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The In Reality podcast is a weekly deep dive into news from the Augmented Reality & Virtual Reality Industries by industry vets & experts. Get in touch with us : [email protected] Sponsored by marxent.com and hosted by Joe Bardi and Joe Johnson, In Reality is produced bi-weekly and is available both on soundcloud and marxent.com
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Meta 'Celeste' HUD Glasses Leaks & Apple Vision Air Rumors
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2:48:451. Quest 3S Xbox Edition Sold Out From Meta 2. Bigscreen Beyond 2 Has Started Shipping To Customers 3. Meta 'Celeste' HUD Glasses Name, Design & EMG Wristband Gestures Leak 4. Apple Vision Air Coming In 2027, Supply Chain Analyst Claims
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Meta 'Celeste' HUD Glasses Leaks & Apple Vision Air Rumors
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2:48:451. Quest 3S Xbox Edition Sold Out From Meta 2. Bigscreen Beyond 2 Has Started Shipping To Customers 3. Meta 'Celeste' HUD Glasses Name, Design & EMG Wristband Gestures Leak 4. Apple Vision Air Coming In 2027, Supply Chain Analyst Claims
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Oakley Meta HSTN Glasses & Quest 3S Xbox Edition
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2:18:461. Samsung's Headset Will Reportedly Ship In October, To South Korea First 2. WebXR Apps On Quest's Meta Horizon Store Can Now Use In-App Payments 3. ModRetro Chromatic Now Displays Nintendo Game Boy Games In Quest Headsets 4. Alcoholics Anonymous Meetings Are Held Every Day In Virtual Spaces Smart Glasses 5. Oakley Meta HSTN Glasses Have Double Th…
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Oakley Meta HSTN Glasses & Quest 3S Xbox Edition
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2:18:461. Samsung's Headset Will Reportedly Ship In October, To South Korea First 2. WebXR Apps On Quest's Meta Horizon Store Can Now Use In-App Payments 3. ModRetro Chromatic Now Displays Nintendo Game Boy Games In Quest Headsets 4. Alcoholics Anonymous Meetings Are Held Every Day In Virtual Spaces Smart Glasses 5. Oakley Meta HSTN Glasses Have Double Th…
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Meta Ceases Onward Development & Merges Downpour Into Camouflaj
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2:16:11Quest Content 1. Puma Made A Quest-Only WebXR Shopping Experience For Its Latest Shoe 2. Jigsaw Night Is A Master Class In Interaction Design For Mixed Reality And VR 3. DAZN Gives US Quest Owners A Free 3D Tabletop View Of The FIFA Club World Cup Meta Smart Glasses 4. Oakley Meta Glasses Seem To Be Launching On Friday 5. Prada Meta Glasses Are Rep…
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Meta Ceases Onward Development & Merges Downpour Into Camouflaj
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2:16:11Quest Content 1. Puma Made A Quest-Only WebXR Shopping Experience For Its Latest Shoe 2. Jigsaw Night Is A Master Class In Interaction Design For Mixed Reality And VR 3. DAZN Gives US Quest Owners A Free 3D Tabletop View Of The FIFA Club World Cup Meta Smart Glasses 4. Oakley Meta Glasses Seem To Be Launching On Friday 5. Prada Meta Glasses Are Rep…
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Snap Teases Consumer AR Specs & visionOS 26 Charts Apple's Future
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3:21:35Meta Section 1. Deadpool VR, Voiced By Neil Patrick Harris, Is Meta's Next Quest 3 Exclusive Blockbuster 2. Meta Shipped Quest v77 Update Knowing It Had Bugs, Despite Quality Control Pledge 3. Microsoft Employee Working On SteamVR Driver To Revive Windows MR Headsets AWE 2025 4. Qualcomm Reveals Snapdragon AR1+ Chip For High-End Smart Glasses 5. Sn…
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Snap Teases Consumer AR Specs & visionOS 26 Charts Apple's Future
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3:21:35Meta Section 1. Deadpool VR, Voiced By Neil Patrick Harris, Is Meta's Next Quest 3 Exclusive Blockbuster 2. Meta Shipped Quest v77 Update Knowing It Had Bugs, Despite Quality Control Pledge 3. Microsoft Employee Working On SteamVR Driver To Revive Windows MR Headsets AWE 2025 4. Qualcomm Reveals Snapdragon AR1+ Chip For High-End Smart Glasses 5. Sn…
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Palmer Luckey's Anduril Partners With Meta, What Comes After Quest 3?
