All Episodes

#1713: Lincoln Center for Performing Arts Immersive Programming Overview with Jordana Leigh

1713: CIIIC’s €200 Million in Public Funding: The Creative Industries Immersive Impact Coalition

#1712: Preview of SXSW XR Experience 2026 with Blake Kammerdiener

#1711: Mission Responsible 3: Discussion on AI Ethics with 6 Winners of Polys Ombudsperson of the Year

#1710: When Integration Becomes Subordination: Big Tech Parallels in Carney’s Davos Speech & Untethering from the AI Big Brother

#1709: Ian Hamilton on Getting Fired from UploadVR & Concerns on AI Authorship in News

#1708: How Process Philosophy Centers Experience. A Prismatic Tour of “Whitehead’s Universe” by Andrew M. Davis

#1707: War Journalist Turns to Immersive Art to Shatter Our Numbness Through Feeling. “In 36,000 Ways” is a Revelatory Embodied Poem by Karim Ben Khelifa

#1706: Using Immersive Journalism to Document Genocide in Gaza with “Under the Same Sky”

#1705: The Art of Designing Emergent Social Dynamics with Ontroerend Goed’s “Handle with Care”

#1704: “Lesbian Simulator” is an Interactive VR Narrative Masterclass Balancing Levity, Pride, & Naming of Homophobic Threats

#1703: “Reality Looks Back” Uses Quantum Possibility Metaphors & Gaussian Splats to Challenge Notions of Reality

#1702: “Coded Black” Creates Experiential Black History by Combining Horror Genres with Open World Exploration

#1701: Public Art Installation “Nothing to See Here” Uses Perception Art to Challenge Our Notions of Reality

#1700: Update on Co-Creating XR Distribution Field Initiative & Toolkits from MIT Open DocLab

#1699: Announcing “The Institute of Immersive Preservation” with Avinash Changa & His XR Virtual Machine Wizardry

#1698: Immersive Exhibition Lessons Learned from Undershed’s First Year with Amy Rose

#1697: Can Immersive Art Revitalize Civic Engagement? Netherlands CIIIC Funds “Shared Reality” Initiative

#1696: Speculative Architecture Meets the Immersive Dome in Sergey Prokofyev’s “Eternal Habitat”

#1695: “Another Place” Takes a Liminal Architectural Stroll into Memories of Another Time and Place

#1694: Reimagining Amsterdam’s Red Light District in “Unimaginable Red” Open World Game

#1693: A Survey of the Indie Immersive Dome Community Trends with “The Rift” Directors & 4Pi Productions

#1692: Playful Remixing of Scanned Animal Body Parts in “We Are Dead Animals”

#1691: A Call for Human Friction Over AI Slop in “Deep Soup” Participatory Film Based on “Designing Friction” Manifesto

#1690: Asking Philosophical Questions on AI in “The Oracle: Ritual for the Future” with Poetic Immersive Performance

#1689: Making Post-Human Babies in “IVF-X” to Catalyze Philosophical Reflections on Reproduction

#1688: Hacking Gamer Hardware and Stereotypes in “Gamer Keyboard Wall Piece #2”

#1687: Text-Based Adventure Theatrical Performance “MILKMAN ZERO: The First Delivery”

#1686: 15 Years of Hand-Written Letters about the Internet in “Life Needs Internet 2010–2025” Installation

#1685: Immersive Liner Notes of Hip-Hop Album “AÜTO/MÖTOR” Uses three.js & HTML 1.0 Aesthetics

#1684: Playable Essay “individualism in the dead-internet age” Recaps Enshittification Against Indie Devs

#1683: “Feedback VR: An Antifuturist Musical” Wins Immersive Non-Fiction Award at IDFA DocLab 2025

#1682: Preview of IDFA DocLab’s 2025 Selection of “Perception Art” & Immersive Stories

#1681: VRChat Worldbuilder DrMorro on His Epic & Dreamlike Masterpieces

#1680: Charlie Melcher’s “The Future of Storytelling” Book Surveys Over 50 Living Stories

#1679: The Matrix at Cosm Expands Film Beyond the Frame with Cinematic Shared Reality

#1678: Wevr on VR LBE as a “New Cinema,” a 10-Year Retrospective

#1677: Snap’s AR Developer Relations Plan for 2026 Specs Consumer Launch with Joe Darko

#1676: 1st Place Spectacles Lensathon Team: Decisionator Object-Detection, AI Decision-Maker

#1675: 2nd Place Spectacles Lensathon Team: CartDB Barcode-Scanning Nutrition App

