The Sundance New Frontier program had 37 different virtual reality experiences showing on two different floors on Main Street in Park City during the Sundance Film Festival. Bechir Sylvain is an independent filmmaker who got his first taste of VR at...
Samsung had a huge presence at Sundance this year as the mobile sponsor of the festival. They were evangelizing Gear VR to independent filmmakers with their Gear VR theater as well as collaborating with Sundance's New Frontier program to provide...
One of the best narrative VR experiences that I had at Sundance New Frontier was 6x9, an immersive experience of solitary confinement. You might ask, 'Why would you ever want to do that?' Well, it was less about having a direct experience of...
Rose Troche knows that the first-person perspective is flawed, and she wanted to show people just how vulnerable it can by telling a single story between four different points of view. She teamed up with Specular Theory's Morris May again for...
Reggie Watts was at Sundance showing off his first 360-degree video VR experience called Waves, which is a surreal trip into his imagination. It's one of the most quirky and entertaining 360 videos I've sen, and could be described as a dream within...
On my way out to cover the VR at Sundance, I had a chance to try out one of the most advanced Digital Out of Home Entertainment systems today in an industrial park in the middle of Utah. The VOID goes beyond room-scale with their minimum 60'x60'...
Eric Romo is the founder and CEO of AltspaceVR, and he shares his story of how he got interested in the potential of social VR from way before the Oculus Kickstarter and Facebook bought Oculus VR. He talks about the surprising amount of body...
David Bowman is Director of Production at Crytek, and he gave me the inside story of how VR went viral within Crytek to the point of having well over 50 developers and multiple triple AAA quality VR projects in development for the Sony PlayStation...
Jim Geduldick is the Professional Marketing Manager at GoPro, which includes all of the ways GoPro cameras are used within cinema, virtual reality, broadcast television & photography. Jim talks about how the history of spherical video at GoPro goes...
Jamie Kelly is a co-founder and president of VR Studios & VRCade. They're creating a series of out-of-home VR gaming experiences that can be played in spaces as small as 15'x15' and as large as 150'x75'. They were at the Seattle VR Expo showing off...
Chandana Ekanayake is a game director & art director at Uber Entertainment where he's working on a VR adventure game for the PlayStation VR titled Wayward Sky. I caught up with Chandana at the Seattle VR Expo where he shared with me some of the...
Linda Lobato is the CEO and co-founder of OBE Immersive, which is a wearable tech start-up that is part of the current Rothenberg River Program. She previously raised $77,000 to kickstart a MIDI Controller Jacket, and after seeing an early Oculus...
Michael Lenzi is the CEO & co-founder of Atomic VR, and they've spent the last couple of years experimenting with untethered VR experiences. They've created a backpack with custom hardware that can run a desktop GPU for up to an hour, and they've...
Mike Alger just finished up his master's degree focusing on VR interaction design methods, and he's released a couple of popular videos summarizing his insights into immersive usr interfaces. I caught up with Mike at the Seattle VR expo talking...
Kayla Kinnunen is a game director at Roadhouse Interactive, which is an independent game development studio based out of Vancouver, BC. She talks about her process of evangelizing VR at her studio and slowly ramping up a VR team. She made a goal to...
Greg Howes is the founder and CEO of the high-tech building company IDEAbuilder, and he's on a mission to disrupt the $8.5 trillion annual building industry using immersive technologies to bridge design & fabrication directly with consumer demand...
Michael Aratow is a clinician and health care executive who founded VRecover, which is health care startup making physical rehabilitation exercises more engaging with VR. He says that rehab is like homework, but that sometimes up to 90% of people...