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2:14:27Meta Quest Hardware & Tech News 1. Meta Financing Now In The UK Too, Offering Quest 3S From Twelve £30 Monthly Payments 2. Quest's Web Browser Now Experimentally Supports Colocated WebXR Immersive Video 3. Quest Owners Can Watch The NHL Stanley Cup Final Rinkside In 180° For Free 4. Bono: Stories Of Surrender, The First Feature-Length Apple Immersi…
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Palmer Luckey's Anduril Partners With Meta, What Comes After Quest 3?
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2:14:27Meta Quest Hardware & Tech News 1. Meta Financing Now In The UK Too, Offering Quest 3S From Twelve £30 Monthly Payments 2. Quest's Web Browser Now Experimentally Supports Colocated WebXR Immersive Video 3. Quest Owners Can Watch The NHL Stanley Cup Final Rinkside In 180° For Free 4. Bono: Stories Of Surrender, The First Feature-Length Apple Immersi…
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#1568: A Process-Relational Philosophy View on AI, Intelligence, & Consciousness with Matt Segall
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1:23:34I've spoken to Whitehead scholar Matt Segall a couple of times before, and I was really keen to catch up with him to hear his process-relational and process philosophical takes on AI, intelligence and consciousness. I was responding to a piece he recently wrote titled " The Philosophical Implications of Artificial Intelligence" (full citation below…
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#1567: Tribeca Immersive Curators on the 2025 Selection of Impact Projects Curated by Onassis ONX, Agog, & Tribeca
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51:56I spoke with the curators of Tribeca Immersive 2025 Jazia Hammoudi and Casey Baltes to unpack the 11 impact project that are being feature in this year's selection. We also talk about Tribeca's new collaboration with Onassis ONX and Agog, how the selection process has changed over the years.This is a listener-supported podcast through the Voices of…
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#1566: Raindance Immersive Curators on the 2025 Selection of Immersive Art on Social VR Platforms
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1:53:49I spoke with Raindance Immersive curators Mária Rakušanová, Joe Hunting, Fangs about the 2025 selection of projects across 8 different categories. Tune in to get all of the latest tips from this year's selection that is mostly happening on social VR platforms including VRChat, Resonite, and Orion Drift.This is a listener-supported podcast through t…
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#1565: “D-Day: The Camera Soldier” by Targo Stories Pushes Immersive Documentary Innovations on Apple Vision Pro
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52:48I spoke with producer Victor Agulhon of Targo Stories about their collaboration with TIME Studios to produce D-Day: The Camera Soldier, which he calls the most technologically advance immersive documentary produced up to this point. They took footage from D-Day and spatialized it in a number of different ways, and really pushed the frontiers of inn…
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#1564: Adding Participatory & Community Elements to the Cinematic Tradition with PAM CUT’s Tomorrow Theater
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1:17:48The Portland Art Museum Center for an Untold Tomorrow (PAM CUT) has acquired the Tomorrow Theater in South East Portland, and is curating 25 unique events a month and over 250 unique events a year. Most of the experiences are grounded within the cinematic tradition, but there are usually ways that they are adding more levels of participation, commu…
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Apple Glasses In 2026 & Physical Meta Stores?
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2:07:011. PlayStation VR2 Is $350 For Sony's Days Of Play 2025 Sale 2. Insomniac Games Does Not "Have Plans" For PlayStation VR2 Games 3. Apple Reportedly Plans To Launch Its Smart Glasses In Late 2026 4. D-Day: The Camera Soldier Is A New Kind Of Documentary On Apple Vision Pro 5. Team Beef Is Unofficially Porting Counter-Strike To Quest & Pico 4 6. Meta…
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Apple Glasses In 2026 & Physical Meta Stores?
