Voices of VR
667 episodes - English - Latest episode: 13 days ago - ★★★★★ - 158 ratingsDesigning 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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#798: VR Artist Kevin Mack: Architecting Awe with VR-Native, Cooperative AI Agents
August 12, 2019 12:54Kevin Mack is a VR artist who has created a series of surrealistic immersive experiences including Zen Parade, Blortasia, and Anandala. Mack starts with mathematically-inspired
#797: VR Artist Chelley Sherman: Heightening Perception with Sonic Architecture, Haptics, & Dynamical Cognitive Science
August 12, 2019 12:06Chelley Sherman is an XR artist who has been working in VR for 4 years, creating audio-visual performances, and exploring how to created heightened, highly-perceptive
#796: VR Artist Omer Shapira: Prototyping Imagination & Designing for Vulnerability
August 12, 2019 11:32Omer Shapira is a developer for VR who does both art and software development, and he’s interested in the reciprocal relationship between humans and technology.
#795: VR Artist Amelia Winger-Bearskin: Designing with Metaphors & Indigenous Perspectives on Time & Individuality
August 12, 2019 10:57Amelia Winger-Bearskin is a VR director & performance artist who is building communities for artists, creators, and technologies working in emerging technology. She uses metaphor
#794: VR Artist Jakob Kudsk Steensen: Re-Animating Extinct Birds & Fine Art Business Models
August 12, 2019 10:33Jakob Kudsk Steensen is a Danish artist who has been creating virtual landscapes for 15 years, and has recently been creating virtual reality environments. Steensen
#793: VR Artist Estella Tse: Embodied Movement to Create 3D Art
August 12, 2019 09:56Estella Tse discovered Tilt Brush at the Unity Vision AR/VR Summit in February 2016 where she met the developers, and became a beta tester where
#792: VR Artist Ben Vance: Designing for Interactive Awe with “Irrational Exuberance”
August 12, 2019 09:40Buffalo Vision‘s Ben Vance is the artist, designer, & director behind Irrational Exuberance: Prologue. He started developing this experience on the Oculus Rift DK1 in
#791: VR Artist Wesley Allsbrook: Pioneering Spatial Comic Book Stories
August 12, 2019 09:21Wesley Allsbrook is an artist, art director, and writer who started as editorial illustrator and comic book creator before working at Oculus Story Studio as
#790: VR Artist Goro Fujita: Transformative Moments in Quill with 3D Drawing & Animation
August 12, 2019 09:00Goro Fujita is an artist in residence at Facebook, and he’s been creating virtual reality art and animations since 2015 when he started working at
#789: Human Rights in the Metaverse: Brittan Heller on Curtailing Harassment & Hate Speech in Virtual Spaces
August 06, 2019 00:21Brittan Heller is a technology & human rights fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights at Harvard University where she is investigating the intersection
#788: RLab: New York’s Publicly-Funded XR Center for Research, Entrepreneurship, and Education
August 02, 2019 01:45The RLab is a publicly-Funded XR center for research, entrepreneurship, and education located in Brooklyn Navy Yard in New York. It’s being managed under NYU’s
#787: Ethical Design of Humane Technology with Tristan Harris
July 26, 2019 21:29Ethical design of technology is a hot topic right now, and Tristan Harris has been catalyzing a lot of broader discussion about the perils of
#786: XR Safety Initiative: Security, Privacy, & Ethics in XR
July 16, 2019 17:19The XR Safety Initiative (XRSI) was co-founded by Kavya Pearlman and formally announced at the Open AR Cloud Symposium on Tuesday, May 28, 2019. XRSI
#785: Architecting for Privacy with Mozilla Hubs & the Open Web
July 10, 2019 15:51Mozilla Hubs is an open source social VR platform built using open web technologies. You can create your own 3D scenes using their Spoke platform,
#784: Elements of Culture & Cultivating Community with Jessica Outlaw
July 06, 2019 15:42Jessica Outlaw is a culture and behavioral researcher who released a qualitative study of the experiences of 13 women in social VR in October 17
#783: AR Art on Contested Sites, Feminist Philosophy, & Embodied Art with Nancy Baker Cahill
July 02, 2019 21:04Nancy Baker Cahill is a multidisciplinary artist from Los Angeles, and she’s created a public art application called The 4th Wall AR app that allows
#782: Valve Index: The Future of PC VR, Hand Presence, & Impressions from Ian Hamilton & Kent Bye