#1674: 3rd Place Spectacles Lensathon Team: Fireside Tales Collaborative Storytelling with GenAI

#1673: Snap Lensfest Announcement Reflections from AR Gaming Studio DB Creations

#1672: Niantic Spatial’s Project Jade Demo Shows Latest Location-Aware, AI Tour Guide Innovations

#1671: Reflecting on Snap’s AR Platform & Developer Tools Past and Future with Terek Judi

#1670: Snapchat’s Embodied Gaming Innovations with AR Developer Relations Head

#1669: Snap’s Resh Sidhu on the Future of AR Commerce & Developer-Centered Innovation

#1668: Snap Co-Founders Community Q&A about Specs 2026 Launch Plan

#1667: Kickoff of Snap Lensfest 2025 Coverage & SnapOS 2.0 Announcements

#1666: VRChat CEO Graham Gaylor on Exploring Various UGC Monetization Strategies

#1665: Resolution Games’ “Battlemarked” Blends Mixed Reality Social Features with Demeo and D&D Gameplay

#1664: Resolution Games CEO on Apple Vision Pro Launch + Gaze & Pinch HCI Mechanic in “Game Room” (2024)

#1663: ShapesXR Updates & Neural Band Design Implications of Transforming Your Hand into a Mouse

#1662: Meta Connect Highlights & Meta Horizon News with JDun and JoyReign

#1661: State of VR Gaming with Jasmine Uniza’s Impact Realities and Flat2VR Studios

#1660: Enabling JavaScript-Based Native App XR Pipelines with NativeScript, React Native, and Node API with Matt Hargett

#1659: VR Gaming Career Retrospective of Chicken Waffle’s Finn Staber

#1658: Kiira Benz Part 3: Immersive Storytelling Career Retrospective (2025)

#1657: Kiira Benz Part 2: “Finding Pandora X” Bringing Immersive Theatre to VRChat (2020)

#1656: Kiira Benz Part 1: “Runnin'” Large-Scale Volumetric Music Video (2019)

#1655: Meta Horizon Studio News and Virtual Fashion with Paige Dansinger

#1654: CNET’s Scott Stein’s Reflections on Meta Ray-Ban Display Glasses & Neural Band Implications

#1653: XR Analyst Anshel Sag on Meta’s AI Glasses Strategy

#1652: Kick-off of Meta Connect Coverage with Meta Ray-Ban Display Glasses Insights from Norm Chan

#1651: PHI’s EXP Rosemont Location Expands Their LBE Distribution Network to US & Collaboration with Excurio

#1650: Sneak Peak of Venice Immersive 2025 Selection with Curators Liz Rosenthal and Michel Reilhac

#1649: Fangs & Arbi Close Out Raindance with a Breathtaking Music and VJ Show at the Moon Pool

#1648: Vast Hand-Painted “Natura’s Queendom” Wins Raindance Immersive Best Art World

#1647: Virtual Art Exhibition Innovations in Jessien’s “What is Virtual Art?” VRChat World

#1646: “The Continuous Present” Combines Poetry, Music, & Giant Immersive Sculptures to Win Raindance Immersive Best Art Experience

#1645: “Hommage” Adventure Inspired by Moebius’ Art Collaboratively Built in Resonite

#1644: Juliana Loh on Creating Immersive Art in VR and AR

#1643: Studio Penrose’s “Our Precious Autumn” Short Film Shot in VRChat Wins Raindance Award

#1642: “Cathedral of Witches” Performance Explores Trans & Queer Spirituality in VRChat

#1641: “Silhouette of Memories” Cinematic VR Concert Experience Features Live Choreography

#1640: “Tonevok” features Real-Time Audioreactive MIDI Visualizations in VRChat

#1639: Playing Live Jazz in VRChat with EMN Records enabled by Yamaha SYNCROOM in Japan

#1638: Virtual Photographer Kaerun’s Japanese Friendships Featured in Documentary at Raindance

#1637: VRChat Doc “The Architect Across Realities” Features MR Design Innovations in Japan

#1636: Planned Improvements of VRChat’s Trust & Safety from New Lead Jun Young Ro

#1635: VRChat’s Avatar Marketplace is Targeting Demographic of New Users

#1634: User Claims Potential Gaps in VRChat’s Moderation of NSFW Avatars

#1633: iNK Stories 2018: “Fire Escape” Multi-Threaded Murder Mystery in VR

#1632: iNK Stories 2018: Embodied Interactions in Vérité VR “Hero” on Bombing Aftermath