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2:07:011. PlayStation VR2 Is $350 For Sony's Days Of Play 2025 Sale 2. Insomniac Games Does Not "Have Plans" For PlayStation VR2 Games 3. Apple Reportedly Plans To Launch Its Smart Glasses In Late 2026 4. D-Day: The Camera Soldier Is A New Kind Of Documentary On Apple Vision Pro 5. Team Beef Is Unofficially Porting Counter-Strike To Quest & Pico 4 6. Meta…
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#1563: Deconstructing AI Hype with “The AI Con” Authors Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna
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1:13:18We are in the middle of a hype cycle peak around AI as there are a lot of hyperbolic claims being made about the capabilities and performance of large-language models (LLMs). Computational Linguist Emily M. Bender and Sociologist Alex Hanna have been writing academic papers about the limitations of LLMs, as well as some of the more pernicious aspec…
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Horizon OS Overhaul, Google I/O, Android XR, Xreal Project Aura
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2:34:59Meta Section 1. Meta CTO Responds To Quest Performance Regression & Battery Saver Issue 2. Ray-Ban Meta Glasses Are Now Available In India & Mexico 3. Meta Horizon OS v77 Tests Total UI Overhaul & Turning Instagram Photos 3D Apple Section 4. Bono: Apple Is "Dying To Make Vision Pro More Affordable" 5. Godot Now Has Rudimentary Support For visionOS …
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Horizon OS Overhaul, Google I/O, Android XR, Xreal Project Aura
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2:34:59Meta Section 1. Meta CTO Responds To Quest Performance Regression & Battery Saver Issue 2. Ray-Ban Meta Glasses Are Now Available In India & Mexico 3. Meta Horizon OS v77 Tests Total UI Overhaul & Turning Instagram Photos 3D Apple Section 4. Bono: Apple Is "Dying To Make Vision Pro More Affordable" 5. Godot Now Has Rudimentary Support For visionOS …
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#1562: Highlights of Creature’s IGN XR Gaming Showcase + State of VR Vibe Check with Doug North Cook
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1:24:57The Creature label features a lot of really innovative VR and MR games with rich and innovative gameplay mechanics, and they just featured three new games, a new DLC pack, and lots of updates about the games in a half-hour Creature Feature gaming showcase hosted on IGN. I had a chance to catch up with Creature CEO and Creative Director Doug North C…
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visionOS 3 Accessibility Features, Meta AssetGen 2.0, Pimax Dream Air SE
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3:08:15David discusses: 1. Play For Dream MR Is Getting Guy Godin's Virtual Desktop Next Week Smart Glasses 2. Google Teases Smart Glasses Demo For I/O Next Week 3. Apple Is Reportedly Developing A Custom Chipset For Its Smart Glasses 4. Ray-Ban Meta Glasses Can Now Be More Descriptive About What They See visionOS 3 5. Apple Vision Pro Will Be Able To Mag…
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visionOS 3 Accessibility Features, Meta AssetGen 2.0, Pimax Dream Air SE
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3:08:15David discusses: 1. Play For Dream MR Is Getting Guy Godin's Virtual Desktop Next Week Smart Glasses 2. Google Teases Smart Glasses Demo For I/O Next Week 3. Apple Is Reportedly Developing A Custom Chipset For Its Smart Glasses 4. Ray-Ban Meta Glasses Can Now Be More Descriptive About What They See visionOS 3 5. Apple Vision Pro Will Be Able To Mag…
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Minecraft Drops VR & Lasertag's Continuous Scene Meshing On Quest 3
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2:14:24Ian and David discuss: Meta Rebrands Quest+ Subscription To Horizon+ Minecraft No Longer Officially Supports VR Next-Gen Meta Smart Glasses Set For 2026 Could Recognize Faces With Always-On A What An Apple Vision Pro Developer Learned Hiking 70 Miles Outdoors In a Headset A Developer Implemented Continuous Scene Meshing On Quest 3 Hauntify On Quest…
