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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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#1230: Captioning for XR Accessibility with W3C’s...

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2023/07/13

Michael Cooper works for the World Wide Web Consortium's Web Accessibility Initiative, and he was attending the XR Access Symposium to learn more about the existing XR accessibility efforts but also to moderate a break-out session about captions in XR. One of Cooper's big takeaways is that there is no magical, one-size-fits-all solution to captioning in XR because people have different needs, different preferences, and different contexts that means that there is a need for frameworks to help make

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#1229: XR for Career Exploration with Accessibility...

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2023/07/13

Mark Steelman is a XR Access Working Group Member and Senior Unity Engineer at Transfr, which uses virtual reality to "train people for well-paying careers available now in high-demand fields." Steelman was at XR Access showing off some of the accessibility features of their VR training software that includes captions, height adjustments, spatial audio, and arrows as audio cues or a way to direct attention. He was soliciting feedback from XR Access attendees to add even more features to ensure that

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#1228: XR Accessibility and Public Policy with XR...

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2023/07/13

Liz Hyman President and the CEO of the XR Association (XRA), which is a non-profit, industry trade association representing 47 XR companies including major players like Meta, Google, Microsoft, HTC, Sony Interactive Entertainment, Unity, and HTC. XRA has been collaborating with XR Access from the beginning, and they collaborated on Chapter 3 of their an XR Developer's Guide Series focusing on Accessibility & Inclusive Design in Immersive Experiences. At the XR Access Symposium, Hyman moderated a

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#1227: Journey of Making XR Accessible with XR Access...

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2023/07/13

Dylan Fox is the Director of Operations for the XR Access Initiative, where he focuses on outreach and advocacy for making virtual and augmented reality accessible for people who have disabilities. I previously interviewed Fox for the white paper on Accessibility that he co-wrote for the IEEE Global Initiative on the Ethics of Extended Reality. I had a chance to catch up with Fox at the XR Access Symposium to get an overview of the event, the latest excitement about the accessibility features on

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#1226: Poster Session Interviews from XR Access...

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2023/07/13

I had a chance to do six brief interviews during the poster session of XR Access Symposium 2023 that I've compiled into this single podcast episode. This gives a great overview of some of the emerging topics for XR accessibility including XR accessibility heuristics, representing disabilities through avatars, audio descriptions for 360 videos, using AR glasses for live captioning, accessibility implications of augmented reality art, and the assistive technology potential of digital twins. Below

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#1225: XR Accessibility for the Deaf and Hard of...

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2023/07/12

Christian Vogler leads the Technical Access Program at Gallaudet University, and has been looking into captions for VR and 3D spatial environments for folks who are deaf and hard of hearing. I had a chance to catch up with him at the XR Access Symposium where he was providing warnings about translating of 2D accessibility paradigms into the new realities and potentials of 3D volumes and spatial computing. He was talking about some of the concerns for folks who are deaf and hard of hearing including

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#1223: Defining Disability Through Differences in...

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2023/07/12

Christine Hemphill started Open Inclusion in 2018 as a disability-inclusive research and design organization that is working at the intersection between accessibility and emerging technologies. She makes sense of the broad spectrum of disabilities by saying, "I talk about people that think, feel, move, sense or communicate significantly enough differently that they're excluded from the way design works today. So to me that's disability." Hemphill's phenomenological framing of disability reminds

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#1222: Kickoff of XR Accessibility Series with XR...

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2023/07/12

This is the first of fifteen in a Voices of VR podcast series on XR Accessibility based upon my coverage from the XR Access Symposium 2023 that happened in New York City on June 15th and 16th. I'm kicking off my 8 hours of coverage with an interview with XR Access co-founder Shiri Azenkot, who is an associate professor at Cornell Tech researching accessibility. She is focusing on making augmented and virtual reality technologies accessible as well as trying to leverage XR to solve accessibility

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1:32:32

#1221: Wagner James Au’s Book “Making a Metaverse...

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2023/06/22

Wagner James Au's latest book Making a Metaverse that Matters: From Snow Crash & Second Life to A Virtual World Worth Fighting For releases on June 27 after the 20th anniversary of Second Life is on June 23, 2023. Au started as an embedded journalist employed by Second Life to cover the evolving trends of digital culture within their virtual world, and he's continued to be an intrepid reporter of this space on his New World Notes blog tracking the evolution of various different Metaverse

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#1220: Tribeca Immersive 2023 Preview with Curator...

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2023/06/07

I had a chance to speak with Tribeca Immersive curator Ana Brzezińska to break down each one of this year's selection of 13 immersive stories. I'll be in NYC from June 7-16th covering the festival, and so stay tuned for more coverage coming soon. UPDATE August 18, 2023Here are all 16 interviews that I recorded with immersive creators at Tribeca 2023. #1220: Tribeca Immersive 2023 Preview with Curator Ana Brzezińska #1238: "The Fury" Combines Two-Channel Video Installation with 360 Video to

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1:50:42

#1219: Apple Vision Pro Hands-on Debriefing with CNET...