#1631: iNK Stories 2017: GDC Narrative Innovations Showcase Highlights

#1630: Keiichi Matsuda on Metaphors for AI Agents in XR User Experience: From Omniscient Gods to Animistic Familiars

#1629: Niantic Spatial is Building an AI-Powered Map with Snap for AR Glasses & AI Agents

#1628: Part 2: Caitlin Krause on “Digital Wellbeing” Theory and Practice with XR & AI (2025)

#1627: Part 1: Caitlin Krause on Bringing Mindfulness Practices into VR (2019)

#1626: New Spatial Entities OpenXR Extension to Scan, Detect, & Track Planes with Khronos Group President Neil Trevett

#1625: Tom Emrich’s “The Next Dimension” Book on AR for Marketing & Business Growth

#1624: Tom Emrich’s State of AR in 2018

#1623: Qualcomm’s 2025 AWE Announcements and Android XR Partnerships with Ziad Asghar

#1622: Qualcomm’s 2023 AWE Announcements for Snapdragon Spaces Ecosystem

#1621: Karl Guttag’s Technical Deep-Dive and Analysis of Consumer XR Displays and LCoS (2023)

#1620: Snap’s Head of Hardware Scott Myers on Spectacles Announcements & Ecosystem Update

#1619: Deploying Snap Spectacles in Verse Immersive AR LBE with Enklu’s Ray Kallmeyer

#1618: Producing Live Sports for Cosm’s Immersive Dome with Ryan Cole

#1617: Dream Park: Using MR in Public Spaces to Create Downloadable Theme Parks with Brent Bushnell & Aidan Wolf

#1616: Founding Story of Two Bit Circus Micro-Amusement Park with Brent Bushnell & Eric Gradman (2018)

#1615: Viverse’s WebXR Publishing Strategy with James C. Kane & “In Tirol” Game

#1614: Story Behind “Escape Artist” 2024 Polys WebXR Awards Winner

#1613: VR Content Creator Matteo311 on the State of VR Gaming

#1612: AWE Hall of Famer Gregory Panos’s Journey into VR: Identity, Body Capture, and Virtual Immortalization

#1611: Socratic Debate on Future of AI & XR from AWE 2025 Panel

#1610: Scouting XR & AI Infrastructure Trends with Nokia’s Leslie Shannon

#1609: Framework for Personalized, Responsive XR Stories with Narrative Futurist Joshua Rubin

#1608: AWE Hall of Famer Brenda Laurel on “Computers as Theater” Book, Ethics, and VR for Ecological Thinking

#1607: Deirdre V. Lyons on Immersive Theater & XR Women Innovation Award Winner from 2023

#1606: Weekly Meetups in VR with XR Women Founder Karen Alexander

#1605: Rapid Prototyping in VR with ShapesXR + 2021 Launch with CEO Inga Petryaevskaya

#1604: Investing in Female Founders with WXR Fund’s Amy LaMeyer + Immersive Music Highlights (2019)

#1603: Spatial Analytics with Cognitive3D’s Tony Bevilacqua (2023)

#1602: Part 3: Jason Marsh on Telling Data Stories with Flow Immersive (2025)

#1601: Part 2: Jason Marsh on Telling Data Stories with Flow Immersive (2019)

#1600: Part 1: Jason Marsh on Telling Data Stories with Flow Immersive (2018)

#1599: Part 2: Immersive Data Visualization with BadVR’s Suzanne Borders (2021)

#1598: Part 1: Immersive Data Visualization with BadVR’s Suzanne Borders (2018)

#1597: Educator Vasilisa Glauser on Using VR for Twice Exceptional Students

#1596: Engage XR’s Virtual Concert as Experiential Advertising for their Immersive Learning Platform (2023)

#1595: Part 2: Rylan Pozniak Daniels’ Journey into XR Development (2025)

#1594: Part 1: Rylan Pozniak Daniels’ Journey into XR Development (2019)

#1593: From Military to Enterprise VR Training with Mass Virtual on Spatial Learning

#1592: Highlights of AWE 2025 from Head of Programming Sonya Haskins

#1591: Sonya Haskins’ Journey to Head of Programming at Augmented World Expo

#1590: AWE Past & Present Series: Ori Inbar on the Founding of Augmented World Expo to Cultivate the XR Community

#1588: Excurio is Bringing their High-Throughput, XR LBE Theaters to North America

