Kent Bye
{{short description|American journalist}}
Kent Bye (born 1976) is an American podcaster and experiential journalist based in Portland, Oregon. He 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.{{Citation|title=Keynote - The Transformative Potential of Immersive Technologies with Kent Bye|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwsDRY96s-E|language=en|access-date=2019-11-18}}{{Citation|title=SVVR 2017 Keynotes - Tony Parisi - Rikard Steiber - Kent Bye - Nonny de la Peña {{!}} #SVVR2017|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rJceG9DweA|language=en|access-date=2019-11-18}}{{Citation|title=Kent Bye (Voices of VR) - The Ultimate Potential of VR {{!}} VR NOW Con & Awards 2018|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHdwAwjHYvw|language=en|access-date=2019-11-18}}{{Cite web|url=https://schedule.sxsw.com/2019/events/PP92752|title=Virtual Humanity: Designing Ethical Immersive Worlds|website=SXSW 2020 Schedule|language=en|access-date=2019-11-18}}
In the Voices of VR podcast, he has covered the fields of virtual reality and augmented reality.{{Cite web|url=https://www.thearshow.com/podcast/052a-kent-bye-part-1|title=Kent Bye (Voices of VR) on Truth, Reality, and the Human Experience (Part 1)|website=The AR Show|language=en-US|access-date=2019-11-18}}
Voices of VR Podcast
Kent Bye launched Voices of VR in May 2014.{{Cite web|url=https://www.roadtovr.com/voices-of-vr-podcast/|title=Voices of VR Podcast|website=Road to VR|language=en-US|access-date=2019-11-18}} The podcast features game developers, technologists, academics, creatives, and enthusiasts in the fields of VR and AR, and currently has hundreds of 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, Keram Malicki-Sanchez and Adam Sulzdorf-Liszkiewicz.{{Cite web|url=https://voicesofvr.com/|title=Voices of VR Podcast|language=en-US|access-date=2019-11-18}}
In 2015, a virtual reality blog called Road to VR started to syndicate all future episodes of the Voices of VR podcast on their website.{{Cite web|url=https://www.roadtovr.com/now-playing-kent-byes-voices-of-vr-podcast-comes-to-road-to-vr/|title = Now Playing: Kent Bye's 'Voices of VR' Podcast Comes to Road to VR|date = 6 October 2015}}
As of January 2021, the Voices of VR podcast has released over 973 episodes.{{Cite web|url=https://voicesofvr.com/topics/podcast/|title = Podcast Archive | Voices of VR Podcast}}
Ethics of XR
Bye is an advocate for discourse around the ethics and moral dilemmas presented by VR and AR.{{Cite web|url=https://blog.siggraph.org/2019/09/privacy-is-hard-a-look-at-ethical-implications-of-mixed-reality.html/|title='Privacy is Hard,' a Look at the Ethical Implications of Mixed Reality|date=2019-09-25|website=ACM SIGGRAPH Blog|language=en-US|access-date=2019-11-18}}
In March 2019 at Laval Virtual, Bye took part in a think tank called "Future Dreaming: Designing for New Realities."{{Citation|title=What Kent Bye thinks about Laval Virtual during 2019 LV Awards Ceremony|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yJOHIhO7N0|language=en|access-date=2019-11-18}}{{Cite news|url=https://enroute.mobi/app/uploads/2019/05/Open-Knowledge-REX-Laval-Virtual.pdf|title=Open Knowledge|date=5 April 2019|work=Laval Virtual|access-date=18 November 2019|archive-date=27 November 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201127060413/https://enroute.mobi/app/uploads/2019/05/Open-Knowledge-REX-Laval-Virtual.pdf|url-status=dead}} 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.{{Citation|title=Kent Bye (Voices of VR Podcast): The Ethical & Moral Dilemmas of Mixed Reality|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNgXKX8IwcU|language=en|access-date=2019-11-18}} 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.{{Cite web|url=https://xrsweek.com/speakers/|title=Speakers|website=xRS Week 2019 {{!}} VR/AR/XR Strategy Conference & Expo|language=en-US|access-date=2019-11-18}}{{Cite journal|last=Kent Bye|date=2019-10-18|title=An XR Ethics Manifesto|url=https://www.slideshare.net/kentbye/an-xr-ethics-manifesto-183825008}}
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Category:21st-century American journalists