June 28, 2019 19:25The Valve Index officially launches today, and it provides a strong vision for the future of high-end PC VR with solid tracking, fidelity, and hand-tracked
#781: Experiential Design of Psychedelic Therapy: The Multiplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies & the Future of FDA-Approved MDMA
June 23, 2019 22:13The Multiplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies has been doing frontier research into the therapeutic uses of psychedelics for the past 33 years, and they’re currently
#780: Invoking Psychedelic Embodiment Experiences in VR with Radix Motion’s “MEU” Asynchronous Communication Platform
June 23, 2019 20:14Radix Motion is creating a trippy, asynchronous communication platform called MEU that starts to play with our experience of embodiment. CEO Sarah Haskhes is a
#779: Using VR as a Psychedelic Primer or Integration Tool with Andromeda Entertainment
June 23, 2019 18:51Andromeda Entertainment is creating and distributing immersive entertainment experiences for healing and self actualization. I previously talked with CEO Robin Arnott about his Sound Self
#778: Brainwave Entrainment & the Frequency-Following Reponse of Light & Sound
June 23, 2019 17:40Larry Minikes is a technological pioneer in the consciousness hacking space having started in the space back in 1989 after seeing LED glasses at CES
#777: Psychedelics & VR as Scaffolding to Reach Altered States of Consciousness + Experiential Medicine + Latent Human Potentials
June 23, 2019 16:20Dr. Cassandra Vieten is the president of the Institute of Noetic Sciences, who’s current tagline is “Informed by Science. Transformed by Experience.” Dr. Vieten gave
#776: Designing Music Rituals for Psychedelic Journeys with East Forest
June 23, 2019 14:54East Forest has been crafting musical rituals for psilocybin journeys for the past decade, and he just released a five-hour album titled “Music For Mushrooms:
#775: The Four Styles of NeuroMeditation: Focus, Mindfulness, Quiet Mind, & Open Heart
June 22, 2019 22:11Dr. Jeff Tarrant founded the NeuroMeditation Institute in order to research the neuroscience principles of different meditation states. He came up with a taxonomy of
#774: Muse Headband’s Real-Time Biofeedback for Immersive Meditation
June 22, 2019 20:59Muse is an immersive meditation device that provides real-time feedback on your mental activity, heart rate, breathing, and body movements. They’ve optimized the device for
#773: Psychedelics + Technology + Meditation: Consciousness Hacking’s Awakened Futures Summit
June 22, 2019 18:22Consciousness Hacking produced the The Awakened Futures Summit in San Francisco on May 18th & 19th, looking at the intersection between psychedelics, technology, and meditation.
#772: Psychedelic Renaissance: Experiential Journalist Rak Razam on Shamanic Culture
June 21, 2019 23:08I recently attended Consciousness Hacking’s Awakened Futures Summit that explored the cross-section of psychedelics, technology, and meditation. I ended up conducting 10 interviews totaling over
#771: Indigenous VR & Embodying the Colonial Super Predator with Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun
June 13, 2019 18:12Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun is an indigenous artist and painter who created his first VR experience called Inherent Rights, Vision Rights back in 1992. He collaborated
# 770: Ancient Philosophy Perspectives on Time, Perception, Reality, & the Qualities of Human Experience
June 11, 2019 22:00Dr. Peter Simpson is a professor of ancient philosophy at The City University of New York, and I met him at the Philosophy of Time
#769: Beat Saber 1-Year Retrospective & the Future of Embodied Music
June 10, 2019 22:14Beat Saber was launched on May 1, 2018, and has since sold over 1 million copies making it the most successful VR game ever. My
#768: Douglas Rushkoff on Virtual Reality, Team Human, & the Demise of Counterculture
June 06, 2019 20:22Douglas Rushkoff is the host of the Team Human podcast and author of Team Human as well as a dozen other bestselling books on media,
#767: THE COLLIDER: Exploring Power Dynamics with Your Body as the Platform
May 16, 2019 17:05The Collider is an immersive experience that uses your memories and your body as a platform to explore asymmetrical power dynamics with another person. It’s
#766: Open AR Cloud: Interoperable Spatial Computing for All
May 13, 2019 19:25The Open AR Cloud is a volunteer organization whose mission statement is to “drive the development of open and interoperable spatial computing technology, data, and
