Luca Marchetti is the CEO of Studio Evil and he talks about developing a serious game called Relive. Relive is a sci-fi adventure game set on Mars that is designed to teach people CPR. There were demos taking place in the hallways at Oculus Connect...
Yon Visell is an assistant professor at Drexel University focusing on Haptic display engineering at the RE Touch Lab. His research is in trying to figure out the neuroscientific and physical basis of human tactile sensation and perception. It's in...
At the time of this interview, Rob Swatton was the Research & Development Manager at Earth & Sky Ltd, which is an New Zealand-based astronomy organization. They do public outreach and education at Earth & Sky as well as scientific research into...
Diðrik Steinsson has a vision of a future where virtual reality headsets can provide a more ideal work environment. MureVR is creating VR workplace environments that are designed to eliminate stress and increase productivity with the help of...
One of the most compelling use cases for Virtual Reality is going to sharing social experiences with your friends and family. Patrick Martin is a developer on the Synergy mod Development Team, which is a popular co-op mod for Half-Life 2 and other...
Stefan Pernar of Virtual Reality Ventures has looked into the industry sectors that he thinks will be the most disrupted by these new immersive technologies. He's looked through over a thousand peer-reviewed research articles and narrowed the list...
Doing text and data entry into virtual or augmented reality can be a challenge since it's difficult to see or find the keyboard. It's an open problem within the VR space, and so people started suggesting to Mark Parker that his handheld TREWGrip...
Sébastien Kuntz is the founder of MiddleVR, which is a middleware VR solution that integrates the latest VR input controller and tracking technologies into platforms like Unity and Unreal Engine, as well as some of the higher-end VR tracking...
Maximilian Landeck is a student in the HCI Group at the University of Würzburg, and he presented a poster at IEEE VR conference investigating the impacts of avatar embodiment on virtual fitness training. He was initially interested in seeing whether...
Robyn Gray and Michael Murdock talk about the spectrum of experiences that they've created at Otherworld Interactive, which includes horror, music, social, educational, and room-scale.
The major players within the consumer virtual reality space seem to be settling in with Valve & HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, Sony Morpheus, Samsung Gear VR, & Google Cardboard. However, none of these HMD manufacturers have expressed any interest in...
Ariel Arias has been creating futuristic sci-fi worlds since he was 10 years old. For the past 20 years, he's been writing novels, RPG books, comics, and now he's making video games and virtual reality experiences.The Hum Universe is a first-person...
Jazmin Cano is a 3D artist at the educational VR startup Discovr. Discovr was within the first class of companies within the Rothenberg Ventures River acceleration program. They are creating immersive education experiences that focus on experiential...
UploadVR is a relative newcomer to covering the virtual reality space, but it's quickly establishing itself as a leading voice in first-person accounts of trying out the latest VR technologies, but also providing a stage for the emerging players in...
Psious Inc. is creating virtual reality experiences to help people overcome their fears using the principle of exposure therapy. Exposure therapy allows people to incrementally experience a stimulus that can cause anxiety or fears. Psious is...
Brian Bullard is the co-host of the PodVR podcast as well as an independent VR game developer. He's developed Moto Rider VR and the Oculus Game Jam game called Turret Defender.He's known as 'Bullardo' online, and he's an active member of the VR...
Dr. Yaoping Hu is an associate professor at the University of Calgary, and she won the best 3DUI poster with 'Conflict Resolution Models on Usability with Multi-user Collaborative Virtual Environments.'One challenge with social interactions in VR is...
Tipatat Chennavasin is the creative director of the River virtual reality accelerator by Rothenberg Ventures. Rothenberg Ventures funded 13 different VR companies with $100,000 each as a part of their first class.They're currently accepting...
Justin Moravetz of Zero Transform is a developer based out of Bend, OR and he's been developing virtual reality experiences for all of the VR HMDS rangin from Google Cardboard, Samsung Gear VR, Oculus Rift, Valve's HTC Vive & Sony Morpheus. Some of...
Soren Harner is the chief product marketing officer at Meta, and he talks about the Meta 1 developer kit and augmented reality eyewear. They have an SDK to create experiences within Unity which includes different gesture interactions to use your...
Virtual reality developers and enthusiasts have been waiting for Oculus to give some clarity on their default input solution, and today at their pre-E3 press conference they made some key announcements. The first is that CV1 will be shipping with a...
Sky Nite is the CEO of New Dimension VR, and he was at SVVRCon showing Cytopia. Cytopia features a main character inspired by Edward Snowden, and is about the abuses of surveillance and what happens a powerful NSA-like organization gains global...
Nate Newsome is a Ph.D. student in Human-Centered Computing at Clemson University. He's researching Interactive Virtual Agents that have some intelligence where you can interact it through voice interaction and some AI involved. It's used for...
Theresa Duringer is a developer on the VR jam game entry called Bazaar, which is a silver game winner in the Oculus mobile VR Jam. She talks about getting into VR development with some of her co-workers and experimenting with different They noticed...
Cymatic Bruce Wooden talks about the latest developments in the AltSpaceVR social application now that they've opened it up to a public beta. One of the things that Bruce mentioned is that people often think about social media when they hear about...
