Quentin Parent is a sales engineer at Haption, and he talks about some of their force-feedback haptic devices that are used in different industry applications. These are haptic feedback systems are used to train astronauts, for nuclear training, as...
Patrick Harris is the lead game designer at Minority Media where they're developing a sci-fi adventure game called Time Machine VR. The premise of Time Machine VR is that humanity is facing a deadly plague from ancient times, and that best way to...
Michael Block of Culture Shock Games talks about his interactive documentary VR game experience called We Are Chicago about gang violence in Chicago's south side. It has a single ending to the story, but there are many different branching actions...
Pollen is a first-person exploration game set in space by Helsinki-based Mindfield Games. I had a chance to catch up with Project Lead Olli Sinerma at PAX Prime to talk about the story behind the game as well as some of the lessons learned from...
John Nagle is the CTO at Phaser Lock Interactive, who is developing a Vive game called Final Approach. The gameplay of Final Approach involves selecting miniature planes flying through the air and then drawing landing paths in 3D space with a 6DOF...
One of the challenges with a first-person VR adventure game is that locomotion causes some people motion sickness. People have a wide range of tolerances for how much they can move around a VR space with a controller, and room-scale VR helps to...
Sarah Northway & Colin Northway talk about the process of converting an open world building game of Fantastic Contraption to a room-scale VR experience with the HTC Vive. The gameplay is very straightforward and intuitive in that you have a limited...
Daniel O'Brien is the Vice President of Business Planning and Management for Virtual Reality at HTC. I had a chance to catch up with him at PAX Prime in the HTV Vive private demo area. Dan talks about the first time that he tried Valve's room-scale...
Evan Suma is an assistant professor at the University of Southern California Institute of Creative Technologies. He was at IEEE VR presenting a poster on 'Towards Context-Sensitive Reorientation for Real Walking in Virtual Reality' led by his USC...
Niels Christian Nilsson is a graduate student at the Aalborg University Copenhagen, and he was at the IEEE VR presenting a poster on Factors that Effect Perceived Naturalness of Virtual Walking Speeds.