Voices of VR Podcast – Designing for Virtual Reality

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#973: Sundance New Frontier...

01.19.2021

Sundance New Frontier 2021 features 14 immersive experiences that will be accessible via the $25 Sundance Explorer pass starting on Friday, January 29th until Wednesday,

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01.19.2021 #973: Sundance New Frontier 2021 Sneak Peak + Virtual Film Parties & Gatherings Sundance New Frontier 2021 features 14 immersive experiences that will be accessible via the $25 Sundance Explorer pass starting on Friday, January 29th until Wednesday,
01.15.2021 #972: Augmenting Virtual Reality with Aardvark Aardvark is an AR platform within the context of virtual reality applications. Here’s how Aardvark is described on it’s Steam page: Aardvark is a new
01.13.2021 #971: Mark Pesce’s Book “Augmented Reality” Contextualizes AR with History of HCI & Future of Localized Metadata Mark Pesce’s new book Augmented Reality: Unboxing Tech’s Next Big Thing was released on Friday, January 8th, 2021. It’s a lucidly-written look at the past,
01.09.2021 #970: Retrospective of 2020 Immersive Storytelling Residency at UNCSA’s METL Note: This is a sponsored content post from the University University of North Carolina School of the Arts I was a mentor for the UNCSA’s
12.23.2020 #969: Retrospective of “The Devouring” Epic Horror Adventure, New Social Gameplay in VRChat, & Prefabs Community Tools The Devouring is an epic, 5-6 hour horror adventure game within VRChat that launched on August 14, 2020. It quickly went viral in the VRChat
12.18.2020 #968: Virtual Market 5 is an Inspiring, Community-Driven Artist Expo in VRChat with Worldbuilding & Avatar Innovations Virtual Market 5 opens today December 18th, 2020 at 6p PST (Dec 19th at 11a JST), and will run until January 10th at 6a PST
12.16.2020 #967: Open Call for Immersive Storytelling Residency Program 2021 at UNCSA Note: This is a sponsored content post from the University University of North Carolina School of the Arts January 31st, 2021 is the deadline for
12.14.2020 #966: Overlaying Multiple Layers of Reality with Pluto VR Telepresence + Standards-Driven, Multi-App Ecosystem Pluto VR is a general-purpose VR, telepresence application that hopes to provide the social presence glue for a standards-driven, multiple-application ecosystem using SteamVR on the
12.11.2020 #965: Primer on Whitehead’s Process Philosophy as a Paradigm Shift & Foundation for Experiential Design Virtual reality has the potential catalyze a paradigm shift around our concepts about the nature of reality, and one of the most influential philosophers on
12.03.2020 #964: Allegations of Facebook Blocking & Cloning Fitness Tracker YUR Fit by a Former Co-Founder Cix Liv On October 4th, YUR Fit co-founder Cix Liv spoke out on social media about his frustrations in collaborating with Facebook as an independent developer by
11.24.2020 #963: “Inside COVID-19″: A Doctor’s Personal Battle with the Virus + Immersive Medical Visualizations Inside COVID-19 is a new 360 video series that premiered on Oculus TV on Friday, November 20, 2020, and it features Dr. Josiah Child who
11.19.2020 #962: “Star Wars: Tales from the Galaxy’s Edge” Moves a Step Closer to Storyliving in VR + Accessibility Innovations The new Star Wars: Tales from the Galaxy’s Edge VR experience releases today, and I had a chance to play through it and talk to
11.19.2020 #961: Reimagining the VR Awards Show as a VRChat World Hopping Adventure with AIXR The first VR Awards shows was produced by Academy of International Extended Reality (AIXR) in 2017, and after producing three annual events in London the
11.17.2020 #960: How Burning Man’s 10 Principles Got Translated into VR & AltSpace with Athena Demos Athena Demos is the Chief Cultural & Community Officer for Black Rock Creative and Black Rock City VR (BRCvr). I previously covered BRCvr’s officially-sanctioned multiverse
11.09.2020 #959: Networked Tribalism: Filter Bubbles + AI Algorithms + Political Polarization John Robb has a concept of Networked Tribalism, which is a result of the combination of filter bubbles, AI algorithms, and political polarization. Robb is
