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Arcweave Showcase Feature

  • Happy Monday friends! We all work hard to achieve our goals and dreams. Often in the dark. It's a beautiful experience when our work is showcased in the light. The folks at Arcweave have featured our hybrid theatre VR immersion 'Stories from the Desert Sky' from The Nefertiti Experience! We used this amazing UI/UX software to write the game design for our production.

    Read more: https://arcweave.com/showcase/the-nefertiti-experience

    Website: https://thenefertitiexperience.com

    Featured in the Toronto International Film Festival's 'Deep Focus', The Center of Social Innovation, Blockobana and selected for the 2023 Fringe Festival. The Nefertiti Experience is an innovative hybrid production that takes bold steps into evolving the way we tell stories in theatre.

    Set in Ancient Egypt, Nefertiti (Story of a Rebel Queen) is an Afro-futuristic, XR theatre production including virtual , augmented and mixed reality.

    Featuring an Original Soundtrack: https://lnkd.in/ecb2s8z9 (Created by Head in the Stars Music: J Best)

    Writer/Director and Producer: Debbie Deer

    Director of Virtual Production: Jason Spanu

    Special thanks to the OYA Black Arts Coalition who funded the VR component in the Scale Up Commercialization stream 2023.

Apple Pro Vision (Immersive)

  • We're a featured 'Interesting App' on the Apple Vision Pro! Today's a big day for XR fans as the Apple Vision Pro is now available to the public. The cherry on top is that Immersive Wire featured Agile Lens: Immersive Design's 'A Christmas Carol VR' starring myself and incredible co-star Ari Tarr as an interesting app to check out! This is great news as we all worked diligently to produce and perform this show. Thanks to all the people who came to check us out in our 2023 run...see you again in 2024! 😁 hashtag#applevisionpro hashtag#xr hashtag#theatre hashtag#gaming hashtag#actor

Gatherverse AI Summit

  • AI transformed me before your very eyes 👀 ⚡ ! TODAY, Let's talk about AI and the future of Humanity in the metaverse at the GatherVerse AI Summit with Christopher Lafayette and more!

    I have fun in my work and critical analysis on sentient AI in the future. Using software like Flipside XR to make videos and teach XR to students. Humanity is approaching the singularity and we must discuss the implications of the methods and true agency behind the machine.

    Join me and a stellar line up of panelists for the: Roundtable Panel on "Humanity Reloaded: AI’s Reinvention of Life in the Metaverse," moderated by Lubna Dajani.

Arcweave Blog Post

  • This Arcweave Software feature on me and the IBPOC Fellow is special!! In the spirit of Black History Month its easy for me to reflect on how programs like the Single Thread Theatre IBPOC and Debbie Deer Productions Fellowship and OYA Black Arts Coalition Scale Up Immersive changes lives. Archweave, a UX/UI software I’ve used for both programs has signed on to the fellowship as a partner and has also featured me in their blog! It was great to chat about the journey of my career from mentee to mentor and what’s next for the fellowship. Check it out!

Arcweave Vlog

  • This @arcweave Software feature on me and the IBPOC Fellow is special!! In the spirit of Black History Month it’s easy for me to reflect on how programs like the @singlethreadtheatre IBPOC and Debbie Deer Productions Fellowship and @oyablackarts Coalition Scale Up Immersive changes lives. Archweave, a UX/UI software I’ve used for both programs has signed on to the fellowship as a partner and has also featured me in their blog! It was great to chat about the journey of my career from mentee to mentor and what’s next for the fellowship. Check it out!

    Read full article: https://lnkd.in/esBe-22c

    Follow Debbie Deer Productions: @debbiedeerproductions

    Follow Arcweave: Arcweave twitter account / https://lnkd.in/ejcw9nJP) and the Arcweave discord server (https://lnkd.in/ezVf6ZDs). #blog #feature #blackhistorymonth #software #xr #ibpoc #fellowship #canada #jamaica

OYA Black History Feature

  • This #BlackHistoryMonth, let’s support the next generation of Black creators! Help us empower talents like our Scale Up Immersive alum, Debbie Deer (@debbiedeerto, @debbiedeerproductions).

    Debbie Deer has recently been featured in Immersive Wire’s latest article showcasing the best apps to try with the Apple Vision Pro. We love seeing the expansion of Black creativity in the XR market. By donating to OBAC, you can help us continue this work.

    Contribute to empowering Black Voices by donating

    ✨The donation link can be found in our bio ✨

    #DonateNow #Empowerment #OYABlackArts #OBACBlackHistory #NonProfit

    The Scale Up Immersive program is brought to you by @oyablackarts, in collaboration with @cfccreates and in partnership with @darkslopexr. Funding provided by @feddevontario

Dr. VR Podcast on Spotify

  • Debbie Deer was interviewed on the Dr. VR podcast with the insightful Dr. VR talking about Virtual Reality (VR) today. We touch on Debbie Deer’s journey as a creative technologist, VR being a great equalizer for coded biases and the future of VR, AI and the singularity.

Center for Social Innovation

  • The Center For Social Innovation featured a VR game built by our partner Orion Digital Inc. Stories from the Desert Sky is an immersive VR game that showcases stories from the era of Queen Nefertiti and King Akhenaten’s dynasty in Ancient Egypt. This historical, dynamic game is also part of a hybrid theatre production called The Nefertiti Experience (Story of a Rebel Queen), which was selected to be a part of this year’s Toronto Fringe Festival.

Luminato Festival’s Henry G20

  • As visual lead, Debbie Deer headed the photography, 3D modelling, graphic design of AR posters (portals) and AR videos for the production.

Blockobana Stackt Market

  • Showcased at Blockobana Stackt Market to demonstrate the virtual reality game ‘Stories from the Desert Sky’ built by our partner Orion Digital Inc.

VRTO Conference

  • Featured speaker at the VRTO Immersive Conference. Reframing for an Immersive Lens, stories from black creators.

The Next Stage Conference

  • Featured virtual reality artist and speaker discussing pioneering hybrid XR theatre production in higher education.