Episodes
Monday Aug 16, 2021
Ep 15: Challenging Preconceptions with Perri Lewis
Monday Aug 16, 2021
Monday Aug 16, 2021
In today's episode, Tim chats to Perri Lewis. Together they discuss topics ranging from challenging preconceptions and approaches to coaching, to ideas for social programs and the power of stepping away.
Topics discussed in this episode:
• Introduction 00:00 - 00:14
• Background on Mastered 00:15 - 06:00
• Perri's background 06:03 - 09:10
• Perri's approach to coaching 09:12 - 14:07
• Challenging preconceptions 14:08 - 19:05
• Problems with the medium of VR 19:06 - 22:13
• Mastered's interest in XR 22:14 - 23:20
• Perri's view on the XR workplace 23:21 - 27:15
• Unreal and Unity 27:16 - 28:40
• Problems with universities 28:41 - 34:19
• Greatest opportunities in Perri's field 34:20 - 27:26
• Rethinking your approach to a field 37:27 - 39:38
• Curiosities about other areas 40:00 - 45:23
• Building new realities 45:24 - 46:29]
• Social programs 46:30 - 49:17
• Favourite theories 49:18 - 51:46
• Book recommendations 51:47 - 54:20
Tuesday Jul 20, 2021
Ep 14: The future of VR storytelling with Alex Rühl
Tuesday Jul 20, 2021
Tuesday Jul 20, 2021
Tuesday Jun 29, 2021
Ep 13: Solving the future of XR with Antonia Forster
Tuesday Jun 29, 2021
Tuesday Jun 29, 2021
Welcome to our monthly podcast, Building New Realities. Future Visual’s CEO, Tim Fleming, discusses ideas and stories around building new realities with today’s XR thought leaders.
A warm welcome this week to Tim's guest Antonia Forster. In today's episode, Tim welcomes Antonia Forster, an XR Technical Specialist at Unity.
Together they discuss topics ranging from Unity and controllerless hand tracking, to AI and metaverses.
Antonia gives some insight into the use of XR as a tool for equality, equity and empathy.
Antonia's socials:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/AntoniaRForster
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/antonia-forster/
Topics discussed in this episode:
• Antonia Forster's background [00:18]
• Technical and empathetic research in Unity [3:49]
• Thoughts on VR as a tool for empathy [6:20]
• Current projects in Unity [10:30]
• Feelings on controllerless hand tracking [12:18]
• Greatest technological challenges with hand tracking [13:18]
• What we can learn from animal behaviour [17:13]
• Investigations into decision making [23:08]
• Greatest opportunities in XR [28:36]
• Problematic results with AI [31:00]
• Thoughts on how Metaverses may emerge [32:57]
• Projects that changed your approach to your field [37:42]
• How to help build a new reality [38:28]
• Social programs [43:05] • Museums as a platform [45:33]
• Book recommendations [50:49]
• Theories and laws[52:21]
Resources mentioned in this episode:
Algorithms to live by [50:59] https://www.amazon.co.uk/Algorithms-Live-Computer-Science-Decisions
Solving for happiness [51:39] https://www.amazon.co.uk/Solve-Happy-Engineer-Engineering-Uncovering
Dunbar's number [52:54] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar%27s_number
Unity Industrial webinars [54:14] https://create.unity3d.com/unity-for-industrial-series
Monday Mar 01, 2021
Ep 12: Digital Transformation with Professor Karen Cham
Monday Mar 01, 2021
Monday Mar 01, 2021
Welcome to our monthly podcast, Building New Realities. Future Visual’s CEO, Tim Fleming, discusses ideas and stories around building new realities with today’s XR thought leaders.
A warm welcome this week to Tim's guest Professor Karen Cham.
Karen has an impressive 25 years experience in technology transformation and human centred design and she is an expert in harnessing human/machine convergence to drive complex socio-technical systems change. Karen also excels in R&D for Next Gen, ensuring the DX of values at scale by leveraging the user experience (UX).
What makes Karen curious and why does she think we might be losing depth perception in lockdown? Tune in and find out.
Tuesday Jan 12, 2021
Ep 11: Customer Experience In The Age of Immersive Technology with Claire Ellis
Tuesday Jan 12, 2021
Tuesday Jan 12, 2021
This week Tim Fleming's guest is Claire Ellis - Brand strategist, creative, business-leader and firm believer in the power of 'so what?'. Claire is the Managing Director of Strategic Sales and Marketing Agency, JPC.
Claire has spent the last 22+ years building brands, cutting through complexity and devising imaginative strategies and creative ways to help clients more effectively engage and convert.
What’s coming next for customer experience? Tune in and find out. #CX
Tuesday Nov 17, 2020
Ep 10: Connecting Technology to Experience with Jack X and and Sebastien Jouhans
Tuesday Nov 17, 2020
Tuesday Nov 17, 2020
This week Tim Fleming's guest is Sebastien Jouhans, Technology Director of Jack X at Jack Morton Worldwide. Jack X is Jack Morton’s innovation practice.
Sebastien works with emerging technologies and creatives in order to inject cutting edge thinking and lead teams to deliver successful projects. Sebastien is passionate about technology, touch interfaces, natural interfaces, physical computing, Internet of Things, bots, NLP, Machine Learning and blockchain.
How is Jack X connecting technology to experience? Tune in and find out.
Thursday Sep 24, 2020
Ep 9: How Aggreko Is Deploying Immersive Technology with Walter Davis
Thursday Sep 24, 2020
Thursday Sep 24, 2020
This week Tim Fleming's guest is Walter Davis, Head of talent and learning technology at Aggreko and technology thought leader and strategist.
Aggreko is a supplier of temporary power generation equipment and of temperature control equipment. They Power everything from large events to whole geographic areas that do not have the suitable infrastructure.
How is Aggreko deploying VR and AR training? Tune in later today and find out.
Wednesday Sep 09, 2020
Ep 8: The Challenges Of Being A Futurist with Phil Rowley
Wednesday Sep 09, 2020
Wednesday Sep 09, 2020
This week Tim Fleming's guest is Phil Rowley, Media Futurist and Futures Director at Omnicom who demonstrates his extraordinary enthusiasm and passion for futurism as an art and science.
Phil works with businesses and brands to imagine and fast-track their future via emerging tech and innovation. He converts thought-leadership and tech trends into actionable innovation strategies around the future of media and entertainment, future of audio, future of gaming, future of AR, VR & AI - and their application for the future of marketing.
Tune in now to the future in this eighth podcast from immersive technology experts, Future Visual.
Monday Jul 20, 2020
Monday Jul 20, 2020
Rachel Blackman is an actor, improvisor, theatre maker, somatic educator and embodiment trainer and coach and creativity mentor. You may remember her with a shaved head and double barrelled bazooka as Chara in Matrix Revolutions.
Tim Fleming and Rachel discuss the synergy between VR and embodiment and theories around Feldenkrais and neuroplasticity.
Can you achieve what you can’t imagine? Tune in and find out......
Wednesday Jun 24, 2020
Ep 6: Immersive Space - The HP Way with Joanna Popper
Wednesday Jun 24, 2020
Wednesday Jun 24, 2020
This week Tim Fleming’s guest is Joanna Popper, HP’s Global Head of Virtual Reality for Location Based Entertainment and leads Go-To-Market initiatives for XR.
Joanna is a Hollywood and Silicon Valley Media executive and one of the most influential women in VR.
Joanna talks to Tim Fleming about how HP is leading the way in the immersive space, building new realities with constant hardware innovation and taking advantage of embodiment to bring us the future of computing.