10.31.2020 #958: A Candid Conversation with Facebook’s AR/VR Privacy Policy Manager: New Potentials for Community Feedback There is a lot of sensitive data that will captured by virtual reality devices that present a wide range of ethical and moral dilemmas that
10.29.2020 #957: How FIVARS Festival is Using WebXR to Deliver 360 Video I talk with the founder of the FIVARS VR & AR story festival Keram Malicki-Sánchez & WebXR developer James Baicoianu to talk about how the
10.28.2020 #956: Sneak Peak of Raindance Immersive’s 50 hours of VR selections from Oct 28 to Nov 7 Mária Rakušanová got her start in the VR industry in 2014 when she was a product marketer for the Gear VR at Samsung. Her job
10.15.2020 #954: Stanford Study Shows Motion-Tracked VR Data Can Be Identifiable Stanford University has just published an important research paper that hows how motion tracked data in VR can be identifiable of specific users. The paper
10.14.2020 #953: Brennan Spiegel’s “VRx” Book Surveys Virtual Therapeutics as a Whole New Field of Medicine On October 6, 2020, Dr. Brennan Spiegel released his book titled “VRx: How Virtual Therapeutics Will Revolutionize Medicine,” which is an amazing survey of different
10.13.2020 #952: XR Association Industry Survey & Lobbying Congress on XR Policy The XR Association is a non-profit 501(c)(6) trade association with members including Facebook/Oculus, Google, Microsoft, Sony, & HTC. They’re focused on general awareness and education,
10.08.2020 #951: Privacy Primer: A History of U.S. Consumer Privacy, U.S. Federal Privacy Debates, & XR Privacy Implications with Joseph Jerome Virtual and Augmented Reality pose unique privacy challenges, and so it’s worth going back to look at the evolution of privacy laws in the United
10.04.2020 #950: Darkfield Radio’s Binaural Audio Performances Blur the Lines of Reality Darkfield Radio have released a couple of binaural audio performances that transform your home into a immersive audio stage. Their experiences are intended to be
10.02.2020 #949: My Wife & I Can’t Stop Talking About “Gnomes & Goblins” My wife, Wonder Bright, has absolutely fallen in love with the VR experience Gnomes & Goblins. Her mindset and approach to the game was almost
10.01.2020 #948: Exquisite Worldbuilding in “Gnomes & Goblins” & Design Challenges of Onboarding New Users & Satisfying Hardcore VR Gamers The full release of Gnomes & Goblins was released on September 23, 2020, and it has some of the most sophisticated worldbuilding that I’ve seen
09.28.2020 #947: Training AI in a Story World: “Agence” Dynamic Film Combines Reinforcement Learning with Immersive Storytelling The creators of Agence call it a “dynamic film,” but it’s part immersive story with game-like interactions and puzzles where you engage with either traditional
09.26.2020 #946: “In Protest:” 360° Video of Black Lives Matter Movement, Memorials, & Many Ways to Bear Witness While Black In the aftermath of George Floyd’s murder by three police officers on May 25th, 2020, there were Black Lives Matter protests that erupted around the
09.25.2020 #945: Unpacking the Facebook Connect AR Announcements with Doug North Cook Oculus Connect has been rebranded Facebook Connect, and what would have been Oculus Connect 7 is now Facebook Connect 1. Facebook Connect happened on September
09.21.2020 #944: Guy Godin on Getting Cloned by Facebook & Virtual Desktop’s Forbidden Wireless Streaming Features On June 11, 2019, Guy Godin announced on Reddit and on Twitter that “Oculus doesn’t want the SteamVR streaming feature in their store” and that
09.16.2020 #943: Oculus Quest 2 Impressions with Road to VR’s Ben Lang + Unanswered Privacy Concerns The Oculus Quest 2 was announced at Facebook Connect today, and I was able to get early access to it last week to try it
09.16.2020 #942: The Facebook vs Apple XR Battle – The Information’s Alex Heath on Facebook’s XR Hardware Bets Alex Heath reports on Facebook and their competitors for the subscription-only site The Information, and he’s been able to get some exclusive interviews and do
09.11.2020 #941: Critics Roundtable on Venice VR Expanded 2020 with Pola Weiß & Kathryn Yu I’m joined by Pola Weiß (Founder, VR Stories / VR Geschichten) & Kathryn Yu (Executive Editor, No Proscenium) to talk about nearly all of the
09.04.2020 #940: The Burning Man Multiverse: The Story of Black Rock City VR in AltSpaceVR In 2014, Greg Edwards took photos of all of the work on the Burning Man Playa, and then set out to create a 1:1 scale
