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#575: Using VR to Connect with the Beauty of Nature with Marshmallow Laser Feast

by kentbyeSeptember 12, 2017

Marshmallow Laser Feast is a collective of artists who are interested in using VR technologies to capture the aesthetic beauty of nature, and provide immersive experiences that inspire people to cultivate an even deeper with the reality that...

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#573: Capturing Holocaust Testimony in VR: A Behind the Scenes Look at ‘The Last Goodbye’

by kentbyeAugust 31, 2017

One of the most emotionally-moving VR experiences that I've had in VR was bearing witness to Holocaust survivor Pinchas Gutter share his experiences at Majdanek Concentration Camp in The Last Goodbye. Gutter not provides a guided tour, but he is...

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#561: Decentraland: Using Ethereum Blockchain ICO to Sell Virtual Real Estate

by kentbyeJuly 31, 2017

Decentraland is a virtual world that is using the Ethereum Blockchain to sell plots of virtual real estate. They're having an initial coin offering for the ERC-20 token MANA from August 8 to August 16, 2017, and they'll have up to 2 million plots of...

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#551: Projection Mapped Immersive Theater by Heartcorps Shows Future of Live AR Performances

by kentbyeJune 29, 2017

There was an amazing projection mapped, immersive theater piece at Sundance this year by Heartcorps called 'Riders of the Storyboard.' Trained street performers interacted with a virtual projection-mapped 2D objects, and through the slight of hand...

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#547: ‘Rose Colored’ is a Sci-Fi Morality Tale in the Vein of ‘Black Mirror’

by kentbyeJune 20, 2017

My favorite narrative VR piece that I've seen so far this year is Rose Colored by Adam Cosco that premiered at VRLA. It's a science fiction morality tale that is asking us to look at a potential future of immersive technology. I'm cautious to say...

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#545: AxonVR is Building a Generalized Haptic Display

by kentbyeJune 14, 2017

AxonVR was awarded US Patent No. 9,652,037 of a 'whole-body human-computer interface' on May 16th, which includes an external exoskeleton as well as a generalized haptic display made out of microfluidic technology. I had a chance to demo AxonVR's...

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#544: Google Tango’s Engineering Director on AR Capabilities Enabled by Depth Sensors

by kentbyeJune 9, 2017

Augmented Reality has played a huge role at the developer conferences for Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, and Google, which is a great sign that the industry is moving towards spatially-aware computing. Microsoft is the only company to start with head...

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#542: Bringing Otherworldliness, Fun, & Whimsey into Your Home with AR game “Woorld”

by kentbyeJune 6, 2017

Funomena's Woorld won the best AR experience at the recent Google Play awards. You scan your room with a Google Tango-enabled phone, and then you're encouraged to decorate your space with extremely cute art and characters designed by Katamari's...

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#540: Investing in Exponential Technologies in VR, AI & Drones with a16z’s Kyle Russell

by kentbyeMay 31, 2017

Kyle Russell is on the deal & research team for Andreessen Horowitz (aka A16z) where he's focusing on investing in technologies ranging from virtual & augmented reality, artificial intelligence, drones, and other exponential technologies like...

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#538: How Mozilla is Driving WebVR Content & Tooling with the A-Frame Framework

by kentbyeMay 25, 2017

Mozilla's mission statement is to ensure that the Internet remains a global public resource, open and accessible to all, and they've been helping bring VR to the web for the past three years. A-Frame is an open source framework that has gained a lot...

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#537: The Future of VR for Google is on the Open Web with WebVR & WebAR

by kentbyeMay 23, 2017

Google's mission is to organize the world's information, and so they've been long-time advocates for the open web. At Google I/O last week, they announced that they'll soon be shipping Google Chrome for Android with WebVR, and that they're going to...

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#535: An In-Depth Look at the Microsoft HoloLens & Their Mixed Reality Ecosystem

by kentbyeMay 11, 2017

The HoloLens is the most impressive augmented reality HMD on the market today, and their developer kit is already being deployed into production in industries ranging from architecture, engineering, design, sales, medicine, and education. Microsoft...

