Rory Mitchell 🇲🇽🇬🇹🇳🇮🇭🇳🇪🇸🇺🇲🤝💪
@rorymitchell.bsky.social
Producer & Director of AR, VR and XR, volumetric video. Director of "The Tent" an Augmented Reality volumetric narrative that premiered at SXSW 2024.
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I'll be chatting with @philnelson.bsky.social of @opencv.bsky.social tomorrow morning (10/23) at 845a PST about THE TENT and all things Spatial Storytelling (including giving a bit of my talk from SIGGRAPH "Translating Traditional Film and TV Storytelling Into Spatial Narratives") Links below!
October 22, 2025 at 11:27 PM
I'll be chatting with @philnelson.bsky.social of @opencv.bsky.social tomorrow morning (10/23) at 845a PST about THE TENT and all things Spatial Storytelling (including giving a bit of my talk from SIGGRAPH "Translating Traditional Film and TV Storytelling Into Spatial Narratives") Links below!
I always think of Derrick Jensen when this quote comes up (derrickjensen.org/2006/08/tear...)
August 22, 2025 at 6:47 PM
I always think of Derrick Jensen when this quote comes up (derrickjensen.org/2006/08/tear...)
I go into the challenges we encountered in producing THE TENT as well as some of the techniques we pulled from cinema, theater and video games in order to tell an engaging and entertaining spatial tabletop story. I also get into some of the theory and history behind our thinking behind Spatial.
August 20, 2025 at 8:58 PM
I go into the challenges we encountered in producing THE TENT as well as some of the techniques we pulled from cinema, theater and video games in order to tell an engaging and entertaining spatial tabletop story. I also get into some of the theory and history behind our thinking behind Spatial.
Back from @acmsiggraph.bsky.social where my presentation in the Spatial Storytelling track got a warm welcome from a standing room only audience 🙏 I'd like to turn it into a video series, as well as give that presentation elsewhere if anyone is interested? Posting some pics and slides below!
August 20, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Back from @acmsiggraph.bsky.social where my presentation in the Spatial Storytelling track got a warm welcome from a standing room only audience 🙏 I'd like to turn it into a video series, as well as give that presentation elsewhere if anyone is interested? Posting some pics and slides below!
What does future tech like Augmented Reality have to do with Aristotle and the Ancient Greek Theater?
How will traditional film and TV storytelling evolve into Spatial Stories?
I'll be at SIGGRAPH next Monday, August 11th, giving a talk that ANSWERS THESE QUESTIONS WITH ABSOLUTE CERTAINTY.
How will traditional film and TV storytelling evolve into Spatial Stories?
I'll be at SIGGRAPH next Monday, August 11th, giving a talk that ANSWERS THESE QUESTIONS WITH ABSOLUTE CERTAINTY.
August 6, 2025 at 12:48 AM
What does future tech like Augmented Reality have to do with Aristotle and the Ancient Greek Theater?
How will traditional film and TV storytelling evolve into Spatial Stories?
I'll be at SIGGRAPH next Monday, August 11th, giving a talk that ANSWERS THESE QUESTIONS WITH ABSOLUTE CERTAINTY.
How will traditional film and TV storytelling evolve into Spatial Stories?
I'll be at SIGGRAPH next Monday, August 11th, giving a talk that ANSWERS THESE QUESTIONS WITH ABSOLUTE CERTAINTY.
SCIENCE!!!?!? Are you kidding me Audible Store?!? All of Amazon’s divisions must have gotten the memo — how shameful.
March 14, 2025 at 7:17 AM
SCIENCE!!!?!? Are you kidding me Audible Store?!? All of Amazon’s divisions must have gotten the memo — how shameful.
Going to have to-rework the posters I've been making, but anything in service of the cause...
February 11, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Going to have to-rework the posters I've been making, but anything in service of the cause...
great opportunity to start rolling out my propaganda posters!
February 11, 2025 at 6:57 PM
great opportunity to start rolling out my propaganda posters!
Here's a trailer for the Los Angeles Premiere of our Augmented Reality Fairy Tale "The Tent" at Slamdance from Feb 21 - 24! Badges are available at slamdance.com that give you access to the DIG Interactive program and a whole host of other exciting events! Please like and share! 🥳
February 4, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Here's a trailer for the Los Angeles Premiere of our Augmented Reality Fairy Tale "The Tent" at Slamdance from Feb 21 - 24! Badges are available at slamdance.com that give you access to the DIG Interactive program and a whole host of other exciting events! Please like and share! 🥳
Smile! Is a Christmas Miracle!
December 27, 2024 at 1:48 AM
Smile! Is a Christmas Miracle!
Here are the 6 dozen little necks I shucked for the Baked Clams tonight -- (also my Brooklyn based Italians have been doing 7 fishes since at least the 1950's, although it does seem to just be an Italian-American thing rather than back in Naples/Sicily)
December 25, 2024 at 5:53 AM
Here are the 6 dozen little necks I shucked for the Baked Clams tonight -- (also my Brooklyn based Italians have been doing 7 fishes since at least the 1950's, although it does seem to just be an Italian-American thing rather than back in Naples/Sicily)
I, too, was in the enchanted garden this evening!
December 9, 2024 at 8:41 AM
I, too, was in the enchanted garden this evening!
D'oh! Lol - just walked into that mailing list 👎
December 5, 2024 at 7:33 PM
D'oh! Lol - just walked into that mailing list 👎
Lol. This guy
November 19, 2024 at 7:23 AM
Lol. This guy
Exhibit A in out of touch Billionaire/might-as-well-be-a-Boomer styles —- SIGNING YOUR TWEET 🤦🫣 the class solidarity and fuckery is strong with these two.
October 24, 2024 at 6:42 PM
Exhibit A in out of touch Billionaire/might-as-well-be-a-Boomer styles —- SIGNING YOUR TWEET 🤦🫣 the class solidarity and fuckery is strong with these two.
Love this description of the early Zanja water system in Los Angeles and the way these open air waterways wended their way through downtown. (from a USC doctoral thesis from the 1930s)
August 23, 2023 at 5:41 PM
Love this description of the early Zanja water system in Los Angeles and the way these open air waterways wended their way through downtown. (from a USC doctoral thesis from the 1930s)
A visit to Hollyhock House today to check out their ADA accessibility experience and chat XR for cultural heritage 🌾🌺🌸🌾
August 17, 2023 at 9:24 PM
A visit to Hollyhock House today to check out their ADA accessibility experience and chat XR for cultural heritage 🌾🌺🌸🌾
Uhhhh because corporations allied with fascists?
August 4, 2023 at 7:24 AM
Uhhhh because corporations allied with fascists?
X is now just a potent brew of NFT impersonators wrapped in scammers wrapped in Physicians Institutes wrapped in X.
July 25, 2023 at 1:19 AM
X is now just a potent brew of NFT impersonators wrapped in scammers wrapped in Physicians Institutes wrapped in X.
Camera tests downtown in Fashion District of L.A. around the corner from the Mercantile office.
July 13, 2023 at 7:56 PM
Camera tests downtown in Fashion District of L.A. around the corner from the Mercantile office.
