Jesse Anttila-Hughes @jessexjesse.bsky.social Associate Professor of Economics
University of San Francisco
Climate, health, physics, systems bio, econometrics, music, casual machine yearning. 🗣️ FR/ES/РУ/中/日
#SF4ALL #BX4LIFE
https://anttilahughes.org/
Marria Grace @marriagrace.bsky.social purveyor of play. community organizer. movement nerd & teacher. counselor/ therapist. theatrical producer. old school hooper & circus artist. nature lover. alchemizer of shenanigans 🌈
Erik Blair @erik-blair.bsky.social Immersive Theatrical Writer and Director. Always looking to find new ways to give audiences experiences and new challenges to help you with!
He/him
First Panda In Space @nub.bsky.social You really think someone would just do that?
Go on the internet and exaggerate?
Brett Jackson, Live Action Attractions @liveactattract.bsky.social Creative design for live games, interactive shows & playable places. For a good time call: https://www.LiveActionAttractions.com
President-for-life Imagi-Ne'er-Do-Wells http://www.ImagiNeerDoWells.com
oshan anand @oshananand.bsky.social 
Steve M. Boyle @stevemboyle.bsky.social Executive Director, YIMBY Democrats for America. Host, Radio Abundance. CEO & Creative Director, Epic Immersive and Immersive World Adventures.
Caleb @pandarevolt.bsky.social Enthusiast. I know a lot about food, music, connection, justice, and I’m weirdly skilled at claw machines. There is a light in the darkness of everybody’s life. Louisiana raised me. Oakland pays me. 🐼⚜️💖
Jeff Ward @entropyjeff.bsky.social Agent of weirdness.
Chicago / SF
art, policy, tech, comedy
No Proscenium @noproscenium.com Anything But The Usual. 🤯
Your guide to immersive events & experiences since 2014.
🧐Reviews. 🎧Podcasts. ✉️Newsletters & more.
👇🏼Discover your next adventure now.
Michael Andersen @mjandersen.bsky.social Stares at numbers at Simon and Schuster, runs ARGN.com - more ARGs, escape rooms, immersive theater, and puzzle stuff than you probably want to hear
Ddubya @ddubya.bsky.social CEO & Cofounder of Kinetic Energy Ent.
https://kineticenergyent.com/
PS: Been here for over a year. When are y'all coming over?
PPS: formerly @silkyd67 on the bluebird
Sara Thacher @thacher.bsky.social Experience Designer, Social Practitioner, Imagineer, Explainer of Jokes, Adventurer, erstwhile Jejune Institute Co-creator, and former Vacation Surrogate
Nick Tierce @nicktierce.com Writer. Designer. Rabbithole cartographer. Immersive & interactive adventures.
nicktierce.com
UploadVR @uploadvr.com VR & AR news, reviews, and industry analysis.
https://www.uploadvr.com/
David Liu @thedak.bsky.social He/Him
Musings: noteveryth.ing
Work Stuff: davidshiyang.com
Alex Coulombe @ibrews.bsky.social architect turned XR-chitect crafting virtual spaces and the spectacles within | CEO, Agile Lens: Immersive Design, XR strike force | Unreal Engine Authorized Instructor & Toolmaker | Theatre is cool
Joey Sims @joeysims.bsky.social he/him. writing about theater. https://joeysims.substack.com/
Estella Tse @estellatse.com VR/AR Creative Director & Artist — among many other things. she/her.
🌲Oakland grown
🌸 Portland livin
Clients: Google, Oxford University, Adobe, AMD, Intel, Snapchat, Cartoon Network, Netherlands, more
https://estellatse.com/?utm_source=bsky
Brooke McDonald @brookegmcdonald.bsky.social Writer/editor covering Disney, Star Wars, Marvel, Universal, theme parks, travel • she/her
Ben Lang @ben.roadtovr.com Reporting on XR for a decade+, Co-founder of leading independent VR news pub RoadtoVR.com. Journalist & analyst, not evangelist.
Twitter https://twitter.com/benz145
Dave Cobb 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🐻 @davecobb.com Immersive Experience Design +30yrs -- theme parks, museum exhibits, attractions, MR/XR/AR; I connect people and stories in physical places.
Not the famous music producer.
