Voices Of Vr Podcast Designing For Virtual Reality

Here's my interview with Neil Trevett, President of the Khronos Group talking about the new OpenXR Extension of Spatial Entities that has been in development for two years including PICO, Collabora, Godot Engine, Google, Meta, Unity, and Varjo, Microsoft, and ByteDance. You can see statements from many of these companies at the end of the blog announcement titled "OpenXR Spatial Entities Extensions Released for Developer Feedback." My interview with Trevett was conducted on Tuesday, June 10, 2025 at Augmented World Expo in Long Beach, CA. See more context in the rough transcript below. This is a listener-supported podcast through the Voices of VR Patreon. Music: Fatality

Here's my interview with Tom Emrich, founder and editor-in-chief of Remix Reality, XR Product leader, Community Builder, Journalist, & Investor, that was conducted on Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at Augmented World Expo in Long Beach, CA. This is part 2 of 2 of my conversations with Emrich, you can see part 1 from 2018 here. See more context in the rough transcript below. This is a listener-supported podcast through the Voices of VR Patreon. Music: Fatality

Here's my interview with Tom Emrich from June 17, 2018 when he was still a partner of Super Ventures, co-producer of Augmented World Expo. This is part 1 of 2 of my conversations with Emrich, you can see part 2 from 2025 here. See more context in the rough transcript below. This is a listener-supported podcast through the Voices of VR Patreon. Music: Fatality

Here's my interview with Ziad Asghar, Qualcomm's Senior Vice President & General Manager of XR & Spatial Computing, that was conducted on Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at Augmented World Expo in Long Beach, CA. See more context in the rough transcript below. This is a listener-supported podcast through the Voices of VR Patreon. Music: Fatality

Here's my interview with Brian Vogelsang from June 1, 2023 at Augmented World Expo when he was still Qualcomm's Senior Director of Product Management for Snapdragon Spaces and Developer Ecosystem. We cover a lot of Qualcomm's announcements from AWE 2023, including the dual-render fusion features for tethering the touch-screen interfaces to AR experiences that could be seen on different head-mounted glasses form factors. See more context in the rough transcript below. This is a listener-supported podcast through the Voices of VR Patreon. Music: Fatality

Here's my interview with Karl Guttag of the KGOnTech Blog as well as independent analyst for consumer XR display devices and systems that was conducted on Thursday, June 1, 2023 at Augmented World Expo in Santa Clara, CA. See more context in the rough transcript below. This is a listener-supported podcast through the Voices of VR Patreon. Music: Fatality

Here's my interview with Scott Myers, Vice President of Hardware Engineering at Snap and Snapchat Spectacles, that was conducted on Tuesday, June 10, 2025 at Augmented World Expo in Long Beach, CA. See more context in the rough transcript below. This is a listener-supported podcast through the Voices of VR Patreon. Music: Fatality

Here's my interview with Ray Kallmeyer, Founder and CEO of Enklu and their 22 Verse Immersive AR LBE locations, that was conducted on Tuesday, June 10, 2025 at Augmented World Expo in Long Beach, CA. See more context in the rough transcript below.

Here's my interview with Ryan Cole, Vice President of Video Technology at Cosm, that was conducted on Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at Augmented World Expo in Long Beach, CA. See more context in the rough transcript below. This is a listener-supported podcast through the Voices of VR Patreon. Music: Fatality

Here's my interview with the co-founders of Dream Park, Brent Bushnell & Aidan Wolf, that was conducted on Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at Augmented World Expo in Long Beach, CA. See more context in the rough transcript below. This is a listener-supported podcast through the Voices of VR Patreon. Music: Fatality

Here's my interview with the co-founders of at Two Bit Circus, Brent Bushnell & Eric Gradman, that was conducted on Thursday, October 11, 2018 at site visit to Two Bit Circus in Los Angeles, CA just over a month from their grand opening September 5th, 2018. See more context in the rough transcript below. This is a listener-supported podcast through the Voices of VR Patreon. Music: Fatality

