WE ARE VR Interviews · Recorded in VRChat
Virtual interviews
The work deserves to be documented. Long-form conversations with the people building African XR, recorded entirely inside VRChat and hosted by Scott Peter Smith and Dale “Deac” Deacon. Apply to be interviewed
Izak Potgieter
XR researcher, University of Johannesburg · Glassbox3D
Ancient African technology meets augmented reality
What does a 500-year-old iron smelter have to do with AR? Izak turns people's memories of lost places into spatial data, from Melville Koppies to a VR Sophiatown that a 90-year-old former resident corrected sign by sign.
KamikazE_Chan
VRChat creator · BB Interactive
Digital identity
Avatars, self-expression and who you get to be once you step inside a virtual world.
Judith Okonkwo & Ingrid Kopp
Ìmísí 3D · Electric South
Grants aren't enough
After the metaverse hype crashed, Africa's XR pioneers kept building quietly. Two people who have shaped the continent's immersive scene for over a decade on funding, policy, audiences and a proposed Africa XR Association.
Rick Treweek
MetaRick · Virtual Worlds Company
Why a VRChat theatre show beat Amazon to an Emmy
Uncanny Alley: A New Day, a live show performed inside VRChat, took a Primetime Emmy over Amazon and Blumhouse. Rick on what that changes, bringing VR to people instead of waiting for headsets, and why avatars aren't cartoons.
Be on the show
Apply to be interviewed
Building XR in Africa? Tell us who you are and what you're making. We record inside VRChat, so we'll need your username to send you a world invite.
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