GenX🤘
Queer & married 🇨🇦
Husky dad 🐶
Stay kind & curious ☮️
http://www.davecobb.com/
Jay Bushman @jaybushman.bsky.social Writer, Producer, Enterprising Fabulist
Scott Stein @scottstein.bsky.social CNET - future tech, VR/AR, wearables, games, immersive, existential dread/whimsy. Looking in weeds for little frogs. The Intertwixt is my free newsletter about strange overlaps https://intertwixt.beehiiv.com
Serenity Caldwell @settern.bsky.social Many-hat wearer, roller robot, and Apple design evangelist.
On social media these days mostly to help the Apple developer community, geek out about interactive storytelling and experience design, and say hi to friends.
And write. Writing’s good too.
Todd Martens @toddmartens.bsky.social Columnist for LA Times | I cover video games, immersive entertainment & theme parks. | I take a lot bad pics of Disneyland | I also like cats | Todd.martens@latimes.com
C̵̡̡͇͍̦͕͓̮͉͆̿̿̾͌̐a̸̡̨̟͖̱̮͖̤͎͕̫̼̲̟͐̓̔̈́͐̃̇̏̚͠͝m̴̡̙͉͖̙̹̭̯̘̟͙̟̣͙̮̺̳̗̱̐̑̔͋̌̒̈́͒̿̄̉̋̃̔̑̊͐̇̑̓̕͠͠͝ͅê̷͇̽̈́̿̉͋́̂̑̋̈́̏̈̋̃͂̃͒̀̔͌̓͋͘ơ̶̢̺̪͆̋́̈́̓͆͒͗̒͂͑͌̀̀́̏̚͝ͅ ̶̨̺̹̲̘͍͖͔̣̐̔́͐̆̈́̈̐̀̽͂Ẃ̸̨̛̆̐̇̈́́́͑̽̎̀̏̏̇͋̋̑͂̕̚͝o̷̥̲̝͚̪̹̻̣̝͌͐̐̇͌̆̀̂̈́̐̂̌̈́́͆͠͝͝ǫ̴̧̡̡̛̘̘̣͇̻̮̩̙͕̦̠̩̻͓̞̖͓̟̱̓͗̐̽͌̿̍̇͋͗́̑̔̀̊̈́̒͊͠͠͠ͅd̷̨̜͚̳̠͓̖̰͔̳͎̙̩̟̪͚̜͗́͌̔̎͊͛͛̌̑̉̾̇̑̽̀̾̌̄̐͑͋͆͜͝͝͝ @cameowood.com Work: @CharmingStranger.com
Buy: https://PointReyesMyriorama.com
Watch: https://RealArtists.Film
Kent Bye (Voices of VR) @kentbye.com Voices of VR Podcast host: Insatiably curious, XR oral historian, & aspiring philosopher.
Exploring Tech Ethics, AI, XR, & Emerging Tech.
Patreon at http://patreon.com/voicesofvr
Noah J. Nelson, Immersonaut Prime @noahjnelson.com Founder of @NoProscenium.com: The Guide to Everything Immersive & co-founder of @immersiveexperience.org
Ex-public media. Current CalArts faculty.
Mapper of the Immersive Cosmos.
BlueskyUser #499 (Post count includes Twitter imports.)
Laura E. Hall @lauraehall.bsky.social Mysteries, puzzles, adventures. I make games, write books & preserve immersive history. PDX. They/she
Immersipedia coming soon 📖
PLANNING YOUR ESCAPE (Simon & Schuster), KATAMARI DAMACY (Boss Fight Books)
✨ lauraehall.com
🔎 cfia.org
🎙️ secretlives.games
shing yin khor @shing.bsky.social Award-winning (2x Indiecade, Eisner, Ignatz, National Book Award finalist, etc) game designer, cartoonist, and puppet filmmaker in the practice of marionettes, fortune cabinets, kind rabblerousing, and Paul Bunyan facts. Little guy enjoyer. (they/them)
The Real Steve Peters @stevepeters.bsky.social Exploding Kittens Special Ops | Experience Designer | Puzzle Ninja | VR & Escape Room Tinkerer | OG ARG Maker | Professional Shenaniganizer | Ornamental Hermit | Los Angeles
stevepeters.org | explodingkittens.com
Troy Heard @troyheard.bsky.social Director - Immersive Creator - Las Vegas / Majestic Repertory Theatre / SCREAM'D / SCAD MFA
Anthony @antoniusrex.bsky.social Kind Guy, Dad, Survivor: Fiji Alum, Immersive Connoisseur, Interdimensional Swiss Army Knife, the other Black guy you know. To be clear: “I Ain’t Your Wookiee.”(He/Him)
Kathryn Yu #OpenToWork @kathrynyu.com Former Sr. Technical Game Designer at on Marvel’s Deadpool VR. @noproscenium.com Senior LA Reviewer & former Executive Editor. @immersiveexperience.org co-founder.
