I’m loving the “chaotic early WWW energy” here that the #ATproto represents. I skipped to the demos to see the wide range of decentralized apps that these savvy devs were able to assemble after a 4-hour @codetv.dev Web Dev Challenge. Lots of Wild West Experimentation Vibes. youtu.be/S-XytKfGCO8?...

We apologize. :[

I'm presenting new material at Seattle XR: "Blending the Elements of Experiential Design" XR is an interdisciplinary design discipline that's fusing together architecture, industrial design, theater, film, music, game design, web design, human computer interaction, social media... luma.com/n8vhi1ue

One of the paradoxes of the next paradigm shift is valuing human experience & emotion beyond rational facts that don’t change behaviors on their own. It’s a rejection of an objectified “view from nowhere” absent situated knowledges that come from a body, feelings, mind, & will. youtu.be/z-XNH4upTVw

4 new Voices of VR eps: Immersive Impact Review, Impulse Impact Study, Patterns of Meaning, Transformation & Impact Open call from Agog on Climate Futures + Immersive Media voicesofvr.com/1720-immersi... voicesofvr.com/1721-impact-... voicesofvr.com/1722-meaning... voicesofvr.com/1723-agogs-o...

This was an incredibly touching and informative conversation. Certainly if you are in the AR/VR space I encourage you to listen. But even if you are an entrepreneur or an aspiring entrepreneur, you should check it out. The story of Rec Room as a business is fascinating all by itself.

Gamer's Nexus details how NVIDIA is abandoning the PC: www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUqQ... This March 3, 2026 from /r/pcmasterrace foreshadows how Big Tech are abandoning personal computing in favor of AI data centers. They're pushing "you will own nothing and be happy." www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterra...

RIP Rec Room. 2016-2026. A bit of a shame to see another UGC-driven social VR app shut down. Export tools were recently provided to makers, but hoping to see more open source / open standards in XR in the future. My chat with Shawn Whiting reflecting on what happened: voicesofvr.com/1719-rip-rec...

I have a ton of respect for @antonhand.bsky.social as an indie artist who's been updating his game for 10+ years. H3VR is the most sophisticated gun simulator, and he hasn't enabled users to shoot other humans. He uses absurdist humor & play to open minds to new ideas. voicesofvr.com/1717-h3vr-10...

H3VR is THE most elaborate & sophisticated gun simulator in VR, but @antonhand.bsky.social's condition is it will never be used to simulate violence against humans... only hot dogs. After a decade of R&D & 2 years of development, H3VR2 was announced today. His devlog: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KK_6...

Excited for CREATURE FEATURE's new indie XR games. A YouTube commenter spotted a subliminal message of @antonhand.bsky.social eating a hotdog. He said on his devlog that his new game would be announced. Also "Hot Dogs, Horseshoes & Hand Grenades" has been in Early Access for MORE THAN A DECADE now!

I'm excited to attend the @pdx.atproto.camp meetup to see how the decentralized #ATProto ecosystem is developing. I'm really impressed with the seamless @openmeet.net experience as an open source Meetup_com alternative, and how it links to the attendee profiles platform.openmeet.net/events/atpro...

There's some REALLY cool things happening with the Creative Industries Immersive Impact Coalition. The CIIIC’s €200 Million in public funding is catalyzing all sorts of immersive innovations, including artist-driven research into revitalizing civic society. Hear more: voicesofvr.com/1713-ciiics-...

Great @edzitron.com interview breaking down the economic infeasibilities of VC-funded #AIHype. He says the all-you-can-eat buffet style of AI subscriptions are burning cash at an unsustainable rate, and doubts consumers will pay for the amount tokens they actually use www.youtube.com/watch?v=zECy...

Thinking a lot lately about the merits of Pleasure Activism as a mode of resistance. From my IDFA DocLab paper: “Chan & McKnight point to the pleasure activism movement that is "re-examining pleasure as a way to reclaim agency and resist oppression,"” professionals.idfa.nl/stories/idfa...

I still sometimes call posts “skeets” here to invoke the nostalgia of three years ago when it was born out of a reply-all Hellthread where folks were posting nudes and crashing @pfrazee.com’s timeline, @jaketapper.bsky.social said “skeet” on CNN, & the @washingtonpost.com posted a meme about skeets.

