some kind of … art project … mystery … vacation thing
www.firstperson.travel
gabe.smedresman.zone
Environment Artist open for work, available for remote/relocation
https://www.artstation.com/bbgzla
Makeup and Bodypaint artist for film/tv/theatre/personal. (LA/NYC/CPT) Makeup supervisor for Kissing booth, Maze Runner, Invasion, Raised by wolves, Afterlife of the Party etc IMDB: https://m.imdb.com/name/nm2316203/?ref_=fn_all_nme_1
Vibe Personality Hire
Geology PhD, maker of absurd things, radio, and other nonsense. Always interested in how we learn through failure. Also at grajohnt
@chaos.social
The Voxel is a black box theater in Baltimore city. https://voxel.org
building inanimate.tech / blogger at interconnected.org
Tiefling from the CZ 😈 Game Analyst 🎮 Looking for D&D and TTRPG inspired friends 🥹
CreativeApplications.Net — Technology, Society, and Critical Making (since 2008) Updates from team only. For latest projects + publications, see → https://www.creativeapplications.net
Download Activity iOS App → https://ca-n.in/activityios
Haunted Tales of the Dark & Resource Guide by Ken Harris
🧠📼 Is Your ThotBot Glitched? Find out at https://thotbot.me/glitch.html & visit the ThotBot Implantation Center in person Oct-Mar in Somerville, MA
Media Artist, critical maker, Associate Professor @ JMS / Lehman College / CUNY, Scrapyard Challenge co-founder
Trying to make computers better for human thinking and creativity. Currently leading design engineering at Adobe. Opinions own.
Interwebs: seanvoisen.com
Pronouns: he/him
Recent writing at https://grantslatton.com/latest
Formerly built the world's fastest filesystem at AWS, now the fastest spreadsheet at http://rowzero.com
computers, architecture, and crônicas 🏴☠️
some at reduct.video, others at https://cristobal.arquipelago.org
artist, creative technologist, geo-located audio practitioner, AI interrogator, dad, other stuff...
Stares at numbers at Simon and Schuster, runs ARGN.com - more ARGs, escape rooms, immersive theater, and puzzle stuff than you probably want to hear
CEO & Cofounder of Kinetic Energy Ent.
https://kineticenergyent.com/
PS: Been here for over a year. When are y'all coming over?
PPS: formerly @silkyd67 on the bluebird
Experience Designer, Social Practitioner, Imagineer, Explainer of Jokes, Adventurer, erstwhile Jejune Institute Co-creator, and former Vacation Surrogate
Writer. Designer. Rabbithole cartographer. Immersive & interactive adventures.
nicktierce.com
VR & AR news, reviews, and industry analysis.
https://www.uploadvr.com/
He/Him
Musings: noteveryth.ing
Work Stuff: davidshiyang.com
architect turned XR-chitect crafting virtual spaces and the spectacles within | CEO, Agile Lens: Immersive Design, XR strike force | Unreal Engine Authorized Instructor & Toolmaker | Theatre is cool
he/him. writing about theater. https://joeysims.substack.com/
VR/AR Creative Director & Artist — among many other things. she/her.
🌲Oakland grown
🌸 Portland livin
Clients: Google, Oxford University, Adobe, AMD, Intel, Snapchat, Cartoon Network, Netherlands, more
https://estellatse.com/?utm_source=bsky
Writer/editor covering Disney, Star Wars, Marvel, Universal, theme parks, travel • she/her
Reporting on XR for a decade+, Co-founder of leading independent VR news pub RoadtoVR.com. Journalist & analyst, not evangelist.
Twitter https://twitter.com/benz145
Immersive Experience Design +30yrs -- theme parks, museum exhibits, attractions, MR/AR -- I connect people and stories in physical places.
Not the famous music producer.
GenX🤘
Queer & married 🇨🇦
Husky dad.
