Welcome to Season 2 of the Virtuality Podcast. We brought Kathy Bisbee on the show to talk about the Brookline Interactive Group and their Public VR Lab. Once a community broadcast group, Kathy has led the transformation into a media center with VR at it's focus. We talk about her projects locally and with the United Nations.

0'00" Brookline interactive group

4'00" Public vr lab

6'15" projects for the United Nations

9'45" Cultural differences in experiencing VR

11'45" Immersive story telling and media literacy

15'00" Hero’s journey

17'15" Agency within an experience

18'50" Difficulties of communicating what VR is like to those who haven't tried it.

20'20" AR experience with local monuments

21'26" possibilities with the freedom trail

23'00" Standardization of distribution in AR

24'00" Location based services

24'48" Creating a community for collaborative creation without economic incentives

27'05" Empowering new creators with the skill set to make their own XR experiences

28'40" Is google cardboard doing VR a disservice?

31'23" VR is on the eve of adoption

31'45" Technology driven adoption versus Consumer first Adoption 33'40" What first demo

34'20" Creator of Rick and Morty, Justin Roiland at VRLA 2017

35'55" VR creatives need to think about what people want

37'40" importance of Location based VR experiences

39'48" VR is a paradigm shift equivalent to the internet

41'00" Public VR lab projects

43'00" Immigration stories told through VR

48'00" Dip in VR adoption makes it a great time to learn

49'30" We need more diversity in VR

50'15" purpose of viveport

52'50" Talk to your community media centers about VR

53'50" Hamilton is just one immigration story, what could more do?

56'31" making the experiences, technology , and VR industry as a whole accessible.

Links: Public VR : http://publicvrlab.com Hubweek

https://hubweek.org/

Justin Roiland co-creator of Rick and Morty VRLA talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPN5V7ZEcrQ

Eyes Wide Open: VR Journalism http://www.imdb.com/title/tt6959518/

The Blu http://store.steampowered.com/app/451520/theBlu/ or https://www.viveport.com/apps/1b591122-7ab7-4c27-9d31-cbaf9ef8e1e1

Ritchie’s plank http://store.steampowered.com/app/517160/Richies_Plank_Experience/

Google Earth http://store.steampowered.com/app/348250/Google_Earth_VR/

Future of storytelling festival https://futureofstorytelling.org/fest

Mindtrek VR https://www.mindtrekvr.com

Traces http://www.experiencetraces.com

Credits: Host: Craig Herndon,http://twitter.com/craigtherndon Produced by Jason Parks http://twitter.com/jasonparksvr

Music by Rachel Dziezynski

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