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Voices of VR

Designing for Virtual Reality. Oral history podcast featuring the pioneering artists, storytellers, and technologists driving the resurgence of virtual & augmented reality. Learn about the patterns of immersive storytelling, experiential design, ethical frameworks, & the ultimate potential of XR.

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49:29

#1331: Recreating Spatial Presence in Caves with...

Voices of VR ·

2024/01/23

I interviewed Buried in the Rock creators Shehani Fernando & Anetta Jones at IDFA DocLab 2023. See more context in the rough transcript below. This is a listener-supported podcast through the Voices of VR Patreon. Music: Fatality

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37:34

#1330: “Squeeker: The Mouse” Coach Interspecies...

Voices of VR ·

2024/01/23

I interviewed Squeeker: The Mouse Coach creator Jiabao Li at IDFA DocLab 2023. See more context in the rough transcript below. This is a listener-supported podcast through the Voices of VR Patreon. Music: Fatality

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28:43

#1329: Mixed Reality “PHANTOM” Installation Explores...

Voices of VR ·

2024/01/23

I interviewed PHANTOM creator Aluta Null at IDFA DocLab 2023. See more context in the rough transcript below. This is a listener-supported podcast through the Voices of VR Patreon. Music: Fatality

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55:26

#1328: Kickoff of IDFA DocLab 2023 Coverage:...

Voices of VR ·

2024/01/23

I interviewed Natalie's Trifecta creator Natalie Paneng at IDFA DocLab 2023. See more context in the rough transcript below. Here are my 19 interviews that I conducted at IDFA DocLab 2023: #1328: Kickoff of IDFA DocLab 2023 Coverage: Natalie's Trifecta is a Virtual Tour of Natalie Paneng's Digital Art, Identity, & Imagination #1325: End of Tung-Yen Chou’s Gay Sauna Trilogy with "Traversing the Mist" #1327: "Voice in My Head" Remixes Your Inner Monologue with AI #1329: Mixed Reality

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46:04

#1327 “Voice in My Head” Remixes Your Inner Monologue...

Voices of VR ·

2023/12/29

Voice in My Head is a provocative immersive exploration by Kyle McDonald and Lauren Lee McCarthy that takes large language models the logical extreme of remixing and modulating your inner monologue. Audience participants are invited to customize ChatGPT character that clones your voice to speak to you via an ear bud as you walk around the DocLab festival in Amsterdam and have casual conversations with festival attendees for a half hour. The AI listens to everything you and your interlocutors say,

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47:58

#1326 “Surrogate” Experimental Web Doc and...

Voices of VR ·

2023/12/29

Lauren Lee McCarthy showed Surrogate during the pandemic at Sundance 2022 as an experimental web documentary and immersive performance. Here’s the synopsis: “To become a surrogate. I offer my body to carry someone else’s baby while they use an app to monitor and control me for nine months… As Roe v. Wade is overturned and gene editing opens entirely new reproductive futures, this project asks: How much control should we have over a birthing person’s body, and over a life before it’s born? What does

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56:53

#1325 End of Tung-Yen Chou’s Gay Sauna Trilogy with...

Voices of VR ·

2023/12/29

Traversing the Mist premiered at IDFA DocLab 2023, and is the conclusion of the Mist trilogy by Taiwanese VR director Tung-Yen CHOU. In the Mist was a 360 video, Gazing, in the Mist was a mixed reality installation, and Traversing the Mist is an interactive, multiplayer 6-DoF VR installation. Here is a synopsis “Step into the body of a young Taiwanese man to roam the steamy rooms and red-lit corridors of a surreal gay sauna—with thin mattresses, shared showers and lockers holding secrets. Everywhere

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57:24

#1324 Beginning of Tung-Yen Chou’s Gay Sauna Trilogy...

Voices of VR ·

2023/12/29

Tung-Yen CHOU’s In the Mist is a 360 video that premiered at Venice during the pandemic in 2021. The synopsis of the piece is “In a dim-lighted room filled with mist, blurred figures of men are sipping the desire and loneliness from each other. You seem to have entered a forbidden zone and fallen into a state between dreaming and being awake, gazing at someone and also being gazed at by them. Theatre and new media director Chou Tung-Yen once again touches on the unspeakable life experience of the

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1:13:30

#1323 Fourth Iteration of Lance Weiler’s Community...

Voices of VR ·

2023/12/29

Lance Weiler’s Where There’s Smoke is an immersive experience that he used to process his grief from losing his father, who was a volunteer firefighter and amateur photographer who would take pictures of fires and take Lance with him on these excursions. Weiler always wondered if his father had more involvement in any of these fires than merely observing and documenting them, and there was always some ambiguity in getting to the bottom of this question. As he says in his synopsis “Weiler unravels

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54:57

#1322 Beginning of Lance Weiler’s Grieving Journey...

