Today we had the pleasure of speaking with Dr. Robert Renteria, the founder of our sponsor, the From the Barrio Foundation, with the support of HumanityXR.

Dr. Robert Renteria is a resource who promotes education, a sense of pride and accomplishment, and self-esteem within the youth of our communities.

The “From the Barrio Foundation” is working with schools around the country to implement From the Barrio to the Classroom, a dynamic two week curriculum/teacher’s guide that utilizes Dr. Renteria’s story to help students reflect on their own lives and share their own stories.

There is no pairing more unique than pagans and the metaverse. Join us as we talk to Trey the Druid about bringing Earth-Centered spirituality into the digital age.

We'll cover things like Ghost Stories, Fairy Tales, Folklore and more. You're not going to want to miss this one!

Generative Art is a process of algorithmically generating new artistic ideas. In other words, it's a method by which us mere mortals can use machine assistance to improve our creative endeavors.

Here to talk about how robots will transform our art, writing and creative expression is Inscape Studios Co-Founder Matt Sinclair.

Gamer from 2009 follows a death-row inmate who battles his fellow prisoners in a violent online game called "Slayers," his every move controlled by a young gamer's remote device.

To the players, Kable and the other inmates are just simulated characters. But, to a resistance group that opposes the game's inventor, Kable is a critical component of their plan to end the inventor's form of high-tech slavery.

Ahmed Best is an American actor, comedian and musician who is known for providing motion capture and the voice of the character of Jar Jar Binks in the Star Wars franchise.

Best likewise collaborated with director George Lucas in three films and seven episodes of the cartoon show, Star Wars: The Clone Wars. He won the Annie Award for Voice Acting in an Animated Television Production for lampooning Jar Jar Binks in Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode II.

He will talk to us about his experience in pioneering motion capture, as well as his forrays into virtual reality and the metaverse.

This one promises to be out of this world!

Today we celebrate the work of Jose Ferrer who brings his knowledge of acupuncture and oriental medicine to his virtual spaces here in Altspace. From chakra journeys to sound meditations, we'll find out what inspires him, and how he pulls off his technical feats.Then, he'll guide us on a world tour. Warning! You may have a spiritual awakening in this episode!

Today we’re exploring the role that sex and intimacy have to play in the metaverse. Venus is a sex coach who uses avatars and virtual worlds as a means to explore sexuality without guilt, shame and blame and to reframe sex as a healing act. She’ll talk to us about tantric secrets, self-authority, and prioritizing pleasure in discreet virtual playrooms.

Sound design is critical to giving virtual worlds a sense of presence. So how can we achieve the best spatial sound? And how can we best integrate soundscapes into the virtual experience?

Joining us will be Visual FX wizard Cornelius, who has experimented with sound in the metaverse while collaborating with some of the best worldbuilders in Altspace, including SHUSHU AND THE VRIUM TEAM.

The Truman Show is about a man who grew up thinking he was living an ordinary life, until he discovers everything was a lie and his world was nothing more than a giant television set.

Many people have seen the movie starring Jim Carrey, but not many people know that it may have been an unofficial adaptation (aka a ripoff) of the Philip K Dick novel Time Out of Joint from way back in 1959.

Here to talk about the similarities, the differences, and if the movie holds up, is Philip K Dick aficionado and Dickhead Podcast co-host, Anthony Trevino.

Tron Legacy, the sequel to the 1982 cult classic Tron, follows Flynn's adult son Sam, who responds to a message from his long-lost father and is transported into a virtual reality called "the Grid," where Sam, his father, and the algorithm Quorra must stop the malevolent program Clu from invading the real world.

We're gonna take a look and see if it holds up, give it our Wow! score and generally speculate about odds that we're living in a Tron-like simuluation. In other words, a typical Tuesday night in the metaverse. Check it!

How will the metaverse integrate blockchain technology? When will blockchain and virtual reality finally collide? And who has one of the best blockchain talk show/meet up in Altspace??

All these questions will be answered and more as we merge forces with Blockchain UniVRse, a channel in Altspace dedicated to emerging tech.

It's happening. Worldbuilders in Altspace 14 is featuring one of our favorite Worldbuilders, Christi. I know, we can't believe it either!

Before she got all huge and involved in saving the world through the United Nations Act Now worlds of Al Wasl Dome and Uluru, she created or helped create such fan favorites as the burning earth of The Eco Zone, The Merry Mad Tea Party for Burning Man 2020, and the super polished and charming Baba Yaga's Forbidden Forest. Check it!

Tron Legacy, Ghost in the Shell and iRobot are just a few films and VR experiences Scott Gagain has worked on as a motion capture producer.

Now he's created MindfulVR, an empathy-driven virtual reality experience. The goal is to create heartfelt immersive worlds that give people opportunities to witness life through the eyes of another, with the hopes of expanding their views and perspectives.

With over 20 years of experience in motion-capture production, Scott will walk us through how the industry, and the medium of storytelling, has changed.

Here with us today is the Founder and CEO of ImmerseMe, a tool that helps teach languages by immersing students in a virtual world and simulating everyday conversations in foreign languages. It enables us to get rid of classroom walls and connect with the outside world.

Remember that movie in 2009 called Surrogates starring Bruce Willis? Did it predict the self-quarantine we now all find ourselves in? We'll find out as we go back and review it.

Set in a futuristic world where humans live in isolation and interact through surrogate robots, a cop played by Bruce Willis is forced to leave his home for the first time in years in order to investigate the murders of others' surrogates.

Zut alors! We're taking the 13th episode of our Worldbuilders of Altspace series to the south of France to interview Torchebugne. From the coolest discotheques in the metaverse, to inside active volcanos, and even an interstellar NFT art gallery, Torchebugne combines incredible technical skill with that special j'un sais quio.

For our Worldbuilders of Altspace 12 we are joined by a prolific OG whose multitude of worlds are fan favorites here in Altspace. His love of nostalgia and pop culture ooze through the fabric of the metaverse itself with such classics as a replica of Star Tours from Disneyland in the 80s, his various Star Wars worlds including Mos Eisley Cantina and Jabba’s Palace, his deep cuts with the Neverending Story, and of course his blockbuster Pirates of the Caribbean world, we are proud to have Captain Jack Sparrow with us.

We are very excited to have BrcVR's Co-Founder Athena Demos back on the show, this time to talk about the foundational principles of the metaverse at large.

She'll be addressing Matthew Ball’s 7 Attributes of the Metaverse and how they fit with the 10 Principles of Burning Man. You know, just another afternoon discussing the ethical framework with which to create the digital Utopia that we all want the metaverse to be. No big deal.

Behold! We give you our 11th Episode in our Worldbuilders of Altspace Series.

This time we will delve into the technical wizardry of Andy. From otherworldly caves, to chill inducing asylums, to his understated yet gorgeous exhibition hall, Andy's got skills to spare.

Join us for the interview, then come with us on a once-in-a-metaverse chance to have Andy himself give us an exclusive tour through his worlds. You don't want to miss this one!

Bobby Carlton has been one of our personal guides through the metaverse.

From his informative articles on VRScout, to his insightful (and stylish!) tweets, Bobby is a wealth of AR/VR knowledge.

Aside from exploring how new technology can play a role in changing social behavior and consumerism, he is also an XR Pitch Advisory Board Member at SXSW, judge for the VRAwards, and is an XR Content Marketing/XR Product Marketing consultant for FS Studios.

If you're interested in being a VR content creator, there's no one better to talk to. Come geek out with us as we talk to Bobby about where he's been, and where this is all headed.