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.
https://voicesofvr.com
Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 15 days 12 hours 24 minutes
recommended podcasts
#992: “Immersive Arcade” Retrospective of UK Immersive Storytelling by Digital Catapult in Museum of Other Realities
The second volume of the Immersive Arcade Showcase featuring four immersive stories from the United Kingdom launches today as DLC within the Museum of Other
#991: Critiquing Facebook’s Responsible Innovation Principles & Project Aria through the lens of Anthropology & Tech Ethics
Facebook’s Project Aria announcement in September at Facebook Connect raised a number of different ethical questions with anthropologists and technological ethicists. Journalist Lawrence Dodds described
#990: Sneak Peak of Tribeca Immersive 2021 with Loren Hammonds
The 29 immersive experiences that are a part of the Tribeca Immersive 2021 line-up were announced on Tuesday, April 29. There will be 11 Virtual Arcade experiences available starting on June 9 within the Museum of Other Realities,
#989: Former Magic Leap Employees Give Retrospective on “No BS Realities” Cluhouse Chat
On April 22, 2020, Magic Leap announced layoffs of somewhere between 600 to 1000 employees, which amounted to around 1/3 to 1/2 of their total
#988: Defining “Biometric Psychography” to Fill Gaps in Privacy Law to Cover XR Data: Brittan Heller’s Human Rights Perspectives
Brittan Heller is a human rights lawyer who recently published a paper pointing out that there are some significant gaps in privacy laws that do
#987: The Neuroscience of Neuromotor Interfaces + Privacy Implications with Facebook Reality Labs’ Thomas Reardon
On March 18th, Facebook Reality Labs Research announced some of their research into next-generation neuromotor input devices for mixed reality applications. I paraphrased the most
#986: Live Mocap Theater Performance in UE4 with “Dream” by Royale Shakespeake Company & Marshmallow Laser Feast
Dream was a series of 10 live performances over 8 days that used motion captured actors who had virtual embodiments set within an immersive storyworld of Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream powered by the Unreal Engine.
#985: Facebook HCI Research on AR Neural Inputs, Haptics, Contextually-Aware-AI, & Intelligent Clicks
I participated in a Facebook press event on Tuesday, March 16th that featuring some Facebook Human-Computer Interaction Research on AR Neural Inputs, Haptics, Contextually-Aware-AI, &
#984: Live Theater + VR Experiments with Kiira Benzing’s “Loveseat”
Kiira Benzing‘s Loveseat was an ambitious fusion of live theater performance with VR technologies that premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 2019. They performed
#983: Sneak Peak of SXSW Online XR Program with Curator Blake Kammerdiener
SXSW Online is happening March 16-20, and I had a chance to get a sneak peak of the SXSW Online XR world in VRChat and