Niklas Elmqvist @nelmqvist.bsky.social Villum Investigator and Professor in HCI & visualization at Aarhus University in Denmark. Husband, dad, dog dad, runner, Kung Fu artist, gamer. He/him. Mastodon: @elm@vis.social
Niall L. Williams @niallw.bsky.social Asst. Prof. @ Barnard College (computer graphics + human vision) | Prev: postdoc @ NYU, UNIZAR; CS PhD @ Uni of Maryland; Intern @ NVIDIA, Meta Reality Labs; Undergrad @ Davidson College. I love computer graphics, perception, and cats. https://niall.phd
The XR Research Digest @xrdigest.bsky.social Daily insights from XR Research (https://buttondown.com/xrdigest/archive/)
Jon Froehlich @jonfroehlich.bsky.social 🎓 HCI Professor, UW CS
🛠️ Director, makeabilitylab.cs.washington.edu
♿️ Co-founder, projectsidewalk.org
🤖 Visiting Researcher, Google Research
Andrés Monroy-Hernández @andresmh.com Associate Professor of Computer Science at @princeton.edu. Co-director of Princeton HCI. Board member at Crisis Text Line.
https://andresmh.com
Pedro Lopes @pedrolopes.org Associate Professor at University of Chicago, Computer Science. Runs the Human-Computer Integration Lab (https://lab.plopes.org) & also a musician.
Anthony Steed @profvr.bsky.social Professor of VR, AR, XR and related concepts at University College London. Interested in presence, plausibility, interactivity, social environments, devices. Also games, puzzles, cocker spaniels and mountains. 
Nels Numan @nels.dev Research intern at Google, CS PhD candidate at University College London, exploring (outdoor) collaborative mixed reality at the intersection of #HCI, #GenerativeAI, and #CSCW | Previously at Niantic Labs, Microsoft Research, IBM, TNO Research
nels.dev
Hasko7 @sonyahaskins.bsky.social Head of Programming at AWE
#VR Games Consultant | Community Manager 🥰
Also title assigned by a friend, I'm the "chief community get-spatial-shit done officer"! 😁
#AR #XR #gaming #positive #inclusive #diversity #accessible #tech #esports #womenintech
Ori Inbar @inbarori.bsky.social In pursuit of the ultimate Spatial Experience since 2007.
CEO and cofounder of AWEXR.com, SuperVentures.com, AugmentedReality.org, Ogmento (Acquired by Apple)
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
Joey Sims @joeysims.bsky.social he/him. writing about theater. https://joeysims.substack.com/
Brooke McDonald @brookegmcdonald.bsky.social Writer/editor covering Disney, Star Wars, Marvel, Universal, theme parks, travel • she/her
Dave Cobb 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🐻 @davecobb.com Immersive Experience Design +30yrs -- theme parks, museum exhibits, attractions, MR/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
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
Cameo Wood @cameowood.com Work: @CharmingStranger.com
Buy: https://PointReyesMyriorama.com
Watch: https://RealArtists.Film
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.)
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)
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
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.
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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.
𝔅𝔢𝔫𝔧𝔞 @benjajuster.bsky.social I create immersive experiences to turn moments into cultural movements www.benja.art
Stephanie Hyden @stephaniehyden.bsky.social Creative Human
Kat Hinkel @kathinkel.bsky.social Immersive Theater creator & writer, speculative fiction author, Corgi lover <3
GlamourHobo @carmelclavin.bsky.social Creative Alchemist of Spectacle & Mirth. Immersive, cabaret, fringe.
SpectacleAndMirth.com
Andy Bauch @andybauch.bsky.social Co-founder https://morty.app — find every immersive experience.
Visual artist working with LEGO bricks https://andybauch.com
Prev. 4x CTO (1 exit).
Vance Garrett @vancegarrett.bsky.social Creator of Immersive Experiences, Events, Art & Entertainments. Champion of Collective Joy. Futurist. Fantasy Fulfiller.
