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Juliana Loh Is Making History in VR
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She shared with me that her goal as a storyteller is to create scenes that incorporate human centered pieces into familiar places, and that she's also designing people representing diversity so that it might inspire newcomers to try out VR and to identify with such a new emerging technology and that perhaps if people see themselves in emerging tech, they might find their own aspirations, which is just absolutely beautiful
Bowie Rowan
@bowie · 0:37
So I have your VR piece shriek and sinisteria playing in the background, and I had a chance to watch it, and I'm watching it again because it's just absolutely mesmerizing gorgeous. So I'm wondering if you could share a bit about first, how you got into the work of becoming a VR artist to begin with. And then next, I the story of this particular piece, which I'm linking here, so everyone has a chance to see it
Bowie Rowan
@bowie · 0:33
Next, I found it really interesting to discover that you specialize in particular in tilt brush VR art. And I'm wondering if you can educate some of us like myself where I I've had some VR experiences. I'm learning more about VR as a user. But what exactly is tilt brush VR art? And how does it differ from other kinds of VR that many of us may have experienced at this point
Bowie Rowan
@bowie · 0:39
I completely agree with the sentiment that you shared around being able to see ourselves in stories is super impactful. And I personally think that it's one and way in which we can change the world and make it a better place. And I'm wondering if you have an example or a story around a piece of VR that either had that impact on you per or you think or believe has the ability to have that impact on others in the world
Juliana Loh
@splashmango · 1:52
Thanks, Bowie. That was such a nice introduction. Yeah, it sounds as though I've done a lot of a lot of interesting things I kind of have, but when you look at it, it's pioneering, in a sense. But so many of the things that we do in spatial technology often have their roots in traditional work. So I'd like to say that I am pretty good at work spatial technology
Juliana Loh
@splashmango · 2:34
You know, when we're little, we don't really have much choices. We are told to brush your teeth. We're told to go to school. We're told to study math or study science. We're told sometimes who to love, who to get married to. We're also even told who to believe in what to believe in. So this is part of being molded as we grow up and we take on the values of our parents and our society in our community
Juliana Loh
@splashmango · 3:38
Hey, that's a really good question. What is tilt brush art? I think the best way that I can describe it is, say, I think we've all used Google Earth, right? You type in the particular particular location that you want to, and then you look on your Google map and it pinpoints you so that you're actually sort of visually standing in the middle of the place that you decided to discover. So when you look up, you can see the clouds
Bowie Rowan
@bowie · 1:39
It made me want to just go out and create something or set aside time to make a story come to life. So thank you for that. It reinvigorated my sense and also deep belief that stories can change how we see ourselves in the world. And that is so important to me. And I could tell that it's important to you. So it just was so lovely to connect over that. Thank you
Juliana Loh
@splashmango · 5:00
So the question that you asked me is, how do you get into this if you're interested, how do you get into special VR? Well, one of the things that you have to do first is look at your skill set and your inclinations and your talents and find out where do I excel at? Am I a wonderful photographer? Do I do filming? Well, do I like theater? Am I a creative person or, if not, am I a logical thinker?
Juliana Loh
@splashmango · 4:56
And my hope is that if we are able to see ourselves, then we'd be able to encourage others to jump into the spatial art to try it out for themselves and eventually to create and captivate others with their own stories. And that's why I do it. That's why I create streets and Sinisteria. And I hope other people will have the courage and play and fun to join in to make art of their own. Thank you
Bowie Rowan
@bowie · 0:56
And like you said, so many different kinds of people can get involved with all kinds of skill sets, which is one of the reasons I think it is such an exciting place to be working in and learning about. So thank you so much for sharing with us, Juliana, and really looking forward to continuing to hear your voice and following your work
Bowie Rowan
@bowie · 0:15
I also wanted to add that this conversation is now open to everyone. So if you have a question or comment for Juliana, please feel free to share it. And let's keep the conversation going here in this conversation and elsewhere
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