Los Angeles. She/her.
https://linktr.ee/kathrynyu
Jessica Brillhart @brillhart.bsky.social Filmmaker and designer working in emerging tech. ECD at Hecho Studios | Founder and Director at Vrai Pictures (vrai.pictures)
Lance Weiler @culturehacker.bsky.social A storyteller/media artist working with code. Professor of Professional Practice Columbia University, founding member and director of the Columbia DSL
https://lanceweiler.com
Defunctland @defunctland.bsky.social The Official Bluesky Account of the Defunctland YouTube Series. Posts by Kevin Perjurer.
Adrian Hon @adrianhon.bsky.social Made Zombies, Run! and Perplex City, wrote You've Been Played and A History of the Future in 100 Objects.
Associate Artist at the Traverse Theatre. Writing a book about immersive art.
Blog: mssv.net
Larp: strandfall.com
Video: youtube.com/adrianhon
Doug North Cook @dnorco.bsky.social Currently: Creative Director & CEO at @creaturedotpage.bsky.social .
Scholar is residence at NYU, running immersive Design Residency at the Fallingwater Institute.
Former: Robot Teddy, Chatham University + more
Ian @ianhamilton.net Chronicling VR makers and discoveries in virtual reality. https://www.goodvirtualreality.com
https://linktr.ee/hamiltonian
Cass Morris @cassmorriswrites.com Author: Aven Cycle | Story Editor: Mythik Camps | Podcast Cohost: Worldbuilding for Masochists | novels, short fiction, & immersive xp | Shakespeare nerd, once & future educator, rhetorician, geek chic | she/her | Virginia, USA
linktr.ee/cassrmorris
Jesse Damiani @jessedamiani.bsky.social Foresight x Forecasting for Polycrisis.
I write realitystudies.co & host the Urgent Futures Podcast @urgentfutures.bsky.social.
Comms @metaculus.com. Adjunct Prof, NYU.
Bylines: Flash Art, Forbes, NBC News, The Verge, WIRED
Bryan Bishop @bcbishop.bsky.social Imagineer / Writer / Experience Maker.
Formerly: The Verge / ILM Immersive.
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.
Https://themercantile.agency
Kevin, as a robot @kevinasarobot.bsky.social Mixed reality artist: XR experience director @ Agile Lens, improvisation teacher @ Atlantic Theater Company and NYU Tisch, vegetarian. I wanna be a boat.
E McNeill @emcneill.bsky.social Indie game designer. Mostly VR. Maker of Ironstrike, Ironlights, Darknet, Tactera, Astraeus, Skylight, and Auralux.
Jedidjah Julia Noomen @jedidjah.bsky.social Game director, writer, narrative experience designer - videogames, VR, (immersive) theatre and everything in between. BAFTA member, co-host of The Nirvana Podcast. European born but now in BC, Canada.
www.jedidjahjulianoomen.com
Nancy Baker Cahill @drawing.bsky.social Artist, Director, founder 4th Wall App 🪩, Expanded filmmaker
Substrate at LACMA
Current: CENTO at the Whitney Museum
SEEK at Cosm Los Angeles & Dallas
Emily Carding @emilycarding.bsky.social Actor, author, artist, mystic. Mostly made of Shakespeare, magic, immersive theatre and Tarot. Nerd.
#keyofdreams
#transparenttarot
#richardiii
#returntosilenthill
www.emilycarding.com
Saschka Unseld @saschka.bsky.social Eats breakfast #pinkispunk (also Director of Pixar’s Blue Umbrella, Studio SOI & Oculus Story Studio founder, now ...)
Shane Nilsson @shanenilsson.bsky.social XR developer and educator. Cofounder of Coal Car Studio. www.coalcar.ca
Immersive Denver @immersivedenver.bsky.social Founded in 2018, we're an arts non-profit working to support the Denver & Front Range immersive industry through education, resource-building, networking & community, and arts advocacy.
Toshi Anders Hoo @toshihoo.bsky.social Light lover. Myth mapper. Future curious.- B Brett @bkuehner.bsky.social Fan of playing and creating puzzles and escape rooms. Lots of escape room design links here:
http://thatguywiththepuzzles.com/
Christine Woods @diegeticartifacts.bsky.social book hoarder | aea sm | director immersive denver | adrenaline enthusiast
Espii @ladyespii.bsky.social multimedia director & composer/sound artist.
