Robot Remix Immersive XR Series runs every weekend in Pasadena’s sp[a]ce gallery until September 8. I’d highly recommend the experience…

VR is battling for legitimacy in the public eye. Most people feel like their minds are blown when they demo a Virtual Reality experience for the first time. However, creators hope it can be seen as useful, everyday and ordinary soon, instead of “trippy” or sensationalized. Most importantly, they hope that VR won’t be seen as a replacement to…

My experience with immersive entertainment from The Portal, part of L.A. Film Festival 2018 hosted at Loyola Marymount University. The themes surrounding Virtual Reality recently seem to be at an intersection between a situation you’d never be in, and a situation you wouldn’t want to find yourself in: swimming among…

Emerging Media: Alternate Reality Games, Artificial Intelligence, and Machine Learning USC Panel How will AI, VR, AR, and more affect the stories that we tell and how we tell them? “We need to know more stuff than ever. Think outside the screen. If we don’t do this, we’ll be behind…

We are at a time in history when even the wildest speculations from the realm of science fiction are reaching the potential to become technology we use in our daily lives. Although the emerging technology of mixed reality is an innovation, it does not necessarily mean that it will improve…

Can AR and VR become a mainstream technology? Panelists: Eren Aksu, Chief Opportunity Creator, Emblematic Group Dylan Thuras, founder, Atlas Obscura Ela Topcuoglu, Start VR Robert Hernandez, professor, USC Annenberg Moderator: Gabriel Kahn, professor, USC Annenberg This event is part of a four-part series called The Lens of Disruption. How…

I attended the Digital Entertainment World Expo this year, hosted at the Marriott in Marina del Rey as a student volunteer, and had the ability to sit in on a few panels at the expo. Panel #1:“What’s next for mixed reality-based location based entertainment (LBE)?” Speakers: Shiraz Akmal, Co-Founder, Chief…

As a volunteer led us down the stairs into the basement at The Ray theatre in Park City, he said, “I’ll tell you what I’ve been telling people all week. There’s not a bad seat in this house!” Of course, how could there be, when everyone’s eyes were just inches…