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Noah’s back from China and did an entire mini-sode of the podcast about that. We put out a North America newsletter this week even though NoPro HQ in Los Angeles is melting, but we’ll be back in full force soon. Very, very soon.
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ON THE PODCAST THIS WEEK
Last week your host, Noah Nelson, was in Qingdao, China for the Sandbox Immersive Festival. This week he’s back, solo, to talk about some of what he observed there and about the emerging thinking around XR — the term being given to all of immersive technology — and how that relates to live immersive.
This being Noah talking into a microphone, you know that we get into a few tangents, including thoughts about what it means to become a bit jaded as a reviewer, and what incoming designers need to be thinking about when they approach immersive work for the first time.
Jesse Damiani’s piece on XR UX/UI design.
Room Escape Artist on tariffs.
FROM THE WIRE: SHOWS, EVENTS, & EXPERIENCES
Austin: The FOMO Factory
Edmonton: Found Festival
Las Vegas: Clown Bar
Los Angeles: C(ovell); Momentum; Camp Whitsit
San Francisco: Shiver We Timbers!; Caesar Maximus
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Toronto: Dr. Silver; Escape Character
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