Stay kind & curious.
http://www.davecobb.com/
Writer of interactive entertainments
CNET - future tech, VR/AR, wearables, games, immersive, existential dread/whimsy. Looking in weeds for little frogs. The Intertwixt is my free newsletter about strange overlaps https://intertwixt.beehiiv.com
Many-hat wearer, roller robot, and Apple design evangelist.
On social media these days mostly to help the Apple developer community, geek out about interactive storytelling and experience design, and say hi to friends.
And write. Writing’s good too.
Columnist for LA Times | I cover video games, immersive entertainment & theme parks. | I take a lot bad pics of Disneyland | I also like cats
Exec Prod — Joybubbles
🎬 Sci-Fi Filmmaker
🎓 Academic
🎭 Immersive Theatre Fan & Creator
🗺️ SF Bay Area
Director: https://cameowood.com
Work: @CharmingStranger.com
Buy: https://PointReyesMyriorama.com
Watch: https://RealArtists.Film
Voices of VR Podcast host: Insatiably curious, XR oral historian, & aspiring philosopher.
Exploring Tech Ethics, AI, XR, & Emerging Tech.
Patreon at http://patreon.com/voicesofvr
Founder of @NoProscenium.com: The Guide to Everything Immersive & co-founder of @immersiveexperience.org
Ex-public media. Current CalArts faculty.
Mapper of the Immersive Cosmos.
BlueskyUser #499 (Post count includes Twitter imports.)
Mysteries, puzzles, adventures. I make games, write books & preserve immersive history. PDX. They/she
Immersipedia coming soon!
PLANNING YOUR ESCAPE (Simon & Schuster), KATAMARI DAMACY (Boss Fight Books)
✨ lauraehall.com
🔎 cfia.org
🎙️ secretlives.games
Award-winning (2x Indiecade, Eisner, Ignatz, National Book Award finalist, etc) game designer, cartoonist, and puppet filmmaker in the practice of marionettes, fortune cabinets, kind rabblerousing, and Paul Bunyan facts. Little guy enjoyer. (they/them)
Exploding Kittens Special Ops | Experience Designer | Puzzle Ninja | VR & Escape Room Tinkerer | OG ARG Maker | Professional Shenaniganizer | Ornamental Hermit | Los Angeles
stevepeters.org | explodingkittens.com
Director - Immersive Creator - Las Vegas / Majestic Repertory Theatre / SCREAM'D / SCAD MFA
Kind Guy, Dad, Survivor: Fiji Alum, Immersive Connoisseur, Interdimensional Swiss Army Knife, the other Black guy you know. To be clear: “I Ain’t Your Wookiee.”(He/Him)
@immersiveexperience.org co-founder. Former Sr. Technical Game Designer at Twisted Pixel. @noproscenium.com Senior LA Reviewer & former Executive Editor.
The Psychgeist of Sleep No More: out now!
Los Angeles. She/her.
https://linktr.ee/kathrynyu
Filmmaker and designer working in emerging tech. ECD at Hecho Studios | Founder and Director at Vrai Pictures (vrai.pictures)
A storyteller/media artist working with code. Professor of Professional Practice Columbia University, founding member and director of the Columbia DSL
https://lanceweiler.com
The Official Bluesky Account of the Defunctland YouTube Series. Posts by Kevin Perjurer.
Founder and former CEO of Six to Start, made Zombies, Run!, wrote "You've Been Played" and "A History of the Future in 100 Objects".
Associate Artist at the Traverse Theatre. Writing a book about immersive art.
Blog: mssv.net
Currently: Creative Director & CEO at @creaturedotpage.bsky.social .
Scholar is residence at NYU, running immersive Design Residency at the Fallingwater Institute.
