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
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#942: The Facebook vs Apple XR Battle – The Information’s Alex Heath on Facebook’s XR Hardware Bets
Alex Heath reports on Facebook and their competitors for the subscription-only site The Information, and he’s been able to get some exclusive interviews and do
#941: Critics Roundtable on Venice VR Expanded 2020 with Pola Weiß & Kathryn Yu
I’m joined by Pola Weiß (Founder, VR Stories / VR Geschichten) & Kathryn Yu (Executive Editor, No Proscenium) to talk about nearly all of the
#940: The Burning Man Multiverse: The Story of Black Rock City VR in AltSpaceVR
In 2014, Greg Edwards took photos of all of the work on the Burning Man Playa, and then set out to create a 1:1 scale
#939: Valve News Network on Valve, Their Relationship with Oculus, & Half-Life: Alyx Investigations
Valve is a critical player in the modern resurgence of VR. They are known for their friendly competitions and cooperation they had with Oculus in
#938: F Reality Podcast Roundtable Discussion on Facebook & Privacy
I was invited to join the F Reality Podcast over the weekend with VR Oasis’s Mike, Nathie, Rowdy Guy, and Zimtok5 to be able to
#937: Facebook’s Desire to Own the Metaverse Conflicts with Cultivating a Developer Ecosystem: BigScreenVR’s Grievances
BigScreenVR is in direct competition with some of the same services that Facebook wants to fully control, and their CEO Darshan Shankar has had to
#936: Indie Dev Anton Hand on Resisting the Facebook Panopticon
Anton Hand is an indie VR developer with RUST LTD, who is the project lead for Hotdogs, Horseshoes, & Hand Grenades. Hand made the decision
#935: Oculus Quest Enthusiasm vs the Skepticism of Bootstrapping VR with Surveillance Capitalism
The Oculus Quest launched on May 21, 2019. Nine days later I was at Augmented World Expo doing interviews and preparing a main stage talk
#934: Accessibility in Virtual Worlds: Lessons from Second Life with Donna Davis
In 2015, Donna Davis and Tom Boellstorff received a three-year National Science Foundation grant on The Role of People with Disability in the Innovation of
#933: Ethical Design in Immersive Media Panel Discussion for Design Week Portland 2020
On August 7, 2020, I participated in a panel discussion about Ethical Design in Immersive Media organized by the University of Oregon as a part of Design Week Portland. The panel featured Stanford University Virtual Human Interaction Lab's Jeremy Baile...