VR Gaming and Console Wars with Victor Lucas

05/19/22 • 61 min

Metaverse, VR/AR & Web3 Podcast - Field of View

This episode will feature Victor Lucas, the CEO/Founder of EP Media. Victor Lucas is an established figure within the world of Canadian television. He is a producer and personality in the gaming industry. Victor was a co-founder of the Canadian Video Game Awards. He has served as a judge for the Game Awards in LA.

In this episode, we discuss Victor’s background and legacy within the gaming and broadcast industry. We ask him about the speculations and his excitement surrounding VR in gaming. Victor also shares his thoughts and opinions regarding the immersive tech that he has experienced, the divide and war between consoles and the future of the Metaverse.

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The Power of Immersive and Interactive Storytelling with Tad Leckman

This episode will feature Tad Leckman, the Director of Learning and Development at Activision Blizzard. Tad has a background in entertainment and education, spending the past twenty years focused on the learning and development of artists, designers, writers, and engineers. He had built a successful career as a digital artist and supervisor at Industrial Light and Magic, worked on critically acclaimed series like Clone Wars, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed video games, and taught full-time at the University of California Santa Cruz.

In this episode, Tad and our hosts delve into the deep end of CGI and special effects, with Tad applying his unique experiences to growing technologies in AR and the Metaverse. The conversation also focuses on the development of storytelling in immersive technologies, with particular attention given to the ways in which techniques honed in traditional media like movies and theatre productions can be transferred to the creation of virtual worlds.

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