Andrew Shulkind and I are going to be on SMPTE’s monthly tech webcast in a few weeks talking about VR, AR, MR, XR, RR… all of the alternatives to reality. We’ll be covering the state of the industry and talking about our feelings on how it’s all going so far, and discussing where and when we see things going next.
I’m going to France in less than two weeks to be a judge for the 2018 edition of the Marseille Web Fest, where I will also be doing a fireside chat on VR (and probably other immersive and interactive mediums). This is my first time going to this festival – being asked to judge the web series in competition has been an honor, and watching the entries has been an interesting experience.
FMX 2016 has come and gone and left us completely jetlagged (but inspired). This is the first time that I have made it to FMX, and after years of hearing great things from those who have gone I can say first-hand that it is a great conference and you should put it on your radar!
FMX 2016 has been officially announced, as well as the initial lineup of speakers/panelists and screenings that will take place throughout the week of April 26-29 in Stuttgart Germany. Mirada will be participating in the VR demo area, and I will be on at least one panel and giving a presentation on storytelling in VR.
Video of the Storytelling in VR panel that I spoke on for the VRLA Winter Expo is now online. This panel focused on narrative in VR, but we wandered into topics such as ethics, pre-production and blocking actors, even the economics of virtual reality. Jonnie Ross moderated myself, Bryn Mooser (Ryot) and Annie Lukowski (Vanishing Point Media).
I went to one of the first big VRLA meetups a little over 1.5 years ago. It was held in the parking lot of USC’s MxR Lab, and even though it was not a huge crowd, it was actually quite mind-blowing how many people came to a virtual reality meetup. It was the first time that VR seemed…
Investors.com did a quick write-up of the VR-focused panel that I was on at this year’s CES: While the Harry Potter films were about watching a boy wizard grow up, a VR game of the same concept would have to be about the experience of actually being a wizard, said Andy Cochrane, director of interactive and…
Andrew was a member of a panel discussing Virtual Reality and the impact it is already having on the VFX community and entertainment at large at the 2015 VES Summit. The Hollywood Reporter covered the discussion here: The emerging virtual reality arena “could be the saving grace” of Hollywood’s struggling visual effects community, asserted Andrew Cochrane, interactive…
This article is a nice review of a panel about VR at SIGGRAPH that Andrew participated in: Beneath the aura of excitement generated this year at SIGGRAPH 2015 by the prevalence of virtual reality, a number of panels drilled into the nuts and bolts of creating VR experiences, including managing the workflow and assets. From…
Examiner.com did an overview of a panel that Andrew was on at Digital Hollywood’s fall conference focused on mobile VR: Andy Cochrane (Mirada Studios) explained the magic of VR this way, “VR works because it’s presenting a discreet image to each of my eyes and there’s no high speed gimmicky to try to trick my eyes…VR…
Andrew was a panelist on Digital Hollywood’s VR Keynote session, covering the state of VR and looking ahead at where everything is headed. The full session is included in the above video for those who were not able to make it to the session. USC’s Annenberg Innovation Lab did a blow-by-blow breakdown of another panel…