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A Podcast about immersive design, especially Virtual Reality. Tune in for insights on what kind of changes immersive technologies bring into designing experiences, products, and services. Brought to you by VR researchers & developers Aki Järvinen and Dooley Murphy.
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Season 03 Episode 04: "AR for Information Visualisation" from 2021-01-15T08:55:23
In this episode, which will be our final one for now, Aki has a conversation with Andrea Bravo and her research on using augmented reality for information visualisation purposes.
The paper...
Season 3 Episode 3: "XR Prototyping and Diversity" from 2020-12-08T13:05:49
In this episode, we discuss how to get into programming and how to approach prototyping in XR projects with Antonia Forster, who works for Unity. We also touch upon the topic of diversity and how t...
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Season 3 Episode 2: "VR and Architecture with Kim Baumann Larsen" from 2020-10-30T10:14:05
In this episode, we discuss how VR designers should draw from centuries of work in architecture into their thinking when constructing virtual spaces.
Watch also our guest Kim Baumann Lars...
Season 3 Episode 1: "Multisensory experiences with Marianna Obrist" from 2020-10-09T10:30:15
We're back for Season 3! This season will be mostly interviews with people working on XR design related things. Our first conversation is with Marianna Obrist, Professor and co-author of a new book...
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Season 02 Bonus Episode: Hand Tracking with Luca Mefisto from 2020-06-23T18:33:56
In this bonus episode to the 2nd season, Aki has a conversation on hand tracking with XR designer-developer Luca Mefisto.
Look for an accompanying blog post with videos of the demos discu...
Season 2 Episode 10: "Collaborative VR" from 2020-05-13T19:32:02
In this, the final episode of our 2nd season, we discuss collaborative VR through a number of research papers. Aki also shares the thinking behind a recent prototype that resulted from participatin...
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Season 2 Episode 9: Half-Life: Alyx from 2020-04-10T13:20:33
In this episode, we do a deep dive into Half-Life: Alyx, the VR successor to the popular game series from Valve.
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Season 2 Episode 8: "SideQuest, Museum of Other Realities, and style in VR design" from 2020-03-22T20:32:53
In this episode, we feature Shane Harris from SideQuest and discuss the notion of style in VR design. We also share our thoughts on Museum of Other Realities, a VR gallery available through Steam. ...
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Season 2 Episode 7: "All the realities!" from 2020-02-16T14:51:52
In this episode, we discuss a paper that seeks to create a taxonomy of realities, building on Milgram & Kishino’s often-cited “virtuality continuum”. We touch on synesthesia, “submersive reality”, ...
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Season 2 Episode 6: "Technology Acceptance Models and VR adoption" from 2020-01-19T20:47:38
In this episode, we discuss three papers that attempt to capture the elements that influence how people adopt emerging technologies, such as VR.
Read the accompanying blog post at https:/...
Season 2 Episode 5: "Attempts at Mapping the VR Design Space" from 2019-12-15T19:57:03
In this episode, we discuss a paper that attempts to formalise VR design space, and how experiences like Tender Claws’ The Under Presents defies such formalisations.
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Season 2 Episode 4: "Scale and Perspective in VR" from 2019-11-24T16:53:31
In this episode, we discuss the use of scale and perspective in VR as a design technique. Our examples include Eleven Eleven and Journey of the Gods.
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Season 2 Episode 3: "Impossible Spaces" from 2019-11-10T17:46:10
In this episode, we discuss the following:
- Dooley’s recent purchase of Oculus Quest and his adventures with SideQuest
- Impossible spaces through research papers and games in develop...
Season 2 Episode 02: ”Fly, Defector, and Embodied Cognition” from 2019-10-21T12:17:55
In this episode, we discuss the following:
- Aki’s experience of Fly, a location-based VR installation
- Dooley’s dip into lesser known narrative VR experiences
- Our peer review of De...
Season 2 Episode 01: “Drew MacQuarrie and Cinematic Virtual Reality” from 2019-09-30T06:47:34
We’re back from our summer break! Season 2 kicks off with a recap of our VR-related activities, including visits to immersive non-VR experiences such as Sleep No More by Punch Drunk and Coma by Dar...
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Episode 10: "What makes an immersive experience meaningful?” from 2019-07-25T10:57:06
Episode 10: “What makes an immersive experience meaningful?”
In our final episode of Season 1, we cover the following:
- What’s up: Dooley’s upcoming trip to Asia, Aki’s recap of ...
Episode 09: “From War of the Worlds to Wolves in the Walls” from 2019-07-08T19:50:16
In episode 9, we cover the following:
- What’s up: War of the Worlds immersive experience, Dooley’s conference visits to Hamburg & Santa Fe
- Peer review: Wolves in the Walls and Fishe...
Episode 08: "What is haptic design?" from 2019-06-08T18:38:19
In episode 8, we cover the following:
- What’s up: Opera Beyond XR project (Dooley), starting job at Digital Catapult (Aki)
- Question of the month debrief
- Vocabulary: Haptics an...
Episode 07: “VR Art, featuring Tilt Brush artist Rosie Summers” from 2019-05-25T13:55:37
In episode 7, we cover the following:
- What’s up: Immersive Arts Lab, Opera Beyond XR project
- Peer review: Self-Portrait (Interior) by Theo Triantafyllidis: https://theotrian.itch.i...
Episode 06: "Immersive design with Doug North Cook and scratching the surface of social VR" from 2019-05-03T09:25:43
In episode 6, we discuss the following:
- Guest interview: Doug North Cook on Immersive Design Residency at Fallingwater and creating Immersive Media university courses
- Peer review:...
Episode 05: "Storytelling in VR" from 2019-04-17T20:04:06
In episode 5, we discuss the following:
- Question of the week: listener input into our search for best narrative VR experiences
- Design deep dive: storytelling in VR and the question...
Episode 04: "Breaks in presence" from 2019-04-09T08:34:17
In the episode, we discuss the following:
- Aki's job news
- Vocabulary: "Breaks in presence"
- VR Original: Tilt Brush
- Dev story: Wireframing with Tilt Brush
Episode 03: "Deep Dive into Rhythm Game Design" from 2019-03-25T22:10:58
In the episode, we discuss the following:
- Design Deep Dive: Rhythm games' design through Audica and Beat Saber
- VR Peer Review: Aki’s thoughts on Mindshow and Dooley’s on Luna
-...
Episode 02: "Agency in VR" from 2019-03-11T13:05:51
In the second episode, we discuss the following:
- Dooley’s upcoming article on the notion of empathy and VR
- Aki’s take on the first half of Blake J. Harris’s book on the birth of Oc...
Episode 01: "A Podcast About Immersive Design" from 2019-02-25T23:26:59
This is the inaugural episode of our podcast, hosted by Aki Järvinen and Dooley Murphy.
In the show, we discuss the following:
- How we came to be interested in VR and immersive media...