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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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1:33:53

#1271: Indie Immersive Narratives at FIVARS & the...

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2023/09/15

The latest Festival of International Virtual and Augmented Reality Stories (FIVARS) starts today in a hybrid exhibition of 65 immersive stories until September 19 in Toronto and until October 3 with an online exhibition of spherical video and cinematic VR. I had a chance to sit down with FIVARS founder Keram Malicki-Sánchez to get a little bit of a sneak peak of this year's selection. There is over 24 hours worth of content, which is too much to be able to cover in one conversation, but

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#1270: Preview of Venice Immersive 2023 Selection...

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2023/08/27

The Venice Immersive 2023 edition is set to take place from August 30 to September 9th featuring 43 immersive storytelling projects from 25 countries and 24 works in the Worlds Gallery section. There are 28 projects in competition this year, and Venice Immersive has established itself as having one of the deepest and most diverse and most robust selection of immersive stories and immersive worlds. They are featuring well over 21 hours of content in the main selections, and that's not even counting

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1:11:00

#1269: Three XR & AI Projects: “Sex, Desire, and Data...

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2023/08/27

Sandra Rodriguez is a director and creative director of immersive experiences that use AI to create spaces where you interact with sentient-like entities. I had a chance to catch up with her during Tribeca Immersive 2023 to unpack three of her recent projects that are at the intersection of XR and AI: Chomsky vs Chomsky (see my previous interview in episode #898), Sex, Desire, and Data Show at the Phi Centre, and Future Rites (see my previous interview in episode #1076). We cover everything from

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1:00:08

#1268: Survey of Open Metaverse Technologies & AI...

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2023/08/27

Adrian Biedrzycki (aka Avaer) won the Poly Awards' WebXR developer of the year in 2021, and has been working on creating an open metaverse technology stack for many years now. He's the co-founder of Webaverse, Moemate virtual assistant, and M3 Metaverse Makers Hacker collective. I had a chance to catch up with Biedzyrcki to do a bit of a survey of what's catching his attention across off the open and closed Metaverse platforms, the state of XR interoperability, and all of the various ways that he's

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33:37

#1267: Frontiers of XR & AI Integrations with ONX...

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2023/08/27

Matthew Niederhauser and John Fitzgerald are both co-founders Sensorium as well technical directors at ONX Studio. They both have been working on a number of different immersive XR projects that are including the latest generative AI and large language model technologies. It's a rapidly developing field, and they talk about their strategy of keeping up to date through the practice of making different creative technology and immersive storytelling projects. Niederhauser spoke a bit about

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42:58

#1266: Converting Dance into Multi-Channel Generative...

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2023/08/27

Brandon Powers is a creative director and choreographer who is creating experiences across physical and virtual space at the intersection of performance and technology. He was showing a dance performance at ONX Studios during Tribeca Immersive that was titled Kinetic Diffusion. It was created in collaboration with Aaron Santiago, and featured three screens that were being filled with delayed generative AI footage in near real-time and 30 frames per second, which required eleven 4090 GPUs in the

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1:12:31

#1265: Integrating Generative AI into Live Theatre...

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2023/08/27

Brendan Bradley is an actor and storyteller who got into real-time animation systems and social VR during the pandemic, and then starting putting on live theatre shows in Virtual Reality both onsite, hybrid, and in-venue, and fully virtual. He co-founded OnBoardXR, which has been embracing accessible technology like WebXR and social VR via Mozilla Hubs, which has enabled his immersive shows to be available on mobile phones, tablets, PCs, and virtual reality headsets. Since the beginning,

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#1264: Inworld.ai for Dynamic NPC Characters with...

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2023/08/27

Matt Kim is the technical creative director at inworld.ai creating demos to show off their NPC platform, which was featured in my previous episode #1263 in the MeetWol demo by Liquid City and Niantic. I was really impressed with how my interactions with inworld.ai seemed to go beyond the limitations of ChatGPT and existing tech demos of large language models. Their website elaborates on how they're taking NPCs to the next level by saying how they add, "configurable safety, knowledge, memory,

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51:13

#1263: MeetWol AI Agent with Niantic, Overbeast AR...

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2023/08/27

Keiichi Matsuda is one of the deepest thinkers in the field of XR. He is trained as an architect, and he's currently the director of Liquid City, a small design studio based in London that is engaged developing cutting-edge AR applications and creating speculative design film and written essays that give us a sneak peak at the future of immersive and spatial computing technologies. Matsuda created one of the most influence cautionary tales of augmented reality called HYPER-REALITY in 2016, which I

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46:58

#1262: Using in AI in AR Filters & ChatGPT for...

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2023/08/27

Don Allen Stevenson III aspires by become the Bob Ross of the Metaverse by creating AR filters and creative technology XR projects, and XR developer that he promotes on this social media channels (@donalleniii on Instagram, X (Twitter), and TikTok) with an educational angle. I had a chance to catch up with him at AWE to hear a bit more about how he navigates these liminal spaces of emerging technology as he consistently has to reinvent his self-identifying job description to keep up with the rapidly

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37:07

1261: Using ChatGPT for Rapid Prototyping of Tilt...

