jeremy bailenson, founding director of stanford’s virtual human interaction lab and professor of communication at the university made it into 114 harvest’s basement to talk the future of vr as he lays it out in his recently published book “experience on demand”.

enjoy the conversation and join the discussion in the comments:

some contextual links:

• cathy o’neill is mentioned and so is virginia eubanks [both books are listed in the #draxtorreads agenda]

• cathy’s review of jeremy’s book in the nytimes
• nick yee who was on the show is mentioned so it is time to link again our favorite video from 2007 feat. a young philip rosedale:

• and drax files 105:

• we mention sherry turkle and her important work

• we mention jaron lanier whose name rhymes with pioneer….

• video of our interviewin sansar:

• jeremy’s suit is made by alfy of oYo fashions:

• drax mentions [as on every show] his upcoming documentary “our digital selves“

• pics from our re-enactment for “our digital selves” of cody’s drowning as a baby: his avatar is directing the scene while a friend plays the part …

 

• china mievielle’s “city and the city” is mentioned as well = a dystopian world is depicted where people can “unsee” other people and buildings that are in close physical proximity
• and of course saturday’s atlas hopping was super fun with justing esparza and iskye silverweb [pics by those two] on the “n00b edition”…

 

• we hope folks enjoyed the drax vs berry puppet theatre:

• and the full vid below:

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