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Minecraft Drops VR & Lasertag's Continuous Scene Meshing On Quest 3
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2:14:24Ian and David discuss: Meta Rebrands Quest+ Subscription To Horizon+ Minecraft No Longer Officially Supports VR Next-Gen Meta Smart Glasses Set For 2026 Could Recognize Faces With Always-On A What An Apple Vision Pro Developer Learned Hiking 70 Miles Outdoors In a Headset A Developer Implemented Continuous Scene Meshing On Quest 3 Hauntify On Quest…
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#1561: PHI and Agog Collaborate on Immersive Residency on XR for Impact, Artist Retrospective, and Application Details
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1:04:10NOTE: This sponsored episode was produced by Kent Bye in partnership with PHI and participation from Agog: Immersive Media Institute and immersive artist Peter Burr.PHI and Agog: Immersive Media Institute are collaborating on the PHI Immersive: XR for Impact residency program that will be running for four weeks from March 2 to 27, 2026 in Montreal,…
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#1560: Walkabout Mini Golf’s Incredible Fusion of Worldbuilding, Gameplay, Social Dynamics, & DLC Experimentation
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1:10:49Walkabout Mini Golf is really an incredible accomplishment of VR design with its fusion of worldbuilding, compelling physics-based gameplay, the unique social dynamics and community it's able to cultivate, and over 4 1/2 years of consistent DLC courses every 8 weeks or so. They have launched 33 total courses, and just recently announced that they'r…
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Quest Headset Sales Drop, Passthrough Camera API Now Shippable
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2:16:24David & Ian discuss: Ray-Ban Meta Glasses App Change Bigscreen Beyond 2 Shipping Delayed To June Motorola Phones Are Now Usable In Horizon OS Meta Employees Working Weekends To Ship HUD Glasses Varjo Teleport 2.0 "Best-In-Class" Photorealistic Scene Capture Lowe's Letting Customers Design Their Kitchen With Apple Vision Pro Quest's Passthrough Came…
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Quest Headset Sales Drop, Passthrough Camera API Now Shippable
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2:16:24David & Ian discuss: Ray-Ban Meta Glasses App Change Bigscreen Beyond 2 Shipping Delayed To June Motorola Phones Are Now Usable In Horizon OS Meta Employees Working Weekends To Ship HUD Glasses Varjo Teleport 2.0 "Best-In-Class" Photorealistic Scene Capture Lowe's Letting Customers Design Their Kitchen With Apple Vision Pro Quest's Passthrough Came…
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#1559: Expanding Social Dramaturgy of Theater with Video Games in 7-Hour “asses.masses” Binge-Watching Marathon
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1:43:20asses.masses is a unique, 7-hour, live performance that uses video game logic to expand the narrative possibilities and social dramaturgy of experimental theater. With a single video game controller at the front of a movie theater with lights up so everyone can see each other, the audience must negotiate amongst themselves who will step up to play …
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Horizon Worlds AI Asset Generation & Ray-Ban Meta Speech Translation
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1:51:52David Heaney and Ian Hamilton discuss: 1. Meta Horizon Desktop Editor Can Now AI Generate 3D Meshes & Textures 2. Meta Now Sells Quest 3S Refurbished For $270 Immersive Video 3. Insta360 X5 Improves The Quality Of The Handheld 8K 360° Camera 4. Horizon Worlds Now Supports 3D 180° Video For Events Like Concerts Smart Glasses 5. Ray-Ban Meta Glasses …
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Horizon Worlds AI Asset Generation & Ray-Ban Meta Speech Translation
