The second volume of the Immersive Arcade Showcase featuring four immersive stories from the United Kingdom launches today as DLC within the Museum of Other Realities. The theme of the second volume is Memories & Dreams and features Vestige, Limbo, Lucid, & Somnai. This showcase will be running for the next 8 weeks, and iss produced by Digital Catapult in collaboration with Kaleidoscope's Immersive Production Studio, UK Research & Innovation, and Audience of the Future.

The second volume of the Immersive Arcade Showcase featuring four immersive stories from the United Kingdom launches today as DLC within the Museum of Other

Facebook's Project Aria announcement in September at Facebook Connect raised a number of different ethical questions with anthropologists and technological ethicists. Journalist Lawrence Dodds described it on Twitter by saying, 'Facebook will send 'hundreds' of employees out into public spaces recording everything they see in order to research privacy risks of AR glasses.' During the Facebook Connect keynote, Head of Facebook Reality Labs Andrew Bosworth described Project Aria as a prototype research device worn by Facebook employees and contractors that would be 'recording audio, video, eye tracking, and location data' of 'egocentric data capture.' In the Project Aria Launch video, Director of Research Science at Facebook Realty Labs Research Richard Newcomb said that 'starting in September, a few hundred Facebook workers will be wearing Aria on campus and in public spaces to help us collect data to uncover the underlying technical and ethical questions, and start to look at answers to those.'

Facebook’s Project Aria announcement in September at Facebook Connect raised a number of different ethical questions with anthropologists and technological ethicists. Journalist Lawrence Dodds described

The 29 immersive experiences that are a part of the Tribeca Immersive 2021 line-up were announced on Tuesday, April 29. There will be 11 Virtual Arcade experiences available starting on June 9 within the Museum of Other Realities, 5 Storyscape experiences only available in-person at Tribeca, and then 13 outdoor screenings (some of which will be also available remotely). I got the run-down of the Storyscapes & highlights from the outdoor screenings from chief curator Loren Hammonds, and more context about the first major film festival that will be having IRL gatherings since the pandemic turned everything remote in March 2020. The 17 New Images Paris experiences in competition were also announced today, and will be showing next to the Tribeca Virtual Arcade within th MOR.

On April 22, 2020, Magic Leap announced layoffs of somewhere between 600 to 1000 employees, which amounted to around 1/3 to 1/2 of their total staff. On December 2019, The Information reported that Magic Leap had only sold 6,000 AR headsets against their target goal of over 100,000. The full story as to what exactly happened and why has yet to be fully told, and it's stories like these that reinforce dominant media narratives around the hype around Magic Leap.

On April 22, 2020, Magic Leap announced layoffs of somewhere between 600 to 1000 employees, which amounted to around 1/3 to 1/2 of their total

Brittan Heller is a human rights lawyer who recently published a paper pointing out that there are some significant gaps in privacy laws that do not cover the types of physiological and biometric data that will be available from virtual and augmented reality. Existing laws around biometrics are tightly connected to identity, but she argues that there are entirely new classes of data available from XR that she's calling 'biometric psychography,' which she says is a 'new concept for a novel type of bodily-centered information that can reveal intimate details about users' likes, dislikes, preferences, and interests.'

Brittan Heller is a human rights lawyer who recently published a paper pointing out that there are some significant gaps in privacy laws that do

On March 18th, Facebook Reality Labs Research announced some of their research into next-generation neuromotor input devices for mixed reality applications. I paraphrased the most interesting insights from their press conferences announcement, but I was still left with a lot of questions on the specific neuroscience principles underlying their ability to be able to target individual motor neurons. I also had a lot of follow-up questions about some of the privacy implications of these technologies, and so thankfully I was able to follow up with Thomas Reardon, Director of Neuromotor Interfaces at Facebook Reality Labs and co-founder of CTRL-Labs to get more context on the neuroscience foundations and privacy risks associated with these breakthrough 'adaptive interfaces.'