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Episodes
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Karen Palmer: "Breaking through the Fear Barrier"
In this conversation with Karen Palmer, a multi-disciplinary immersive filmmaker who uses art, AI, gamification, neuroscience and behavioral psychology in her work, VRTL learns about her anti-empathy approach. Palmer's RIOT, an installation that required bespoke artificial intelligence, used...
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Hasraf Dulull: "Straight Out of Unreal Engine"
Recently I had the honor and pleasure of being able to speak to a wonderful and passionate person about the future of Virtual production and how the workflow of feature films as such has changed in recent years. His name is Hasraf Dulull, better known as HaZ. He’s a filmmaker who started as a...
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Alvin Graylin: "The Next Normal"
Alvin Graylin is the President of HTC China. He is leading all aspects of the HTC business in the China Region and is responsible for Vive VR, phone, Viveport content platform and investments. And recently he has taken on the global responsibility for running the Software Business Unit for HTC as...
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Carl Boel: "How To Build Powerful Stories for XR Training"
Carl is an e-learning expert passionate about learning via virtual reality and MOOCs. He’s programmed as one of the speakers for the virtual event of the VR Days Europe. Carl and I talk about blended learning and XR, how to build a strong story for an XR training and how this pandemic is fueling...
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VR Days Europe take a small step back in order to take three forward
Last year in Amsterdam, VR Days Europe made its ambitions for growth clear and the Fifth Edition brought them one step closer to maturity. But when the pandemic arrived in the Netherlands and events started canceling, Co-Founder Benjamin De Wit and his team had to forge a new path. And they...
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Inga Petryaevskaya: "Animate and Quickly Prototype without 3D Animation Experience"
Inga Petryaevskaya is a CEO and Co-Founder of Tvori, VR animation and prototyping software. Tvori is an award-winning technology startup located in San Mateo, California and Saint Petersburg in Russia. VRTL was honored to welcome Inga as a guest on our podcast. We talked about the emergence of XR...
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Michel Reilhac: "Monetization of XR Content is Key for Mass Adoption"
Michel Reilhac is a narrative architect and long-time transmedia and immersive media pioneer. He's is known as a leading international expert for innovation in hybrid storytelling across participatory, interactive and immersive experiences. As the Head of Studies at the Venice Biennale College…
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Jeffrey Travis: "Why 360 films can be as captivating as 6DOF experiences"
Jeffrey is a filmmaker, engineer, and virtual reality pioneer. As the founder and CEO of Positron, he created Voyager®. Jeffrey and his team have worked with studios such as Universal, DreamWorks, Disney, Warner Bros, Adult Swim, Felix & Paul, and others to craft premium VR content for XR Cinemas...
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Jingshu Chen: "How the Chinese Market Responds to XR Content"
Jingshu Chen, nominated in Forbes 30 under 30 Asia 2018, co-founded VeeR VR with Aiden in 2016, with a mission to bring the best immersive entertainment to the world. VeeR is a leading VR entertainment platform available worldwide, across all major VR headset, web, and mobile. VeeR acquires,...
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Robin Stethem: “Inspiring A New Generation of Artists”
Featuring immersive work from VR artists around the world, the Museum of Other Realities is a virtual art gallery that provides a place to connect, share, and experience new media together with others. Founded by Colin Northway and Robin Stethem in 2017, the MOR encourages visitors to step into…
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Jimmy Cheng: "The Acquisition, Licensing and Distribution of XR Content"
When you go to a film festival, it is almost impossible not to bump into this man. Jimmy Cheng focuses on the acquisition and licensing of immersive/interactive XR content as Director of Content / Business Operations at Iconic Engine. Currently, he represents 140 studios, including GoPro, Atlas…
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René Pinnell: "Vision with action can change the world for XR artists"
I think it must have been about a year since René and I last met each other in real life. That must have been during Cannes XR if I remember correctly. In the meantime, a lot has happened with Kaleidoscope and the pandemic has certainly accelerated the implementation of the new business model.…
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Sean Rodrigo: "Spatial Creation - Designing inside Virtual Reality"
This week on our VRTL podcast we welcome Sean Rodrigo. Sean's a London-based, Virtual Reality Artist / Technologist working with innovative XR technology such as virtual reality as a core creative tool to achieve engaging, insightful and meaningful experiences. Over the last 13 years, Sean has...