NY/LA
Room Escape Artist @roomescapeartist.bsky.social Wry cheerleaders, critics, and ambassadors of the #EscapeRoom & #immersive gaming world.
✍️ Room Escape Artist | roomescapeartist.com
🎙️ Reality Escape Pod | realityescapepod.podbean.com
🎉 Reality Escape Convention | https://realityescapecon.com/
Clemence Debaig @clemencedebaig.bsky.social Dance artist, Maker & Creative Technologist. XR, live motion capture, digital performance & immersive theatre. Artist director @unwireddance.bsky.social . Lecturer & researcher @ Goldsmiths University
🇫🇷 🇬🇧
https://www.clemencedebaig.com/
The Immersive Experience Institute @immersiveexperience.org Hosts of The Next Stage Immersive Summit & Co-Creators of The Immersive Invitationals.
Bringing together the performing arts, gaming, and XR immersive communities since 2020.
John McCormick @roguelikeprime.bsky.social Owner of @theroguelike.bsky.social
Letterkenny & Leftism
🇵🇸✊
The Roguelike Tavern @theroguelike.bsky.social The nerdiest bar in LA + fantastic cocktails + delicious food.
Burbank, CA
www.theroguelike.com
bio.site/theroguelike
@whittonfrank.bsky.social @whittonfrank.bsky.social There was a little girl,
Who had a little curl,
Right in the middle of her forehead.
When she was good,
She was very very good,
And when she was bad she was horrid.
Steve Wargo @thestevewargo.bsky.social Multi-disciplinary theater creator, bon mot machine, joy warrior, tough cookie. “Triassic Parq” “A Christmas Carol” Syracuse Drama alum. PGH->NYC->Denver. Co-Founder: Denver Immersive Repertory Theater.
https://linktr.ee/thestevewargo
Ferryman Collective @ferrymanvr.bsky.social A passionate team of multidisciplinary talents creating award winning live interactive and immersive theater in VR.
Henry Stockdale @henrystockdale.com Client Manager @FutureFriendsGames.com. Former Senior Editor at UploadVR, BAFTA Connect member, co-host for @CrossButtonVR.bsky.social. Will likely talk about F1, RPGs, VR, and Nintendo (he/him)
https://linktr.ee/terranauts
UploadVR @uploadvr.com VR & AR news, reviews, and industry analysis.
https://www.uploadvr.com/
VR Games Showcase @vrgamesshowcase.bsky.social Discover The Future Of Play | Follow for the latest VR gaming news
Co-Founded by @jamiefeltham.bsky.social + @zeena.bsky.social
Watch the VR Games Showcase: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wN0B5utUu4
CrossButton VR @crossbuttonvr.bsky.social VR gaming podcast with a PSVR2 focus | New Episodes Every Tuesday |
Hosts:
@gameswithtea.bsky.social
@henrystockdale.com
All content 👉🏻 linktr.ee/CrossButtonVR
Business Contact: crossbuttonvr@gmail.com
#PSVR2 #MetaQuest #PCVR
Clare Naïlo🏳️⚧️she/they @lucidvirtuality.bsky.social Polyamorous AuDHD enby trans girl. Interested in virtual reality, lucid dreaming, climate change, altered states, weirdness, whither humanity, SF, impermanence, corvids, etc. “Someone who has all the seeming of a ghost forever dreaming.”
...by Ethan Fox @byethanfox.bsky.social Indie Game Developer of Nina Aquila: Legal Eagle • Recipient - Newgrounds "Best Of" • I talk about videogames & VR🎮🥽 • Gundam nerd • Anime fan • He/Him
No space for fascists | Cr/yp/to is a scam | Support indie creators!
Steven ter Heide @steventerheide.bsky.social Creative Director at Wild Sheep Studio.
Previously: Game Director at Guerrilla
Killzone | Rigs | Horizon Zero Dawn | Maestro | Adorable Adventures