VR Podcasts
Being in Two Worlds at Once with ‘UTURN’ – Parallel Stories & Quad Binaural Audio Mix
UTURN is a 360-degree video that seamlessly blends together two 180-degree hemisphere worlds containing parallel storylines of two different perspectives at a tech start up. One perspective is from a male founder's point of view and the other perspective...
Samsung’s VR Strategy with Tom Harding, Director of Immersive Products
Without explicitly announcing a new specific product, Samsung quietly implied that they may be developing a new standalone mobile VR HMD during a session during their developer conference last month. While there were no major VR announcements during the...
Consciousness Hacking & VR: Immersive Tech’s Capacity to Drive Addictions or Transcend Compulsions
There is a growing backlash against technology being catalyzed by some of the architects of the persuasive habit-forming techniques. The Guardian does a survey of user experience designers and engineers who are taking drastic actions to curtail their personal...
Gartner’s Brian Blau on the State of the VR & AR Industries
Brian Blau is the vice president of research for personal technologies at Gartner Research where he's in the business of making predictions about the consumer adoption of virtual reality and augmented reality technologies. I last interviewed Blau in 2015...
Future of Invasive Neural Interfaces & Uploading Consciousness with Ramez Naam
Ramez Naam is the author of The Nexus Trilogy sci-fi novels, which explores the moral and sociological implications of technology that can directly interface with the brain. He gave the keynote at the Experiential Technology Conference in March exploring...
Using Abstract VR Art for Neural Entrainment & Brain Research
Kevin Mack is an Oscar-winning visual effects artist and abstract artist who creates digital spaces with fluidly moving textures that are awe-inspiring in their ability to create a novel experience unique to VR. In Blortasia you float weightlessly exploring...
Community Fallout from UploadVR’s Harassment Settlement, and Bearing Witness to Testimony
The sexual harassment lawsuit against UploadVR was reported to be settled via Tech Crunch on September 6th, and a week later the New York Times followed with more details about how Upload had been barely dented. The case was...
Using AR to Recontextualize Our Relationship to Reality with Cabbibo’s ‘ARQUA!’
ARQUA! was one of the ARKit launch applications that was designed by VR veteran Isaac "Cabibbo" Cohen, and it has the same indie charm and shader art aesthetic as his previous VR experiences of Blarp! (2016) and L U...
Advancing Immersive Computing with Intel’s Virtual Reality Center for Excellence
Intel is investing in the future of immersive computing through their Virtual Reality Center for Excellence. They're pushing the boundaries of high-end of VR gaming experiences, pursuing initiatives to help VR reach critical mass, and exploring how RealSense depth...
Behind the Scenes of Felix & Paul’s Emmy-winning White House VR Documentary
The White House VR documentary People's House by Felix & Paul Studios won a Emmy for the outstanding original interactive, and I had a chance to talk with Paul Raphael of Felix & Paul Studios about the challenges of...
Is Body Image from Perception or Attitude? – Studying Anorexia with VR Self-avatars
Do patients with anorexia nervosa suffer from body image distortion due to how they perceive their body or is it due to attitudinal beliefs? Betty Mohler has been using VR technologies to study whether body representation is more perceptual...
Tribeca Storyscapes Award Winner on Using VR to Connect with the Beauty of Nature
Marshmallow Laser Feast is a collective of artists who are interested in using VR technologies to capture the aesthetic beauty of nature, and provide immersive experiences that inspire people to cultivate an even deeper with the reality that surrounds...
Blending Immersive Theater & VR with ‘Draw Me Close’ by NFB and National Theatre
The National Theatre has created an Immersive Storytelling Studio to better understand the practices, protocols, opportunities of how virtual and augmented reality technologies are creating new storytelling possibilities. They collaborated with the National Film Board of Canada on an...
Capturing Holocaust Testimony in VR: A Behind the Scenes Look at ‘The Last Goodbye’
One of the most emotionally-moving VR experiences that I've had in VR was bearing witness to Holocaust survivor Pinchas Gutter share his experiences at the Majdanek Concentration Camp in The Last Goodbye. Gutter not only provides a guided tour,...
‘Bioflight VR’ for Medical Training, Patient Behavior Modification, & Diagnosis
The design team behind Bioflight VR has worked on television shows such as CSI and ER, and they've been able to translate their VFX visualization skills into a virtual reality medical education venture. Their original plans were to use...