#765: Spatial XR’s Creative Collaboration Demos with HoloLens 2
May 11, 2019 00:44Spatial XR creative collaboration platform has been featured in that past two Microsoft presentations at the Microsoft Build Keynote on Monday, May 6th as well
#764: VR Fund’s Tipatat Chennavasin on HoloLens 2 & The State of the VR & AR Industry
May 11, 2019 00:21The Venture Reality Fund general partner & co-founder Tipatat Chennavasin travels around the world tracking the progress of virtual and augmented reality, and I had
#763: Analyzing Microsoft’s Enterprise AR Strategy with XR Journalist Julien Bergounhoux
May 09, 2019 17:11French journalist Julien Bergounhoux has been covering the business applications for spatial computing for L’Usine Digitale over the past 6-7 years, and I had a
#762: HoloLens 2 & Azure Kinect with Microsoft Developer Relations Jesse McCulloch
May 08, 2019 23:25I got to do a hands-on demo with the HoloLens 2 at Microsoft Build, and then talk about my impressions with Microsoft Developer Relations Program
#761: Facebook’s Head of Enterprise AR/VR on Oculus for Business
May 06, 2019 06:00Facebook announced new information about Oculus for Business at their F8 Developer conference last week, and I had a chance to sit down with Facebook’s
#760: Web-Based 3D with Microsoft’s Babylon.js JavaScript Framework & glTF
May 06, 2019 05:20Back at Microsoft Build 2018, I had a chance to talk to two of the lead programmers of Babylon.js, which is a JavaScript framework for
#759: Oculus Quest, Privacy, & Facebook’s Walled Garden: A Discussion with Oculus’ Director of Content Ecosystem
May 03, 2019 18:56The Oculus Quest is a gamechanger for the VR industry as the inside-out tracking is an engineering marvel, & the untethered experience lowers the friction
#758: Experiential Design for Corporate Consulting, Organizational Transformation, & Cultivating Culture with SYPartner’s Ida Benedetto
April 24, 2019 23:43Ida Benedetto gave the opening keynote of the Immersive Design Summit where she shared some of the work that she’s doing as an experiential designer
#757: Dream Logic & Symbolic Storytelling of Freud’s Interpretation of Dreams + Grieving the Death of Parents
April 22, 2019 22:15Graham Sack says that dream analysis and the language have film have co-evolved together as visual forms of symbolic communication, and he wanted to further
The Man Behind Notre-Dame: 360 Video Documentary by Targo
April 17, 2019 05:39On April 15, 2019, the Notre-Dame Cathedral suffered a devastating fire. I recently had a chance to see a 360-degree VR documentary by Targo called
#755: Your Body as a Mixer: Traverse Spatial Audio Platform + Bose AR with Jessica Brillhart
April 12, 2019 16:25Jessica Brillhart’s Vrai Pictures & Superbright launched a spatial audio platform at SXSW called Traverse, and they premiered a spatialized audio experience that turned your
#754: The Design of Vacation Simulator: Balancing Open World Exploration & Goal-Driven Puzzles
April 09, 2019 23:30Owlchemy Labs have been pioneering VR experiences exploring hand presence and embodied gameplay in VR since the release of Job Simulator and Rick & Morty
#753: AR Spatial Audio on Bose AR Frames & QuietComfort 35 Headphones
April 08, 2019 18:05The Bose AR platform with the Bose AR Frames and the QuietComfort 35 headphones was one of the most exciting announcements that happened at SXSW.
#752: Unlocking Your Imagination with Audiojack’s Interactive Audio Landscapes
April 04, 2019 17:23The Bose AR House at SXSW 2019 featured the first round of interactive audio experiences that are integrated with the Bose AR Frames and Quick
#751: Virtual Skills Training for Autism Spectrum Disorder Using Applied Behavioral Analysis with BehaviorMe
April 02, 2019 18:47BehaviorMe is using virtual reality to enhance behavior therapy for children and young adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). It’s started by four people including
#750: Lucid Dreaming & VR: How our waking life is becoming more dreamlike
April 01, 2019 20:59Lucid Dreaming is ability to become aware that you’re dreaming, and to potentially even start to interact and direct what happens within your dream. Arthur
#749: Using VR Horror as Fear Resistance Training + Sound Healing & Psychedelic Culture
March 27, 2019 20:42Torkom Ji tells the story of how he used Resident Evil 7 VR as a form of fear resistance training, and transformational shadow work to