Mar Ferreri @sakuyal.bsky.social Self-proclaimed pretty boy || Former Imagineer || I try to do cool things with my time on this planet || 日本語OK! || Contact: mar@marferreri.com
itchy-O @itchyo.bsky.social Your next pan-daemonic baptism.
Agog @weareagog.bsky.social We're Agog. A new kind of institute helping creators and nonprofit leaders harness the power of extended reality to imagine a more just and sustainable future.
Agog.org
@markcmarino.bsky.social @markcmarino.bsky.social 
Immersive Fiction @immersivefiction.com we create story-driven multimedia experiences that exist on the web and in the real world. always behind the curtain.
web
immersivefiction.com
currently working on
fieldstudiesinstitute.org
https://bsky.app/profile/fieldstudiesinstitute.org
Terence Leclere @terenceleclere.bsky.social Immersive person 🎭 | TEDx speaker 🎤 | Founder of #metaforyou #️⃣
Designing human connection at live events + in life.
✨ Presence. 🎭 Play. 💬 You matter.
linkin.bio/terenceleclere
David Fox💙🫘🇺🇦 @davidbfox.com Lead game programmer: ThimbleweedPark2 ReturnToMonkeyIsland
Designer/Project Lead at LucasfilmGames/LucasArts: Fractalus Labyrinth ZakMcKracken Indy3
ManiacMansion
VR XR EV GameDev
Handpan newbie
❤️ @anniefox.com
@RubeWorks.com
https://linktr.ee/davidbfox
Ash Eliza Smith @ashelizasmith.bsky.social Storytelling, Bodies and Emerging Technology. Speculative Devices Lab, Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts, Edgeworks. Visiting Fellow Central Saint Martins, Narrative Environments, UAL
Chelsea Sutton @crsutton.bsky.social Theatre/Fiction/Other Stuff
she/her Clarion '22
Chapbook from @wrongpublishing.bsky.social
Upcoming novella from @splitlippress.com
TC Conway @impossibleworks.com Bringing the impossible to life through immersive experiences. Passionate experience designer blending technology and art to create unforgettable moments.
ARGNet @argn.bsky.social ARGN.com - covering alternate reality games, immersive theater, escape rooms LARPs, and more.
Sabina Graves @livelikethemovies.bsky.social First time mom, longtime journalist, filmmaker in progress
Gaurav D Kale @gauravdkale.bsky.social I build things
Currently focused on:
indexstream.org - Media server
universalverify.com - ID & age verification tools
Earlier:
digitalbacon.io - 3D website builder
sliceofmusic.com - XR saber-like game
Former Startup CTO & Amazon Engineer
私は日本語が下手です
Emmett Furey @emmettfurey.bsky.social Writer and narrative designer for Silent Hill, Ingress, and Dungeons & Dragons.
Immersive designer of Larps, TTRPGs, and ARGs.
Player of Magic the Gathering and Marvel Snap.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/emmettfurey
Magnopus @magnopus.bsky.social Experience Engineers uniting the physical & digital. Using #spatialcomputing, #AI, & #cloudtech, we imagine, create, & execute impactful immersive solutions.
Leo Doulton @leodoulton.bsky.social Sometimes director, sometimes writer, often opera, interactive theatre, Shakespeare & TTRPGs.
https://www.leodoulton.com
Mike Monello @mikemonello.bsky.social Now: CampfireNYC.com, Video Palace co-creator, Broken Spectre VR Experience
Then: #BlairWitchProject, Peabody Awards Judge, Florida Film Festival, video store clerk, grocery bagboy, fast food burger flipper
Candle House @candlehouse.bsky.social Award-winning creators of alternate reality theatre. candlehouse.org
Cantrip Candles @cantripcandles.bsky.social The original tabletop candle! www.cantripcandles.com
Polyarc Games @polyarcgames.com Crafting games that stay with players long after the adventure ends. 🐭📖
https://linktr.ee/polyarcgames
Fireproof Games @fireproofgames.com Award winning developers of ‘The Room’ videogame series. Our new game GHOST TOWN is out now for Meta Quest, SteamVR & PlayStation VR2.
Justin Martin @justinmartindesign.bsky.social VP of Design- Lionsgate • Award Winning Art Director for Themed Entertainment• Blooloop Top 50 Theme Park Design Influencer • Formerly at Meow Wolf/Universal Creative/Thinkwell/SCAD • Mets Fan
nick @caveatruptur.bsky.social antimonopolist
Chris Porter @thechrisporter.bsky.social Baby Daddy. Boo. Teacher. Taylor Swift crashed Christmas. Habitual Line Stepper. Retired party aficionado. PA Announcer. #GeauxTigers
I spread sunshine & chaos.
