yondr academy podcasts
Happily sharing our ever growing knowledge on all things virtual
Episodes
65 episodes
Karen Palmer: "Breaking through the Fear Barrier"
In this conversation with Karen Palmer, a multi-disciplinary immersive filmmaker who uses art, AI, gamification, neuroscience and behavioral psychology in her work, VRTL learns about her anti-empathy approach. Palmer's RIOT, an installation ...
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Season 2
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Episode 18
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41:16
Hasraf Dulull: "Straight Out of Unreal Engine"
Recently I had the honor and pleasure of being able to speak to a wonderful and passionate person about the future of Virtual production and how the workflow of feature films as such has changed in recent years. His name is Hasraf Dulull, be...
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Season 1
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Episode 18
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17:38
Alvin Graylin: "The Next Normal"
Alvin Graylin is the President of HTC China. He is leading all aspects of the HTC business in the China Region and is responsible for Vive VR, phone, Viveport content platform and investments. And recently he has taken on the global responsi...
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Season 2
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Episode 18
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30:59
Carl Boel: "How To Build Powerful Stories for XR Training"
Carl is an e-learning expert passionate about learning via virtual reality and MOOCs. He’s programmed as one of the speakers for the virtual event of the VR Days Europe. Carl and I talk about blended learning and XR, how to build a strong st...
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Season 2
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Episode 16
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15:08
VR Days Europe take a small step back in order to take three forward
Last year in Amsterdam, VR Days Europe made its ambitions for growth clear and the Fifth Edition brought them one step closer to maturity. But when the pandemic arrived in the Netherlands and events started canceling, Co-Founder Benjamin De ...
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Season 2
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Episode 16
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26:38
Inga Petryaevskaya: "Animate and Quickly Prototype without 3D Animation Experience"
Inga Petryaevskaya is a CEO and Co-Founder of Tvori, VR animation and prototyping software. Tvori is an award-winning technology startup located in San Mateo, California and Saint Petersburg in Russia. VRTL was honored to welcome Inga as a gues...
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Season 2
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Episode 19
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21:20
Michel Reilhac: "Monetization of XR Content is Key for Mass Adoption"
Michel Reilhac is a narrative architect and long-time transmedia and immersive media pioneer. He's is known as a leading international expert for innovation in hybrid storytelling across participatory, interactive and immersive experiences. ...
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Season 2
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Episode 18
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20:57
Jeffrey Travis: "Why 360 films can be as captivating as 6DOF experiences"
Jeffrey is a filmmaker, engineer, and virtual reality pioneer. As the founder and CEO of Positron, he created Voyager®. Jeffrey and his team have worked with studios such as Universal, DreamWorks, Disney, Warner Bros, Adult Swim, Felix & Pa...
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Season 2
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Episode 17
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19:24
Jingshu Chen: "How the Chinese Market Responds to XR Content"
Jingshu Chen, nominated in Forbes 30 under 30 Asia 2018, co-founded VeeR VR with Aiden in 2016, with a mission to bring the best immersive entertainment to the world. VeeR is a leading VR entertainment platform available worldwide, across al...
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Season 1
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Episode 15
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16:57
Robin Stethem: “Inspiring A New Generation of Artists”
Featuring immersive work from VR artists around the world, the Museum of Other Realities is a virtual art gallery that provides a place to connect, share, and experience new media together with others. Founded by Colin Northway and Robin Ste...
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Season 2
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Episode 15
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13:30
Jimmy Cheng: "The Acquisition, Licensing and Distribution of XR Content"
When you go to a film festival, it is almost impossible not to bump into this man. Jimmy Cheng focuses on the acquisition and licensing of immersive/interactive XR content as Director of Content / Business Operations at Iconic Engine. Cu...
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Season 2
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Episode 15
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22:05
René Pinnell: "Vision with action can change the world for XR artists"
I think it must have been about a year since René and I last met each other in real life. That must have been during Cannes XR if I remember correctly. In the meantime, a lot has happened with Kaleidoscope and the pandemic has certainly acceler...
