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...