Unreal Engine @unrealengine.bsky.social Unreal Engine is the world’s most open and advanced real-time 3D tool. Learn more about how to get started with #UE5: http://unrealengine.com/unreal-engine-5
NovySan @novysan.bsky.social Assistant Professor University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Analog Astronaut; Alum - MIT Media Lab; Emmy Award winning VFX Technical Supervisor; Instructor of SciFi & Magic; Immersive DataViz; Machine Learning tools; Deep-Ocean Exploration
Christine Barger @christinebarger.bsky.social Performer & Creator of things 
Honor Harger @honorharger.bsky.social Director and Chief Curator of Futures Imagined. Interstitial nomad and purveyor of particles and waves.
Brandon Santoro @brandonsantoro.bsky.social ✨ Creative Director, Producer & Performer
🎭 Immersive & Experiential
🎃 Theme Parks, Haunts & Holidays
🔗 brandonsantoro.com
Games by Stitch @gamesbystitch.com A remote indie studio based in Toronto creating story-driven puzzle games. (Our games division for @stitch.media)
First Moon of Mercury is a hopeful puzzle thriller.
Join the mission: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4006340/First_Moon_of_Mercury/
Jeremy Thompson @rollercoasterphilosophy.com LA-based writer & themed experience creative. 1000+ coasters. Seeking the sublime in the ridiculous and the ridiculous in the sublime.
rollercoasterphilosophy.com
Andy Fidel ✨ @andyfidel.bsky.social Creative Strategist & Event Producer at Spatial Networks. Women of the Future Top 100 in Emerging Tech. Meta Partner. Newsletter (7k) 💫
XR Association @xrassociation.bsky.social The trade association representing the growing ecosystem of companies powering virtual reality, augmented reality, and mixed reality (XR) 
Mike Celestino @whosthebossk.bsky.social Pop culture, theme parks, my wife, and our cats make me happy. Not necessarily in that order.
Letterboxd: https://boxd.it/5AP3D
Matt Stormcrow @mattstormcrow.bsky.social Geek polymath. TTRPG and Vampire the Masquerade enthusiast. Creative Partner at Jackalope Live Action Studios. Voice of Usher on Port Saga. Angel to some, demon to others. https://linktr.ee/MattStormcrow
He/Him. Love is Love. 🏳️🌈 🇺🇦
Dann ✨DarkerLarper✨ @darkerlarper.bsky.social Storyteller. Creator. Larper. Academic. Gamer. Grade A Certified Nerd 🎥⚔📚 NBi, Afro-Indigenous Cryptid. Dann of all trades. ♿ 🌈👾 #larp
Inclusive Design (Diversity) Consultant & Editor
they/them
Based: Philly
Website: darkerlarper.carrd.co
Midsummer Scream @midsummerscream.bsky.social August 15-17, 2025, Long Beach Convention Center.
midsummerscream.com
Halloween is life.
midsummerscream.start.page
Ari Tarr @xriel.bsky.social performer, designer and educator for live spatial media
LunaBeat Games 🏝 making Cozy Beach @lunabeat.bsky.social Indie studio making 🏝 Cozy Beach, a chill game about fishing w/friends!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3489070/Cozy_Beach/?utm_source=bsky
We also made VR games Paranormal Detective: Escape from the 80s & 90s, and You Can't Scare Me
LunaBeat.com
Juhana Pettersson @juhanaonparas.bsky.social Writer, roleplaying game and larp designer. Former Lead Developer for World of Darkness releases at Renegade Game Studio, now off to new, as of yet unannounced projects.
www.juhanapettersson.com
Omen Star @omenstar.bsky.social Nordic Larp, Immersive Events, Roleplaying Games
Organisers of The Smoke Festival, Goetia: The Night of 100 Demons, Valour Manor, Sacrament, Cyberpunk International and TavernQuest
www.omenstar.com
www.thesmoke.org
Lemon Difficult Studio @thekeyofdreams.co.uk Critically acclaimed design studio, and creator of the hit immersive show The Key of Dreams.
Delightful combination of Theatre, Hospitality, and Gaming in a 17th century manor house overnight. Set in a Folk-Horror Lovecraftian world.
Mossbanger @mossbanger.bsky.social