Voices of VR ·

2023/12/29

In 2019, Lance Weiler premiered Where There’s Smoke at Tribeca Immersive, which has since had four major iterations focusing on different innovations in immersive storytelling. It’s a very personal story where Weiler interviews his father about his life and passion of taking amateur photos of fires while his father was dying from stage four colon cancer. I had a chance to speak about his 17-year journey with this project after his world premiere in 2019, and then the next episode is an update after

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1:04:13

#1321: Breaking Down the Epic Immersive Adventure of...

Voices of VR ·

2023/12/14

Asgard's Wrath 2 is one of the most epic games I've had a chance to play, and I think it's fair to say that it's like Meta's Half-Life: Alyx in terms of a premium AAA game that could be a system seller for the Quest 3. I'm about 40 hours into the game, and I'm only on the 3rd of 7 total sagas. Meta reports that the main campaign is around 60 hours with 130 total hours if you try to achieve all of the side quests and other completionist tasks. Overall, there has been plenty of ways that I've found to

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1:09:27

#1320: Plans for VisionDevCamp, an Apple Vision Pro...

Voices of VR ·

2023/12/07

The co-founders of the first iPhoneDevCamp in 2007, Raven Zachary and Dom Sagolla, are planning on hosting the inaugural VisionDevCamp in the Bay Area a week or two after the Apple Vision Pro launch, which is currently expected sometime in the first quarter of 2024. I had a chance to get more context for the origin story of the iPhoneDevCamp, iPadDevCamp, and iOSDevCamp gatherings as well as how it has helped to facilitate innovation of mobile apps and development frameworks. They are hoping to

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1:18:16

#1319: Preview of 40 Raindance Immersive 2023 Indie...

Voices of VR ·

2023/11/09

Raindance Immersive is back with 40 independent VR experiences across eight categories of Immersive World, Immersive Experience, Immersive Art Experience, Immersive Music Experience, Immersive Narrative, Immersive Game, and two new categories of Short Film of VR and Music Video of VR, which are 2D films that are shot within virtual reality. 75% of this year's selection has some connection to a social VR platform with 28 connected to VRChat with single experiences in EngageXR and Resonite (i.e. the

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1:27:35

#1318: Why Fitness App Developer Andre Elijah is...

Voices of VR ·

2023/11/09

On October 10, 2023 Andre Elijah Immersive filed a $353 million dollar lawsuit against Meta Platforms Technologies and Alo LLC (PDF & Exhibits via UploadVR) claiming both a breach of contract for how Meta terminated a fitness application that it was funding, but also for a broader pattern of anti-competitive behaviors and Sherman Act violations. Elijah is claiming that Meta is giving preference to their own first-party fitness application of Supernatural after the FTC failed to block the acquisition

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34:38

#1317: Qualcomm’s XR2 Gen 2 and AR 1 Gen 1...

Voices of VR ·

2023/10/05

I got consent from Qualcomm to publish Hugo Swart's press briefing that he gave to journalists a week ahead of Meta Connect 2023 where he announced the new XR2 Gen 2 and AR1 Gen 1 chips for the first time. Here is the announcement video teaser that was the first video shown during the briefing. See more context in the rough transcript below. Here are links to all all 12 interviews from my series covering Meta Connect 2023 in looking at first impressions of Quest 3 and Rayban Meta Smartglasses,

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24:32

#1316: I-Illusions Premieres Mixed Reality Game “Bam”...

Voices of VR ·

2023/10/05

I interviewed Dirk Van Welden, Studio Lead and Creative Director at I-Illusions, at Meta Connect 2023. See more context in the rough transcript below. This is a listener-supported podcast through the Voices of VR Patreon. Music: Fatality

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33:53

#1315: Latest Research on Innerworld VR Mental Health...

Voices of VR ·

2023/10/05

I interviewed Noah Robinson, Founder and CEO of Innerworld VR, at Meta Connect 2023. See more context in the rough transcript below. This is a listener-supported podcast through the Voices of VR Patreon. Music: Fatality

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52:41

#1314: Cloudhead Games CEO Denny Unger on the Need to...

Voices of VR ·

2023/10/05

I interviewed Cloudhead Games CEO & Creative Director Denny Unger at Meta Connect 2023. See more context in the rough transcript below. This is a listener-supported podcast through the Voices of VR Patreon. Music: Fatality

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42:32

#1313: Veteran Games Journalist Dean Takahashi on...

Voices of VR ·

2023/10/05

I interviewed Dean Takahashi, Lead Writer at Games Beat and Venture Beat, at Meta Connect 2023. See more context in the rough transcript below. This is a listener-supported podcast through the Voices of VR Patreon. Music: Fatality

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49:43

#1312: VR Filmmaking Tips from Hugh Hou & Keeley Turner

Voices of VR ·

2023/10/05

I interviewed VR filmmakers Hugh Hou & Keeley Turner at Meta Connect 2023. See more context in the rough transcript below. This is a listener-supported podcast through the Voices of VR Patreon. Music: Fatality

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