Portfolio

Publication Interview

Deep into the world of deepfakes: Exploring the impacts of misinformation in the election cycle

On this episode of Front Porch Politics, host Tim Boyum explores the rapid rise of artificial intelligence and its impacts on misinformation. Going deep into the world of deep fakes, elections and social media. 

Role:

Featured AI Research Expert

News Video Publication:

Tim Boyum w/ Spectrum News 2024

AI Education Series

Three Horizons of AI

The most recent addition to IFTF's educational courses. Designed to explore the potential short-term, mid-term, and long-term futures of AI. An overview of the rapidly evolving AI field, hands-on experience with cutting-edge generative AI platforms, and structured methods for forecasting emerging risks and opportunities.

Role:

Instructor
Curriculum Developer

Taught:
Online & various locations  2023, 2024

AI Education 

Frontiers in Synthetic Sound: 

From Analog Roots to AI Futures 

An AI presentation and "learning journey" with guided AI music/sound creation tool demos and exercises for Sound Design students. Given links to other AI creation tools and encouragement to further explore. 

Role:

Visiting Lecturer 

Facilitator

Taught:

MassArt, SIM Online  2023

Presentation

Seeding Activism Through Experience Design 

The panel of designers discuss how new experiences can be used not just for entertainment, but as a scaffold for growth and empowerment. Challenging times warrant more thoughtful and introspective experiences that can help seed activism in sustainability and global social justice. 

Role:

Panelist

Presented:

SXSW  2023

VR Research Publication

Incarceration to Reentry: 

A Case Study of Pioneering VR and Foresight

Sharing the methodologies, hurdles and learnings gained during the ACPD exploratory workshops, research and VR prototyping project.

Role:
Author 

Project Director

Published:

Medium Online  2023

VR Research Report & Prototyping

ACPD: VR for Prison Reentry Pilot

Partnered with ACPD to research and develop virtual reality enabled interventions to help support the success of their reentry clients on their release from incarceration.
Confidential report, educational VR workshops and a DMV VR experience prototype.

Role:

Project Director
Researcher

Delivered:

Alameda County Probation Department  2023

Video Installation

Murmur

Sight specific video mapped projection art.

Role:

Collaborating Artist 

Exhibited:

The Drawing Room SF  2023

Presentation

From the Singularity to the Multiverse: 

Shifting Media Mythologies

From the technological inevitability of The Singularity, to the expansive plurality of The Multiverse, we can see new mythological models of the future as extensions of current cultural perspectives, the growing complexity of our relationship to technology, and the varied solution spaces to these complexities.

Role:
Presenter

Researcher

Presented:
Grey Area 2022

IFTF Webinar 2022

XR Research Report

Future of Social Spatial Computing

Confidential report and prototype for Intel exploring the future of XR (Mixed Reality) in computing.

Role:

Research Director 

Co-Author

Delivered:

Intel  2022

Web Publication

Leaping Forward with One Eye Shut:

Perils of Selective Futuring into the Metaverse

Essay on the need for strategic foresight to imagine equitable and desirable furtures in the creation of a metaverse.

Role:

Author 

Published:

Medium Online  2022

VR Education

Immersive Collaborative Design For Instigators

Custom "immersive learning journey" workshop for the SF Opera Creative Instigators Program with interactive research exercises using social VR explorations. 

Role:

Presentor

Curriculum Developer 

Facilitator

Taught:

EML Interactive  2021

XR Research Report & Video

New Realities of Learning: Experiential Media and the Future of Education

This public video shares some of the topics researched for an internal client report exploring the future affordances & applications of virtual reality & augmented reality for education & workforce training. 

Role:

Research Director

Presenter

Delivered:

California Community Colleges  2019

VR Research Report 

Leading-Edge Behaviors: 

From the New World of Social VR

Research on emerging and innovative user practices likely to play out more broadly over the next ten years. Leading-edge Behaviors inspire and inform new products, experience and service ideas, and reveal emerging opportunities and implications. Report was created through a blend of expert interviews, virtual world observations, ethnographic research, and horizon scanning people pushing the edges of new applications, devices, and platforms. 

Role:

Lead Research Director
Co-Author

Delivered:

IFTF  2019

VR Education 

VR w/ Toshi Hoo & Liza Bender

An introductory lecture for students in Immersive Media. The affordances and abilities of virtual reality were explained and then the students went on a "learning journey" where they got hands-on heads-in VR guided explorations to create a collaborative virtual art piece.

Role:

Instructor

Curriculum Developer

Taught:

MassArt SIM Studio  2019

XR Hackathon

Stories of the Future

Hackathon for multidisciplinary teams with mentors & advisors presenting and guiding the collaborative explorations.

Role:

Mentor 

Facilitator

Presented:

Garage Stories at IFTF  2019

Video Installation & Performance

Float and Flow

A projection-mapped dance performance & interactive projection installation that others were encouraged to remix and dance within.

Role:

Lead Collaboration Artist

Exhibited:

Botanica  2019

Interview Panel

VR Experience Design 

The panel of VR experts discuss 

Role:

Presenter
Interviewer

Presented:

TYF 2018

Live Data Visualization 

Cyber Attack Data Visualizer

A real-time data visualization threat map project using real-time anonymized data. The final piece was installed on a 100” display at a security firm in their corporate lobby. 

