Voices of VR

#1506: Going on a Virtual Date in “ROAMance” that Generates Novel Encounters with Defamiliarization

1505: Immersive Journalist Features Volumetric Sexual Harassment Testimonies in “Walking Alone, Text You When I’m Home”

#1504: Open World, GenAI Podcast “Drift” Reflects on Climate Change from 500 Years in the Future

#1503: “The Liminal” Spatial Audio Installation Blends Audio Doc with Speculative Arab Futurism

#1502: Candid Audio Clips Juxtaposed with Poetic GenAI Video in “Sincerely Victor Pike”

#1501: Roaming as Resistance: “Entropic Fields of Displacement” wins DocLab Digital Storytelling Award

#1500: Sharing Indigenous Knowledge with 360 Video + AR Animations and Embodied Rituals in “Ancestral Secrets VR”

#1499: From Interactive Biohacking Lecture to Speakeasy with “Drinking Brecht: An Automated Laboratory Performance”

#1498: Immersive Installation Frames Provocative “Töngö Sondi” Animation on Langauge, Censorship, & Identity

#1497: Experimental VR Doc “Rapture II: Portal” Blends Hypnotic Audio with Spatial Scan of War-Abandoned Home

#1496: Using GenAI to Recreate Erased Family Photos with “Burn From Absence” 4-Channel Video

#1495: Getting Roasted by Unfiltered “AI & Me” Photo Booth Installation

#1494: Innovative VR Opera “From Dust” Combines GenAI Prompts, Digital Serenading, & Personality Branching

#1493: “About a Hero” Doc Written by AI Trained on Werner Herzog Corpus Blends Realities and Opens IDFA

#1492: IDFA DocLab Curators Preview 2024 Slate of AI & XR Immersive Documentaries

#1491: Film Gate Interactive Media Festival 10-Year Retrospective

In this episode of the Voices of VR podcast, Tipita Srinivasan, co-founder of the Venture Reality Fund, shares his enthusiasm for Gaussian splats, a groundbreaking technology that enables the creation of photorealistic VR and AR content. He views Gaussian splats as a major leap forward, providing a more efficient and c...

#1490: “Any War Any Enemy” is a Beautiful Anti-War, Immersive Poem About Nuclear Annihilation

#1489: “Gorilla Tag” Design Philosophy & Embodied Gameplay Deep Dive with Kerestell Smith

#1488: Nima Zeighami on Delivering WebXR Content with Infinite Reality’s Ethereal Engine Acquisition

#1487: XR Evangelists JoyReign & JDun on Horizon World Trends & Meta Connect Announcements