The Tribeca Film Festival is releasing fifteen 360 videos that were programmed within their Cinema360 program for free via the Oculus TV platform, and they’ll

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#906: “SoundSelf” & The Technodelic Manifesto: Using VR to Transform Consciousness

SoundSelf is a technologically-mediated, psychedlic experience (aka “technodelic”) that is being released by Andromeda Media on Wednesday, April 22nd. Developer Robin Arnott has been working

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#905: VRChat: Empowering the Creativity of User-Generated Virtual Worlds & Avatars

VRChat is one of the most popular social VR applications out there, and Chief Creator Officer Ron Millar recently told me that they had over

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#904 Sundance New Frontier Recap & Themes with Chief Curator Shari Frilot

In my final episode of my coverage from Sundance New Frontier 2020, I speak with chief curator Shari Frilot about some of the themes of

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#903 Sundance New Frontier Behind-the-Scenes with Curator Milo Talwani

Milo Talwani (pronouns they/them) is a curator, and creative technologist who oversees the selection process for New Frontier at the Sundance Film Festival. They’re also

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#902 Sundance: ‘Metamorphic’ Explores Context-Dependent Embodiment & Social Dynamics with Remixed Quill Art

One of the most powerful explorations of embodiment at Sundance New Frontier 2020 was Metamorphic. The creators describe it as exploring the “ephemeral nature of

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#901 Sundance: ‘Animalia Sum’ Blends Humor with a Unique Aesthetic of Photogrammetry-Captured Sculptures

ANIMALIA SUM is an animated short VR 360 video / application hybrid with some light, embodied, 3 degree-of-freedom interactions on the Oculus Go. It’s a

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#900 Sundance: Combining Live Theater with Open World Exploration in ‘Anti-Gone’

Anti-Gone is a mixed reality play that features two actors performing in front of a wall that has an open, virtual world projected on it.

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#899 Sundance: Comparing Film to VR in a Series of Film Essays in ‘A Machine for Viewing’

A Machine for Viewing was a series of three film essays that were shown to someone in virtual reality, whose first-person perspective was then projected

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#898 Sundance: Questioning AI of Chomsky Trained with 60 Years of Data in ‘Chomsky vs Chomsky’

Chomsky vs Chomsky: First Encounter is a virtual reality experience where you get to interact with a virtual representation of Noam Chomsky, and essentially ask

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#897 Sundance: Site-Specific AR Installation with Hologram Ghosts in ‘Solastalgia’

Solastalgia is a site-specific augmented reality experience on the HoloLens 2 where you explore the surface of a depopulated planet in ruin, and colonized by

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#896 Sundance: ‘All Kinds of Limbo’ is a Musical Performance for 20 People in Quests.

All Kinds of Limbo featured the ability to show a volumetric-captured, virtual reality performance to 20 users within the Oculus Quest. Nubiya Brandon narrates her

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#895 Sundance: ‘Book of Distance’ has Breakthrough Immersive Storytelling Innovations

The Book of Distance is one of the best VR narratives or immersive stories I’ve ever seen. Director Randall Okita tells the story of his

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#894 Sundance: Haptic Chair Ride into Outer Space with ‘Living Distance’

Living Distance is a contemporary piece of immersive art from China that casts the audience in the role of a tooth that takes a celestial