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

#1708: How Process Philosophy Centers Human 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