Following up from our panel session at the Infinity Festival, we spoeak with Bryan Biniak of Connected Travel about media development for new mobility, hackathons between automotive OEMs and record labels as well as the skillsets and attitudes required to navigate this shifting audience sector.

In Part II of our deep dive into next generation storytelling, we talk with Nigel Tierney, Head of Content for Ryot about game engines and mobile edge computing in media. We also report from the Augmented City panel session on next generation media & marketing for automobiles.

Continuing our coverage of Hollywood's best creative technologies and technologists, we interview Christina Heller, CEO of Metastage. Christina walks us through volumetric technology, a new method for capturing human performance in 3D.

John speaks with Joanna Popper, HP's Global Head of VR for Location-based Entertainment, about how lessons learned in the entertainment field transfer over to other sectors like training, architecture and similar.

John interviews Dr. Christof Koch of the Allen Institute for Brain Science about the nature of consciousness. From split brains, bridged brains, neural implants and everything in-between, Dr. Koch and John discuss a wide range of clinical and philosophical implications of a scientific understanding consciousness and what it means to be human.

During a recent trip to LA for the Infinity Festival, John Gauntt guest hosted with Voice of America. There, he was fortunate enough to interview screenwriter John MacInnes, who wrote the script for Call of Duty Modern Warfare, one of the best selling videogames of all time. The two Johns talked about game engines as creative palettes for storytellers above and beyond console, PC or mobile games. The next stage of motion capture will come tantalizingly close to creating true digital humans, one of the most famous of which was immortalized in the exhibit, "David Bowie is Unreal", which played at the Infinity Festival.

AC burrowed into the heart of Hollywood to learn about the technologies behind motion capture, digital humans, AR/VR and many others that are transforming how we tell stories.

John speaks with Shelley Peterson, the Principal Investigator for AR at Lockheed Martin, exploring how the space and defense tech world views augmented reality, and how those possibilities are making their way into the mainstream.

5G cellular is tipped to become the next evolutionary infrastructure for physical mobility and digital media. John Gauntt explores what this means for people creating content and new user experiences. You'll learn what is 5G and what's driving it, how that's playing out in the marketplace, plus the key nuggets to understand about 5G if you develop products, services or media.

John talks with Bill Foy, SVP for Engineering for Denso, a mobility OEM that is launching a new Seattle Innovation Lab focused on connected vehicles and cloud computing. John and Bill take a look at the Seattle Lab's remit and what new mobility players are trying with edge and cloud computing.