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Nina Salomons: "Diversity Can Help Close the XR Skills Gap"
Nina is an award-winning filmmaker and XR Creative, Producer & Consultant. She has worked in the XR space since 2015. She is one of the co-founders of the Women in VR meet up group, an XR journalist for two and half years, and has worked on creating, developing, and using immersive technologies…
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Rosh Singh: "Where Expectations Far Outweighs Reality"
Rosh is Managing Director at UNIT9 a global Innovation Studio. A seasoned leader, passionate about the creative application of technologies for brands, and has been involved in the agency, production and start-up worlds running successful businesses and executing innovative and award winning work...
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Marta Ordeig: “Co-Creative XR Workshops at Film Festivals”
Marta Ordeig is a filmmaker and entrepreneur traveling between Silicon Valley and Barcelona. In 2016 she founded Garage Stories, a content lab where she gathers creatives minds from various background to co-create and explore the possibilities that emerging technologies are bringing into the…
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Rafael Pavon: “Narrative Structures in Immersive Storytelling”
Rafael Pavon is an award-winning Creative Director and Producer at AtlasV, the production studio behind Spheres, Gloomy Eyes, Battlescar, and Vestige. Rafael started as Director and Creative Director for virtual reality in 2015 at VR studio Future Lighthouse, where he worked on 30+ VR productions...
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François Fripiat: “The Essence of Spatial Sound in VR Storytelling”
François Fripiat has been a sound engineer for over 12 years. He worked in many different fields such as sound design, audio mix, and he's been a sound supervisor for many different animation films, feature films, documentaries, etc... Passionate about spatial sound for a decade, François Fripiat...
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Bob Cooney: “Words of Wisdom for LBE Operators”
Bob Cooney is widely considered the world’s leading authority on the location-based virtual reality (LBVR) business. As an innovator in immersive entertainment for nearly 30 years, he is a frequent keynote speaker at VR and amusement industry conferences and is a renowned and skilled moderator....
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Dominic Eskofier: “The Single Most Influential European VR Specialist”
Dominic Eskofier co-founded the largest unofficial community for VR (reddit.com/r/oculus), started the VR Germany meetup group and is co-founder of EUVR.org – a non-profit organization pushing the European XR industry. After co-founding the VR startup realities.io at Boost VC, an accelerator in...
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Sam Huber: "How To Make Money From VR/AR and Games"
After 4 years building mobile apps startups, frustrated by the limited options to efficiently monetize content, Sam Huber started Admix. Sam believes that immersive technologies (XR) are a change of interface, that will have an impact on humanity similar to the printing press or the screen. It is...
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Henry Stuart: “The Agency’s Ride On The Gartner Hype Cycle”
Co-Founder and CEO at VISUALISE, the virtual reality production studio and author of Virtual Reality Marketing. Henry Stuart is one of the industry leaders in producing VR content for marketing, brands and storytelling for editorial and entertainment. A regular speaker at Virtual Reality events...
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Ricardo Laganaro: “The Brazilian Award-Winning VR Evangelist”
Ricardo Laganaro is one of the most innovative filmmakers in Brazil, partner and Chief Storytelling Officer at ARVORE Immersive Experiences. His many-sided knowledge blends live-action, stop-motion animation, computer graphics and writing. Ricardo Laganaro entered the immersive world directing a...
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Ricardo Laganaro: Creating ‘The Line’ @ VR Days
Ricardo Laganaro is one of the most innovative filmmakers in Brazil, partner and Chief Storytelling Officer at ARVORE Immersive Experiences. His many-sided knowledge blends live-action, stop-motion animation, computer graphics and writing. Laganaro entered the immersive world directing a…
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Leen Segers & Anastasia Pash: Women in XR
A Brussels-based spatial computing expert. Previously Leen worked for 10 years with several technology startups in Ghent, London, and Brussels. Since 2011, she has been focused on the democratisation of media across platforms and devices which led her to start LucidWeb in 2016. Today, LucidWeb is...