Former: Robot Teddy, Chatham University + more
Chronicling VR makers and discoveries in virtual reality. https://www.goodvirtualreality.com
https://linktr.ee/hamiltonian
Author: Aven Cycle | Story Editor: Mythik Camps | Podcast Cohost: Worldbuilding for Masochists | novels, short fiction, & immersive xp | Shakespeare nerd, once & future educator, rhetorician, geek chic | she/her | Virginia, USA
linktr.ee/cassrmorris
Foresight for Polycrisis. Adjunct Prof, NYU. I write realitystudies.co & host the Urgent Futures Podcast @urgentfutures.bsky.social.
Bylines: Flash Art, Forbes, NBC News, The Verge, WIRED
Writer / Imagineer / Immersive Thingies Maker.
Formerly: The Verge / ILM Immersive.
Producer & Director of AR, VR and XR, volumetric video. Director of "The Tent" an Augmented Reality volumetric narrative that premiered at SXSW 2024.
Https://themercantile.agency
Mixed reality artist: XR experience director @ Agile Lens, improvisation teacher @ Atlantic Theater Company and NYU Tisch, vegetarian. I wanna be a boat.
Indie game designer. Mostly VR. Maker of Ironstrike, Ironlights, Darknet, Tactera, Astraeus, Skylight, and Auralux.
Game director, writer, narrative experience designer - videogames, VR, (immersive) theatre and everything in between. BAFTA member, co-host of The Nirvana Podcast. European born but now in BC, Canada.
www.jedidjahjulianoomen.com
Artist, Director, founder 4th Wall App 🪩, Expanded filmmaker
Substrate at LACMA
Current: CENTO at the Whitney Museum
SEEK at Cosm Los Angeles & Dallas
Actor, author, artist, mystic. Mostly made of Shakespeare, magic, immersive theatre and Tarot. Nerd.
#keyofdreams
#transparenttarot
#richardiii
#returntosilenthill
www.emilycarding.com
Eats breakfast #pinkispunk (also Director of Pixar’s Blue Umbrella, Studio SOI & Oculus Story Studio founder, now ...)
XR developer and educator. Cofounder of Coal Car Studio. www.coalcar.ca
Founded in 2018, we're an arts non-profit working to support the Denver & Front Range immersive industry through education, resource-building, networking & community, and arts advocacy.
Light lover. Myth mapper. Future curious.
Fan of playing and creating puzzles and escape rooms. Lots of escape room design links here:
http://thatguywiththepuzzles.com/
book hoarder | aea sm | director immersive denver | adrenaline enthusiast
multimedia director & composer/sound artist.
Self-proclaimed pretty boy || Former Imagineer || I try to do cool things with my time on this planet || 日本語OK! || Contact: mar@marferreri.com
Your next pan-daemonic baptism.
we create story-driven multimedia experiences that exist on the web and in the real world. always behind the curtain.
web
immersivefiction.com
currently working on
fieldstudiesinstitute.org
https://bsky.app/profile/fieldstudiesinstitute.org
Immersive person 🎭 | TEDx speaker 🎤 | Founder of #metaforyou #️⃣
Designing human connection at live events + in life.
✨ Presence. 🎭 Play. 💬 You matter.
linkin.bio/terenceleclere
Lead game programmer: ReturnToMonkeyIsland
Designer/Project Leader at LucasfilmGames/LucasArts: Fractalus Labyrinth ZakMcKracken Indy3
ManiacMansion
VR XR EV GameDev
Handpan newbie
❤️ @anniefox.com
@RubeWorks.com
https://linktr.ee/davidbfox
Storytelling, Bodies and Emerging Technology. Speculative Devices Lab, Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts, Edgeworks. Visiting Fellow Central Saint Martins, Narrative Environments, UAL
Theatre/Fiction/Other Stuff
she/her Clarion '22
Chapbook from @wrongpublishing.bsky.social
Upcoming novella from @splitlippress.com
Bringing the impossible to life through immersive experiences. Passionate experience designer blending technology and art to create unforgettable moments.
ARGN.com - covering alternate reality games, immersive theater, escape rooms LARPs, and more.
