The XR Magazine

Our guest on The XR MAG Show today is Stephanie Randall, Director of Programs for Rendever.    Rendever is overcoming social isolation through the power of virtual reality and shared experiences. From senior living communities to hospitals, their platform reduces depression and loneliness by fostering personal connections amongst populations where life has become limited.   I’m glad...

Our guest on The XR MAG Show for today is Quinn Taber, the founder at Immerse, the metaverse for learning.   In early 2018 while working as an investment analyst for a large charitable foundation in the Middle East. Immerse has raised $11.5m from impact investors, been named Meta and ByteDance’s preferred partner for learning, and launched the only two-sided marketplace in the metaverse.&nbsp...

Our guest on The XR MAG Show for today is German Heller, He is a writer, producer, director, software developer, and expert in emerging technologies such as VR. He co-founded 3DAR in 2004, a mixed visual arts/technology company.    Enthusiastic about team building, he always pushed for an intimate workspace with only one requirement: great talent. Very passion for storytelling, and great...

Our guest on The   XR MAG Show   for today is Lee Chernowetz, the Community Manager and Mentor for Tribe XR, a VR DJ platform that enables users to learn, play, and perform in the Metaverse. Tribe XR is a virtual world for DJs and music producers.  learn to DJ in VR, then practice, play, and perform on platforms like twitch and TikTok.   Tribe XR is built by an experienced team...

Our guest on The XR MAG Show for today is an Award-Winning Director and Designer based in London, UK.   Meet James A. Castillo, Born in Madrid, Spain, James finished his studies in Singapore in 2012.   With a decade of experience in the animation industry, James has worked as an illustrator, art director, designer, and most recently as a director and screenwriter. His clients include stu...

Our guest on The XR MAG Show for today is Nanea Reeves, The Co-Founder, and CEO of TRIPP, a category-leading global XR Wellness company pioneering innovative and accessible technologies that empower people to take control of their mental and emotional well-being.    Nanea brings over 15 years of experience in digital distribution, video game technologies, and mobile application developme...

  Our guest on The XR MAG Show for today is Michaela Ternasky-Holland, An Emmy, Webby, and Sheffield Doc/Fest award-winning XR/metaverse storyteller. Recently named as one of the 100 Original Voices of XR,    Michaela creates non-fiction and socially impactful stories by using immersive and interactive technology. She focuses on the impact of the projects to move beyond the project...

Our guest on The XR MAG Show for today is Christoph Fleischmann, The Founder, and CEO at Arthur Technologies In 2016, Fleischmann founded Arthur Technologies, a large-scale virtual office space that enables businesses to collaborate in XR, offering enterprises the advantages of in-person work without geographical constraints.    As a leading XR enterprise collaboration solution, the comp...

Our guest on The XR MAG Show for today is Thomas Van Bouwel, The founder and VR Developer at Cubism. Cubism is a deceptively simple puzzle game in VR where you assemble increasingly complex shapes out of colored blocks. Thomas is a Belgian/Brazilian VR developer with a background in architecture. He first made the switch to VR in 2016, when he started working as a product engineer for a start-up c...

Our guest on The XR MAG Show for today is Nick Busietta, The Co-Founder and Managing Director of Melbourne-based virtual reality company Liminal VR.   He manages an award-winning virtual reality team of neuroscientists, psychologists, 3D artists, animators, and software developers who are focused on leveraging principles of neuroscience and cognitive psychology to induce emotional and cogniti...

Our guest on The XR MAG Show for today is Jake Steinerman, The Head of Community at Spatial.    Jake is leading a community of artists, designers, and creators, as well as a vast network of partners, in building a metaverse for culture. He has worked in the space for nearly a decade, helping everyone from Fortune 500 enterprise & consumer brands, to individual creators, create engagi...

Our guest on The XR MAG Show for today is Gabriele Romagnoli, The head of community at ShapesXR, an award-winning startup on a mission to bring the next level tool for creation and collaboration in the Metaverse.    Gabriele is Passionate about collaboration and creativity, Gabriele stepped on several international stages to inspire audiences and share his vision on how immersive technol...

Our guest on The XR MAG Show for today is Ryan Yepp, the Community Manager at Immersed VR,  a productivity and collaborative meeting app that is available on the Oculus store.    Immersed uses an ingenious method that allows users to see their hands on the virtual keyboard, perfectly in sync with its physical position. In other words, you can now bring your computer to VR and improv...

