Cosmo Scharf is a film student and co-founder of VRLA. He talks about some of the challenges of VR storytelling and the differences between a free-will VR environment vs. a traditional 2D film. Film has a series of tools to direct attention such as...
Ben Lang is a futurist and avid gamer who prospected that all of the pieces for a virtual reality revolution were in place back in October 2011. He started RoadToVR.com as an outlet for his desire to learn about VR by reading and writing about it.He...
Walter Greenleaf, Ph.D. is an early pioneer in the medical application of virtual environment technology, and is viewed as one of the founders of the field. His focus has been on the use of virtual reality and telemedicine technology to treat Post...
Amir Rubin, CEO of Sixense, the distributors of the Razer Hydra controller and manufacturers of the wireless STEM controllers, which have been described as enabling a 3D mutli-touch interface and will could become the first 'mouse of VR.'Amir talks...
Vlad Vukićević is a technology innovator at Mozilla trying to figure out how virtual reality fits into the web. He's the inventor of WebGL, and he's been working with Unity & Unreal Engine 4 to be able to create plug-in free gaming and VR...
William Provancher is the founder of Tactical Haptics, which produces the Reactive Grip controller. The Reactive Grip controller simulates force feedback haptics through the two components of the kinesthetic (muscle forces) feedback as well as the...
James Blaha had never been able to see in 3D before. He has strabismus or more commonly known as crossed eye, which has prevented him from being able to have each eye look at the same point in space. This can lead to lazy eye or Amblyopia and cause...
Paul Mlyniec has been involved in computer graphics for virtual reality for over 30 years & has been chasing his dream of creating an immersive, 3D painting medium. He started his career at Silicon Graphics to joining MultiGen to develop what became...
Cymatic Bruce Wooden is a VR enthusiast who went from tracking the Oculus Rift project on the Meant to be Scene forums to backing it on Kickstarter on the first day to making a first impression video and other demo videos to starting a weekly...
Aaron Davies is the Head of Developer Relations at Oculus VR, and he talks about how the interest in VR development has exploded since the Facebook acquisition. He discusses some of the applications that in development ranging from VR surgery...
Having believable characters within virtual reality can be one of the most challenging but most important components to get right within a virtual reality experience. Stefano Corazza and Mixamo.com have been working on a set of tools to make it...
This interview with Nonny de la Peña was by far my favorite discussion from the Silicon Valley Virtual Reality Conference & Expo. It's moving to hear about the type of emotional reactions that she's receiving from her human rights-centered...
This is the first of 44 interviews that I conducted at the Silicon Valley Virtual Reality Conference & Expo. I was able to capture over 11.5 hours worth of material from 3/4 of the speakers, 2/3 of the exhibitors and 11% of all attendees, and...
Jason Jerald of NextGen Interactions has been involved with creating computer graphics and next-generation 3D computer interfaces for 20 years. His virtual reality consulting client list ranges from Oculus VR, Valve and Sixense Entertainment to NASA...
Oliver 'Doc_Ok' Kreylos is a research scientist / computer scientist who develops virtual reality applications for scientific research, specifically immersive 3D visualizations for the department of geology at the W.M. Keck Center for Active...
Professor Eric Hodgson explores some of the psychological impacts of virtual reality when it comes to spatial perception & memory, and effects like change blindness. He also talks about how to walk in infinite VR spaces within limited physical...
I'm joined by D of the eVRydayVR YouTube Channel to discuss Virtual Reality evangelism, VR design tips, VR communities, and the future of VR and Education.
I’m in the process of learning everything I can about the principles of what makes an incredible virtual reality experience. It’s the wild west of experimentation for what works and doesn’t work within an immersive 3D VR environment. This podcast...