Sex slaves, Isis, & VR: oh my!

360 Video, Entertainment, Focus: AR/VR, Virtual reality

I was completely and utterly blown away by Kent Bye‘s “Voices of VR” podcast that interviewed directors Céline Tricart and conflict journalist Christian Stephen about The Sun Ladies VR 360 video / VR experience. It’s about the Yezidi women who were taken as sex slaves after Isis invaded their towns and killed all the men. Some managed to escape from their ordeal and are now trained fighters hunting the men down who did it to them, intent on rescuing as many other women as they can. VR at its best: used to communicate a

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Five day VRaycation

Entertainment, Focus: AR/VR, Gaming, Just for fun, Virtual reality

I spent five full days over New Year’s playing with an HTC Vive. Which is interesting in NYC apartment, since half the furniture had to be moved to make room for the motion tracking units mounted on two spindly tripods! As an artist as well as a tech enthusiast, it was an interesting experience. So much to try out. I have a book’s worth of impressions and opinions coming out of the experience, but quickly – my favorite: hands down, Blortasia by Kevin Mack, a neuroscientist and artist. It’s a psychedelic drift through an ever changing,

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Face Swapping: Deepfakes

Augmented reality, Entertainment, Focus: AR/VR, Virtual reality

Face-swapping celebrity faces onto porn performers’ bodies (“Deepfakes”). It’s a thing.  Yes, it’s about porn….but it’s not: if Photoshop has played a major role in bending “reality” the point where no one believes a photo any more, just wait until the same “bending reality” happens easily, with video. How will anyone know what’s “real” ?? Will there be clipart galleries, just waiting for faces to be superimposed on them? What about superimposing faces on bodies in VR? – wonder if actors will make deals with entertainment producers to license their faces into VR/AR content, not

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Panel appearance at Creative Tech Week 2017

Appearances & Press, Focus: AR/VR, Innovation, Predictions, speaking engagements, Virtual reality

For those who are curious…here’s the full panel discussion exploring the future of VR and entertainment that I was a part of at Creative Tech Week 2017 back in June. Thank you to Isabel Walcott Draves and Cortney Harding for asking me to participate; it was great to be part of an event this forward thinking, and meet co-panelists Victoria Pike, Joel Douek, David Lobser and Jenya Lugina. Honored to be in such impressive company!

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I have a dream

Focus: AR/VR, Virtual reality

I have a dream..to live in a world where I can (for example, just a random one) be on a motorcycle in the pouring rain, motoring through the hairpin mountain curves of Danang, and have that experience be replicated in a 3d environment so others could experience it as I did – rain, wind, hairpin curves, scenery and all. AND…interact with those objects as if they were solid… because based on changing angles, I think the computer should be able to interpolate 3d shapes. I’m a dreamer. Beats sharing flat snapshots any day! All

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