{"id":159,"date":"2025-05-13T20:59:37","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T20:59:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/press.hku.nl\/mikal.vanleeuwen\/?page_id=159"},"modified":"2025-06-03T13:36:46","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T13:36:46","slug":"mikal-van-leeuwen","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/axrlab.hku.nl\/?page_id=159","title":{"rendered":"Mikal van Leeuwen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text has-media-on-the-right is-stacked-on-mobile is-vertically-aligned-top\" style=\"grid-template-columns:auto 40%\"><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Expertise\/Main Interest<\/strong><br>Knowledge Dissemination<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Memorable AXR moment<\/strong><br>The first time that VR really clicked for me was in \u2018a Fisherman\u2019s tale\u2019, where the sense of scale was part of the experience which gave me an idea of the possibilities. The first time AR clicked for me was the silly Quest 3 welcome demo, with the small furry creatures bouncing through the wall and into my living room in believable passtrough. The first time AXR clicked for me was in the PETA-created experience \u2018When They Came For Us\u2019, where VR was combined with a(n almost) natural conversation with an AI, for a fully immersive experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Current Fascination<\/strong><br>How do we tell the stories about how we create our stories. Documenting projects in such a way that the audience not only sees what\u2019s been done, but also how we did it.<\/p>\n<\/div><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1200\" src=\"https:\/\/press.hku.nl\/mikal.vanleeuwen\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG_3483-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-127 size-full\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Expertise\/Main InterestKnowledge Dissemination Memorable AXR momentThe first time that VR really clicked for me was in \u2018a Fisherman\u2019s tale\u2019, where [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":84,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-159","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/axrlab.hku.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/axrlab.hku.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/axrlab.hku.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axrlab.hku.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axrlab.hku.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=159"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/axrlab.hku.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":427,"href":"https:\/\/axrlab.hku.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/159\/revisions\/427"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axrlab.hku.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/84"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/axrlab.hku.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}