Kent Bye

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Kent Bye (born 1976) is an American podcaster and experiential journalist based in Portland, Oregon. He is the founder and host of the Voices of VR podcast, and a keynote speaker, panelist, and moderator at international industry conferences including Games for Change, Silicon Valley Virtual Reality (SVVR), SXSW, and VR NOW. [1] [2] [3] [4]

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In the Voices of VR podcast, he has covered the fields of virtual reality and augmented reality. [5]

Voices of VR Podcast

Kent Bye launched Voices of VR in May 2014. [6] The podcast features game developers, technologists, academics, creatives, and enthusiasts in the fields of VR and AR, and currently has hundreds of episodes including Jaroslav Beck, Jessica Brillhart, Nancy Baker Cahill, Jesse Damiani, Tom Furness, Palmer Luckey, Kevin Mack, Danny O’Brien, Tony Parisi, Nonny de la Peña, Philip Rosedale, Keram Malicki-Sanchez and Adam Sulzdorf-Liszkiewicz. [7]

In 2015, a virtual reality blog called Road to VR started to syndicate all future episodes of the Voices of VR podcast on their website. [8]

As of January 2021, the Voices of VR podcast has released over 973 episodes. [9]

Ethics of XR

Bye is an advocate for discourse around the ethics and moral dilemmas presented by VR and AR. [10]

In March 2019 at Laval Virtual, Bye took part in a think tank called "Future Dreaming: Designing for New Realities." [11] [12] On May 31, 2019, Bye presented a keynote at Augmented World Expo which summarized the ethical implications explored during Laval Virtual and through his interviews with subject experts for Voices of VR. [13] This presentation formed the foundation of what would ultimately become the "XR Ethics Manifesto" that Bye presented on October 18, 2019, at xRS Week from Greenlight Insights. [14] [15]

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  1. ↑ Keynote - The Transformative Potential of Immersive Technologies with Kent Bye , retrieved 2019-11-18
  2. ↑ SVVR 2017 Keynotes - Tony Parisi - Rikard Steiber - Kent Bye - Nonny de la Peña | #SVVR2017 , retrieved 2019-11-18
  3. ↑ Kent Bye (Voices of VR) - The Ultimate Potential of VR | VR NOW Con & Awards 2018 , retrieved 2019-11-18
  4. ↑ "Virtual Humanity: Designing Ethical Immersive Worlds". SXSW 2020 Schedule. Retrieved 2019-11-18.
  5. ↑ "Kent Bye (Voices of VR) on Truth, Reality, and the Human Experience (Part 1)". The AR Show. Retrieved 2019-11-18.
  6. ↑ "Voices of VR Podcast". Road to VR. Retrieved 2019-11-18.
  7. ↑ "Voices of VR Podcast" . Retrieved 2019-11-18.
  8. ↑ "Now Playing: Kent Bye's 'Voices of VR' Podcast Comes to Road to VR". 6 October 2015.
  9. ↑ "Podcast Archive | Voices of VR Podcast".
  10. ↑ "'Privacy is Hard,' a Look at the Ethical Implications of Mixed Reality". ACM SIGGRAPH Blog. 2019-09-25. Retrieved 2019-11-18.
  11. ↑ What Kent Bye thinks about Laval Virtual during 2019 LV Awards Ceremony , retrieved 2019-11-18
  12. ↑ "Open Knowledge" (PDF). Laval Virtual. 5 April 2019. Retrieved 18 November 2019.
  13. ↑ Kent Bye (Voices of VR Podcast): The Ethical & Moral Dilemmas of Mixed Reality , retrieved 2019-11-18
  14. ↑ "Speakers". xRS Week 2019 | VR/AR/XR Strategy Conference & Expo. Retrieved 2019-11-18.
  15. ↑ Kent Bye (2019-10-18). "An XR Ethics Manifesto".{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
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