Aaron Lemke of Unello Design talks about his VR development strategy where he's prototyping and quickly iterating and refining a VR experience first for Google Cardboard, then updating it for Gear VR, and then increasing the graphical fidelity to...
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Tomáš Mariančík (aka Frooxius) is one of the most innovative and mad genius VR developers that I've met. He is probably the most well known for SightLine: The Chair VR demo, which uses the mechanism of change blindness to cut between different...
Mel Slater is an ICREA Research Professor at the University of Barcelona, Spain, where he leads the Event Lab. Mel and his fellow Event Lab researchers have been doing some pioneering work in defining the key components of presence as well as the...
Jason Jerald has been working in virtual reality for 20 years now, and he's celebrating his 20th VR anniversary with the launch of an epic textbook called: The VR Book: Perception and Interaction Design for Virtual Reality. It's nearly 500 pages and...
Social VR experiences and telepresence applications are going to be one of the most compelling use cases for virtual reality, and watching sports events within a VR space with your friends has a lot of potential. Virtually Live is taking a really...
Virtual Reality can make you feel like you're in another world, and it turns out that this can have quite a therapeutic effect for people experiencing chronic pain. VR pain management has been researched in clinical studies for over a decade, and...
Eric Greenbaum was at a New York Virtual Reality Meetup when someone from the financial industry came up to him with some ideas for how to use VR to analyze stock market data. They decided to collaborate on QuantVR and develop a prototype demo of a...
Ben Lang has been covering the VR ecosystem for The Road to VR since 2011, which is before the Oculus Rift kickstarter even launched in 2012. I had a chance to interview Ben at last year's Silicon Valley Virtual Reality Conference 2014, which was...
Agata Soccini is a Research Fellow Università degli Studi di Torino at Thales Alenia Space. She talks about how virtual reality is used to train astronauts, visualize galactic data, as well as analyze thermal data about space ships. Specifically...
One of the most common reactions that I hear after giving someone their first VR experience is 'Oh my God! This is going to change everything. Imagine how this will change education!' David Whelan & Mike Armstrong are doing just that with Lecture...