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#528: Geospatial AR Permissions with the Mixed Reality Service Spec

by kentbyeApril 20, 2017

Mark Pesce is a VR pioneer who has been thinking about networked virtual and augmented reality for over 20 years now. He developed the Ono-Sendai Sega VR helmet prototype, co-created VRML, and presented his Cyberspace Protocol spec at the first Web...

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#527: Turning Your Torso Into an Ear: Sensory Substitution & Addition with Neosensory

by kentbyeApril 18, 2017

Back in 2015, Neuroscientist David Eagleman gave a TED talk about the potential to expand and create new senses. He showed off a haptic vest prototype that could translate audio input into an array of 32 vibrating motors that could be fed directly...

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#526: YouTube VR Wants to Find the Next Billion Dollar Genre That Hasn’t Been Created Yet

by kentbyeApril 14, 2017

At Sundance this year, I had a chance to catch up with a couple of representatives from Google to talk about what's happening on the YouTube VR platform with 360 videos. I talked with Jamie Byrne, YouTube's Director of Global Creator & Enterprise...

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#525: Flying in VR: How Mindride’s Airflow Takes Immersion to the Next Level

by kentbyeApril 13, 2017

One of the most immersive flying experiences that I've had a chance to have so far was Mindride Airflow. I had a chance to try it out last fall at VRLA, and the weightless harness combined with a variety of different wind speeds gave me a deep sense...

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#518: Advanced Brain Monitoring EEG Metrics & Experimental VR Treatments for Neurodegenerative Diseases

by kentbyeMarch 22, 2017

Advanced Brain Monitoring is a 17-year old neurotechnology company that has been able to extract a lot of really useful information from EEG data. They've developed specific EEG Metrics for drowsiness, inducing flow states, engagement, stress...

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#514: Tobii Recommends Explicit Consent for Recording Eye Tracking Data

by kentbyeMarch 11, 2017

The eye tracking company Tobii had some VR demos that they were showing on the GDC Expo Hall floor as well as within Valve's booth. They were primarily focusing on the new user interaction paradigms that are made available by using eye gazing to...

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#513: Deepening Social Presence with SMI Eye Tracking

by kentbyeMarch 10, 2017

At GDC this year, SensoMotoric Instruments (SMI) showed a couple of new eye tracking demos at Valve's booth. They added eye tracking to avatars in the social VR experiences of Pluto VR and Rec Room, which provided an amazing boost to the social...

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#509: Valve’s Joe Ludwig on Khronos Group’s OpenXR VR Standard

by kentbyeFebruary 27, 2017

Valve's Joe Ludwig talks about the latest updates on the Khronos Group's VR standardization process that is now being called 'OpenXR.' Ludwig says that OpenXR is still primarily creating an open and royalty-free open standard for virtual reality...

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#508: Using VR as a Tool to Cultivate Compassion with Condition One

by kentbyeFebruary 25, 2017

Danfung Dennis has an ambitious vision for the potential of virtual reality, and it's one of the most radical ones that I've come across. He believes that VR can be used as a tool to cultivate compassion through having an embodied experience of...

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#505: Beaming the Matrix into your Eyes: Otoy CEO on Future of Real-Time Lightfield Rendering

by kentbyeFebruary 17, 2017

At Unity's Unite keynote in November, Otoy's Jules Urbach announced that their Octane Renderer was going to be built into Unity to bake light field scenes. But this is also setting up the potential for real-time ray tracing of light fields using...

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#503: Conversational Gameplay & Interactive Narrative in Human Interact’s ‘Starship Commander’

by kentbyeFebruary 10, 2017

Human Interact announced this past week that they are collaborating with Microsoft's Cognitive Services in order to power the conversational interface behind their Choose-Your-Own-Adventure, interactive narrative title named Starship Commander...

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#502: An Elemental Theory of Presence + Future of AI & Interactive Storytelling

by kentbyeFebruary 8, 2017

Jessica Brillhart is the principle filmmaker for virtual reality at Google, and she been exploring the cross section of artificial intelligence and storytelling in VR. I had a chance to catch up with her at Sundance again this year where we did a...

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#499: VR as the Ultimate Empathy Machine with Gabo Arora

by kentbyeJanuary 31, 2017

Gabo Arora founded the United Nations VR, and directed some for the more well-known VR empathy experiences starting with Clouds Over Sidra in December 2014 in collaboration with Chris Milk and Here Be Dragons. Milk first showed Clouds Over Sidra...

