Kusunda is a spatial documentary about a indigenous language in Nepal that is on the brink of going dormant and falling asleep. It’s an incredibly

Kusunda is a spatial documentary about a indigenous language in Nepal that is on the brink of going dormant and falling asleep. It's an incredibly powerful story that uses photogrammetry, Tilt Brush interpretations of oral history, and interactive natural language processing actions that help teach the interactor a number of Kununda vocabulary terms. It's a production that had to adapt to COVID-19 by innovating other metaphoric & spatial ways of telling this story.

The Venice VR Expanded portion of the Venice Film Festival opens today, and runs from September 1-19, 2021. I had a chance to talk to the co-creators Liz Rosenthal and Michel Reilhac to get a sneak peak of the 37 immersive storytelling projects with 24 projects in Competition, 11 projects in the Best Of section, 1 project in the Biennale College Cinema VR section, and 1 Special Event Out of Competition. There are also 34 VRChat worlds that are being featured in a VRChat world gallery, which are accessible via portal doors within a public instance of the Venice VR Expanded 2021 hub world in VRChat. There will be events in the private instance of this world, which you can get access to those events as well as all of the experiences with a 100€ accreditation fee that will get you a download code for the projects that are hosted on a combination of either Viveport and Oculus.

The Venice VR Expanded portion of the Venice Film Festival opens today, and runs from September 1-19, 2021. I had a chance to talk to

Episode #1000 of the Voices of VR podcast is a special, three-hour retrospective featuring over 100 of the best answers I've received about the ultimate potential of VR over the past 7 years. I hope that it serves as a primer on the scope and breadth of different XR applications across many different contexts and domains of human experience as described by a diverse range of subject matter experts who are on the frontiers of innovation within spatial computing. The episode starts with describing the power of presence and immersion, and then elaborates on the underlying neuroscience foundations of perception and embodied cognition that explain why Extended Reality (XR) technologies like Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR), and Mixed Reality (MR) present unique affordances that go above and beyond what previous communication mediums can deliver. I believe XR represents a new computing paradigm that will be moving from flat 2D interfaces through windowed portals to volumetric experiences and worlds that are more embodied, immersive, participatory, social, and spatial.

Episode #1000 of the Voices of VR podcast is a special, three-hour retrospective featuring over 100 of the best answers I’ve received about the ultimate

The Electronic Frontier Foundation is a non-profit that has been defending civil liberties & digital rights for over 30 years since it was first announced on July 10, 1990. My first conversation with the EFF was with Dave Maass at the VR Privacy Summit in November 2018 when consumer VR was still in a nascent phase and lower priority relative to civil liberty threats back then. But over the past year, the EFF has been starting to investigate the civil liberties and privacy implications of XR technologies, especially as VR has been gaining more commercial momentum. The EFF published an article on 'If Privacy Dies in VR, It Dies in Real Life' on August 25, 2020 a week after Facebook announced that Facebook accounts would be required to use the Oculus VR headsets. After Facebook's Project Aria AR prototype was announced at Facebook Connect, the EFF published 'Augmented Reality Must Have Augmented Privacy' a month later on October 16, 2020. Their latest article was published on June 2, 2021 about 'Your Avatar is You, However You See Yourself, and You Should Control Your Experience.'

The Electronic Frontier Foundation is a non-profit that has been defending civil liberties & digital rights for over 30 years since it was first announced

In her Contextual Integrity theory of privacy, Helen Nissembaum defines privacy as 'appropriate flows of information' where the appropriateness is defined by the context and its contextual informational norms. Contextual Integrity is a paradigm shift away from the Fair Information Practice Principles, which emphasizes a model of privacy focused on the control of personal information. Framing privacy through the lens of control has led to a notice & consent model of privacy, which many have argued that notice and consent fails to actually protect our privacy. Rather than focusing on the definition of privacy as the control of private information, Contextual Integrity focuses on appropriate flows of information relative to the stakeholders within a specific context who are trying to achieve a common purpose or goal.

In her Contextual Integrity theory of privacy, Helen Nissembaum defines privacy as “appropriate flows of information” where the appropriateness is defined by the context and