The What If...? is the first Unreal Engine experience that will launch on the Apple Vision Pro store tomorrow, & I had a chance to take an early look at chat with ILM Immersive team behind it. It’s mostly an immersive story with light interactions, but you can’t actually die

Turns out it is in Unreal Engine !! 😮

I'll be virtually attending the XR Access conference next week, which is free to attend via Zoom. There's so many vital talks on making XR more accessible with many #XR #a11y solutions & open problems.
Also be sure to se my 15-part series from last year:
voicesofvr.com/1222-kickoff-o…

Best of luck to the team. One of the most requested features for more than a decade. Hardest is to convince standard bodies and address all security / privacy concerns. Hoping they succeed where we failed at Mozilla.

Looking forward to checking out PK's latest Break Series show in VRChat this coming Friday.

More context in this Voices of VR podcast episode: voicesofvr.com/1285-pks-break…

So much amazing information in this Kent Bye (Voices of VR) Podcast, I had to review the show notes! #1389: Elemental Theory of Presence + Primer on Experiential Design& Immersive Storytelling voicesofvr.com/1389-elemental…

Fantastic write up (obviously from Kent) and I have strong belief in shorter-than-traditional-gaming narrative entertainment that rests somewhere between Film and Gaming.

Also have hope long term feedback might push Apple to improve the 30hz hand tracking (PLEASE).

Really excited to see where the #HubsFoundation takes the Hubs project after Mozilla announced it was shutting down official support. Really sense the seeds of a community-driven Metaverse here. Check out the video retrospective and timeline in the video below.

I vividly remember that serendipitous collision with Cojocaru ◾ TheThirdPill.com at VRNow in November 2018 that lead to this interview linked here, and excited to see her aggregate all of her talks since then at the intersection of architecture, philosophy, design, & XR:
voicesofvr.com/719-the-phenom…

Here’s my first impressions of What If...? on Apple Vision Pro. So far it definitely leans more on interactive narrative side than embodied gameplay, but I can only talk about the first 10 minutes leading up to the gesture training with Wong.

So far, the bulk of #WhatIf has

Here’s my first impressions of What If...? on Apple Vision Pro. So far it definitely leans more on interactive narrative side than embodied gameplay, but I can only talk about the first 10 minutes leading up to the gesture training with Wong.

So far, the bulk of #WhatIf has

An awesome museum just opened up in vrchat for exploring computer / consumer electronics history vrchat.com/home/launch?wo…

Colored took home the best immersive work prize from the inaugural Festival de Cannes Immersive Competition. Here's my Voices of VR podcast interview with the creators from Tribeca 2023:
voicesofvr.com/1251-from-book…

A-Frame 1.6.0 is out and it comes stronger than ever 💪 A-Frame

The heroes of this release are Vincent Fretin for all his amazing work on the inspector and Noeri Huisman for the incredible and often unsexy work of improving A-Frame internals 🏅🫡

A total of 17 A-Framers

Reminder that we have a 2-part episode of The Unofficial Unreal Engine Podcast that dives into our experience at the Halcyon. Short version: we had a fantastic time but were there much later in the run than Jenny. A lot of the kinks were worked out.
youtube.com/watch?v=WUZfRp…

New @disney trailer for WHAT IF? for Apple Vision Pro just dropped, and a release date of May 30th announced. I'm really excited to see how ILM Immersive continues to experiment and innovate with immersive storytelling, this time with mixed reality & AVP.
youtube.com/watch?v=lLk-Ik…