Since May 2014, Kent Bye has published over 1000 Voices of VR podcast interviews featuring the pioneering artists, storytellers, and technologists driving the resurgence of virtual & augmented reality. He's an oral historian, experiential journalist, & aspiring philosopher, helping to define the patterns of immersive storytelling, experiential design, ethical frameworks, & the ultimate potential of XR.
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#1104: Tribeca XR: “Evolver” is an Awe-Inspiring Fluid Dynamics Simulation of Human Blood Flow Giving an Embodied Experience of Interbeing
Marshmallow Laser Feast's latest piece Evolver premiered at the Tribeca Immersive festival, and it takes you inside the human body in a transcendent journey into how the blood flows through our heart and throughout our body. They collaborating with the science & research organizations like Allen Institute and translating 2D visualizations of blood flow by Fraunhofer MEVIS into fully immersive VR visualizations. Being immersed inside of a fluid dynamics simulation of air flow and blood flow within the human body in Evolver allowed me to experience an interconnected aspect of reality that calls into question the boundaries between where the outside world ends and where the inside world begins. I had a chance to unpack some of the deeper philosophical inspirations & motivations behind of Evolver as well as the journey in creating it with Marshmallow Laser Feast co-founder Barnaby Steel at the Tribeca Immersive festival on Friday, June 10, 2022.