We talk with Zahra Rasool (@RXahra) all about Al Jazeera’s newly-announced immersive media studio, @ContrastVR. She gives us insight into how she’s thinking about immersive journalism plus a window into Al Jazeera’s two-pronged approach: producing a series of cinematic-quality 360 documentaries while building out the 360 production capabilities of their local brands around the world. Zahra tells us about the 360 doc series currently in production, and we also address how she’s thinking about distribution/subject matter differently depending on where the project falls on the spectrum of varying production quality - http://contrastvr.com/ Join us: http://www.realvirtualshow.com  *Big thanks to John K. Chin for the jazzy music & James A. Beck for the voice magic

#71 - Immersive Journalism w/ Zahra Rasool, Editorial Lead for Al Jazeera's Contrast VR

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We talk with Jennifer Rundell, COO of Positron, the company behind the Voyager chair -- the world’s first full-motion chair for premium cinematic VR content. Jennifer talks about some of their content partnerships like Universal Studios and IMAX, and how Positron is making their interactive haptic-enabled motion chair commercially viable. We talk about the future of theater, how Positron is strategically tapping into the location-based entertainment market, and why adding motion and haptics to VR experiences can drastically reduce reported nausea by tricking the vestibular system. Jennifer also illustrates how immersive directors can think of motion as another input and tool to direct audience attention -- http://www.gopositron.com/ Join us: http://www.realvirtualshow.com  *Big thanks to John K. Chin for the jazzy music & James A. Beck for the voice magic

#79 - Location-Based Entertainment with Jennifer Rundell, COO of Positron

This week’s episode features Michael Koperwas, Mixed Reality Supervisor at Lucasfilm’s ILMxLAB. We talk with Michael about how things have changed in his almost-20 years in the VFX industry, how VFX skillsets and tools can be used for VR/AR, and his take on 3D creation tools in VR. We also dig into motion capture technology in general, image based motion capture in particular, and how ILMxLAB helped Rogue One with pre-visualization tools using CAVEs. Michael also touches a bit on the Disney partnership with The VOID to bring 4D “hyper-reality” Star Wars immersive experiences to life -http://www.ilmxlab.com/ Join us: http://www.realvirtualshow.com  *Big thanks to John K. Chin for the jazzy music & James A. Beck for the voice magic

#78 - Visual Effects in Mixed Reality with ILMxLAB’s Michael Koperwas

We chat with Katrika Morris, co-founder and creative director of Moatboat --  a virtual reality app that lets you build worlds… with your voice. An experimental tool that lets you create the world around you by stating things out loud like: “I need seven foxes,” Moatboat lets you layer multiple 3D objects inside your voice-controlled empire. We talk about voice as input for immersive technologies, the necessity of multi-modal input modalities for the VR/AR future, and why social sharing integrations are important now - http://www.moatboat.com/ Join us: http://www.realvirtualshow.com  *Big thanks to John K. Chin for the jazzy music & James A. Beck for the voice magic

#77 - Building Virtual Worlds w/ Your Voice with Katrika Morris, Co-founder & Creative Director of Moatboat

We chat with Alison Raby and James Hanusa, the co-founders of Digital Raign, a virtual accelerator and experiential ecosystem design & development firm focused on exponential tech and emerging media. We talk about how exponential technologies in general are converging, and how essential it is in this moment in history to make a conscientious choice in how we use these powerful tools. We also discuss the first annual Shifting the Paradigm summit at the Esalen Institute (fall 2016), and Alison and James share with us how this year’s summit has evolved and what we can look forward to - https://www.digitalraign.com/ Join us: http://www.realvirtualshow.com  *Big thanks to John K. Chin for the jazzy music & James A. Beck for the voice magic

#76 - Empowering the Experience Revolution w/ Alison Raby & James Hanusa, co-founders of Digital Raign

We chat with @MattMiesnieks, partner at @Super_Ventures, all about augmented reality, investing, and some of the VR/AR companies in their portfolio. Matt has a deep background in AR, including creating the first mixed reality platform for iOS with Dekko and leading AR product R&D; at Samsung. From this rich experience, Matt offers insight into how huge companies’ AR announcements (namely Facebook’s Camera Effects platform and Apple’s ARKit) have fueled development, education, and interest in the technology. Matt also gives some great advice to founders seeking funding, elaborates on why Super Ventures funded specific companies in their portfolio (Nitero, CognitiveVR, Massless, and Forcite), and why he doesn’t want an AR cycling headset - http://www.superventures.com/ Join us: http://www.realvirtualshow.com  *Big thanks to John K. Chin for the jazzy music & James A. Beck for the voice magic

#71 - Immersive Journalism w/ Zahra Rasool, Editorial Lead for Al Jazeera's Contrast VR

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