#1587: “Space-Time Adventure Tours” AR Guided Tour to NYC Central Park Monuments

#1586: Academic Research on Immersive Storytelling with Philippe Bedard, co-editor of “States of Immersion Across Media: Bodies, Techniques, Practices” book

#1585: Debating AI Project and a Curating Taiwanese LBE VR Exhibition at Museum of Moving Image

#1584: White Paper on XR for Impact Campaign Activation for “On the Morning You Wake to the End of the World”

#1583: From XR Storytelling to Museum to Ice Cream to AI: Michaela Ternasky-Holland’s Entry into Immersive

#1582: Shawn Taylor on Fandom for Social Change, Polychronic Time, Worldbuilding & Future Dreaming

#1581: The Story Behind “The ORIXA Project” Series of XR Experiences

#1580: “Neuro-Cinema: From Synapse to Montage” Explores Bioethics Moral Dilemmas & BCI-Controlled Editing & Robotics

#1579: The Backstory on ONX Studios and the Onassis Foundation’s Support for XR Art & Innovation

#1578: Poetic Exploration of the Transmission of Class Power Dynamics in “The Dollhouse”

#1577: Architecting a Multi-Threaded Narrative of Recovered Traumatic Memories in “Lacuna”

#1576: How Singer Studios Uses VR to Kickstart New Film, TV, Podcast, & Graphic Novel IP with “Trailblazer with Daisy Ridley” + Cannes Immersive 2025 Coverage

#1575: Part 2: Co-Creation with XR for Building Community with “A Father’s Lullaby” (2025)

#1574: Part 1: Co-Creation with XR for Building Community with “A Father’s Lullaby” (2023)

#1573: Muslim Futurist “New Maqam City” Invites Users to Play with Mystic Sufi Beats to Imagine States of Flourishing

#1572: “The Innocence of Unknowing” Uses Socratic Dialogue with AI & Video Essay to Deconstruct Root Cases of Gun Violence

#1571: “Uncharted VR” Explores the Spatialization of African Languages and Knowledge through Immersive Architecture and Adowa Dance

#1570: “The Founders Pillars and The Power Loom” Uses AR to Contextualize Wall Street History Through African Textiles and Myths

#1569: Family of Storytellers Creates an AR Memorial of Black Poet Nikki Giovanni with Epic Organic Garden Installation

#1568: A Process-Relational Philosophy View on AI, Intelligence, & Consciousness with Matt Segall

#1567: Tribeca Immersive Curators on the 2025 Selection of Impact Projects Curated by Onassis ONX, Agog, & Tribeca

#1566: Raindance Immersive Curators on the 2025 Selection of Immersive Art on Social VR Platforms

#1565: “D-Day: The Camera Soldier” by Targo Stories Pushes Immersive Documentary Innovations on Apple Vision Pro

#1564: Adding Participatory & Community Elements to the Cinematic Tradition with PAM CUT’s Tomorrow Theater

#1563: Deconstructing AI Hype with “The AI Con” Authors Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna

#1562: Highlights of Creature’s IGN XR Gaming Showcase + State of VR Vibe Check with Doug North Cook

#1561: PHI and Agog Collaborate on Immersive Residency on XR for Impact, Artist Retrospective, and Application Details

#1560: Walkabout Mini Golf’s Incredible Fusion of Worldbuilding, Gameplay, Social Dynamics, & DLC Experimentation

#1559: Expanding Social Dramaturgy of Theater with Video Games in 7-Hour “asses.masses” Binge-Watching Marathon

#1558: Series Director of “Adventure” Series on Apple Immersive Video and Grammar of 180 Video

#1557: Apple Immersive Video Behind-the-Scenes & Overcoming Fears with “Adventure” Series Athlete

#1556: “Currents” Boldly Defines a New Era of DIY 180-Degree Immersive Filmmaking with a Kit Under $5k

#1555: Award-Winning Tabletop Animation “Oto’s Planet” Uses Unique Interactive Mechanic to Chose Perspective

#1554: “Cosmos in Focus” Contextualizes James Webb Telescope Images in Educational Immersive Planetarium Experience

#1553: The Story of Kunstkraftwerk Leipzig, and the Multi-Channel Video Translation of “Origins – Life’s Epic Journey”

#1552: Fly to You Explores Stories of Separated Families in Division of Korea Using Point Clouds & 360 Video

#1551: Breaking Down the Game Design of New Conducting-Inspired, Hand-Tracked, Rhythm Game “Symphoni”

#1550: “EchoVision” Answers the Question ‘What is it like to see like a bat?’ with Mixed Reality, AI, & Haptics

