Episode 5: Virtual Reality for Reflexive Storytelling

Max Peacock

March 3, 2022

Our Connected Future is the first season of the BMPD Storytellers podcast, hosted by Max Peacock. it is a series of conversational podcast episodes featuring experts on various aspects of technology. With guests, Max discusses digital storytelling, artificial intelligence, entrepreneurship, and much more. The podcast aspires to incite critical reflection on the role of technology in today’s societies.

Virtual reality is currently experiencing an explosion in popularity and user adoption. Often surrounding this new growth is exciting rhetoric about the ‘metaverse’ and its implications for the future. In episode 5 of Our Connected Future, Max is joined by Sojung Bahng, an award-winning artist and researcher to unpack the affordances of VR. In their conversation, Max and Sojung explore the unique challenges and opportunities of VR as a storytelling medium resulting from its technological constraints.

Max Peacock is a third-year student in the Bachelor of Media Production and Design program minoring in Entrepreneurship. He is a digital architect, aspiring philosopher, and optimistic futurist. Max uses digital storytelling to express his entrepreneurial worldview and incite critical reflection about the role of technology in society. He dreams of a future where technology augments the pursuit of a meaningful human life. In his podcast, Our Connected Future, Max explores tech innovation’s ethical implications and role in human progress.