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#496: Quantifying Touch on 15 Dimensions with SynTouch

by kentbyeJanuary 20, 2017

SynTouch has created a system that can quantify the sense of touch on fifteen different dimensions called the SynTouch Standard, and they're one of the most impressive haptic start-ups that I've seen so far. SynTouch isn't creating haptic displays...

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#495: Tricking the Brain is the Only Way to Solve the Infinite Degree of Freedom Haptics Problem

by kentbyeJanuary 19, 2017

Deep in the basement of the Sands Expo Hall at CES was an area of emerging technologies called Eureka Park, which had a number of VR start-ups hoping to connect with suppliers, manufacturers, investors, or media in order to launch a product or idea...

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#494: OSSIC CEO: The Future of Music is Immersive & Interactive

by kentbyeJanuary 17, 2017

OSSIC debuted their latest OSSIC X headphone prototype at CES this year with one of the best immersive audio demos that I've heard yet. OSSIC CEO Jason Riggs told me that their headphones do a dynamic calibration of your ears in order to render out...

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#492: HTC’s Dan O’Brien on Vive Tracker & Privacy in VR

by kentbyeJanuary 10, 2017

The most significant VR announcement from CES 2017 was the Vive Tracker, which is a modular lighthouse tracked 'puck' attachment that will enable users to track additional objects within VR experiences. It has the potential to drive a lot of new...

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#491: Brain-Controlled VR Experiences: Challenges & Potentials

by kentbyeJanuary 4, 2017

When I attended the Experiential Technology Conference in May 2016, I heard from a number of commercial off-the-shelf brain-control interface manufacturers that their systems would not natively work with VR headsets because there are some critical...

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#486: “Everything We Do is Experiential:” The Many Innovations of Felix & Paul Studios

by kentbyeDecember 23, 2016

Felix & Paul Studios have been innovating on their own immersive VR camera technology since they pioneered the first-ever stereoscopic VR video with Strangers with Patrick Watson. They went on to sign a deal with Oculus Studios to produce a number...

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#481: Call for VR Open Standard Backed by Valve, Oculus, Google, & OSVR

by kentbyeDecember 8, 2016

The Khronos Group announced on Tuesday that they have a critical mass of major VR players who are collaborating on a VR open standard. This VR open standard will have a software and hardware component that will enable VR application portability...

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#480: Op-Ed Comparing Oculus Touch vs HTC Vive Technology & Ecosystems

by kentbyeDecember 6, 2016

The Oculus Touch motion-tracked controllers are launching on December 6th after eight months of the Rift solely supporting gamepad experiences. I wanted to take a moment to dig into some of the more subtle technical nuances when comparing the Oculus...

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#472: Google’s Josh Carpenter on Bringing WebVR to Daydream

by kentbyeNovember 8, 2016

Google announced at the W3C WebVR workshop in mid-October that they would be shipping a WebVR-enabled Chromium browser in Q1 of 2017. I had a chance to catch up with Josh Carpenter last week to talk about some of the work that Google is doing to...

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#471: Mozilla on Enabling the Open Metaverse with WebVR, A-Frame, and Servo

by kentbyeNovember 4, 2016

Some of the earliest experiments of making VR a first-class citizen on the web originated at Mozilla in 2014. Then the WebVR spec was drafted in a collaboration between Mozilla and Google's implementations. There's been a lot of excitement and...

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#465: An Inflection Point for WebVR and the Open Metaverse

by kentbyeOctober 22, 2016

There's been a couple of key developments in the evolution of WebVR during the month of October. First, Nate Mitchell announced during his Oculus Connect 3 keynote that Oculus will be supporting the WebVR ecosystem with the React VR framework and a...

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#464: The Graphics Pipeline: Optimizing VR Experiences & Texture Compression from Binomial

by kentbyeOctober 20, 2016

Stephanie Hurlburt is a low-level graphics engineer who has previously worked on the Unity Game Engine, Oculus Medium, and Intel's Project Alloy, and now she's creating on a texture compression product called Basis at her company Binomial. I had a...