For anyone who's gone through a calibration process in order to have eye tracking working within a HMD knows how annoying it can be. Yuta Itoh is working on a number of different techniques to be able to automate this process, and is a leader in...
André Lauzon is a producer at Cirque du Soleil Média and head of their Digital Studio. At SVVRCon, he was giving a preview of an elaborately choreographed 10-minute, 360-degree video called 'INSIDE THE BOX OF KURIOS™ - Cabinet of Curiosities...
The Subpac tactile bass system gave me one of the most viscerally immersive experiences of my life, and it really blew my mind. I felt like it was feeling the pounding bass on the level of a dance club, but yet nobody around me could hear a thing.I...
Henry Fuchs has been involved with virtual reality technologies for over 45 years since 1970 when he first heard about Ivan Sutherland's Sword of Damocles from his 1968 paper titled 'A head-mounted three-dimensional display.' He talks about...
Aldis Sipolins says that brain training is broken, and that VR can help to fix it. He suspects that how our brains work while being immersed within virtual environments more closely resembles how they work within real life. But at this point, it's...
Joe Ludwig is on the VR team at Valve, and was part of the original group with Michael Abrash that initiated the experiments into virtual reality and wearable technologies at Valve around January 2012. Joe says that Valve's ultimate goal is to...
Dr. Martin Breidt is a research technician at the Max Plank Institute for Biological Cybernetics. His bio page says that he's part of the Cognitive Engineering group where they 'develop and use systems from Computer Vision, Computer Graphics...
Matt Oughton is the EMEA sales manager for Vicon and talks about the Vicon motion capture system that they were demonstrating at the IEEE VR conference. Vicon has been in the motion capture business since 1984, and he talks about some of the...
Dr. John Quarles is an assistant professor in the San Antonio Virtual Environments lab at the University of Texas at San Antonio.He talks about some research that his student Chao Mei did in researching the impact of customizable virtual humans for...
Gareth Henshall is from Bangor University in the United Kingdom, and was presenting a poster at IEEE VR titled 'Towards a High Fidelity Simulation of the Kidney Biopsy Procedure.' Their goal was to create a low-cost training simulation that could...
Josh Farkas is the CEO of Cubicle Ninjas, and he was tweeting his highlights from reviewing all the Milestone 1 submissions for the Oculus Mobile VR Jam, and so I invited him to come onto the Voices of VR podcast to discuss some of the highlights of...
Rob Lindeman was the chairman for the IEEE 10th Symposium on 3D User Interfaces this year, and he's currently the director of the Interactive Media & Game Development Program at Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
Richard Skarbez in a Ph.D. candidate at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill who has been researching how to measure presence in VR. Mel Slater has proposed that there are two key components of having the sense of presence that he elaborated...
Betty Mohler is a virtual reality researcher from the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics where she's the project leader of Perception & Action in Virtual Environments Research Group in Tuebingen, Germany.Her research interests include...
Anthony Steed is a Professor in the Virtual Environments and Computer Graphics group at the University College London. He started his Ph.D. in Virtual Reality back in 1992 during the first wave of VR. Some of his research interests include...
I recently traveled to southern France to cover the biggest gathering of virtual reality academics in the world, the IEEE VR & 3DUI conferences. I was able to record over 15 hours worth of interviews and talk to over 50 attendees, which was a little...
Neil Schneider is the founder of the Meant to Be Seen forum at MTBS3D.com and he talks about how his failed business led him to deal with his depression by playing video games. He wanted to have more and more engaging and immersive experiences...
Rob Morgan is a game writer, narrative designer and voice director. He got into the realm of writing for VR experiences from his experience at Sony London Studio, and then freelanced with nDreams on their Gear VR game Gunner as well as their...
Rod Haxton is the lead software developer for VisiSonics, which created the RealSpace™ 3D Audio technology that Oculus has licensed to put 3D audio into VR.
Tobias Baumann is the director of game development for Perception Neuron, which is an IMU-based motion capture system. It might eventually be used as a VR input device, but Tobias acknowledges that the current price for the full system is a bit...
Anush Elangovan is the Founder and CEO of Nod, which produces the Nod Gesture-Control Ring. The Nod ring exposes motions, gestures, swipe, and tactile feedback and enables user interactions ranging from tap, double tap, swipe up and swipe down...
Joel Green is a producer and audio director at Cloudhead Games working on the The Gallery: Six Elements adventure game. He talks about the process of being invited to a secret meeting at Valve to experience the HTC Vive for the first time, and then...
Patrick O'Luanaigh founded nDreams based out of Farnborough, UK in 2006 originally creating content for the PlayStation Home. After seeing some of the early consumer virtual reality head mounted displays, he quickly pivoted to focusing exclusively...
Danny Woodall is the Creative Director at Sixense, and he talks about how the electromagnetic STEM controllers can help to bring full-body presence into VR. He talks about the SDK improvements that they've been making, and some of the updates that...
Henrik Johansson of Tobii Technology talks about some of their eye tracking technology that's started to be integrated into different video games like Assassin's Creed to be able to have an 'Infinity Screen' user interface to 2D video games.Eye...