In this conversation with Karen Palmer, a multi-disciplinary immersive filmmaker who uses art, AI, gamification, neuroscience and behavioral psychology in her work, VRTL learns about her anti-empathy approach. Palmer's RIOT, an installation that required bespoke artificial intelligence, used storylines triggered by the viewer’s response to calm, anger and/or fear. Palmer tells how fear has significant relevance to her creativity, and she reveals her unique way of grappling with it.
Nov 15, 2020•41 min•Season 2Ep. 18
Recently I had the honor and pleasure of being able to speak to a wonderful and passionate person about the future of Virtual production and how the workflow of feature films as such has changed in recent years. His name is Hasraf Dulull, better known as HaZ. He’s a filmmaker who started as a visual effects supervisor on feature films on TV before making his directing and producing debut with the hit indie sci-fi feature film THE BEYOND which was a commercial success on all VOD platforms before ...
Nov 02, 2020•18 min•Season 1Ep. 18
Alvin Graylin is the President of HTC China. He is leading all aspects of the HTC business in the China Region and is responsible for Vive VR, phone, Viveport content platform and investments. And recently he has taken on the global responsibility for running the Software Business Unit for HTC as well. The company has launched the Vive XR Suite, a collection of software applications that enable users to work, learn, socialize and share live experiences in an immersive environment. I spoke to a v...
Oct 30, 2020•31 min•Season 2Ep. 18
Carl is an e-learning expert passionate about learning via virtual reality and MOOCs. He’s programmed as one of the speakers for the virtual event of the VR Days Europe. Carl and I talk about blended learning and XR, how to build a strong story for an XR training and how this pandemic is fueling the learning and development industry in general. Please enjoy another episode of the VR Days / VRTL podcast series. Listen to Carl Boel and learn how to build powerful stories for XR training....
Oct 13, 2020•15 min•Season 2Ep. 16
Last year in Amsterdam, VR Days Europe made its ambitions for growth clear and the Fifth Edition brought them one step closer to maturity. But when the pandemic arrived in the Netherlands and events started canceling, Co-Founder Benjamin De Wit and his team had to forge a new path. And they certainly did. Just like last year, they have developed an extensive program for a hybrid event. As in recent years, VR Days will take place in the Kromhouthal in Amsterdam, a portion which will be streamed w...
Sep 28, 2020•27 min•Season 2Ep. 16
Inga Petryaevskaya is a CEO and Co-Founder of Tvori, VR animation and prototyping software. Tvori is an award-winning technology startup located in San Mateo, California and Saint Petersburg in Russia. VRTL was honored to welcome Inga as a guest on our podcast. We talked about the emergence of XR teams within large companies, the importance of spatial design as a future proof skill and how Tvori makes it possible to ideate, visualize and communicate your ideas, all within virtual reality. Enjoy!...
Aug 06, 2020•21 min•Season 2Ep. 19
Michel Reilhac is a narrative architect and long-time transmedia and immersive media pioneer. He's is known as a leading international expert for innovation in hybrid storytelling across participatory, interactive and immersive experiences. As the Head of Studies at the Venice Biennale College and the VR competition curator for the Venice Biennale International Film Festival, Michel is regularly invited to speak and teach at major international events, including the Cannes International Film Fes...
Jul 01, 2020•21 min•Season 2Ep. 18
Jeffrey is a filmmaker, engineer, and virtual reality pioneer. As the founder and CEO of Positron, he created Voyager®. Jeffrey and his team have worked with studios such as Universal, DreamWorks, Disney, Warner Bros, Adult Swim, Felix & Paul, and others to craft premium VR content for XR Cinemas using the Voyager platform. In this episode of the VRTL podcast, we talked about the impressive quality of the submissions, the go-to-market strategy of Positron and how the business model for LBE w...
Jun 26, 2020•19 min•Season 2Ep. 17
Jingshu Chen, nominated in Forbes 30 under 30 Asia 2018, co-founded VeeR VR with Aiden in 2016, with a mission to bring the best immersive entertainment to the world. VeeR is a leading VR entertainment platform available worldwide, across all major VR headset, web, and mobile. VeeR acquires, produces, and distributes best-in-class immersive stories and light-weight interactive experiences. In this podcast Jingshu Chen talked about how the Chinese market responds to XR content and how artists can...
Jun 26, 2020•17 min•Season 1Ep. 15
Featuring immersive work from VR artists around the world, the Museum of Other Realities is a virtual art gallery that provides a place to connect, share, and experience new media together with others. Founded by Colin Northway and Robin Stethem in 2017, the MOR encourages visitors to step into and interact with the multidimensional artwork, transcending the limits of more traditional gallery experiences. In this episode Robin Stethem uncovers how the Museums of Other Realities works with artist...