08.28.2020 #939: Valve News Network on Valve, Their Relationship with Oculus, & Half-Life: Alyx Investigations Valve is a critical player in the modern resurgence of VR. They are known for their friendly competitions and cooperation they had with Oculus in
08.24.2020 #938: F Reality Podcast Roundtable Discussion on Facebook & Privacy I was invited to join the F Reality Podcast over the weekend with VR Oasis’s Mike, Nathie, Rowdy Guy, and Zimtok5 to be able to
08.21.2020 #937: Facebook’s Desire to Own the Metaverse Conflicts with Cultivating a Developer Ecosystem: BigScreenVR’s Grievances BigScreenVR is in direct competition with some of the same services that Facebook wants to fully control, and their CEO Darshan Shankar has had to
08.20.2020 #936: Indie Dev Anton Hand on Resisting the Facebook Panopticon Anton Hand is an indie VR developer with RUST LTD, who is the project lead for Hotdogs, Horseshoes, & Hand Grenades. Hand made the decision
08.19.2020 #935: Oculus Quest Enthusiasm vs the Skepticism of Bootstrapping VR with Surveillance Capitalism The Oculus Quest launched on May 21, 2019. Nine days later I was at Augmented World Expo doing interviews and preparing a main stage talk
08.18.2020 #934: Accessibility in Virtual Worlds: Lessons from Second Life with Donna Davis In 2015, Donna Davis and Tom Boellstorff received a three-year National Science Foundation grant on The Role of People with Disability in the Innovation of
08.14.2020 #932: Medical VR Insights into the Ethics of Experiential Design with Howard Rose Howard Rose has been working in medical VR for over 20 years now, and he’s the co-founder and CEO of Firsthand Technology. He reached out
08.05.2020 #931: IEEE’s Ethically-Aligned Design on Autonomous & Intelligent Systems & Extended Reality On March 25, 2019, the IEEE Standards Association published Ethically-Aligned Design: A Vision for Prioritizing Human Well-being with Autonomous and Intelligent Systems (PDF) covering the
07.29.2020 #930: XR for Change Panel on Ethics in XR Ethics in XR is a vast topic, and I had a chance to moderate a panel discussion for Games for Change / XR for Change
07.25.2020 #939: Ethics & Privacy in Mixed Reality Panel for IEEE VR Academics & Researchers The IEEE VR 2020 Conference brought together the academic XR community to share their latest research, and to talk about topics that are of interest
07.20.2020 #928: Play Therapy in VR with Virtual Sandtray & Dr. Jessica Stone Dr. Jessica Stone is a licensed psychologist and registered play therapist who has been experimenting with integrating technologies into her therapeutic practice specializing in working
07.15.2020 #927: Erica Southgate’s Book on VR Pedagogy & Teaching Higher-Order Metacognition Skills Erica Southgate released a book titled Virtual Reality in Curriculum and Pedagogy: Evidence from Secondary on Classrooms May 19, 2020, which covers the theory and
07.10.2020 #926: Invoking Double Consciousness with VR & Psychedelics + Navigating the New Screen Deal Carl H Smith‘s work is at the intersection of VR, psychedelics, and esoteric contemplative practices. He’s the director of the Learning Technology Research Center at
07.08.2020 #925: Cannes XR/Kaleidoscope Development Showcase + Online Exhibitions of Immersive Stories with Tribeca, VeeR, & Positron Cannes XR is a part of the Cannes Marché du Film, which is the business side of the Cannes Film Festival. For the past two
07.06.2020 #924: Tender Claws’ Live Immersive Theater Show “Tempest” Creates a New Fusion of VR Storytelling Tender Claws continues to be one of the most innovative studios pushing forward what’s possible for immersive storytelling in VR by launching a Tempest, which
07.04.2020 #923: Shola Amoo’s “Violence” is a Provacative Exploration of Race, Bias, Perception, & Agency Shola Amoo’s Violence is a provocative virtual reality experience that “re-contextualizes the notions of violence by examining it through the lens of state oppression against
07.02.2020 #922: Lighting, Emotional Performance, & the Grief of Miscarriage in “Minimum Mass” Raqi Syed and Areito Echevarria’s Minimum Mass is an emotional, immersive narrative that explores grief of miscarriage. They apply their visual effects knowledge gained from