Our guest on The XR MAG Show for today is the Co-founder and CTO at CodeEffect, where he leads a team of engineers and artists working on immersive experiences and XR solutions for the industry.  Meet Dino Fejzagić , an active contributor to open-source projects such as the Reality Toolkit, which creates tools for the rapid prototyping and development of XR apps and games.   From being a...

Our guest on The XR MAG Show for today is the Co-founder and Chief Experience Officer at Gravity Sketch, Daniela Paredes, who is a designer bridging science, design, and engineering to propose a more natural way to communicate 3D ideas.   Daniela has transformed the design workflow by creating Gravity Sketch, a tool that puts the user at the center of the creative process, enabling the physic...

Our guest on The XR MAG Show for today is the founder at Noda, a space to build and share 3D mental models – mind maps, storyboards, network or flow diagrams, and project plans amongst others, with the purpose of enhancing productivity, understanding, and awareness.   Meet Brian Eppert, founder, and developer who is always looking for new ways to improve human achievement and well-being. &nbs...

Our guests on The XR Magazine Show for today are the founders of DB Creations, Blake Gross and Dustin Kochensparger. Blake is an experienced software engineer and designer in the AR/MR space. His core role in DB Creations is leading the engineering of products and future product direction. Dustin is a producer and designer with almost a decade of experience working in video games. With a passion f...

In this episode, Kirill Virovets, a VR Producer, and Katya Bart, the Head of Marketing share their journey behind the scenes of a VR video player app.    DeoVR is the company behind the world-beating VR video player and the fast-growing VR video streaming platform. When DeoVR launched its free video player in 2018, it was a game-changer for the VR Industry. It allowed users of all major...

Our guest on The XR MAG Show for today is the Co-founder and Head of Product at Arkio. Arkio is a new collaborative tool to design buildings, urban plans, and interiors together using VR, desktop, or even mobile devices. Arkio has quickly positioned itself as one of the best tools available to Import 3D models, try out new design ideas together, build amazing spaces, and export your work back as n...

In this episode, Simon Frübis shares his experience of 2 years in interaction design, digital marketing, and entrepreneurship  and more than 1 year as a VR/AR prototyper with MRTK. Figma, Unity3D, C#, MRTK (with Oculus Quest 2, HoloLens2), Haptic Design, Cinema4D, and Adobe Suit are all skills he has (InDesign, XD, After Effects).   He has a strong design thinking mindset and a master's...

Today's guest on The XR MAG Show is Remio's Co-Founder and CEO. Remio is a Virtual Reality headquarters for remote teams. Each location is equipped with common collaboration tools as well as fun casual activities to engage with colleagues or clients as if you were all in the same place. Meet Jos van der Westhuizen, who got his Ph. D. in machine learning from Cambridge University and headed machine...

Our guest on The XR MAG Show for today is  Technical Innovation Evangelist at 3XM Group / Microsoft AI MVP. She is also a former team member of Microsoft technology.   Meet Ivana Tilca, She has worked in the software industry for more than ten years. and worked for Microsoft in both Redmond, Washington, and Buenos Aires, Argentina. She has also garnered technological awards from man...

In this episode, Richard Rácz and Peter Petrás share their journey of founding Mageloop, a Hungarian VR gaming company with their cooperative VR action-puzzler called Zephyrus Prelude, available on Steam, Oculus app lab, Viveport & the Chinese Nolo store.    These are some of the highlights of this episode: 1. How did they envision the game and developed the design states? 2. Ho...

Our guest on The XR MAG Show for today is the CEO & Founder - ZenVR. A BS in Computer Engineering, G Georgia Tech MS Human-Computer Interaction, Gr Georgia Tech An expert in UX design and meditation with a background in software development and engineering   Meet Matt Golino, He has passionately poured his heart and soul into seeing it grow as he leads the Zen VR team forward and helps bu...

Our guest on The XR Magazine Show for today is a local artist who is utilizing virtual reality to communicate his images with students on the other side of the world.    Meet Steve Head, an award-winning artist's work that tackles tough issues such as child abuse, mental illness, suicide, poverty, childhood trauma, and generational family dysfunction. People from all over the world have...