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Season 2
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Episode 14
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21:56
Sean Rodrigo: "Spatial Creation - Designing inside Virtual Reality"
This week on our VRTL podcast we welcome Sean Rodrigo. Sean's a London-based, Virtual Reality Artist / Technologist working with innovative XR technology such as virtual reality as a core creative tool to achieve engaging, insightful and meanin...
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Season 2
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Episode 13
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32:18
Nina Salomons: "Diversity Can Help Close the XR Skills Gap"
Nina is an award-winning filmmaker and XR Creative, Producer & Consultant. She has worked in the XR space since 2015. She is one of the co-founders of the Women in VR meet up group, an XR journalist for two and half years, and has worked on...
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Season 2
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Episode 15
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20:00
Rosh Singh: "Where Expectations Far Outweighs Reality"
Rosh is Managing Director at UNIT9 a global Innovation Studio. A seasoned leader, passionate about the creative application of technologies for brands, and has been involved in the agency, production and start-up worlds running successful bu...
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Season 2
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Episode 15
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23:20
Marta Ordeig: “Co-Creative XR Workshops at Film Festivals”
Marta Ordeig is a filmmaker and entrepreneur traveling between Silicon Valley and Barcelona. In 2016 she founded Garage Stories, a content lab where she gathers creatives minds from various background to co-create and explore the possibi...
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Season 2
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Episode 14
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20:10
Rafael Pavon: “Narrative Structures in Immersive Storytelling”
Rafael Pavon is an award-winning Creative Director and Producer at AtlasV, the production studio behind Spheres, Gloomy Eyes, Battlescar, and Vestige. Rafael started as Director and Creative Director for virtual reality in 2015 at VR studio ...
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Season 2
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Episode 14
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35:57
François Fripiat: “The Essence of Spatial Sound in VR Storytelling”
François Fripiat has been a sound engineer for over 12 years. He worked in many different fields such as sound design, audio mix, and he's been a sound supervisor for many different animation films, feature films, documentaries, etc... Passi...
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Season 2
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Episode 13
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15:33
Bob Cooney: “Words of Wisdom for LBE Operators”
Bob Cooney is widely considered the world’s leading authority on the location-based virtual reality (LBVR) business. As an innovator in immersive entertainment for nearly 30 years, he is a frequent keynote speaker at VR and amusement industr...
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Season 2
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Episode 13
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23:52
Dominic Eskofier: “The Single Most Influential European VR Specialist”
Dominic Eskofier co-founded the largest unofficial community for VR (reddit.com/r/oculus), started the VR Germany meetup group and is co-founder of EUVR...
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Season 2
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Episode 12
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28:01
Sam Huber: "How To Make Money From VR/AR and Games"
After 4 years building mobile apps startups, frustrated by the limited options to efficiently monetize content, Sam Huber started Admix. Sam believes that immersive technologies (XR) are a change of interface, that will have an imp...
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Season 2
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Episode 12
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18:26
Henry Stuart: “The Agency’s Ride On The Gartner Hype Cycle”
Co-Founder and CEO at VISUALISE, the virtual reality production studio and author of Virtual Reality Marketing. Henry Stuart is one of the industry leaders in producing VR content for marketing, brands and storytelling for editorial and ente...
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Season 2
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Episode 9
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19:06
Ricardo Laganaro: “The Brazilian Award-Winning VR Evangelist”
Ricardo Laganaro is one of the most innovative filmmakers in Brazil, partner and Chief Storytelling Officer at ARVORE Immersive Experiences. His many-sided knowledge blends live-action, stop-motion animation, computer graphics and writing. R...
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Season 2
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Episode 7
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19:34
Ricardo Laganaro: Creating ‘The Line’ @ VR Days
Ricardo Laganaro is one of the most innovative filmmakers in Brazil, partner and Chief Storytelling Officer at ARVORE Immersive Experiences. His many-sided knowledge blends live-action, stop-motion animation, computer graphics and writing.<...
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Season 2
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Episode 8
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15:56