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1:51:52David Heaney and Ian Hamilton discuss: 1. Meta Horizon Desktop Editor Can Now AI Generate 3D Meshes & Textures 2. Meta Now Sells Quest 3S Refurbished For $270 Immersive Video 3. Insta360 X5 Improves The Quality Of The Handheld 8K 360° Camera 4. Horizon Worlds Now Supports 3D 180° Video For Events Like Concerts Smart Glasses 5. Ray-Ban Meta Glasses …
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#1558: Series Director of “Adventure” Series on Apple Immersive Video and Grammar of 180 Video
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59:40Charlotte Mikkelborg is the series director of the Adventure series on Apple TV, which is shot on Apple Immersive Video and co-produced by Atlantic Studios (formerly Atlantic Productions) and Apple. I think it has the strongest storytelling released by Apple so far, and it also has some of the most innovative and cutting edge shots that really show…
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Electronics Tariff Exemption, Apple Vision Pro 2 Leaks & Rumors
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2:45:59David Heaney discusses: 1. Sony Raises PS5 Console Price In Europe & Australasia 2. Quest 3S Is $270 For The Next Two Weeks, A $30 Discount 3. Trump Exempts Many Electronics From His "Reciprocal" Tariffs 4. A Developer Got PlayStation VR2's HDR Partially Working On PC 5. Nvidia's RTX 5060 Family Will Power Entry-Level PC VR From $300 6. REK Wants T…
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Electronics Tariff Exemption, Apple Vision Pro 2 Leaks & Rumors
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2:45:59David Heaney discusses: 1. Sony Raises PS5 Console Price In Europe & Australasia 2. Quest 3S Is $270 For The Next Two Weeks, A $30 Discount 3. Trump Exempts Many Electronics From His "Reciprocal" Tariffs 4. A Developer Got PlayStation VR2's HDR Partially Working On PC 5. Nvidia's RTX 5060 Family Will Power Entry-Level PC VR From $300 6. REK Wants T…
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PlayStation VR2 Eye Tracking On PC, Half-Life: Alyx First Scene On Quest 3
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2:21:04David and Kyle discuss: Civilization VII VR PlayStation VR2's Eye Tracking Working On PC Quest 3 Winning Best Inflight Entertainment Award Quest's Horizon OS v76 DaVinci Resolve supporting editing Apple Immersive Video the report claiming Apple Vision Pro 2 mass production has begun Pico Motion Tracker Waist Version Half-Life: Alyx's first scene be…
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PlayStation VR2 Eye Tracking On PC, Half-Life: Alyx First Scene On Quest 3
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2:21:04David and Kyle discuss: Civilization VII VR PlayStation VR2's Eye Tracking Working On PC Quest 3 Winning Best Inflight Entertainment Award Quest's Horizon OS v76 DaVinci Resolve supporting editing Apple Immersive Video the report claiming Apple Vision Pro 2 mass production has begun Pico Motion Tracker Waist Version Half-Life: Alyx's first scene be…
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#1557: Apple Immersive Video Behind-the-Scenes & Overcoming Fears with “Adventure” Series Athlete
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53:32Ant Williams is a freediving athlete featured in the third episode of The Adventure Series titled "Ice Dive" that's co-produced by Apple and Atlantic Studios (formerly Atlantic Productions). In the episode, Williams attempts to swim a world record distance 182 meters under ice, and I wanted to get some additional behind-the-scenes context on his ex…
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Meta HUD Glasses Leak, Will Trump's Tariffs Drive Up Headset Prices?
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2:07:51Ian Hamilton and David Heaney discuss: - Will Nintendo Switch 2 Get VR? - Bigscreen Beyond 2 Still Selling Very Fast - Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 Getting Foveated Rendering - visionOS 2.4 - Virtual Desktop's new macOS update - Meta Is Now The UFC Technology Partner, Including For Quest - Meta HUD Glasses Price, Features & Input Device - Will T…
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Meta HUD Glasses Leak, Will Trump's Tariffs Drive Up Headset Prices?