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#462: Denny Unger on Valve’s New Controller Prototype & Future of Non-Linear Storytelling

by kentbyeOctober 14, 2016

Valve premiered a prototype of a new type of VR input controller at Steam Dev Days in order to get some preliminary feedback from developers. They've created a capacitive-touch controller that is attached to your hand so that you can open and close...

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#459: Oculus Connect Highlights + Questions about Min Spec & Room-Scale

by kentbyeOctober 11, 2016

In this episode of the Voices of VR podcast, I recap some of my highlights from Oculus Connect 3, but also dive into some of my biggest concerns and questions coming out of this year’s big developer conference. My two biggest concerns were the...

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#456: Google’s Clay Bavor on Daydream View, YouTube, & AI in VR

by kentbyeOctober 5, 2016

On October 4th, Google revealed Daydream View, which is their reference design for their mobile VR headset. Google CEO Sandar Pichai also announced the first Daydream-ready phone designed called Pixel, which also has native hardware support for...

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#453: DIY Volumetric Capture with Depthkit

by kentbyeOctober 1, 2016

Alexander Porter & James George want to democratize volumetric capture with Depthkit. Depthkit combines depth sensor devices like the Kinect or RealSense cameras with high-end digital SLR cameras. They're able to create a 3D mesh from the captured...

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#452: Warehouse-Scale Tracking with Worldviz + Vection in VR

by kentbyeSeptember 30, 2016

Andy Beall is the CEO of Worldviz, and has been doing VR since 1992. I had a chance to catch up with him at SIGGRAPH where he told me about the type of work that Worldviz has been doing in the VR space since 1992, including creating warehouse-scale...

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#451: Lessons for Marketing VR Experiences from Mobile App Store Optimization

by kentbyeSeptember 29, 2016

Once a developer creates a VR experience, then the real difficult phase begins in trying to market their experience. VR is a new communication medium, and so traditional photos or videos don't always do the experience justice. At Casual Connect, I...

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#449: A History of the Google Cardboard Ecosystem with DODOcase

by kentbyeSeptember 27, 2016

The story of how DODOcase started the Google Cardboard VR ecosystem within 24 hours, and became responsible for producing 20% of all of the Cardboard headsets is really quite an incredible story. I had a chance to catch up with CEO and founder Craig...

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#448: Mobile AR & VR Tracking with uSens

by kentbyeSeptember 26, 2016

uSens is working on gestural input and inside-out tracking for both AR and VR. I had a chance to catch up with uSens' vice president of product development, Yiwen Rong, at GDC in March to talk about some of their current tracking research and larger...

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#447: VRLA Highlights + 2017 as the Year of Mobile VR

by kentbyeSeptember 25, 2016

Anshel Sag is an analyst for Moore Insights and Strategies where he has focused on mobile computing platforms. I had a chance to catch up with him at VRLA where talked about his content highlights there as well as why he thinks that 2017 is going to...

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#444: Developing a New Eye Interaction Model with Eyefluence

by kentbyeSeptember 23, 2016

I had a chance to do a demo of Eyefluence, which has created a new model for eye interactions within virtual and augmented reality apps. Rather than using the normal eye interaction paradigm of dwelling focus or explicitly winking to select...

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#442: Framestore VR on Digital Lightfield Workflows & VR Ad Campaigns

by kentbyeSeptember 21, 2016

When I was at SIGGRAPH this year, one of the hottest topics was figuring out the workflows for how to deal with the complexity of capturing, processing, and distributing volumetric digital light fields. Otoy's Jules Urbach had a lot of insights, and...

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#440: Spherica’s Stabilization Technology Used in HBO’s ‘Westworld’ VR Experience

by kentbyeSeptember 18, 2016

HBO premiered a VR experience for their new Westworld series at TechCrunch Disrupt, and they used Spherica's camera stabilization technology in order to pull off an extended live-action tracking shot in VR. Common advice given to new VR filmmakers...

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#437: Adding Haptic Feedback through Inaudible Bass with SubPac

by kentbyeSeptember 14, 2016

It was on a San Jose sidewalk in 2015 that I first tried the SubPac, and it blew me away. I felt like I was immediately transported into a dance club standing in front of giant subwoofers with the soundwaves of bass rippling through my body, but yet...

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