I've recently been working on some new branching narrative scripts for Embodied Labs, a company that provides first person immersive learning experiences for caregivers. This will be the second time I'm writing fairly complex scripts for their 360˚ VR training modules. Not complex in terms of dialogue, but complex in terms of keeping track of all the various branches and ensuring that you land where you need to be, with all your I's dotted and T's crossed! I find it is one of

What an amazing experience it was to be able to virtually attend SXSW this year, and to run Finding Pandora X performances as well as backstage tours of Mount Olympus for the virtual festival attendees!! The entire Double Eye team is so grateful to SXSW and our audience for honoring our work with the Virtual Cinema Audience award for our live interactive VR production of Finding Pandora X! I personally am also grateful for the sheer fun of visiting the virtual world of SXSW

In a world where so many of us have moved to a remote work situation, I am happy to say that despite the six-hour time difference, I have been able to collaborate once again with the amazing team at Incarna Studios. We're currently in the final production phase of a solo player experience that will be released on Steam in just a few short weeks. R-AI-D will have you pitting your wits against two different AI's running amok through Incarna's Training Temple. The entire network

Last week I found myself celebrating the New Year with the VR & AR of Southwest Florida Meetup group hosted by the very creative Evgeniya Simmons. She played around with the basic elements provided by Altspace VR to create a custom designed world for our party. The space was filled with balloons, custom signs, a powerpoint presentation, fireworks, games... The list goes on (did I forget to mention the boombox? There was a boombox with party music!) It was a total blast and re

For the second year in a row, we're taking a project to the Venice International Film Festival! Finding Pandora X is an immersive theatrical VR experience where the audience plays the role of the Greek Chorus, interacting with live Broadway actors as the play unfolds. This was an amazing project to work on! Kiira Benzing (the award-winning VR director) and I imagined a new take on the myth of Pandora almost a year ago and have been tweaking and refining it ever since with the

Our second day of open rehearsals for Pandora X, Double Eye Studios' current project in development, took place last week. It was an amazing opportunity for us to test a multitude of different interactions with both our social VR audience and our live digital audience. For this session, I scripted out a ten-minute excerpt of the play, a modern take on the ancient myth of Pandora: On Mount Olympus, Zeus is overjoyed with news from the Mortal Realm. After eons of confinement in

Last February, our team at Double Eye Studios was asked to present Pandora X, our newest project in an event co-hosted by CultureHub NYC and La Mama Experimental Theater. Since taking Loveseat to the Venice Film Festival last year, we had been reflecting on how to bridge the virtual and real world audiences in an experience that combined live theater and social VR. The "Experiments in Digital Storytelling" week-end, scheduled for early April, was the perfect opportunity to pl