077 - VRScout Report: Discover the Best in Virtual Reality - 12/12
VRScout Report - Discover the Best in VR and AR
Release Date: 12/12/2017
105 - Nonny de la Peña - Founder and CEO of Emblematic Group: the VRScout Report // Discover the Best in VR and AR - 12/10
VRScout Report - Discover the Best in VR and AR
We interviewed the godmother of VR, Nonny de la Peña, founder/CEO of Emblematic Group. We discuss the future of immersive journalism and the dawn of a new way to create, consume, and distribute media through volumetric capture and photogrammetry featuring Emblematic's latest project, . https://www.reach.love/ Hosted by Malia Probst Special thanks to @JoeWilsonTV for the voiceover magic
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104 - AR Narratives w/ Samantha Gorman, Co-Founder of Tenderclaws: the VRScout Report // Discover the Best in VR and AR - 11/29
VRScout Report - Discover the Best in VR and AR
In this week’s episode we talk with Tenderclaws' co-founder and game lead, Samantha Gorman, about their upcoming project, TendAR, which includes an AR pet fish that uses computer vision to feed on people's emotions and the world around it. We discuss how Gorman overcomes AR obstacles by strategizing how to make players return to their app and how they are gamifying short play sessions into a long-form AR narrative. http://tenderclaws.com/ Hosted by Malia Probst Special thanks to @JoeWilsonTV for the voiceover magic
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103 - Ray Soto - Director of Emerging Tech at USA TODAY NETWORK: the VRScout Report // Discover the Best in VR and AR - 11/13
VRScout Report - Discover the Best in VR and AR
This week we interviewed Ray Soto, director of emerging tech at USA TODAY NETWORK. We discussed how their team expand interactive VR and create a cross platform distribution system documenting editorial stories. Ray Soto walks us through how their team captures locations volumetrically, what their workflow is like, and how they explored new ways of creating content. Hosted by Malia Probst Special thanks to @JoeWilsonTV for the voiceover magic
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102 - Augmented Art in Museums w/ Rachel Ara, conceptual artist: the VRScout Report // Discover the Best in VR and AR - 10/23
VRScout Report - Discover the Best in VR and AR
In this week’s episode we talk with London-based technologist and conceptual artist Rachel Ara, creator of the Transubstantiation of Knowledge. The augmented reality art was part of a larger installation at the V&A Research Institute, a site-specific mixed-reality work which explored the hidden stories behind the Santa Chiara Chapel in the museum’s Medieval and Renaissance Galleries - Hosted by Malia Probst Special thanks to @JoeWilsonTV for the voiceover magic
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101 - The Oculus Connect 5 Wrapup and More // VRScout Report: Discover the Best in VR and AR - 10/1
VRScout Report - Discover the Best in VR and AR
We make a fun return to the studio this week where host Malia Probst is joined by a room full of Scouts-- Jonathan, Kyle, and Andy. We talk all things OC5, the *just* announced Oculus Quest, and first impressions of the highly-anticipated Two Bit Circus-- an immersive funhouse in downtown Los Angeles. Join us to listen to details of hands-on experience with the Oculus Quest-- the next VR gamechanger! Hosted by Malia Probst Special thanks to @JoeWilsonTV for the voiceover magic
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100 - Writing Immersive Narratives: the VRScout Report // Discover the Best in VR and AR - 9/3
VRScout Report - Discover the Best in VR and AR
This week’s episode features Jake Sally (Director of Immersive Development at RYOT), Evette Vargas (CEO of Digital-Reign, Creator/Executive Producer of TV, Film, and Immersive Storytelling), and Jonny Ahdout (Director of Development at Within) in a live recording of our panel discussion at the latest installation of VRScout's monthly mixer series. We talk about the differences between writing for traditional media and immersive media, some writing processes and tools used by VR/AR creators, how writers are thinking about the spectrum of interactivity, how social interaction can be...
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099 - Holograms & Volumetric Capture w/ Christina Heller, CEO of Metastage: the VRScout Report // Discover the Best in VR and AR - 8/27
VRScout Report - Discover the Best in VR and AR
We traveled to the newly-opened Metastage production studio in LA to talk all things holograms, humans, and 3D with Christina Heller, CEO of Metastage. We discuss how to capture volumetrically and how the resulting 3D assets can be used-- from VR to AR to traditional entertainment and video games. Our host, Malia Probst, gets the full volumetric experience herself and turns into a hologram by the end of the show - Hosted by Malia Probst Special thanks to @JoeWilsonTV for the voiceover magic
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098 - Architecture and Real Estate Go Immersive: the VRScout Report // Discover the Best in VR and AR - 8/21
VRScout Report - Discover the Best in VR and AR
This week’s episode is a live recording from the panel discussion at VRScout all about immersive tech and architecture, real estate, and construction. We feature Tyson Woeste (Co-founder and CEO of Transported), Cody Nowak (Founder of DisruptAEC), Julie Clementi (Partner at Rios Clementi Hale Studios, CEO of notNuetral), Güvenç Özel (Technology Director at IDEAS UCLA), and Megan Lubaszka (Regional Creative Media Leader at Gensler). Moderated by Zeynep Abes of VRScout -
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097 - The Gaming & Arcades Mixer: the VRScout Report // Discover the Best in VR and AR - 8/13
VRScout Report - Discover the Best in VR and AR
If you couldn’t make it to Los Angeles for the VRScout monthly mixer in July, we’ll bring a bit of the event to you! This week’s episode is a live recording from our panel discussion all about gaming, arcades, and location-based entertainment (LBE) in immersive tech and features Joanna Popper (Global Head of Virtual Reality for Location Based Entertainment at HP), Brent Bushnell (CEO/ Co-Founder of Two Bit Circus), and Sally Slade (Lead Developer at Magnopus). We talk about VR/AR in the out-of-home entertainment industry as potential business development for immersive creators, how to...
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096 VRScout Spotlight: Sarah Hill, CEO StoryUP XR - Discover the Best in VR and AR - 8/7
VRScout Report - Discover the Best in VR and AR
On this week’s episode we talk with StoryUP CEO Sarah Hill about how positivity-focused immersive content affects your brain, and we’re joined by strategic partner and cofounder Dr. Jeff Tarrant, who is also the Director of the NeuroMeditation Institute. We talk about StoryUP’s platform Healium (the world’s first mobile VR/AR product controlled by a brain computer interface), traditional neurofeedback modalities, humanity’s current transition from storytelling to story living, what your brain looks like on empathy, our potential therapeutic future, and more!...
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Special thanks to @JoeWilsonTV for the voiceover magic