Immersive makers on how the work actually gets made.
Eat Sleep Immerse Repeat pairs Daniel K Hatton with people building VR films, 360 video and other immersive projects, from solo animators to company founders. Its interviews trace how each guest got into the field, then turn to practical detail about cameras, timelines, funding and getting work in front of people.
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Eat Sleep Immerse Repeat is a conversation podcast about immersive media, hosted by Daniel K Hatton. Its guests make things people step inside: VR films, 360 video, even a bus that rewrites the scenery outside its windows. The 2025 episodes follow a steady shape. Each interview starts with how the guest found their way into immersive work, then settles on specific projects and the practical problems behind them. Xander Black recalls picking up a cheap Google Cardboard headset during acting school and seeing 360 video as a meeting point between theatre and film. He now runs the XR Film Fund on Artizen, where contributions from individuals and companies are pooled and projects apply with a title and a logline. Daniel Grozdanov traces a path from a road trip that derailed his physics plans to founding Imagine360. His stories include virtual tours of a factory floor used in recruiting, and a VR walk-through of a lobby redesign that helped persuade a tenant to stay. Jeff Smith and Steve Petersen explain ChronoCraft, a bus fitted with transparent screens whose graphics track the vehicle as it moves through the Old Summer Palace in China. Some conversations are more personal. Tomis Fras, a 3D animator and VR developer, talks about making VR films single-handed, about his roots in theatre and scenic design, and about starting a project by finding a melody first. Dee Harvey describes the colour choices in her immersive documentary Heartbeat, and the moment she showed the finished film, on a headset in a pub, to the woman whose story it tells. Mark Kendrick of Gizmo Media puts VR headsets into care homes and says the strongest results have come with residents living with dementia. What ties these together is the host's habit of asking the follow-up a fellow maker would want answered. How long did it take? What happened to the footage? Where can people watch it? The register stays friendly and practical, and technical detail sits easily beside anecdote. The feed also holds an older run, dated 2018 to 2020, in which Alex and Dan talk together. Titles from that stretch range across 360 camera gear, directing choices, distribution and finding paid 360 work, alongside interviews with directors and producers including Randal Kleiser, Ethan Shaftel and Maria Courtial. A listener curious about the business of immersive work might start with Daniel Grozdanov. One drawn to authored VR storytelling has Tomis Fras and Dee Harvey. Anyone weighing how to pay for a project has the Xander Black conversation.
Made for: Suits a listener who makes, or hopes to make, 360 video, VR films or location-based immersive work and wants to hear peers talk through kit, timelines, funding and getting projects seen.
What sets it apart: It keeps artistic and commercial immersive work in the same frame: a solo VR animator, an intimate VR documentary, a care-home headset programme and a marketing company's factory tours all get the same practical questioning from a host who keeps asking how things were done.
Discover the future of storytelling with Eat Sleep Immerse Repeat—the podcast exploring VR, AR, immersive theatre, and interactive experiences. Host Daniel K Hatton speaks with creators and innovators shaping the world of immersive tech and narrative design. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Blue and green become story decisions here; your inner director gets a seat at the edit.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A grounded look at the creative experiments and distribution challenges behind immersive storytelling.
Xander Black traces a hands-on path into immersive storytelling, from acting school and a $10 Google Cardboard headset to experiments that blend theater, film, and 360-degree video.
A grounded founder story about moving 360 content from resorts into corporate immersive work.
Daniel Grosdanov's route from biophysics research and plans for a master's degree into digital nomad work and immersive marketing gives the episode a clear spine.
A grounded look at the systems and testing behind a real-world AR vehicle.
Eat Sleep Immerse Repeat follows ChronoCraft as it tries to make an AR vehicle feel convincing from inside the passenger cabin. Jeff Smith and Steve Peterson walk through the moving parts: graphics tracked in a 3D real-time playback engine, spatial audio, and a full-color LED…
A candid look at how theatre training, production mishaps, and early encouragement shaped one solo VR practice.
Solo VR filmmaking lands here as the kind of one-person production test that asks for taste, stamina, and a willingness to solve odd problems in real time.
AJ Singh traces a move from Indian filmmaking into immersive storytelling, where creative ambition meets the practical work of starting over.
AJ Singh's route into immersive storytelling gives this episode a useful creative through-line, moving from a short film that reached a reputable festival in India to XR work in London.
New Zealand tech, told through its people.
Blunt VR game talk with controller-level detail.
VR gaming talk from inside the headset.
A $10 Google Cardboard in 2016 pushed Xander Black into immersive storytelling, and he says first 360 videos made the medium feel like theater plus film.
Daniel Grosdanov describes moving from physics research on carbon nanotubes and photosynthetic bacteria into 360-degree travel photography and immersive marketing.
Jeff Smith and Steve Petersen unpack ChronoCraft, a first-of-its-kind AR vehicle that keeps the bus window transparent while layering history, animation, and spatial audio over real Beijing streets.
Thomas Frass says he taught himself Blender, Unreal Engine, Unity, code, soundtrack work, modeling, and texturing after one Central Saint Martins contact gave him a few Unreal Engine pointers.
Ajay Singh explains how a 2012 short film in Mumbai led him into assistant directing, India's Got Talent webisodes, and then a 360 rig built from six GoPros and a 3D-printed frame.
Dee Harvey traces her path from studying interactive telecommunications at NYU between 2004 and 2006 to producing interactive work for the BBC and directing immersive films.
Mark Kendrick of Gizmo Media explains how 360-degree video developed into VR Care, a catalogue of nearly 400 virtual tours used in more than 60 care homes.
Alex and Dan use Alex's six conversations with VR professionals to examine how COVID-19 affected immersive projects, creators, venues, and investment.
Eat Sleep Immerse Repeat examines Tribeca's VR selections through discussions of Black Bag, Attack on Daddy, The Key, A Guide to Dying, Satanism, and First Step.
Alex and Ben discuss staying productive during quarantine after lost client work, financial uncertainty, and two weeks of news and social-media overload.
Eat Sleep Immerse Repeat’s “Ramblings from Isolation | #23” follows David and Dan discussing cancelled productions, delayed BFI funding, and the practical effects of coronavirus on creative work.
Alex and Dan return to discuss a year of creative opportunities, burnout, and competing priorities in VR filmmaking.
VR Side Chats interviews Maria Corsiel, producer of Second Step, a VR film transporting viewers from the Moon to Mars and beyond.
Ashima Kumar and Abby of Warrior 9 Productions explain how a television-oriented science-fiction script became The Phoenix, a VR series divided into 10 episodes of approximately 10 minutes each.
John Hamilton explains how Unlimited financed and produced the VR sci-fi short Trinity, including almost $1 million from the Canadian Media Fund and $500,000 in private funding.
Daniel interviews filmmaker Jeremy Casper about creating Lightning, a 360 animated VR film made entirely in Tavori after Casper discovered VR in April 2018 through Oculus Studios’ Lost.
Olly Rankin describes moving from computer science and AI work on Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings to visual-effects production and VR storytelling.
Daniel K Hatton interviews director Randall Kleiser about adapting Defrost, a cryogenics story Kleiser first wrote around 1968, into a 360-degree VR series.
Host Daniel K Hatton discusses the future of storytelling through VR, AR, and immersive experiences with creators and innovators.
Host Daniel K Hatton interviews 360 filmmaker Kevin Coombs about his journey into 360 video and immersive storytelling.
Host Daniel K Hatton interviews 360 videographer Hugh Ho about his background in VR content creation and 360 video tutorials.
Host Daniel K Hatton interviews 360 VR creator Alex Rule about her background in TV and entry into the VR industry.