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2023/06/07

I speak to CNET editor at large Scott Stein about his hands-on impression of the Apple Vision Pro that he had on Tuesday, June 6, 2023. Check out his full article: "Apple Vision Pro Hands-On: Far Better Than I Was Ready For." Also see my Twitter thread live coverage of #WWDC23 This is a listener-supported podcast through the Voices of VR Patreon. Music: Fatality

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#1218: Apple Vision Pro Hands-on Debriefing with...

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2023/06/07

I speak with UploadVR Editor Ian Hamilton about his hands-on impression of the Apple Vision Pro that he had on Tuesday, June 6, 2023. Check out his full article: "Apple Vision Pro Hands-On: Way Ahead of Meta In Critical Ways." Also see my Twitter thread live coverage of #WWDC23. This is a listener-supported podcast through the Voices of VR Patreon. Music: Fatality

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#1217: Apple Vision Pro Hands-on Debriefing with Road...

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2023/06/07

I speak with Road to VR Editor Ben Lang about his hands-on impression of the Apple Vision Pro that he had on Monday, June 5, 2023. Check out his full article: "Hands-on: Apple Vision Pro isn’t for Gaming, But it Does Everything Else Better." Also see my Twitter thread live coverage of #WWDC23. This is a listener-supported podcast through the Voices of VR Patreon. Music: Fatality

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#1216: First Impressions of Apple Vision Pro from Two...

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2023/06/06

Apple finally announced their mixed reality headset called the Apple Vision Pro at Apple's WWDC keynote on June 5, 2023. It's a $3500 device that by accounts is the most advanced XR headset produced up to this point that's largely driven by eye tracking, hand gestures, and speaking. I was not able to score an invite to be at WWDC myself, and so I was closely tracking all of the news in my WWDC23 Twitter thread. But I wanted to get some first-hand testimonies from XR developers who were on the ground

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#1215: Fatboy Slim’s Groundbreaking & Trippy VR...

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2023/05/30

Engage XR produced a 45-minute “Eat Sleep VR Repeat” – Immersive Metaverse Concert in collaboration with Fatboy Slim’s Norman Cook that showed in a limited screening on March 30, 2023. It was an incredibly, mind-bending and groundbreaking VR concert experience that combined novel interactions and social dynamics, but also a trippy and psychedelic journey through the mind and music of Norman Cook. I had a chance to catch a press preview of this virtual concert on March 28th, and then unpack the

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#1214: History of Engage XR’s Education &...

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2023/05/30

The Engage XR platform holds a mix of different types of gatherings in VR ranging from educational meetings, corporate communications, and virtual events and conferences. With the onset of the pandemic in 2020, then HTC started holding a number of their conferences and announcements on the Engage platform, and eventually became an investor. I had a chance to speak with the CEO David Whelan back in May of 2021 to get a bit more context and history of the Engage Platform. Engage has continued to

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#1213: Primer on WebGPU & Bringing High-Performance...

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2023/05/19

WebGPU shipped in Chrome 113, which brings high-performance 3D graphics & parallel compute capabilities to the web. I was able to chat with Google Chrome software Engineer Brandon Jones, who is a W3C specification editor for both WebGPU and WebXR Device API. We talk about the history of WebGPU, some his speculations as to how Apple may be actively working on support both WebGPU and WebXR (spec editor Ada Rose Cannon works at Apple), the future of WebXR, the new WebGPU Shading Language (WGSL),

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#1212: Breakdown of Award-Winning “Reeducated” VR Doc...

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2023/05/12

The immersive documentary Reeducated won a Peabody Award as well as the Outstanding Interactive Media winner of the New Approaches category of the New & Documentary Emmy in 2022. I had a chance to record this interview with the co-directors Ben Mauk and Sam Wolson just after it’s world premiere at SXSW 2021 (where it picked up a Special Jury Recognition for Immersive Journalism). This 360-video was based upon oral history testimony of 3 different prisoners within one of China’s reeducation centers

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#1211: Jay Graber in 2019 on Decentralized Social...

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2023/05/05

I did an interview with Jay Graber back in 2019 at the Decentralized Web (DWeb) Camp a few years before she officially became the Bluesky CEO, which is currently the new hot social media platform that’s a Twitter clone built on top a decentralized architecture using the Authenticated Transfer (AT) Protocol. At the time, Graber was working on a decentralized events application called Happening, but she had a lot aspirations to build out a fully-fledged decentralized social media platform. The

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#1210: Adding a Social Graph to the Open Metaverse...

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2023/05/04

Immers Space implements the ActivityPub open standard in order to add a federated social graph to the open Metaverse. I had a chance to try a prototype back in December 2022 where I went from a modified Mozilla Hubs WebXR space (that had the Immers Space open source tools integrated into it) into a FrameVR.io WebXR space by clicking on a persistent interface tracking my connected friends. Just as many virtual worlds allow you join in your friends, this method starts to add a distributed social graph

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