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2:07:51Ian Hamilton and David Heaney discuss: - Will Nintendo Switch 2 Get VR? - Bigscreen Beyond 2 Still Selling Very Fast - Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 Getting Foveated Rendering - visionOS 2.4 - Virtual Desktop's new macOS update - Meta Is Now The UFC Technology Partner, Including For Quest - Meta HUD Glasses Price, Features & Input Device - Will T…
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#1556: “Currents” Boldly Defines a New Era of DIY 180-Degree Immersive Filmmaking with a Kit Under $5k
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57:28CURRENTS is a stunning debut from Jake Oleson as it pushes the grammar of 180 filmmaking to new heights. Oleson comes from the world of advertising and music videos, and he went through a rigorous pre-production process where he had actually already edited the entire piece before shooting any production footage by using still stereoscopic test phot…
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#1555: Award-Winning Tabletop Animation “Oto’s Planet” Uses Unique Interactive Mechanic to Chose Perspective
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41:48OTO'S PLANET was being exhibited on the Quest at SXSW, but I had a chance to check out the Apple Pro Version ahead of the SXSW festival and I felt like I much preferred it. OTO'S PLANET picked up the second place prize at Venice Immersive, but I missed being able to interview the director Gwenael Francois there. I did manage to catch up with Franco…
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#1554: “Cosmos in Focus” Contextualizes James Webb Telescope Images in Educational Immersive Planetarium Experience
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44:37Another Apple Vision Pro piece at SXSW 2025 was COSMOS IN FOCUS by Atlantic Studios (recently rebranded from Atlantic Productions). This was a short and sweet educational experience that allowed you to explore the imagery of the James Webb telescope, but it's both spatially contextualized in the night sky planetarium style. It is also fused togethe…
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#1553: The Story of Kunstkraftwerk Leipzig, and the Multi-Channel Video Translation of “Origins – Life’s Epic Journey”
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47:38There was an projection-based immersive experience called ORIGINS - LIFE'S EPIC JOURNEY that was originally formatted for a digital art museum in Germany called Kunstkraftwerk Leipzig, but it was translated into a three-channel video installation that was showing in a small conference room at SXSW. I only saw the video version at SXSW, and so I hav…
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#1552: Fly to You Explores Stories of Separated Families in Division of Korea Using Point Clouds & 360 Video
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41:08FLY TO YOU tells the story of Kang Songjeol who was separated from her childhood friends in the aftermath of the 1950 split between North and South Korea. Oral history interviews were captured in 360 video, and her childhood memories were recreated with point scans derived from Leici BLK360 LiDAR scans combined with Azure Kinect volumetric captures…
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#1551: Breaking Down the Game Design of New Conducting-Inspired, Hand-Tracked, Rhythm Game “Symphoni”
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58:45SYMPHONI is a brand new hand-tracked rhythm game that was inspired by the mechanics of conducting a symphony. It was directed by Ingram Mao and developed by a number of undergrads and graduates of the USC Games program. This game also goes from mixed reality into fully immersive VR as you progress through each of the stages, but it's a really fresh…
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#1550: “EchoVision” Answers the Question ‘What is it like to see like a bat?’ with Mixed Reality, AI, & Haptics
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45:34ECHOVISION is the latest experience from multi-disciplinary artist Jiabao Li that has three major parts. The first part is a mobile-phone based mixed reality experience that does a metaphoric translation of echolocation by using LiDAR to detect your immediate physical surroundings, and then reveals it with a rippling shader that is voice activated.…
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#1549: Honey Fungus Cultivates Intimacy with Nature through Embodied Actions Inspired by Fungi and Queer Ecology
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47:25There were a number of pieces at SXSW that were centered around embodied interactions including HONEY FUNGUS, which is a series of interactive embodied experiments telling a broader story of cultivating intimacy with ecology. This piece leans more into embodied dream logic rather than clearly articulating a narrative journey, and I had a fascinatin…
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#1548: “1906 Atlanta Race Massacre” Uses Phone-Based AR to Volumetrically Tell a Forgotten History
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46:111906 ATLANTA RACE MASSACRE is a phone-based AR experience directed by Nonny de la Peña that digs into the forgotten history of the violent attacks on the black community by white mobs incited by race-baiting politicians and newspapers. The arc of the story is told through the lens of black journalist Max Barber, who was chronicling the events as th…
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#1547: Simulating One-on-One Conversations about Abortion Experiences to Change Minds with “The Choice – Chapters 2 & 3”
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59:58THE CHOICE returns to SXSW with the latest Chapters 2 and 3, and continues to capture intimate testimonials of women and couples who make the choice to abort their pregnancies. Chapters 1 and 2 take place in Texas where abortion is now nearly totally banned in all but a few situations. The legal specificity of these exceptions is ambiguous enough t…
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