Kent Bye VoicesOfVR@kentbye
Jul 6, 2022
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1/ Here’s my thread of 13 Voices of VR podcast interviews I did at @Tribeca Immersive unpacking the latest structures & forms of Immersive Storytelling featuring:
10 experiences
1 panel discussion I moderated
2 XR start-up visits
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2/ My 1st Tribeca interview is IAGO: THE GREEN-EYED MONSTER, an AR rock operetta & Shakespeare-villain origin story.
Some interesting experiments with AR storytelling.
Check out the app & listen to a detailed breakdown with @Josh Nelson Youssef & @Mary Chieffo (she/her) 🏳️🌈.
voicesofvr.com/1101-tribeca-x
3/ I had a really interesting conversation around the BLACK MOVEMENT LIBRARY: MOVEMENT PORTRAITS multi-media project with artist LaJuné McMillian who is maintaining right relationships around the ethics of embodied motion capture data.
voicesofvr.com/1102-tribeca-x
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3/ I had a really interesting conversation around the BLACK MOVEMENT LIBRARY: MOVEMENT PORTRAITS multi-media project with artist LaJuné McMillian who is maintaining right relationships around the ethics of embodied motion capture data.
voicesofvr.com/1102-tribeca-x
4/ MISSING PICTURES takes unmade films & translates them into a spatialized VR treatment.
Fascinating range of different immersive storytelling forms & styles.
I break down the 5 episodes with director @Clement Deneux & @Atlas V producer @Oriane Hurard:
voicesofvr.com/1103-tribeca-x
5/ @MLF's EVOLVER was my favorite VR experience from @Tribeca Immersive.
An awe-inspiring journey tracing how blood circulates throughout human body & reflecting on themes of interconnectivity & interbeing.
I did a deep dive with Barnaby Steel:
voicesofvr.com/1104-tribeca-x
6/ PLASTISAPIANS has some really interesting experiments in embodiment in their surrealist, speculative, feminist eco-fiction on plastics permeating our bodies.
I unpack it all with @Miri Chekhanovich & @Édith Jorisch who collaborated w/ @Dpt. & @National Film Board of Canada:
voicesofvr.com/1105-tribeca-x
7/ I get the story behind the volumetric documentary ZANZIBAR: TROUBLE IN PARADISE that premiered at Tribeca on @Looking Glass Factory' 65-in Holographic Display by talking with @SpringbokVR & co-directors of the piece on how they used iPhone's video + spatial data.
voicesofvr.com/1106-tribeca-x
8/ ICYMI: Here's my conversation with @Looking Glass Factory CEO @Shawn Frayne breaking down their latest 65-in Holographic Display & some of the underlying tech innovations that makes it work.
It's pretty a magical portal into another realm.
voicesofvr.com/1100-looking-g
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The new @Looking Glass Factory 65-inch Holographic Display is like
a magical portal into another realm.
I unpack their lightfield display tech with @Shawn Frayne & how they get ~100 horizontal parallax views by controlling 100M subpixels of light with optical overlays
voicesofvr.com/1100-looking-g
9/ EXHIBITION A combined 3D emoji gestures & a social VR watch party on top of a 360 video survey of PoC Artists in Portland, Maine.
I spoke with @janaesound (@CYWOC) & @Theo Greene, who collaborated with @tripdragon & @sam.mateosian.space.🦄 (@YARN CORPORATION 😍).
voicesofvr.com/1107-tribeca-x
10/ LGBTQ+ VR MUSEUM won the inaugural Tribeca Immersive New Voices Award for it's curation of touching objects & stories telling a collective story.
I spoke with @Antonia Forster about her unique journey into VR & producing this piece with @Thomas Terkildsen:
voicesofvr.com/1108-tribeca-x
11/ One of the biggest provocations from Tribeca Immersive was PLANET CITY VR, a speculative architecture thought experiment of relocating all 10B people on the planet into one city the size of Texas.
I unpack it all with @liam young in my favorite convo:
voicesofvr.com/1109-tribeca-x
12/ REACHYOU is an exploration of Slow Media AR storytelling bringing you transmissions from the future to connect to the tenderness of now.
I do a deep dive with husband-and-wife team @Jonah Goldsaito & @Katrina Goldsaito unpacking their iterative process & journey.
voicesofvr.com/1110-tribeca-x
13/ Here's a recording of the Tribeca Talks I moderated on "Making a Difference with Immersive Non-Fiction Stories" featuring creators from CONTAINER, INTRAVENE, & PLEASE, BELIEVE ME.
Covers structure & forms of immersive storytelling + lots of challenges:
voicesofvr.com/1111-tribeca-x
14/ My final interview from NYC was an interview w/ @OpenBCI CEO @Conor Russomanno & Joseph Artuso on Project Galea after I got a hands-on demo.
EOC, EMG, EDA, PPG & 10 EEG sensors are available, but not being fused together yet.
More on where it's going:
voicesofvr.com/1112-openbcis-
END/ That's a wrap on my 13 Tribeca interviews & 11 hours of coverage.
If you find this work valuable, then please consider supporting me over on Patreon:
patreon.com/voicesofvr
Here's a link to the rest of my real-time coverage of Tribeca Immersive. 
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1/ THREAD of my coverage of the @Tribeca Immersive 2022 in NYC this next week.
Here’s my interview with Immersive curator @Ana Brzezińska previewing the selection:
voicesofvr.com/1095-preview-o
Some of the Immersive Storytelling experiences are available NOW on @Museum of Other Realities (MOR) as a DLC.
Kent Bye VoicesOfVR
@kentbye
Voices of VR Podcast host: Insatiably curious, XR oral historian, & aspiring philosopher.
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