Hardie Tankersley's guest appearances

Hardie Tankersley

AR Show with Jason McDowall

The Tech Cat Show

John Canning

Christina Heller

Ashley Crowder

Charlie Fink

Peter Rojas

Tom Goodwin

Kent Bye

Scott Miller

Jason Kramer

John Roberts

Chris Pfaff

Alex Hunt

Robert Scoble

Gina Bianchini

Michael Terpin

OwlTail

Erin Reilly

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Erin Reilly Interviews Hardie Tankersley	about Immersive Education and Technology

Hardie Tankersley is the VP of VR and Solutions Consulting at Silverdraft, a company that uses a unique supercomputer architecture to address the significant computational and processing needs of high-end rendering, VR, visual effects, and visualization. Honda, Audi, Tesla, GE, and Autodesk all rely on Silverdraft for product visualization in VR.Previously, Hardie spent more than 8 years at Fox Television, where he was Senior Vice President of Innovation. There he created the very first mobile apps for Fox TV as well as interactive experiences for American Idol, 24, Glee, and others.He also developed the first-ever, Emmy-winning virtual reality experience for Sleepy Hollow and a virtual reality behind-the-scenes series for Scream Queens.Early in his career, Hardie spent nearly 8 years at Apple.This is the second of two parts of our conversation. Here Hardie continues his exploration of the challenges of crafting compelling entertainment content in VR. While acknowledging the success of Beat Saber, Hardie doesn’t believe VR is well suited for games.We go on to chat about where he thinks VR does have a lot of utility today, and some of the lessons he’s learned in driving engagement within VR experiences.We also talk about AR and how it fits with VR. Hardie believes that AR and VR are not two ends of a continuous spectrum. While they share some underlying technologies, they are fundamentally different mediums.You can find all of the show notes at thearshow.com.

Hardie Tankersley is the VP of VR and Solutions Consulting at Silverdraft, a company that uses a unique supercomputer architecture to address the significant computational and processing needs of high-end rendering, VR, visual effects, and visualization. Honda, Audi, Tesla, GE, and Autodesk all rely on Silverdraft for product visualization in VR.Previously, Hardie spent more than 8 years at Fox Television, where he was Senior Vice President of Innovation. There he created the very first mobile apps for Fox TV as well as interactive experiences for American Idol, 24, Glee, and others.He also developed the first-ever, Emmy-winning virtual reality experience for Sleepy Hollow and a virtual reality behind-the-scenes series for Scream Queens.Early in his career, Hardie spent nearly 8 years at Apple.This is the second of two parts of our conversation. Here Hardie continues his exploration of the challenges of crafting compelling entertainment content in VR. While acknowledging the success of Beat Saber, Hardie doesn’t believe VR is well suited for games.We go on to chat about where he thinks VR does have a lot of utility today, and some of the lessons he’s learned in driving engagement within VR experiences.We also talk about AR and how it fits with VR. Hardie believes that AR and VR are not two ends of a continuous spectrum. While they share some underlying technologies, they are fundamentally different mediums.You can find all of the show notes at <a href="http://thearshow.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">thearshow.com</a>.

Hardie Tankersley (Silverdraft / Fox) on Why VR Is Not Good for Games, and Where VR Does Shine (Part 2)

Hardie Tankersley is the VP of VR and Solutions Consulting at Silverdraft, a company that uses a unique supercomputer architecture to address the significant computational and processing needs of high-end rendering, VR, visual effects, and visualization. Honda, Audi, Tesla, GE, and Autodesk all rely on Silverdraft for product visualization in VR.Previously, Hardie spent more than 8 years at Fox Television, where he was Senior Vice President of Innovation. There he created the very first mobile apps for Fox TV as well as interactive experiences for American Idol, 24, Glee, and others.He also developed the first-ever, Emmy-winning virtual reality experience for Sleepy Hollow and a virtual reality behind-the-scenes series for Scream Queens.Early in his career, Hardie spent nearly 8 years at Apple.This is the first of two parts of my conversation with Hardie. In this first part, Hardie shares some wonderful stories from his days at Apple in the 1990s.He goes on to talk about some of the early experimentation his team did in VR at Fox, and the reactions from the executive team. Based on these and other experiences, Hardie explores the many challenges he sees in creating compelling entertainment content in VR.Hardie has some great stories and strong opinions, and I think you’ll really enjoy this one.You can find all of the show notes at thearshow.com.

Hardie Tankersley is the VP of VR and Solutions Consulting at Silverdraft, a company that uses a unique supercomputer architecture to address the significant computational and processing needs of high-end rendering, VR, visual effects, and visualization. Honda, Audi, Tesla, GE, and Autodesk all rely on Silverdraft for product visualization in VR.Previously, Hardie spent more than 8 years at Fox Television, where he was Senior Vice President of Innovation. There he created the very first mobile apps for Fox TV as well as interactive experiences for American Idol, 24, Glee, and others.He also developed the first-ever, Emmy-winning virtual reality experience for Sleepy Hollow and a virtual reality behind-the-scenes series for Scream Queens.Early in his career, Hardie spent nearly 8 years at Apple.This is the first of two parts of my conversation with Hardie. In this first part, Hardie shares some wonderful stories from his days at Apple in the 1990s.He goes on to talk about some of the early experimentation his team did in VR at Fox, and the reactions from the executive team. Based on these and other experiences, Hardie explores the many challenges he sees in creating compelling entertainment content in VR.Hardie has some great stories and strong opinions, and I think you’ll really enjoy this one.You can find all of the show notes at <a href="http://thearshow.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">thearshow.com</a>.

Hardie Tankersley (Silverdraft / Fox) on the Challenges of Crafting Compelling Entertainment for VR (Part 1)