clay Bavor on Ambient Computing, Conversational Interfaces, & AR & VR Strategy

by kentbyeOctober 5, 2017

At Google's 10/4 press conference, they announced a new Pixel 2 phone and a range of new ambient computing devices powered by AI-enabled conversational interfaces including new Google Mini and Max speakers, Google Clips camera, and wireless Pixel...

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#582: The Future of Invasive Neural Interfaces & Uploading Consciousness with Ramez Naam

by kentbyeSeptember 30, 2017

Ramez Naam is the author of The Nexus Trilogy sci-fi novels, which explores the moral and sociological implications of technology that can directly interface with the brain. He gave the keynote at the Experiential Technology Conference in March...

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#581: Using Abstract VR Art for Neural Entrainment & Brain Research + Can Creative AI Become Conscious?

by kentbyeSeptember 28, 2017

Kevin Mack is an Oscar-winning visual effects artist and abstract artist who creates digital spaces with fluidly moving textures that are awe-inspiring in it's ability to create a novel experience unique to VR. In Blortasia you float weightlessly...

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#579: Using AR to Recontextualize Our Relationship to Reality with Cabbibo’s ‘ARQUA!’

by kentbyeSeptember 20, 2017

ARQUA! was one of the ARKit launch applications that was designed by VR veteran Isaac 'Cabbibo' Cohen, and it has the same indie charm and shader art aesthetic as his previous VR experiences of Blarp! and L U N E. ARQUA's gameplay involves you...

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#578: Advancing Immersive Computing with Intel’s Virtual Reality Center for Excellence

by kentbyeSeptember 19, 2017

Intel is investing in the future of immersive computing through their Virtual Reality Center for Excellence. They're pushing the boundaries of high-end of VR gaming experiences, pursuing initiatives to help VR reach critical mass, and exploring how...

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#577: Behind the Scenes of Felix & Paul’s Emmy-Winning White House VR Documentary

by kentbyeSeptember 16, 2017

The White House VR documentary People's House by Felix & Paul Studios won a Emmy for the outstanding original interactive, and I had a chance to talk with Paul Raphael about how the challenges of producing a high-profile piece. They didn't know how...

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