
VR WOMEN
VR WOMEN focusses on female voices exploring virtual reality. Find out more at: www.vr-women.com
Episodes
16 episodes
#16 - Ana Monte: How does spatial audio influence our awareness of presence in VR?
Ana Monte is a sound designer and co-founder of Delta Soundworks (https://www.deltasoundworks.com/) - among many other things. She shares her insights on working with spatial audi...
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Episode 16
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30:32

#15 - Lara Rohde on creating a safe space in VR to explore the topic of menstruation for a younger audience
Lara Rohde recently graduated with the VR project "Planet Puberty Menstruation" which aims at a younger audience (6 - 20 years). It just won the XR Science Award 2024. In episode 15 we talk about the challenges and advantages VR presents to the...
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Episode 15
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19:33

#14 - Celine Tricart: The differences between creating VR experiences or VR games and what is important for a female audience
Celine Tricart is been creating and producing in VR for many years; together with her co-founder Marie Blondiaux she started we are coven. Her VR experiences like „The Key“ or „Fight Back“ were invited to many festivals around the globe. Now sh...
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Episode 14
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37:43

#13 - Jacki Morie - On meaningful VR experiences and the question if women are predestined for Virtual Reality
Dr. Jacquelyn Ford Morie - or as the VR community also knows her - Jacki Morie is one of THE pioneers in VR. For three decades she has been creating and researching in the field of Virtual Reality focusing on meaningful personal experiences. At...
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Episode 13
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40:21

#12 - Deirdre V. Lyons and Whitton Frank: Why acting in VR is different and how to get something going together in Virtual Reality
This time VR women has two guests for the first time - Deirdre V. Lyons and Whitton Frank - both founders of the ferryman collective: https://www.ferrymancollective.com/. Togeth...
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Episode 12
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34:04

#11 - Paula Strunden: The question of embodiment or disembodiment and how not using a controller can give you more freedom in XR
Paula Strunden is an architectural designer and a researcher in XR. Her work focuses on the possibilities of how binaries can be dissolved in XR, what exactly embodiment and disembodiment can mean and how you can be so much more free in XR with...
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Episode 11
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44:34

#10 - Natasha Greenhalgh: Creating physical spaces to unite new media technology
In Episode 10 VR Women meets Natasha Greenhalgh in Amsterdam. Natasha talks with us about her background, what she believes is needed for women in the immersive arts and new media technologies nowadays and how she started Nxt Museum (
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Episode 10
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29:41

#9 - Anil Altas Brug: Digital mindfulness and why we should be bold to experiment
Anil Altas Brug comes from marketing. She got into VR around 2016 and co-founded her own agency Turboslow Web3. She combines her work in new technological areas with her believe in digital mindfulness and a need to experiment.
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Episode 9
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30:14

#8 - Deepa Mann-Kler: Humanity first - then comes the technology
As CEO of NEON and creator of many VR pieces VR Women dives deep with Deepa Mann-Kler in this episode into the the connection of art, technology and the importance of humanity in all of it. Find out more about Deepa and her work here: https://w...
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Episode 8
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32:21

#7 - Michaela Pnacekova: Expressing a feminine voice in research
Michaela Pnacekova is an XR maker, a technologist and a researcher. She talks with us about her current research work in the field of facial expressions and analysis of emotions. Will the future hold better understanding of emotions for us in V...
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Episode 7
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31:01

#6 - Siza Mukwedini: Empowering women in VR in Zimbabwe
Siza Mukwedini started Matamba Film Labs for women in Harare / Zimbabwe, where she offers training in the field of VR for women. She talks with us about the challenges that she faces in a patriarchal society to create a safe space for women...
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Episode 6
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20:28

#5 - Tanja Kojic: Research in academia and the question of emotions
In episode 5 Tanja Kojic talks to us about her research in academia for VR and XR at the quality and usability Lab in Berlin (https://www.tu.berlin/qu), her focus on user experience and how something...
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Episode 5
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40:05

#4 - Cathline Smoos: Sexology in VR and how it can help to raise intimacy
Cathline Smoos is a French psychologist and sexologist searching for means in VR to improve intimacy and human interactions. Her project https://www.imbuevr.com is for couples who are in for something new....
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Episode 4
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37:54

#3 - Yasmin Elayat: Driven by content and yet connected to technology
In episode three we talk with Yasmin Elayat - calling herself a tech-agnostic she is a creator for XR and shares her insights and experiences of the past years of her work. Her projects show her interest in social changes and her connecti...
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Episode 3
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50:50

#2 - Katharina Haverich: Social VR, VR for the Stage, and the Influence of Dreams
Katharina Haverich lives in Berlin and creates VR experiences for the stage and in social VR. You can take a look at her work here:
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Episode 2
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35:42

#1 - Julia Bruton: What connects women and VR?
Julia Bruton is a female VR creator and the founder of VR WOMEN. She started producing films, later founded an animation studio and now explores virtual worlds. In this very first episode of this podcast Julia shares her visions and talks about...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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26:08