Here's some of my favorite @xoxofest.com over the years. They just launched a rad video archive: @molly.wiki 2024 xoxofest.com/2024/videos/... Nicky Case 2015 xoxofest.com/2015/videos/... @contrapoints.bsky.social 2018 xoxofest.com/2018/videos/... Dooce (RIP) 2015: xoxofest.com/2015/videos/...

What’s next for immersive, AI, and interactive art? @kentbye.com reports on the 19th edition of the @doclab.bsky.social festival. Free download #xr #immersive

Reading this report right now and encouraging anyone interested in the arts to do the same.

What’s next for immersive art? This 121-page report I wrote attempts to answer this by listening to what immersive artists have to say. The IDFA DocLab Immersive Think Tank Report is out now, & it's a roadmap to a community-driven, indie XR distribution network. professionals.idfa.nl/stories/idfa...

My mood as I roll into Austin for #SXSW.

Here is my sneak preview of the #SXSW XR Experience programmer with curator Blake Kammerdiener. We talk about every project in competition and the spotlight as well. I’ll be on site seeing all of the things and recording oral history interviews with immersive artists. voicesofvr.com/1712-preview...

That was a great manifesto / philosophy of tech rant mixed with a lot of pithy writing, stylized glitch art, & raw emotion. Love the quote "technology is a branch of moral philosophy, not of science." from Paul Goodman's "New Reformation" (1969) via Neil Postman's "Technopoly" (1992).

Contrary to what you heard, VR is actually NOT dead. VR Forever is coming back after a successful first edition and submissions are open now: forms.gle/fvU8BhqVPYfo... Submission Deadline: March 31st #VRForever is hosted by @creaturedotpage.bsky.social and @futurefriendsgames.com #VR #gamdev

OpenAI’s legal agreement already enables an AI Big Brother. They say “any handling of private information will comply with the Fourth Amendment,” but fail to mention the Third Party Doctrine, where there’a “no legitimate ‘expectation of privacy’” for data given to them. openai.com/index/our-ag...

As the corporate media continues to be consolidated by billionaires, then it's vital to look to independent coverage from folks like @marcelias.bsky.social & @democracydocket.com protecting election integrity & calling out voter suppression tactics. An important watch www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGqB...

The presumption of regularity at the SotU is was so uncanny. See the thread from @anatosaurus.bsky.social for some great context. It also reminded me of Barthes and what happens when rules-based boxers go up against wrestlers and the logic of spectacle. archive.thinkprogress.org/this-french-...

Some legal resources on UAP Secrecy. UAP Disclosure Act: www.congress.gov/118/crec/202... UAPDA Summary: uapda.org/summary UAP Secrecy: thesolfoundation.org/publications... PEADs: www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res... What's needed in an exec order: newparadigminstitute.org/take-action/... #UFOSky

I’m a big UFO nerd. This could be a giant Epstein diversion. Or we could actually get Disclosure. We’ll see what evidence the government claims to have, what data they share, if scientists get data access to peer review & independently validate, & if NDAs are lifted for whistleblowers.

I just joined @taylorlorenz.bsky.social's Patreon. She's doing some incredible work on Section 230. Killing it would free speech on the Internet Part 1 www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eqt... Part 2 w/ @wyden.senate.gov www.youtube.com/watch?v=gq5X... Her Patreon is here www.patreon.com/cw/taylorlor...

'Hearing someone (Carney) so clearly name the truth was cathartic, and I could draw so many parallels with how this collective story can inform our personal relationships to AI, Big Tech, and impulses of surveillance capitalism towards an all-pervasive, AI Big Brother.'

I recorded an op-ed podcast & wrote a #longread essay on the parallels between PM Carney's Davos speech in maintaining sovereignty from hegemons & how each of us will need to preserve our sovereignty from Big Tech's surveillance capitalism morphing to an AI Big Brother voicesofvr.com/1710-when-in...

It’s only a matter of time before we see a broader Glasshole 2.0 backlash to Ray-Ban Meta glasses, especially as recording light indicators are hidden & content is created without consent. The Super Bowl streaker is a pretty apt metaphor for how AI glasses will transgress our privacy boundaries.

