Sam Reich @samreich.bsky.social ๐งข CEO: Dropout
๐ค Host: Game Changer, Make Some Noise
๐ธ he / him
eirk @strotchy.bsky.social Serious rabbit hole lurker. Worked on UFO 50, Spelunky 1&2, Downwell, +++
https://garyyk.com
Joshua Rubin @subversiverse.bsky.social Emmy-Winning TV, game and comic writer: Destiny / Assassinโs Creed 2 / Outriders / Telltale's Walking Dead + Game of Thrones / Groundhog Day VR / Strange Land Comics / Dying Light / Exhausted Dad
TIME SENSITIVE #1-2: timesensitive2.strangelandcomics.com
๐๐พ๐๐พ๐ผ๐ฐ๐ธ๐บ๐ฐ @sozomaika.bsky.social ๐ต๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐.
sozomaika.com
https://www.patreon.com/SOZOMAIKA
Estella Tse @estellatse.com VR/AR Creative Director & Artist โ among many other things. she/her.
๐ฒOakland grown
๐ธ Portland livin
Clients: Google, Oxford University, Adobe, AMD, Intel, Snapchat, Cartoon Network, Netherlands, more
https://estellatse.com/?utm_source=bsky
Chris Grace @chrisgrace.com he/him ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
a real Johannes Factotum
https://chrisgrace.live/
Escape Flights - Atlanta @atl.escape.flights Escape Flights is a blog about airfare deals that are departing out of Atlanta.
Want a notification when flights leaving from ATL go on sale? Give us a follow!
Link: https://escape.flights/flights-from-atlanta/
Randy Thom @randythom.bsky.social Sound Guy
Screenwriter
Painter
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/
Brooke McDonald @brookegmcdonald.bsky.social Writer/editor covering Disney, Star Wars, Marvel, Universal, theme parks, travel โข 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 ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ๐ป @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.
GenX๐ค
Queer & married ๐จ๐ฆ
Husky dad.
Stay kind & curious.
http://www.davecobb.com/
Jay Bushman @jaybushman.bsky.social Writer of interactive entertainments
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. Writingโs 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
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
Laura E. Hall @lauraehall.bsky.social Mysteries, puzzles, adventures. I make games, write books & preserve immersive history. PDX. They/she
Immersipedia coming soon ๐
PLANNING YOUR ESCAPE (Simon & Schuster), KATAMARI DAMACY (Boss Fight Books)
โจ lauraehall.com
๐ cfia.org
๐๏ธ 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)
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: โI Ainโt Your Wookiee.โ(He/Him)
Kathryn Yu #OpenToWork @kathrynyu.com Former Sr. Technical Game Designer at on Marvelโs 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
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 ๐ฒ๐ฝ๐ฌ๐น๐ณ๐ฎ๐ญ๐ณ๐ช๐ธ๐บ๐ฒ๐ค๐ช @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 ๐ชฉ, 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 Pixarโs Blue Umbrella, Studio SOI & Oculus Story Studio founder, now ๏ฃฟ ...)
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 || ๆฅๆฌ่ชOK! || 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 ๐ญ | TEDx speaker ๐ค | Founder of #metaforyou #๏ธโฃ
Designing human connection at live events + in life.
โจ Presence. ๐ญ Play. ๐ฌ You matter.
linkin.bio/terenceleclere
David Fox๐๐ซ๐บ๐ฆ @davidbfox.com Lead game programmer: ReturnToMonkeyIsland
Designer/Project Leader at LucasfilmGames/LucasArts: Fractalus Labyrinth ZakMcKracken โชIndy3
ManiacMansion
VR XR EV GameDev
Handpan newbie
โค๏ธ @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
็งใฏๆฅๆฌ่ชใไธๆใงใ
Emmett Furey @emmettfurey.bsky.social Writer and narrative designer for Silent Hill: Ascension, Ingress, and Dungeons & Dragons.
Scholar of all forms of participatory art: Larp, TTRPGs, ARGs, video games.
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 Collective @candlehouse.bsky.social Award-winning creators of alternate reality theatre. candlehousecollective.com
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. ๐ญ๐
https://linktr.ee/polyarcgames
Fireproof Games @fireproofgames.com Award winning developers of โThe Roomโ 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 โข Award Winning Art Director for Themed Entertainmentโข Blooloop Top 50 Theme Park Design Influencer โข Formerly at Meow Wolf/Universal Creative/Thinkwell/SCAD โข Mets Fan
nick @caveatruptur.bsky.social antimonopolist
Unreal Engine @unrealengine.bsky.social Unreal Engine is the worldโs 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 of ArtScience Museum in Singapore. Interstitial nomad and purveyor of particles and waves. 
Brandon Santoro @brandonsantoro.bsky.social โจ Creative Director, Producer & Performer
๐ญ Immersive & Experiential
๐ Theme Parks, Haunts & Holidays
๐ 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 โจ @andyfidel.bsky.social Creative Strategist & Event Producer at Spatial Networks. Women of the Future Top 100 in Emerging Tech. Meta Partner. Newsletter (7k) ๐ซ
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. ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ ๐บ๐ฆ
Dann โจDarkerLarperโจ @darkerlarper.bsky.social Storyteller. Creator. Larper. Academic. Gamer. Grade A Certified Nerd ๐ฅโ๐ NBi, Afro-Indigenous Cryptid. Dann of all trades. โฟ ๐๐พ #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 ๐ making Cozy Beach @lunabeat.bsky.social Indie studio making ๐ 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
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.
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๐ข๐ซ๐ง๐ @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 โ 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.
โ๏ธ Room Escape Artist | roomescapeartist.com
๐๏ธ Reality Escape Pod | realityescapepod.podbean.com
๐ Reality Escape Convention | https://realityescapecon.com/
AWE XR @awexr.com The world's #1 spatial computing event series for the AR & VR (XR) industry where you can try hundreds of the latest demos, learn from talks by top leaders, and network with peers.
More on awexr.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
๐ซ๐ท ๐ฌ๐ง
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
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