Creative Technologist working in the Themed Entertainment and live events worlds.
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Two Weeks of Conferences – Different but the Same
I’m in the middle of an already long week of IAAPA meetings, gatherings, and sessions in the heart of Florida Vacationland that contrasts starkly to last week’s Immersive X conference that took place entirely in virtual worlds accessed via headset or computer. Into the Virtual Immersive X is a 3 day gathering of talks, tours,…
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IAAPA 2025
It was great to see everyone at the 12 week long IAAPA conference. There was some excellent meeting, excellent hanging, and even some business! I had whipped up a couple of filters using Niantic’s 8thWall to take some fun pics last week so thanks to everyone who indulged me and posed for a pair of…
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The Nightmare Before Christmas Live 2025
Well. Jack’s attempt to improve Christmas was foiled…again. Ah well, maybe next year. Another great set of shows and in my favorite venue! Thanks Black Ink Presents and specifically Alek Deva for having me along for the bumpy sleigh ride again. This was the 10th anniversary of doing this show at the Bowl and hoooo…
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Experiments in AR!
I’ve been poking around 8thWall to see how it all works. The whole dev environment is web based which is great for picking up and working anywhere on almost any device. I made this foolish cap just to get a sense of what’s what (it will ask for your camera because it uses your head):…
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See you in worlds!
Anyone else going to appear as one of yourselves at Immersive X? It’s happening Nov 11-14 and the program lineup is here: https://immersive-x.de/program-immersive-x-2025 So far I plan to be in these sessions: https://immersive-x.de/attendees/veeyawn/ See you there? #immersivex #xr
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Phones in the Park…
This is the second of two recent articles I wrote for The Bezark Company to be published in Blooloop. The published version is here: https://blooloop.com/theme-park/opinion/phones-in-theme-parks/ Theme parks are built as transportive worlds that bring us together and lead us on adventures with our families and friends. As technology and devices proliferate in every aspect of…
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Computers are Eating My Job!
This is the first of two recent articles I wrote for The Bezark Company to be published in Blooloop. The published version is here: https://blooloop.com/technology/opinion/generative-ai-potential/ There’s a scramble within the creative community to understand the rapid rise of machine-generated content and what it means for the people who make a living crafting stories and building…
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Projection Show at Beaver Creek
Once again working with The Bezark Company and Z Frame we created a new projection based activation for the Beaver Creek Resort Company. The goal was to add an element of fun and surprise to the main village square at Beaver Creek. We created a roughly 90 second “feature” that plays at the top of…
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XShot VidCon Gallery
Spring of 2022 I was approached to build out a system for a “digital shooting gallery.” XShot designed and built a booth that would contain two shooting galleries using their foam dart weapons. The galleries would run simultaneously and groups in the galleries would score points for every target they hit. Scores were only kept…
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Yuri’s Night 2022
Every year a group of space enthusiasts gather to celebrate human kind’s achievments and dreams of existing as a space faring species. In honor of the first human to orbit it’s called Yuri’s Night. “Yuri’s Night is the World Space Party. Every year on or around April 12th we celebrate all that humanity brings with…