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Daan 'Kip' Doornink: The Slope of Enlightenment
Daniel started his career at a large Dutch corporate (ING) where he gained lots of hands-on experience with Scrum, Agile and Lean Startup techniques. He put his experience to good use mentoring start-ups at Rockstart in Amsterdam and has been involved in their smart energy accelerator program....
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Amy Hedrick: "The Straightforward Solution of Cleanbox Technologies"
Amy Hedrick is CEO and Co-Founder of CleanboxTechnology. As a thought leader providing insights into the immersive technology, she brings solutions and innovation in smart tech hygiene. Having led multiple teams from project inception and execution through profitable completion, she has proven...
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Kiira Benzing: A Multidimensional Director on a Volumetric Journey
Kiira Benzing is a director crossing the mediums of theater, hybrid cinema and virtual reality. “Cardboard City” her first venture in Virtual Reality won the Samsung Gear Indie Milk VR contest (2016). Following this VR film her interactive installation for “Cardboard City” combining VR and AR...
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High Five to VR Days: The Best is Yet to Come
Benjamin de Wit is Founder and Festival Director of VR Days Europe. Since its first year in 2015, VR Days has the ambition to be Europe’s leading professional and creative XR event. With the 5th edition of VR Days coming up, Benjamin has found time and space in his hectic time schedule to discuss...
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Loren Hammonds: "Create A Story With The Matching Immersive Medium"
In today's podcast, we're featuring Loren Hammonds, Senior Programmer at Tribeca Film Festival in New York City and the man in charge of feature-films and immersive. Tribeca Film Festival was founded by Robert De Niro and Jane Rosenthal in direct response to the events on 9/11 to revitalize the...
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Siqi Chen: "China Way Ahead On Retail Experience Because Of LBE"
Today’s podcast is a fifteen-minute talk with Siqi Chen, CPO of Sandbox VR. Sandbox VR has recently received 16 million dollar funding, which is the largest amount of fundraising that’s been into VR since the original Oculus company. Listen to what Siqi Chen has to say about the expansion of the...
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Julian Sarmiento: “Where Technology Meets Creativity”
This podcast episode is with Julian Sarmiento, the Chief Creative Officer of Iconic Engine. He's had a career that is basically the technicolor fusion of art and technology. In two decades, he rose to leading the computer graphic teams on some of Hollywood's biggest blockbusters for example 'I,...
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Cassandra De Klerck: "Acting In VR, A Whole New World"
In what way is the future of acting influenced by technical innovations such as VR/AR? That's the fundamental idea of the reason why the Dutch Cassandra De Klerck founded Virtual Acting, a company specialized in teaching and consulting how to act in a different environment such as immersive worlds.
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Liz Rosenthal: "The Secrets of Submitting Successful Immersive Projects"
Liz Rosenthal, Founder & CEO of Power to the Pixel and Programmer of immersive content for Venice International Film Festival, had a tête-à-tête with our Editor-In-Chief Justine Harcourt de Tourville. In this VRTL podcast, Liz gives us a sneak peek behind the scenes of the selection of immersive...
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Matthieu Labeau: "How Gaming Clears the Path for Cinematic VR"
Matthieu Labeau is the International Business Developer at Starbreeze Studios which you will probably know better as the creators of PAYDAY. With studios in Stockholm, Barcelona and Paris, the gaming developer, creator, publisher and distributor, Starbreeze targets the global market. In this VRTL...
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Springboard VR: "LBE is Bridging the Gap"
VR comes from all over the world–including places you don't immediately think of–like Oklahoma! In this episode, VRTL speaks with the two founders of Springboard VR, Will Stackable & Brad Scoggin, whose move into the VR space started 2.5 years ago. Brad came across virtual reality and immediately...