Jun 19, 2020•14 min•Season 2Ep. 15
When you go to a film festival, it is almost impossible not to bump into this man. Jimmy Cheng focuses on the acquisition and licensing of immersive/interactive XR content as Director of Content / Business Operations at Iconic Engine . Currently, he represents 140 studios, including GoPro, Atlas V, Secret Location, and supporting six telecoms for finding content. In this episode of the VRTL podcast, Jimmy talks to Pieter about the recent trends in demand for the type of XR content and how he see...
Jun 14, 2020•22 min•Season 2Ep. 15
I think it must have been about a year since René and I last met each other in real life. That must have been during Cannes XR if I remember correctly. In the meantime, a lot has happened with Kaleidoscope and the pandemic has certainly accelerated the implementation of the new business model. René Pinnell is Founder and CEO of Kaleidoscope and has a clear mission and vision where he wants to go with the platform. Just like last year, Kaleidoscope and Cannes XR are teaming up and René gives us i...
Jun 04, 2020•22 min•Season 2Ep. 14
This week on our VRTL podcast we welcome Sean Rodrigo. Sean's a London-based, Virtual Reality Artist / Technologist working with innovative XR technology such as virtual reality as a core creative tool to achieve engaging, insightful and meaningful experiences. Over the last 13 years, Sean has worked in film, television and advertising with extensive experience in technical and creative campaigns. His current work ranges from installation artwork to designing prototype products in super fast tim...
May 20, 2020•32 min•Season 2Ep. 13
Nina is an award-winning filmmaker and XR Creative, Producer & Consultant. She has worked in the XR space since 2015. She is one of the co-founders of the Women in VR meet up group, an XR journalist for two and half years, and has worked on creating, developing, and using immersive technologies for various companies and brands. She is currently working on bringing VR into UK prisons, executing UK immersive events, and working on her own VR film. Nina Salomons talks about her career path and ...
Feb 27, 2020•20 min•Season 2Ep. 15
Rosh is Managing Director at UNIT9 a global Innovation Studio. A seasoned leader, passionate about the creative application of technologies for brands, and has been involved in the agency, production and start-up worlds running successful businesses and executing innovative and award winning work for some of the worlds biggest brands. Previous to UNIT9 he ran a record label, sold a business to WPP, started an embedded creative agency at WPP and founded a start-up incubator launching a new visual...
Feb 18, 2020•23 min•Season 2Ep. 15
Marta Ordeig is a filmmaker and entrepreneur traveling between Silicon Valley and Barcelona. In 2016 she founded Garage Stories, a content lab where she gathers creatives minds from various background to co-create and explore the possibilities that emerging technologies are bringing into the table and take an active part in shaping the future of entertainment. In this episode Pieter and Marta talk about how her idea generation methodology makes sense for XR projects and about her collaboration w...
Jan 30, 2020•20 min•Season 2Ep. 14
Rafael Pavon is an award-winning Creative Director and Producer at AtlasV, the production studio behind Spheres, Gloomy Eyes, Battlescar, and Vestige. Rafael started as Director and Creative Director for virtual reality in 2015 at VR studio Future Lighthouse, where he worked on 30+ VR productions from idea to delivery, creating award-winning original content from scratch, like Melita and Ray, and also working with partners like Sony, Oculus and HTC on projects like Campfire Creepers. After Futur...
Jan 17, 2020•36 min•Season 2Ep. 14
François Fripiat has been a sound engineer for over 12 years. He worked in many different fields such as sound design, audio mix, and he's been a sound supervisor for many different animation films, feature films, documentaries, etc... Passionate about spatial sound for a decade, François Fripiat founded the company Demute, a creative sound studio dedicated to new media (XR / Video Games / Immersive experiences). Demute is focusing on tech by developing new technological tools to improve immersi...
Jan 08, 2020•16 min•Season 2Ep. 13
Bob Cooney is widely considered the world’s leading authority on the location-based virtual reality (LBVR) business. As an innovator in immersive entertainment for nearly 30 years, he is a frequent keynote speaker at VR and amusement industry conferences and is a renowned and skilled moderator. Next to being a mentor and speaker, Bob is the author of the new book “Real Money from Virtual Reality”, a guide for entrepreneurs entering the LBVR space. While Bob has a tight schedule, he managed to sq...
Dec 19, 2019•24 min•Season 2Ep. 13
Dominic Eskofier co-founded the largest unofficial community for VR ( reddit.com/r/oculus ), started the VR Germany meetup group and is co-founder of EUVR.org – a non-profit organization pushing the European XR industry. After co-founding the VR startup realities.io at Boost VC, an accelerator in Silicon Valley, he gathered international corporate experience at Nvidia as their Head of Virtual Reality (EMEAI). Now, as Head of Eden Europe, he develops the European business for Eden, a startup from...
