Dr. VR

For this ninth episode, I had the chance to interview Carol Silverman, who is a painter, a four-time Emmy award winning set decorator for film and television, and the director of Belongings,’ a 6doF object-based storytelling VR piece that uses the medium to bring an embodied immediacy to one woman’s life story.

For this eight episode, I had the pleasure to talk to Victoria Bousis, the Winner of the 2023 Producers Guild of America Award for Innovation, who is an Experiential Director/Writer/Creative Technologist of Immersive Experience, and most importantly, the director of the VR interactive film ‘Stay Alive, My Son,’ which we are going to discuss in this episode.

For this seventh episode, I had the pleasure to interview Keram Malicki-Sánchez who is the Founder, Executive Director and Programmer of the Festival of International Virtual & Augmented Realities (FIVARS), as well as VRTO, the yearly Spatial Media World Conference held in Toronto, Canada.

For this sixth episode, I had the chance to interview Mohammed Elfarargy who is the Head of the Vista Unit team of the famed Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Egypt. The team is responsible for the development of the remarkable "Virtual Antiquities Museum" VR app available for free on the Meta Quest App Lab store that houses artifacts narrating the Egyptian history from the Pharaonic era, going through Greco-Roman and Coptic epoch, until the Islamic period.

For this fifth episode, I had the chance to interview Curtis Hickman, an award-winning illusionist, creative designer & director, and the inventor of 'hyper-reality,' as well as the co-founder of The VOID. This renowned VR worldwide location-based arcade pioneer partnered with the Disney Accelerator program and co-developed attractions based on intellectual properties such as Marvel, Star Wars, Ghostbusters, and Jumanji. Now, they are planning a comeback…

Pour ce quatrième épisode, et tout premier en français, j’ai eu la chance de discuter avec Georgiana Stanciu, directrice générale du musée du Royal Canadian Regiment à London en Ontario, où nous parlons de l’expérience de RV, « La bataille de Vimy », qui est offerte au public depuis 2017. Nous traitons également de la place de la RV dans un contexte muséal, les nombreux avantages, enjeux et contraintes que présente une œuvre de RV basées sur la localisation pour enrichir l’expérience des visiteurs, ainsi que des questions liées à l’éthique.

For this third episode, I had the chance to talk to Justin O’Heir, co-founder and CTO of ArtGate VR, a social virtual reality platform for gallery and museum exhibitions to exhibit in the metaverse. Art Gate VR is one of the first museums (or platforms) in VR where galleries can host events, curate exhibitions, promote artists, meet collectors, and in general do business.

For this second episode, I had the chance to talk to three-time Emmy Award-winning filmmaker and VR creator Limbert Fabian who discusses about the making of his groundbreaking, socially and politically committed virtual reality documentary piece MLK: Now is the Time, and how he brilliantly translated Dr. Martin Luther King’s most famous speech that still resonates for its relevance into embodied interactions and spatial metaphors. The experience won the Audience Award at the SXSW Festival in 2023.

I had the chance to talk to the award-winning VR creator, media artist, scholar and educator David Han about his hands-on impression on VR creation and his perspective on the industry. His creative practices explores the intersection of media art, emerging technology, and computation.