Role:

Project Producer

Installed:

Private Client Lobby  2018

VR Experience

ONVR

One of the world's first social collaboration VR data visualization tools that explores dynamic relationships within complex human networks. This prototype was part of a research collaboration to explore the intersection of multi-user immersive VR systems and collective human intelligence.

Role:

Project Director
Researcher

Exhibited:
Media Mixer 2018
EML Interactive 2018, 2019

VR Research Report 

Immersive Human Networks Report

Insights from ONVR prototype development, expert interviews, and a literature and landscape review. We identify the transformative potential of VR network analytics and call attention to the concept of embodied cognition. Identifying possibilities for the future opened up by immersive sensemaking tools like ONVR, focusing on new approaches to 3D data visualization and analytics, organizational ritual design, and organizational structures inspired by biology. 

Role:

Supervising Research Director

Delivered:

Cisco  2018

XR Tech Performance

Information Modeling Agency (IMA) 

Speculative future "Information Modeling Agency" booth tasked with getting attendees of the conference to sign "modeling" contracts. Once signed-up they would be body mapped using phone software to create virtual 3D models of them. The 3D models were processed and then added into a 3D virtual dance party being played on monitors throughout the conference halls. 

Role:

Lead Creative Director
Technology Researcher

Exhibited:

Ten-Year Forecast conference  2018

AR Exhibit & Platform

Iris

Educational and interactive AR Installation. A custom AR system was built to allow visitors to activate, see and interact with the virtual 3D model overlays throughout the Body Worlds Decoded exhibition.

Role:

Project Director

Exhibited:

San Jose Tech Museum 2017 - Present

Interactive Video Installation

Visualize You

Educational interactive virtual 3D body that mimics your movements and changes to different body systems and layers depending on the distance you are from the installation monitor.

Role:

Project Director
Technology Researcher

Exhibited:
EML Interactive 2017 - Present

San Jose Tech Museum 2017 - Present

3D Installation

Four Daniels

An musical performance captured 

Role:

Project Director
Technology Researcher

Exhibited:

Museum of Other Realities  2017
EML Interactive  2017 - Present

VR Performance

Exponentia

A musical composition created and performed from inside a virtual reality world and projected behind the performer on stage.

 
Role:
Project Director
Technology Researcher

Performed:
Media Mixer  2017
Singularity University  2018

XR Exhibit 

SABIC Experience Lab

Custom interactive/immersive learning environment with VR & AR demonstrations and experiences brought to Saudi Arabia from USA.

Role:

Project Director 

Exhibit Curator

Exhibited:

SABIC HR Summit  2017

VR Experience

Simtainer

A virtual reality simulation platform. Exploring three imagined uses of repurposed shipping containers for future needs: micro-clinics, micro-homes and micro-farms.

Role:

Creative Director

Exhibited:
Ten Year Forecast  2017
United Nations General Assembly  2017

SABIC HR Summit  2017

Singularirty University  2018

Dubai Futures Foundation  2018

Technology Event & Exhibit 

Reality Mixer

A social mixer with technology demonstrations and presentations.

Role:

Event Producer
Curator 

Exhibited:

EML  2016, 2017, 2018

VR Performance

Immergence

A musical composition created and performed from inside a virtual reality world and projected behind the performer on stage.

Role:

Director

Co-Presenter

Performed:
Reality Mixer  2016
Singularity University  2016

Prestentation

Emerging Media Lab: Introduction

The Emerging Media Lab (EML) was founded in 2016 by Director Toshi Hoo at Institute for the Future (IFTF).
The EML serves as a prototyping studio, an independent research group, experiential education arm, tech exhibit curator and an active participant in the continually evolving relationship between humans and the sophisticated media systems we create.

Role:

Research Lab Director

Presented: 

IFTF  2017

Short Film

Firefly: Evolution of Fire

A promotional short film utilizing stop motion light painting techniques.

Role:

Creative Director
Producer

Exhibited:

Firefly Creators Launch 2016

Interactive Video Installation

Brocade Kinetic Theatre

Kinect based interactive motion capture experience

Role:

Lead Experience Designer

Installed:
Levi Stadium  2016 

Advisor Panel

Museum of the Future: Planning

Museum of the Future interactive design exhibition planning committee. 

Role:

Media Design

Technology Advisor

Presented:

UAE Government Summit 2014
Dubai Futures Foundation 2018

Theatrical Dome Show 

The Kepler Story

Immersive theater production integrating live actor with dome projections. 

Role:

Immersive Content Advisor

Exhibited:
California Academy of Sciences  2013

360 Dome Film

Earth Portal

An immersive dome show seating 25 people. The experience tells a visual and auditory story to evoke awe and wonder. It fosters a sense of belonging to the Universe and the interdependence this implies – to bring forth attitudes, values, and behaviors that support and protect all life on Earth.

Role:

Immerisive Film Director

Exhibited:
Seattle Center  2012 - 2013

Bioneers Conference  2015
South Whidbey Community Center 2019 - Present

Feature Film

The Singularity Is Near

A story about the Future, based on Ray Kurzweil’s New York Times bestseller, intertwines a fast-paced documentary with a speculative future narrative story.

Role:

Co-Director

Co-Producer

Exhibited:

Film Festivals, Theatres & Online  2010 - Present

Avatar Presentation

Ramona Live Stage Demo

Ray Kurzweil presented the first ever LIVE stage demo of a virtual being. He presented his virtual alter ego Ramona at a TED. It was a bleeding edge tech performance at the time. 

Role:

Media Technology Director

Exhibited:

TED  2000