John Dewar of Studio Transcendent talks about their prototype VR experience called Rapid Fire: A Brief History of Flight. It's a first-person educational experience where you're standing on a virtual airfield where you see everything from the Wright...
Innerspace VR is made up of a group of people who met in art school, and have been experimenting with VR since 2011. Jason Ochoa was at SVVRCon, and shared a little bit about what types of cinematic VR experiences they're creating.Innerspace VR was...
I had the chance to catch up with Nicole Relyea, the community manager & VR evangelist at Jaunt VR at the Silicon Valley Virtual Reality Conference. Jaunt has produced a number of 360-degree video experiences that they were showing on the Google...
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...
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...