Kent Bye

Kent Bye (born 1976) is an American podcaster and experiential journalist based in Portland, OR. He is most known for his work in virtual reality, augmented reality, and artificial intelligence.[1]

Bye 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.[2][3][4][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 over 800 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 and Adam Sulzdorf-Liszkiewicz.[7]

Ethics of XR

Bye is an advocate for discourse around the ethics and moral dilemmas presented by VR and AR.[8]

In March 2019 at Laval Virtual, Bye took part in a think tank called, "Future Dreaming: Designing for New Realities."[9][10] 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.[11] 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.[12][13]

gollark: Data corruption is also an error and thus bad.
gollark: It is not. Errors are bad so osmarksmalloc™ simply does not errors.
gollark: Well, it looks like malloc is erroring. osmarksmalloc™ literally cannot fail.
gollark: Use osmarksmalloc™ instead?
gollark: Yes. Via very long-running MitM attacks on your internet connection, I actually replaced all the language documentation you viewed with docs for different Forth dialects.

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