VR: between hope, hype, and humbug
By William Uricchio Published in Los Angeles Review of Books on July 25th, 2018 Virtual reality has found its place in the sun. Newspapers now keep tallies of presidential lies, bots drive social media,...
By William Uricchio Published in Los Angeles Review of Books on July 25th, 2018 Virtual reality has found its place in the sun. Newspapers now keep tallies of presidential lies, bots drive social media,...
By William Uricchio Published in Urban Interfaces: Situated Media, Art, and Performance in Public Spaces in 2019 Abstract Humans have long ‘marked’ the world, cities included, augmenting their surroundings with traces of their...
FUTURE APPLICATIONS: FULL BODY SENSES & HAPTICS How do we extend other human senses? This year has been a game changer in appearance and resurgence of haptic devices, and exploration...
FUTURE APPLICATIONS: VR MEETS AI Is VR just a tool for entertainment? How does interaction, innovation and magic converge to create original works? Recent trends have been experimenting with AI...
I am a 2018-2020 Master's Student in Comparative Media Studies at MIT, with a background in animation and community-engaged public health research. My current work involves multimedia approaches to community...
From 2019-2022, Claudia Romano worked as a Producer at MIT Open Documentary Lab (ODL), where she produced lab events and communications and supported various Lab initiatives including Docubase, the ODL...
New Forms of Storytelling Shaping Tomorrow’s Entertainment Industry New immersive VR/AR/XR storytelling forms are currently trending, with location-based VR (LBVR), multi-user, and multi sensory strategies guiding the entertainment industry to...
Narrative Fiction in Virtual and Augmented Reality Through a series of case studies based on recent projects, this talk will examine the unique opportunities and challenges for narrative fictional storytelling...
Perkons: A VR Rockumentary In 1981, a band from Latvia took on the Soviet establishment with homemade instruments, a 2 KW sound system and a hard rock sound. The Soviet...
Kathy Bisbee is an award-winning interdisciplinary artist, producing documentary films and emerging media experiences in the public interest, with a focus on XR adoption and digital inclusion. The founder/director of the...