This is an incredible recap of Internet history & how Section 230 protects free speech. Authoritarians & surveillance capitalists are destroying it to entrench their power, & they’ll introduce government censorship, all accounts tied to IDs, & a dystopian AI Big Brother hellscape. Taylor nails it 🎯

I woke up to Qs about this—I can’t talk about it, sorry! Thank you Ian for mentioning my work, I am deeply appreciative of it!

@ianhamilton.net just finished your interview with @kentbye.com, really great discussion of the current environment, and when it comes to upload, it's kind of depressing but i admire your journalistic ethics and i hope to keep reading your writing elsewhere.

I'll subscribe back to @uploadvr.com if the position is clear, coherent and if @ianhamilton.net is treated properly. I understand it might not be the "strategy" of the publication, and if so I'll get my information on VR elsewhere. If AI is forced upon contributors and readers then count me out.

I spoke with @ianhamilton.net on getting fired from UploadVR, and the potential AI bot author that catalyzed a fundamental disagreement. He claims as editor in chief that he would’ve not had any say or oversight over disclosed AI bots rewriting press releases. More: voicesofvr.com/1709-ian-ham...

Ian Hamilton says he was fired from UploadVR as Editor in Chief after proposing three requests in response to a "clearly disclosed AI author" experiment pushed by his colleagues: brevity, an option for readers to opt-out from all AI content, & human writer right of 1st refusal to an assignment.

Just catching up on the news on the shakeup at UploadVR as editor-in-chief @ianhamilton.net Hamilton has been fired. It's still a bit unclear as to what happened, & he's got a new Substack here: goodvr.substack.com. Ian's been writing professionally about VR since the early days of Oculus in 2012.

Texas A&M is banning morality professor Martin Peterson from teaching Plato because it “may” contain race or gender ideology. The board of regents gave university bureaucrats veto power over academic content & he’s assigning the NYT article about the censorship instead. dailynous.com/2026/01/06/t...

I hopped into VRChat for New Year’s celebrations. The set a new concurrency record at 148.9k users.

It’s adventure time! And it’s our next Break event, that many of us have been working on this for a while and will be the first of a series. Please join us on Sunday Dec.28, early show 6am EST and late show at 7pm. More info to come... @vrchat.com

DrMorro has been a massive inspiration for me on my journey through becoming a world creator, phenomenal interview and its wonderful to have a chance to learn about a creator whos inspired me so much.

DrMorro, the creator of Organism/Epilogue/Ritual/Olympia, some of the best worlds in all of VR, gave an interview to @kentbye.com. Usually a very solitary/hard to contact person, we get an insight in to themself and their amazing work.

a rare interview with DrMorro! @kentbye.com managed to dig into his create process while keeping his anonymity, so we get to finally learn more about the person behind some of the best VR experiences ever made. (@vrchat.com) voicesofvr.com/1681-vrchat-...

I interviewed the one and only DrMorro! His ORGANISM trilogy, RITUAL, & OLYMPIA #VRChat worlds are incredibly surreal mash-ups of vast architecture and symbols. We talk about his whole body of work, key inspirations, & some clues to hidden meanings. voicesofvr.com/1681-vrchat-...

I published my trip report of The Matrix at Cosm plus an interview with Cosm’s Alexis Scalice about their collaboration with Little Cinema to fill their 87-foot dome with immersive worldbuilding & lighting effects beyond the 16x9 frame of the film. Closes in <3 weeks: voicesofvr.com/1679-the-mat...

Tune in to the latest Voices of VR episode with @kentbye.com as Alicia Berry, Executive Producer, & Asim Ahmed, Head of Product Marketing, share how Project Jade is transforming real-world interaction through embodied AI powered by VPS + Spectacles. voicesofvr.com/1672-niantic...

I just posted a long-read that reflects on the Snap Lensfest XR & AI trends covered in my latest 11-episode Voices of VR podcast series. Snap is betting on indie XR devs to help them go against the biggest companies in the world in their AR glasses race: www.linkedin.com/pulse/reflec...