Kent Bye · Technology

Voices of VR

Designing 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.

Voices of VR

Episodes

#1344: “Turbulence: Jamais Vu” Wins IDFA DocLab Immersive Non-Fiction Award with Embodied Mixed Reality Doc on Depersonalization & Derealization

#1343: Using 360 Video to Connect Women Prisoners in Chile with their Families in “Going Back Home: Mother VR”

#1342: Transforming a Book into an Interactive Experience with the Time-Based Edition of “Borderline Visible”

#1341: Performative Lecture “(this conversation is) Off the Record” uses AI & Theater to Critique Algorithmic Profiling

#1340: Recreating the Social Dynamics of a Road Trip in “Yugo: The Non-Game”

#1339: “The School, a World” uses Web Documentary to Profile Changes in the Small Polish Town of Chlebiotki

#1338: Multi-Sensory Immersive Art Installation “Redemption” Deconstructs Brazil’s History of Eugenics

#1337: Using Night Vision Googles to Watch Viscerally Immersive Dance Performance “One Two” in Total Darkness

#1336: “Close” Uses Hand Gestures to Switch Between Audio Commentary Channels on Juitamai Dance Performance

#1335: Retrospective on Lodz Film School’s Visual Narratives Lab and “Whispers” with Jacek Nagłowski

#1334: “Anouschka” Wins IDFA DocLab Digital Storytelling Award with AR Narrative Game about Cultural Heritage

#1333: AI Remix of 1982 Documentary “Koyaanisqatsi” with “The Vivid Unknown” Interactive Video Installation

#1332: “Texada” Tells the Story of Limestone Across Geologic Time With Animation and 360 Video

#1331: Recreating Spatial Presence in Caves with Point Clouds & Spatial Audio in “Buried in the Rock” Documentary

#1330: “Squeeker: The Mouse” Coach Interspecies Fitness App Collaboration

#1329: Mixed Reality “PHANTOM” Installation Explores Dark Sides of Mental Illness with Gallows Humor

#1328: “Natalie’s Trifecta” is a Virtual Tour of Natalie Paneng’s Digital Art, Identity, & Imagination

#1327 “Voice in My Head” Remixes Your Inner Monologue with AI

#1326 “Surrogate” Experimental Web Doc and Performance by Lauren Lee McCarthy

#1325 End of Tung-Yen Chou’s Gay Sauna Trilogy with “Traversing the Mist”