Ana Monte is a sound designer and co-founder of Delta Soundworks (https://www.deltasoundworks.com/) -  among many other things. 

She shares her insights on working with spatial audio and speaks openly about the situation of the ratio of women in the field of audio (which is currently at 7%)  and what we can do to change that. 

Knowing how audio has this very individual language that speaks to our own experiences she believes it’s more about the concepts, than the technology in the end. The future will show. Find out more in episode 16. 

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Lara Rohde recently graduated with the VR project "Planet Puberty Menstruation" which aims at a younger audience (6 - 20 years). It just won the XR Science Award 2024. In episode 15 we talk about the challenges and advantages VR presents to the audience when creating a world around a topic like menstruation. Especially when it provokes shame in other mediums easily among an audience. 
Not in VR - as here we find a safe space. 

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Celine Tricart is been creating and producing in VR for many years; together with her co-founder Marie Blondiaux she started we are coven. Her VR experiences like „The Key“ or „Fight Back“ were invited to many festivals around the globe. Now she dives into the world of gaming with the VR game „Masters of Light“.  VR Women talks with her about the different aspects of creating an experience or a game. Celine shares her insights to what is important when creating for a certain audience like women and how to create engagement and a feeling of awe for an audience.  Find out more at https://wearecoven.com/

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Dr. Jacquelyn Ford Morie - or as the VR community also knows her - Jacki Morie is one of THE pioneers in VR. For three decades she has been creating and researching in the field of Virtual Reality focusing on meaningful personal experiences. At www.morie.org you can find out more about the vast amount of influence Jacki had and still has on the community of VR - be it her thesis on „Meaning and Emplacement in Expressive Immersive Virtual Environments“ or her involvement with NASA. 

VR Women talks with her about how her work, her findings and approaches over the years have changed and why she believes VR is a wonderful fitting medium for women. Get inspired by Jacki who was presented with the AIXR Accenture Lifetime Achievement Award in December 2022. 

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This time VR women has two  guests for the first time  - Deirdre V. Lyons and Whitton Frank - both founders of the ferryman collective: https://www.ferrymancollective.com/. Together they create and execute live immersive narratives in VR and tell us, how that does not only change the way of production, but also how the medium of VR lets one get in touch with the audience.  

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Paula Strunden is an architectural designer and a researcher in XR. Her work focuses on the possibilities of how binaries can be dissolved in XR, what exactly embodiment and disembodiment can mean and how you can be so much more free in XR without having to hold a controller in your hands all the time. 

On the platform www.xr-atlas.org she collects works, that otherwise might be lost to the public. If you feel, like you have something to contribute take a look online and approach her. 

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In Episode 10 VR Women meets  Natasha Greenhalgh in Amsterdam. Natasha talks with us about her background, what she believes is needed for women in the immersive arts and new media technologies nowadays and how she started Nxt Museum (https://nxtmuseum.com/) together with her business partner Merel van Helsdingen. 

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Anil Altas Brug comes from marketing. She got into VR around 2016 and co-founded her own agency Turboslow Web3. She combines her work in new technological areas with her believe in digital mindfulness and a need to experiment. 

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As CEO of NEON and creator of many VR pieces VR Women dives deep with Deepa Mann-Kler in this episode into the the connection of art, technology and the importance of humanity in all of it. Find out more about Deepa and her work here: https://www.discoverneon.com/

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Michaela Pnacekova is an XR maker, a technologist and a researcher. She talks with us about her current research work in the field of facial expressions and analysis of emotions. Will the future hold better understanding of emotions for us in VR or might it be more restricted? You can find more about Michaela's work here: https://michaelapnacekova.com/

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