#1549: Honey Fungus Cultivates Intimacy with Nature through Embodied Actions Inspired by Fungi and Queer Ecology

#1548: “1906 Atlanta Race Massacre” Uses Phone-Based AR to Volumetrically Tell a Forgotten History

#1547: Simulating One-on-One Conversations about Abortion Experiences to Change Minds with “The Choice – Chapters 2 & 3”

#1546: How Indigenous Storytelling is Changing Non-Proliferation Narratives in “Ways of Knowing: A Navajo Nuclear History”

#1545: “Shelter” Observational 360 Documentary Shows Intimate Side of War via Ukrainian Citizen Bomb Shelters

#1544: Traces: The Grief Processor Immersive Documentary Invites Groups to Learn About Grief

#1543: “Proof As If Proof Were Needed” Enables Audiences to Collaboratively Edit Video Feeds via Embodied Movements

#1542: Exploring the Paradox of Narratively Critiquing AI While Also Using AI to Make “The Last Practice”

#1541: Virtual Being Engages in Socratic Monologue Comparing AI to Sugar in “Sweet!” Installation

#1540: Hacking AI for Black Representation & the Future Dreaming of Archival Collections with Tamara Shogaolu

#1539: Wandering in Open World Doc Archives in Mixed Reality with SXSW XR Jury Prize Winner “Reflections of Little Red Dot”

#1538: Mixed Reality Calibration Innovations Hidden within “The Secret Life of Monsters: The Gateway Experience”

1537: NOWISWHENWEARE (the stars) Uses Low-Bit Visuals & Hundreds of Spatial Audio Speakers to Tell a Moving Story

1536: Spatial Audio Trends from d&b audiotechnik’s Artist Relations Manager Wayne Powell

#1535: Roman Rappak’s 4th Annual “Ristband” SXSW Live Music Mixed Reality Performance Adds Spatial Audio

#1534: Animated Immersive Dome Experience “Resolution: A Cinephonic Rhapsody for the Soul” Created as an Album Listening Party

#1533: Web Developer Built “A Number from the Ghost” WebXR Adventures to Highlight His Music

#1532: Tenderclaws’ “Face Jumping” Explores the Frontiers of Eye-Tracked Locomotion in Poetically Surreal Short

#1531: In the Current of Being Uses Immersive Haptics to Tell the Story of Electroshock Conversation Therapy

#1530: Six-Month Immersive Storytelling Exhibition Curated by Ana Brzezińska Opening in Namur, Belgium

#1529: SXSW 2025 XR Experience Selection Sneak Peak with Programmer Blake Kammerdiener

#1528: “Theater” App on Apple Vision Pro Features Indie-Produced Dome, Planetarium, and Stereoscopic Content

#1527: “Lovesick” is Character-Driven, Escape Room Indie Gem of a Story

#1526: Allegations that Meta’s OVRPlugin is Undermining the Spirit of OpenXR by Blocking Non-Meta Headsets on PCVR.

#1525: Niantic’s “Into the Scaniverse” Maps Over 50k Gaussian Splats from Around the World on Quest and WebXR

#1524: HTC Viverse Leverages Open Web Tech in Aim to Become ‘YouTube of 3D Content’

#1523: XR & AI Ethics & State of the Industry Discussion with Polys Ombudsperson Winners

#1522: A Survey of Spatial Audio Formats with 1618 Digital’s Oliver Kadel

#1521: New glTF External Reference Format Combines Multiple Assets into a Scene

#1520: Design Breakdown of One-on-One Immersive Theatre piece TM with Ontroerend Goed’s Alexander Devriendt

#1519: “The Reality of Hope” Sundance Short Doc Features Journey from VRChat Friend to Organ Donor

#1518: The Socratic Immersive Experience with Agnes Callard and her book “Open Socrates”

#1517: LBE Lessons Learned from 20-Venue Tour of “In Pursuit of Repetitive Beats” with Producer Dan Tucker

#1516: Myriam Achard on Phi Studio’s Expansion into LBE Distribution & the Fusion of Immersive Art at Phi Contemporary

#1515: VR Researcher Julia Scott-Stevenson on Embodiment in Story & Why Docs are Perfect to Explore AI

#1514: Creating GenAI Flower Ecosystem with “Future Botanica” AR App

#1513: From News Scan to GenAI Irish Sean-nós Songs in “You Can Sing Me on My Way” Audio Installation

#1512: DocLab Immersive Non-Fiction Winner “Me, A Depiction” Performance Installation Confronts Objectifying Gaze