Building a Business Out of Play — Matt DuPlessie
Matthew DuPlessie, Founder & CEO of Level99 and 5 Wits, joins Charlie Melcher to explore a different approach to immersive experience design.Level99 is built as an open world of short, high-intensity ...
30 Apr 29min
Little Cinema, Big Ideas — Jay Rinsky
Jay Rinsky, Founder and Chief Creative Director of Little Cinema, is reimagining what it means to go to the movies.What began as an experiment, mixing film, live performance, and audience interaction,...
17 Apr 29min
Netflix is Going Beyond the Screen — Greg Lombardo
Greg Lombardo, Vice President of Experiences Creative & Production at Netflix, takes us inside the thinking behind Netflix House and the company’s growing slate of real-world experiences.From Stranger...
2 Apr 28min
Escaping Into Story — David Spira and Peih-Gee Law
Reality Escape Pod hosts David Spira and Peih-Gee Law take a closer look at escape rooms as immersive, participatory experiences. They unpack the medium’s evolution, the rise of escape room tourism, a...
20 Mar 33min
What Ice Cream Can Teach Us About Connection — Manish Vora
Manish Vora, CEO and co-founder of the Museum of Ice Cream, shares how a 30-day pop-up across from the Whitney Museum became a global experiential brand and helped define what he calls the “experium,”...
6 Mar 28min
The 4 Elements of Transformative Experience — Margaret Kerrison, Revisited
We’re revisiting our conversation with writer and immersive storyteller, Margaret Kerrison, an episode first recorded following the launch of the ambitious Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser experience a...
19 Feb 32min
Mixed Reality and the Human Experience — Todd Eckert
Today, we speak with producer Todd Eckert of Tin Drum, a studio creating original work for mixed reality. While the medium remains unfamiliar to many, Todd has spent years exploring its potential as a...
5 Feb 27min
Art as Activism, Activism as Art — Pierce Freelon, Revisited
We’re re-releasing a conversation from 2021 that remains strikingly relevant today. In this episode, we speak with Pierce Freelon– musician, filmmaker, social entrepreneur, and former Durham, North Ca...
22 Jan 25min