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2023/08/27

I had a chance to catch up with Jeri Ellsworth, co-founder and CEO of Tilt Five again at Augmented World Expo 2023. Be sure to catch my previous conversation in episode #1021 where she gives her full epic backstory in inventing Tilt Five at Valve, getting fire, and eventually being able to re-acquire the IP rights against all odds. At the time of this recording, Tilt Five had been shipping for six months, and I get a bit of an update for how their launch has been going, and their various efforts to

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27:50

#1260: Using ChatGPT for XR Education and Persistent...

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2023/08/27

Javier Fadul is Director of Innovation at HTX Labs, and I ran into him on the expo floor of the Augmented World Expo 2023. We talked about how he's been using ChatGPT via AR Glasses as a impromptu research assistant, curriculum planner, and children's book co-author. We also talk about how he sees how AI will continued to be integrated into virtual worlds within an educational context. Fadul has gone all in with creating casual conversation and educational dialects large language models via AR, and

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52:32

#1259: AWE Panel on the Intersection of AI and the...

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2023/08/27

I had a chance to participate in a panel discussion exploring "The Intersection of AI and the Metaverse: What's Next?" on the main stage of Augmented World Expo on the opening day on May 31, 2023. The discussion was moderated by Amy LaMeyer (Managing Partner of WXR Fund), and also featured Tony Parisi (Chief Product Officer, Lamina1), Alvin Graylin (Global VP of Corporate Development , HTC and President of China for HTC). Graylin and I engaged in a bit of a dialectal debate on a number of issues at

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38:33

#1258: Using XR & AI to Reclaim and Preserve...

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2023/08/27

Michael Running Wolf is a Northern Cheyenne/Lakota/Blackfeet indigenous man who grew up in Montana. He's worked for Amazon, but eventually left in order to pursue his lifelong goal of building XR experiences that integrate with AI for language education and to reclaim and preserve indigenous languages. The biggest blocker is that most natural language processing approaches have a hard to dealing with the infinite words that come from polysynthetic languages like many North American indigenous

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#1257: Talk on Preliminary Thoughts on AI: History,...

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2023/08/27

I was invited to give an opening keynote talk about AI at a half-day seminar titled "Tech Talks: AI Tools, Tips, & Traps" on April 20, 2023 that was put on by San Jose State University's King Library Experiential Virtual Reality Lab (KLEVR). I titled it "Some Preliminary Thoughts on Artificial Intelligence" (video version and slides) as it was an opportunity to put down some of my initial thoughts on the history of AI, the different ethical perspectives on AI, as well some conceptual frames that I

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#1256: Using GPT for Conversational Interface for...

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2023/08/27

The Unclaimed Masterpiece won the best student VR project at Laval Virtual as it has a novel integration of a conversational interface with a virtual assistant / character who is assisting you as you try to find the correct virtual painting to steal from a mult-floor gallery. The project was created by Alizée Calet, William Plessis and Maël Sellier, who are all students in the Master MTI 3D at Arts et Métiers Laval. I spoke with Calet and Sellier about their process of creating this escape room VR

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1:21:48

#1255: Using GPT Chatbots to Bootstrap Social VR...

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2023/08/27

Christina Kinne (aka XaosPrincess) wanted to seed social VR worlds with AI chatbots in order to help catalyze larger social VR gatherings, and so she created the The Quantum Bar in Neos VR, which features a robot bartender that does speech to text via Google services in order to interface with GPT 3.0 in order to create a real-time conversational interface with an AI agent. I had a chance to catch up with Kinne and lead AI engineer Guillermo Valle Perez (aka Guillefix) at Laval Virtual 2023 where

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1:14:13

#1254: Using AI to Upskill Creative Sovereignty with...

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2023/08/27

Violeta Ayala is a filmmaker, film futurist, and creative technologist who using semantics to create immersive art with ChatGPT and generative AI programs. I had a chance to catch up with her at NewImages France where she talked about how AI has completely revolutionized her creative process as someone who identifies as being on the autistic spectrum, she talks about how AI has enabled her to find new ways to close the gap between her imagination and creative coding projects and immersive

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1:02:54

#1253: XR & AI Series Kickoff with Evo Heyning on a...

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2023/08/27

The intersection of XR and Artificial Intelligence is a hot topic, and this is the start of a 17-part Voices of VR podcast series where I've interviewed different immersive artists and XR developers over the past four months about how they're integrating AI into their workflow in creating virtual and augmented reality projects. I'm starting the series off with Evo Heyning, how has done a deep dive into dozens of generative AI programs, and she wrote an entire book called Promptcraft: Guidebook

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1:08:02

#1252: “Kinfolk” App is Cultivating an AR Archive of...

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2023/08/16

Kinfolk: Black Lands is described by co-founder Idris Brewster as "an Augmented Reality Archive of Black, Brown, LGBTQ, and underrepresented history in general using the power of immersive storytelling and immersive media to uplift stories from our past and connect those with the present and the future." It's an application that features over 20 prominent figures from Black History including digital monuments and statues that you can place in your home or local outdoor environments. There are

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