Dr. VR

For this nineteenth episode, I had the pleasure of hosting Matthew Celia, Creative Director of Light Sail VR and Co-Executive Producer of "The Faceless Lady," the world’s first live-action VR series produced by horror legend Eli Roth.

For this eighteenth episode, I had the pleasure of hosting Jason Moore, CEO of the multiple award-winning ‘The MetaMovie Project,’ where film, theatre, and VR are combined to create a successful interactive experience focused on agency and social interactions.

For this seventeenth episode, I’m glad to host Paweł Sobik, CEO of Spectral Games, and Grzegorz Fojcik, Lead Unity 3D developer at Spectral Games, who have just recently released their first VR experience Medieval Dynasty – New Settlement. Their very unique game focuses on embodiment through intuitive controls and freedom of action.

For this sixteenth episode, I had the pleasure to host Evan Jones, founder of Games by Stitch and a two-time Emmy Award winner, whose work combines web, mobile and games with VR, TV, film, radio, and the real world. He has been recognized as a one of the 'Top 10 New Media Groundbreaker' by the Bell Fund, and his most recent VR experience, 'Broken Spectre', won in 2023 the VR experience of the year at the prestigious VR awards and is nominated for the 'Best Immersive Experience - Fiction' at the Canadian Screen Awards.

In this fifteenth episode, I'm glad to host Arome Ibrahim, who is the co-founder of Immersive Tech Africa, which is a non-profit organization dedicated to democratizing and increasing access to XR technology through education, training, and research programs, fostering a thriving and inclusive XR community in Africa

For this fourteenth episode, I had the pleasure of having Tony Bevilacqua, the founder and CEO of the Canadian company Cognitive3D that provides data analytics insights to individuals developing VR/MR training simulations or research applications.

For this thirteenth episode, I had the pleasure of having Lesley Klassen who is the co-founder and Head of Creator Relations at Flipside XR who specialize in creating a new era for next-gen creators to connect, remix and share immersive content in VR.

For this twelfth episode, I had the pleasure of having Priam Givord who is a senior digital artist, designer & technologist with a career focused to date on the digitally­-mediated spatial experience of things. He has designed and built large high-­end interactive installations that are exhibited internationally, which led him to recently start a 2-year experimental partnership with the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto to build the project BRISTOL 1775 (now available on Steam) that recreates an 18th-century ship in 3D and in VR from plans and scale models for preservation and research.

For this eleventh episode, I had the pleasure of having Thomas Wallner who is a two-time Emmy Award and SXSW Interactive Award-winning producer, writer, director and game designer working in feature film, television, games and interactive media. He is also the director and producer of The Polar Sea, the world’s first long format 360° documentary film, and the founder of Liquid Cinema VR, a revolutionary gaze-triggered that allows filmmakers, journalists, advertisers and educators to create and distribute cinematic VR.

For this tenth episode, I had the pleasure of having digital artist and XR developer Debbie Deer. We discuss representation, inclusion and systemic barriers in the digital arts, as well as her new Afrofuturistic Hybrid XR theatre production ‘Nefertiti: Story of a Rebel Queen’ and her interactive live theatre experience ‘A Christmas Carol VR.’