Dec 13, 2019•28 min•Season 2Ep. 12
After 4 years building mobile apps startups, frustrated by the limited options to efficiently monetize content, Sam Huber started Admix. Sam believes that immersive technologies (XR) are a change of interface, that will have an impact on humanity similar to the printing press or the screen. It is an inevitable transition. However, XR doesn't have a scalable business model yet. Admix aims to solve this problem and maximize revenue for the content creators while creating a better future for advert...
Dec 05, 2019•18 min•Season 2Ep. 12
Co-Founder and CEO at VISUALISE, the virtual reality production studio and author of Virtual Reality Marketing. Henry Stuart is one of the industry leaders in producing VR content for marketing, brands and storytelling for editorial and entertainment. A regular speaker at Virtual Reality events around the globe, Henry is a recognised thought leader on VR with articles published in Wired, the BBC, Marketing Magazine, the Financial Times, the Drum and many more of the UK and world's top press. Lis...
Nov 28, 2019•19 min•Season 2Ep. 9
Ricardo Laganaro is one of the most innovative filmmakers in Brazil, partner and Chief Storytelling Officer at ARVORE Immersive Experiences. His many-sided knowledge blends live-action, stop-motion animation, computer graphics and writing. Ricardo Laganaro entered the immersive world directing a full dome experience for Museum of Tomorrow in Rio. During 2016, he has directed 360º musical and advertising projects that sum more than 60 million views. At VR Days, we had a brief talk with Ricardo di...
Nov 25, 2019•20 min•Season 2Ep. 7
Ricardo Laganaro is one of the most innovative filmmakers in Brazil, partner and Chief Storytelling Officer at ARVORE Immersive Experiences. His many-sided knowledge blends live-action, stop-motion animation, computer graphics and writing. Laganaro entered the immersive world directing a full-dome experience for Museum of Tomorrow in Rio. During 2016, he has directed 360º musical and advertising projects that sum more than 60 million views. In this keynote session at VR Days in Amsterdam, Ricard...
Nov 25, 2019•16 min•Season 2Ep. 8
A Brussels-based spatial computing expert. Previously Leen worked for 10 years with several technology startups in Ghent, London, and Brussels. Since 2011, she has been focused on the democratisation of media across platforms and devices which led her to start LucidWeb in 2016. Today, LucidWeb is working with many broadcasters & VR/AR agencies across Europe. Recently the company also launched its white-label app-less distribution platform LucidWeb.pro . Leen is the co-founder of Women in Imm...
Nov 19, 2019•12 min•Season 2Ep. 6
Daniel started his career at a large Dutch corporate (ING) where he gained lots of hands-on experience with Scrum, Agile and Lean Startup techniques. He put his experience to good use mentoring start-ups at Rockstart in Amsterdam and has been involved in their smart energy accelerator program. Spring 2014 he started the Dutch community VRNL with over a thousand members currently, bringing together everyone passionate about VR in the Netherlands. A year later he organised the first European meetu...
Nov 19, 2019•20 min•Season 2Ep. 2
Amy Hedrick is CEO and Co-Founder of CleanboxTechnology. As a thought leader providing insights into the immersive technology, she brings solutions and innovation in smart tech hygiene. Having led multiple teams from project inception and execution through profitable completion, she has proven herself an effective leader in diverse venues over the past decade. Most recently, Amy was Manager of Content and Digital Media for the think tank division of Li and Fung, a leading global consumer goods s...
Nov 18, 2019•11 min•Season 2Ep. 4
Kiira Benzing is a director crossing the mediums of theater, hybrid cinema and virtual reality. “Cardboard City” her first venture in Virtual Reality won the Samsung Gear Indie Milk VR contest (2016). Following this VR film her interactive installation for “Cardboard City” combining VR and AR premiered at the 54th annual New York Film Festival at Lincoln Center. Her short film “ Hilda” had its World Premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival in April 2017 and was distributed to Amazon and her recent ...
Nov 18, 2019•29 min•Season 2Ep. 3
Benjamin de Wit is Founder and Festival Director of VR Days Europe. Since its first year in 2015, VR Days has the ambition to be Europe’s leading professional and creative XR event. With the 5th edition of VR Days coming up, Benjamin has found time and space in his hectic time schedule to discuss the future and past of VR Days and his expectations of the upcoming event. Benjamin goes deeper on the program of VR Days and recommends some must-see experiences / must-hear panel discussions at the fe...
Oct 31, 2019•22 min•Season 2Ep. 1
In today's podcast, we're featuring Loren Hammonds, Senior Programmer at Tribeca Film Festival in New York City and the man in charge of feature-films and immersive. Tribeca Film Festival was founded by Robert De Niro and Jane Rosenthal in direct response to the events on 9/11 to revitalize the community. Immersive is a significant part of the festival that is growing exponentially every year. In this episode, we'll talk about the evolution beyond film at Tribeca, how Loren is following up artis...
Sep 20, 2019•9 min•Season 1Ep. 36
