Malia Probst

Sketchfab is a website used to publish, share and discover 3D and VR content online. It provides a viewer based on the WebGL and WebVR technologies that allows to display 3D models on the web, to be viewed on any mobile browser, desktop browser or Virtual Reality headset. There are a LOT of awesome virtual reality artists who post their creations on the site, too!

We chat with Sarah Hill (@SarahMidMO), CEO & Chief Storyteller of StoryUP Studios (@StoryUpStudios), about their focus on immersive content that aims to lift people up. Sarah views virtual reality through the concept of story as a verb-- one that can provide hope, affect change and shift brain wave patterns. Through StoryUP’s work helping veterans via the Honor Everywhere program which empowers...

We chat with Ryan Horrigan, Chief Content Officer of Felix & Paul Studios, about virtual reality’s role in Hollywood and the evolution of immersive content. Ryan comes from a film studio executive background (working on films like Academy Award-winning 12 Years A Slave), and left the traditional movie industry behind to join cinematic virtual reality company Felix & Paul. The Montreal-based...

4 projects from Samsung’s incubation lab to watch this week at Mobile World Congress, the next generation Gear VR may come with controller, Oculus Rift arrives to the International Space Station, Zenimax tries to shut down Oculus, investment wrapup and more... Sign up to get this podcast along with a wrapup and analysis of all VR/AR news delivered to your inbox once a week:...

Rob Ruffler (@RobRuffler), Sr. Director of Virtual Reality at Viacom NEXT (@ViacomNEXT), stops by to chat about music, art, and making the content of the future. Born out of Viacom's R&D Lab, Viacom NEXT is the media conglomerate's emerging technology-focused arm. We chat about how they're conceptualizing interactivity, user interfaces, and the future of entertainment in the context of their...

Feel heat and the wind on your face in virtual reality, new immersive technology products help the visually impaired, pro golfing tees off in VR, a dream team of developers leave Sony to form their own studio, the investment and funding wrapup, and lots more... Sign up to get this podcast along with a wrapup and analysis of all VR/AR news delivered to your inbox once a week:...

Kimberly Cooper is co-founder and CEO of Prologue Immersive (@PrologueVR), the VR/AR-focused division born out of Prologue-- a Venice, CA-based VFX studio that has worked on such projects like Iron Man, Iron Man 2 (Tony Stark’s floating computer interface was designed in Prologue’s studios), XMEN, and SE7EN. We chat with Kimberly about why Hollywood visual effects studios and traditional 3D...

The annual Lumiere Awards are an event from the Advanced Imaging Society that recognizes outstanding achievement in cutting edge content and technology - and lots of virtual reality content is in the lineup. This episode is an amalgamation of mini-interviews with a handful of this year's VR nominees who share with us insight into their process. Jim Chabin, the President of the Advanced Imaging...

We chat with Tyler Hurd (@suppleteet), whose widely acclaimed virtual reality music video Chocolate recently premiered at Sundance, about all things fun and joyful in VR. In addition to talking about the delightful champagne and kitten cannon-filled Chocolate, we discuss Tyler’s now-infamous VR short Butts, and the music video favorite Old Friend. Within the theme of Tyler’s drive to create...

GAP’s augmented reality dressing room, ZeniMax wins Oculus lawsuit, VR porn has a super creepy head camera, NYU combines VR and dance, the investment & funding wrapup, and more... Sign up to get this podcast along with a wrapup and analysis of all VR/AR news delivered to your inbox once a week: http://bit.ly/VRupdates Subscribe to our podcast on iTunes: http://bit.ly/iTunesVRScout or on...