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Tupac Martir: “From La Loteria to the Cosmos Within Us”
Martir Tupac is the creative soul behind Satore Studio and Satore Tech, two companies he raised as his own babies. Starting out in London, Tupac now has offices in New Mexico, New York and Paris. Martir has worked for numerous brands, celebs, and festivals (just to name a few: Coachella, Bon…
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Eddie Lou: "VR is Booming in China"
Founder and Director of Sandbox Immersive Festival, Eddie Lou stepped on stage at Cannes XR bringing good news: “VR is booming in China.” How can it not? With a population of 1.3 billion, just a small fraction of users makes for a respectable market. The biggest tech companies of Japan (Ali Baba,...
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Amit Chopra: Iconic Engine’s Holometric Theatre Gives the Power Back to the Creatives
It’s barely over six months since Iconic Engine spun off from Digital Domain and they’re awareness is already going through the roof. Iconic Engine CEO Amit Chopra explains how his forward thinking XR company combines service projects with a global streaming platform and 60+ Location Based...
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Joanna Popper: Roomscale VR is on the Rise
Next in our Cannes XR series is Joanna Popper, Global Head of Virtual Reality for Location Based Entertainment at HP. She has experience in both Hollywood and Silicon valley as a media executive within the TV, Digital, Film and Marketing space. While traveling the world from conference to…
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Diego Prilusky
Chief Creative and General Manager at Intel Studios, Diego Prilusky details the timeless magic of Grease and how it was re-imagined in newer technology from pixels to voxels. A big believer in volumetric capturing, Diego tells what it was like to work with Randal Kleiser, the original director…
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Elie Levasseur: The Future of Cannes XR & NewImages Festival
The debut of Cannes XR was certainly not the first event on immersive for conference veteran Elie Levasseur. As a Head of Programming behind Paris’ Cross Video Days for five years, he is used to scouting for the best XR work from across the globe.
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Danilo Moura: "Experimenting with the strenghts of 360 video and volumetric"
Longtime Sony post- and production technologist Danilo used photogrammetry and volumetric video capture to make 7 Miracles. The seven-part episodic feature runs over 70 minutes, making it the first feature-length cinematic experience from Vive Studios. Danilo discussed some of the techniques...
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A.R. Rahman
Red carpet events were absent in the basement of the Palais, but on Tuesday the buzz and excitement (and photographers) surrounding A.R. Rahman felt like one. On stage to talk about Le Musk, a sensory virtual reality experience. Rahman is multi-Academy and Grammy award-winning musician, composer...
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Ravi Velhal
Chief Creative and General Manager at Intel Studios, Diego Prilusky details the timeless magic of Grease and how it was re-imagined in newer technology from pixels to voxels. A big believer in volumetric capturing, Diego tells what it was like to work with Randal Kleiser, the original director…
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Gayatri Parameswaran: "Tips on Filming VR in War Zones"
Bombay-born but Berlin-based, Gayatri Parameswaran, another selectee of the Kaleidoscope Development Showcase shared some of the harrowing behind the scenes from her documentary piece Home After War and her Kaleidoscope piece Kusunda, which immerses the viewer in the world of a dying language.
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Julie Perion & Wiebe van den Ende: Working on Multimedia IP
While Incitement is performing well and getting traction in a lot of festivals, its makers, a Dutch-French duo, is hot on the trails of new work. Their new transmersive VR series is part of the Kaleidoscope Development Showcase and will consist of five thrilling chapters of two episodes told in...
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XRDB: "The online database for Cinematic VR experiences"
Fabio Hofnik (Brazil) & Mathieu Gayet (France) have joined forces to create XRDB, a new resource for the immersive community. An online database, XRDB is dedicated to all digital immersive content such as 360 films, VR, AR and other immersive experiences.
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Kane Lee: On Bonfire and Celebrities
Kicking off our Cannes XR podcast series is Kane Lee, Chief Content Officer at Baobab. This San Francisco-based studio is led by CEO Maureen Fan and Chief Creative Officer Eric Darnell (Director Madagascar). Kane talked about the newest Baobab project Bonfire and how the Studios have continued to...
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