E114 - XR Journalism in the Crossfire of Hype and Reality with Antony Vitillo & Jan-Keno Janssen - XRC25

This Episode contains a recording of a panel I moderated at the
second nextReality.Festival in Hamburg. The Festival is framing
Germanys oldest XR prize, the nextReality.Contest. Transparency
annotation: Spatial Realities is a media partner of the
nextReality.Festival. Although travelcosts have been covered by
nextReality Hamburg e.V., my opinion and this reporting still
remails independent. The Guests: Antony Vitillo (LI ), XR
Developer and owner of the famous blog "The Ghost Howls" — one of
the most popular international XR bloggers — and Jan-Keno Jansen
(LI ), Editor at German c't magazine since 2007, an XR reporter
since the early Oculus days, and since 2021 host of c't's YouTube
Channel 3003, one of the most successful tech channels in Germany.
About the Panel "Look Behind the Goggles: XR Journalism in the
Crossfire of Hype and Reality" we discussed how reporting about XR
has changed over the last ten years. Both Jan-Keno and Antony can
tell different storys. Jen-Kenos XR-journey started when he tried
one of the first prototypes meeting Palmer Luckey in the US and how
he was trying to write about how it feels to be in VR. For Antony
the story started with his Blog, which was originaly a marketing
blog, but quickly adressed a community which was developer-heavy
and craving for facts and numbers. Learn how the panelists handle
the growing pressure from US-BigTech in this episode!