Voices of VR

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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,...

Episodes

#1788: Curatorial Overview of Venice Immersive 2026 & Celebrating 10 Years of Immersive Storytelling

#1787: Blending the Elements of Experiential Design & Process-Relational Foundations of the Elements

#1786: Collective Reading Experience of “Constantinopoliad” Provokes Discussion on Defining “Immersive”

#1785: The Landmark Achievements of “Blur” in Fusing Theater, Montage, Mixed Reality, and LBE VR

#1784: The Incredible Spatial Transitions of “Dark Rooms” with Radical Consent Innovations

#1783: “Less Than 5gr of Saffron” Wins 2nd Place Prize at Venice Immersive with Spatial Poem Quill Animation

#1782: “A Long Goodbye” Wins 3rd Place Prize at Venice Immersive with Emotionally-Moving Story on Dementia and Spatial Grammar Innovations

#1781: Winner of Venice Immersive 2025 “The Clouds Are Two Thousand Meters Up” Innovates on Gaussian Splats & Spatial Storytelling

#1780: Recap of VRChat Worlds Gallery at Venice Immersive 2025 with Mike Salmon

#1779: “Heartbeat” Immersive, 1-on-1 Biometric Synchronization and Involuntary Collective Agency

#1778: Collaborative Social Game and Story of “Happy Shadow”

#1777: Active Imagination, Associative Dream Logic, & Embodied Interactions in “Sense of Nowhere”

#1776: The Spatial Grammar Innovations of Dialectical Contrasts and Abstraction within “The Big Cube”

#1775: The Continuous Spatial One-Shot of Backlight’s “La Magie Opera” LBE

#1774: Combining Live Dance and Music in Immersive LBE Performance “L’ombre (The Shadow)”

#1773: “Collective Body” Assigns Elemental Avatars Based Upon Archetypal Dance Movements

#1772: Climate Change Spatial Montage “Out of Nowhere” Aspires to Move Towards Rewilding Prevention

#1771: Environmental Storytelling in “The Great Orator” VR Diorama with Generative AI Experiments

#1770: Eastern Philosophy-Inspired Fusion of Theater and XR with “Mnemosyne”

#1769: Mixed Reality Musical on Avatars and Identity in “First Virtual Suit”