Here's my interview about Viverse's Open Metaverse Strategy built on WebXR frameworks as well as the new WebXR game by James C. Kane called In Tirol. Kane is a Director in Emerging Technologies with a Focus on Immersive Tech, AR/VR, & WebXR, and this interview was conducted on Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at Augmented World Expo in Long Beach, CA. See more context in the rough transcript below. This is a listener-supported podcast through the Voices of VR Patreon. Music: Fatality

Here's my interview about the WebXR experience called Escape Artist with James C. Kane (who at the time was Technical Director at Paradowski), Andy Wise (Vice President of Creative Technology at Paradowski), & Ayushman Johri (3D Artist at Paradowski) that was conducted via Zoom on Tuesday, March 12, 2024. See more context in the rough transcript below. This is a listener-supported podcast through the Voices of VR Patreon. Music: Fatality

Here's my interview with Matteo311, VR Content Creator, that was conducted on Tuesday, June 10, 2025 at Augmented World Expo in Long Beach, CA. See more context in the rough transcript below. This is a listener-supported podcast through the Voices of VR Patreon. Music: Fatality

Here's my biographical oral history interview with Gregory Panos, 2025 Inductee into the Augmented World Expo Hall of Fame, talking about his journey from the early days of computer graphics to becoming a virtual reality evangelist and consultant, community builder via SIGGRAPH, as well as his long-time fascination with identity, volumetric capture of people, memorialization, and his ideas around a celebratory process of virtual immortalization as elaborated in his 1994 paper "Using Virtual Reality to Document Human Existence." Thursday, June 12, 2025 at Augmented World Expo in Long Beach, CA. See more context in the rough transcript below. This is a listener-supported podcast through the Voices of VR Patreon. Music: Fatality

Here's the panel discussion of Socratic Dialogue on the Future of AI and Immersive Technology with Alvin Wang Graylin, Kent Bye, Louis Rosenberg, Leslie Shannon that was recorded on the main stage of Augmented World Expo on Thursday, June 12, 2025 at Augmented World Expo in Long Beach, CA. See more context in the rough transcript below, and you can watch the original video here. Here's some other relevant episodes that I've done recently in preparation for this debate on AI: #1563: Deconstructing AI Hype with “The AI Con” Authors Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna #1568: A Process-Relational Philosophy View on AI, Intelligence, & Consciousness with Matt Segall #1585: Debating AI Project and a Curating Taiwanese LBE VR Exhibition at Museum of Moving Image #1609: Framework for Personalized, Responsive XR Stories with Narrative Futurist Joshua Rubin #1610: Scouting XR & AI Infrastructure Trends with Nokia’s Leslie Shannon #1629: Niantic Spatial is Building an AI-Powered Map with Snap for AR Gla

Here's my interview with Leslie Shannon, Nokia's Head of Trend and Innovation Scouting, that was conducted on Tuesday, June 10, 2025 at Augmented World Expo in Long Beach, CA. See more context in the rough transcript below. This is a listener-supported podcast through the Voices of VR Patreon. Music: Fatality

Here's my interview with Joshua Rubin, Interactive Emmy-Winning Narrative Director, Immersive Storyteller, and Narrative Futurist, that was conducted on Tuesday, June 10, 2025 at Augmented World Expo in Long Beach, CA. We talked about his talk at SXSW 2025 titled Building the Personalized, Responsive XR of the Future: Lessons we can learn from immersive theater and gaming See more context in the rough transcript below. This is a listener-supported podcast through the Voices of VR Patreon. Music: Fatality

Here's my interview with Brenda Laurel, Board of Virtual World Society, VR Artist, Theorist, Writer, Speaker, Designer, author of five books including Computers as Theatre, that was conducted on Wednesday, May 29, 2019 at Augmented World Expo in Santa Clara, CA. See more context in the rough transcript below. This is a listener-supported podcast through the Voices of VR Patreon. Music: Fatality

Here's my interview with Deirdre V. Lyons, Founder of Ferryman Collective and winner of the 2023 Women in XR Innovation Award, that was conducted on Thursday, June 1, 2023 at Augmented World Expo in Santa Clara, CA. See my conversation with the XR Women Real World Impact Award recipient Paige Dansinger in episode #1308 and as well as XR Women The Trailblazer Award winner Athena Demos in episode #1192. See more context in the rough transcript below. This is a listener-supported podcast through the Voices of VR Patreon. Music: Fatality