First time mom, longtime journalist, filmmaker in progress
I build things
Currently focused on:
indexstream.org - Media server
universalverify.com - ID & age verification tools
Earlier:
digitalbacon.io - 3D website builder
sliceofmusic.com - XR saber-like game
Former Startup CTO & Amazon Engineer
私は日本語が下手です
Writer and narrative designer for Silent Hill: Ascension, Ingress, and Dungeons & Dragons.
Scholar of all forms of participatory art: Larp, TTRPGs, ARGs, video games.
Player of Magic the Gathering and Marvel Snap.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/emmettfurey
Experience Engineers uniting the physical & digital. Using #spatialcomputing, #AI, & #cloudtech, we imagine, create, & execute impactful immersive solutions.
Sometimes director, sometimes writer, often opera, interactive theatre, Shakespeare & TTRPGs.
https://www.leodoulton.com
Now: CampfireNYC.com, Video Palace co-creator, Broken Spectre VR Experience
Then: #BlairWitchProject, Peabody Awards Judge, Florida Film Festival, video store clerk, grocery bagboy, fast food burger flipper
Award-winning creators of alternate reality theatre. candlehousecollective.com
The original tabletop candle! www.cantripcandles.com
Join Quill in the enchanting world of Moss & Moss II 🐭🌿
#VR #Quest2, #PSVR2, #Steam, #Quest3, #Quest3s
pulselink.bio/polyarcgames
Award winning developers of ‘The Room’ videogame series. Our new game GHOST TOWN is out now for Meta Quest, SteamVR & PlayStation VR2.
VP of Design- Lionsgate • Award Winning Art Director for Themed Entertainment• Blooloop Top 50 Theme Park Design Influencer • Formerly at Meow Wolf/Universal Creative/Thinkwell/SCAD • Mets Fan
Unreal Engine is the world’s most open and advanced real-time 3D tool. Learn more about how to get started with #UE5: http://unrealengine.com/unreal-engine-5
Assistant Professor University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Analog Astronaut; Alum - MIT Media Lab; Emmy Award winning VFX Technical Supervisor; Instructor of SciFi & Magic; Immersive DataViz; Machine Learning tools; Deep-Ocean Exploration
Performer & Creator of things
Director of ArtScience Museum in Singapore. Interstitial nomad and purveyor of particles and waves.
✨ Creative Director, Producer & Performer
🎭 Immersive & Experiential
🎃 Theme Parks, Haunts & Holidays
🔗 brandonsantoro.com
A remote indie studio based in Toronto creating story-driven puzzle games. (Our games division for @stitch.media)
Our co-op VR puzzle game ELSEWHERE ELECTRIC⚡is now available on Meta Quest, Steam, and mobile: elsewhereelectric.com
Writer & themed experience creative. Roller Coaster Philosophy. U.S. Marshals Museum. Warner Bros World Abu Dhabi. Lionsgate Entertainment World. WB Studio Tours.
rollercoasterphilosophy.com
Creative Strategist & Event Producer at Spatial Networks. Women of the Future Top 100 in Emerging Tech. Meta Partner. Newsletter (7k) 💫
The trade association representing the growing ecosystem of companies powering virtual reality, augmented reality, and mixed reality (XR)
Pop culture, theme parks, my wife, and our cats make me happy. Not necessarily in that order.
Letterboxd: https://boxd.it/5AP3D
Geek polymath. TTRPG and Vampire the Masquerade enthusiast. Creative Partner at Jackalope Live Action Studios. Voice of Usher on Port Saga. Angel to some, demon to others. https://linktr.ee/MattStormcrow
He/Him. Love is Love. 🏳️🌈 🇺🇦
Storyteller. Creator. Larper. Academic. Gamer. Grade A Certified Nerd 🎥⚔📚 NBi, Afro-Indigenous Cryptid. Dann of all trades. ♿ 🌈👾 #larp
Inclusive Design (Diversity) Consultant
they/them
Based: Philly
Website: darkerlarper.carrd.co