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#973: Sundance New Frontier 2021 Sneak Peak + Virtual Film Parties & Gatherings

#972: Augmenting Virtual Reality with Aardvark

#971: Mark Pesce’s Book “Augmented Reality” Contextualizes AR with History of HCI & Future of Localized Metadata

#970: Retrospective of 2020 Immersive Storytelling Residency at UNCSA’s METL

#969: Retrospective of “The Devouring” Epic Horror Adventure, New Social Gameplay in VRChat, & Prefabs Community Tools

#968: Virtual Market 5 is an Inspiring, Community-Driven Artist Expo in VRChat with Worldbuilding & Avatar Innovations

#967: Open Call for Immersive Storytelling Residency Program 2021 at UNCSA

#966: Overlaying Multiple Layers of Reality with Pluto VR Telepresence + Standards-Driven, Multi-App Ecosystem

#965: Primer on Whitehead’s Process Philosophy as a Paradigm Shift & Foundation for Experiential Design

#964: Allegations of Facebook Blocking & Cloning Fitness Tracker YUR Fit by a Former Co-Founder Cix Liv

#963: “Inside COVID-19″: A Doctor’s Personal Battle with the Virus + Immersive Medical Visualizations

#962: “Star Wars: Tales from the Galaxy’s Edge” Moves a Step Closer to Storyliving in VR + Accessibility Innovations

#961: Reimagining the VR Awards Show as a VRChat World Hopping Adventure with AIXR

#960: How Burning Man’s 10 Principles Got Translated into VR & AltSpace with Athena Demos

#959: Networked Tribalism: Filter Bubbles + AI Algorithms + Political Polarization

#958: A Candid Conversation with Facebook’s AR/VR Privacy Policy Manager: New Potentials for Community Feedback

#957: How FIVARS Festival is Using WebXR to Deliver 360 Video

#956: Sneak Peak of Raindance Immersive’s 50 hours of VR selections from Oct 28 to Nov 7

#954: Stanford Study Shows Motion-Tracked VR Data Can Be Identifiable

#953: Brennan Spiegel’s “VRx” Book Surveys Virtual Therapeutics as a Whole New Field of Medicine

#952: XR Association Industry Survey & Lobbying Congress on XR Policy

#951: Privacy Primer: A History of U.S. Consumer Privacy, U.S. Federal Privacy Debates, & XR Privacy Implications with Joseph Jerome

#950: Darkfield Radio’s Binaural Audio Performances Blur the Lines of Reality

#949: My Wife & I Can’t Stop Talking About “Gnomes & Goblins”

#948: Exquisite Worldbuilding in “Gnomes & Goblins” & Design Challenges of Onboarding New Users & Satisfying Hardcore VR Gamers

#947: Training AI in a Story World: “Agence” Dynamic Film Combines Reinforcement Learning with Immersive Storytelling

#946: “In Protest:” 360° Video of Black Lives Matter Movement, Memorials, & Many Ways to Bear Witness While Black

#945: Unpacking the Facebook Connect AR Announcements with Doug North Cook

#944: Guy Godin on Getting Cloned by Facebook & Virtual Desktop’s Forbidden Wireless Streaming Features

#943: Oculus Quest 2 Impressions with Road to VR’s Ben Lang + Unanswered Privacy Concerns

#942: The Facebook vs Apple XR Battle – The Information’s Alex Heath on Facebook’s XR Hardware Bets

#941: Critics Roundtable on Venice VR Expanded 2020 with Pola Weiß & Kathryn Yu

#940: The Burning Man Multiverse: The Story of Black Rock City VR in AltSpaceVR

#939: Valve News Network on Valve, Their Relationship with Oculus, & Half-Life: Alyx Investigations

#938: F Reality Podcast Roundtable Discussion on Facebook & Privacy

#937: Facebook’s Desire to Own the Metaverse Conflicts with Cultivating a Developer Ecosystem: BigScreenVR’s Grievances

#936: Indie Dev Anton Hand on Resisting the Facebook Panopticon

#935: Oculus Quest Enthusiasm vs the Skepticism of Bootstrapping VR with Surveillance Capitalism

#934: Accessibility in Virtual Worlds: Lessons from Second Life with Donna Davis

#932: Medical VR Insights into the Ethics of Experiential Design with Howard Rose

#931: IEEE’s Ethically-Aligned Design on Autonomous & Intelligent Systems & Extended Reality

#930: XR for Change Panel on Ethics in XR

#939: Ethics & Privacy in Mixed Reality Panel for IEEE VR Academics & Researchers

#928: Play Therapy in VR with Virtual Sandtray & Dr. Jessica Stone

#927: Erica Southgate’s Book on VR Pedagogy & Teaching Higher-Order Metacognition Skills

#926: Invoking Double Consciousness with VR & Psychedelics + Navigating the New Screen Deal

#925: Cannes XR/Kaleidoscope Development Showcase + Online Exhibitions of Immersive Stories with Tribeca, VeeR, & Positron

#924: Tender Claws’ Live Immersive Theater Show “Tempest” Creates a New Fusion of VR Storytelling

#923: Shola Amoo’s “Violence” is a Provacative Exploration of Race, Bias, Perception, & Agency

#922: Lighting, Emotional Performance, & the Grief of Miscarriage in “Minimum Mass”

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