Voices of VR Podcast
Training AI & Robots in VR with NVIDIA’s Project Holodeck
At SIGGRAPH 2017, NVIDIA was showing off their Isaac Robot that had been trained to play dominos within a virtual world environment of NVIDIA's...
Making of ‘Sun Ladies VR’, the Story of Former ISIS Sex Slaves Who Form...
The Sun Ladies VR is an amazing story about a group of Yazidi women from the Northern Iraq community of Sinjar, who escaped as...
The Future of Virtual Lightfields with Otoy CEO Jules Urbach
Otoy is a rendering company that pushing the limits of digital light fields and physically-based rendering. Now that Otoy's Octane Renderer has shipped in...
Balancing Player Control & Authorial Control with “Virtual Virtual Reality”
Virtual Virtual Reality by studio Tender Claws is a Daydream-exclusive interactive story that won the best VR experience at the 2017 Google Play Awards VR, and...
AR & AI Storytelling Innovations in ‘TendAR’ from Studio Tender Claws
Tender Claws, the creators of the award-winning interactive VR narrative Virtual Virtual Reality, premiered a new, site-specific, interactive AR narrative experience at the Sundance...
Grabbing Virtual Objects with the HaptX Glove (Formerly AxonVR)
The HaptX Glove that was shown at Sundance was one of the most convincing haptics experiences that I've had in VR. While it was...
360 Film ‘Dinner Party’ is a Symbolic Exploration of Race in America Wrapped in...
Dinner Party is an immersive exploration of Betty and Barney Hill's widely known 1961 alien abduction story that premiered at the Sundance New Frontier film...
Inside Sundance Hit ‘SPHERES: Songs of Spacetime’ with Director Eliza McNitt
Sundance New Frontier had a solid line-up of VR experiences this year with a number of immersive storytelling innovations including SPHERES: Songs of Spacetime,...
VR in the ’90s: Bootstrapping the Commercial VR Industry
Linda Jacobson got into VR when she helped organize the 1990 CyberArts International gathering of artists and technologists who were using virtual reality technologies....
Jaron Lanier’s Journey into VR: “Dawn of the New Everything”
Jaron Lanier is a pioneer of the first commercially-available virtual reality systems with his VPL Research Inc startup that was founded in 1984. He...
‘AUTO’: A Realistic Look at the Human Impact of Near-future Technology
AUTO is a 360-video and morality tale available on Jaunt that takes a near-future look at the human impact of automation and emerging technology. It's...
Houston Fire Department on VR’s Potential to Enhance Firefighter Training
Patrick Hagan is a technical specialist for the Houston Fire Department who had an opportunity to try out a VR demo by HTX Labs...
Designing the Future Through Sci-Fi World Building
VR represents a shift from telling stories to building story worlds that people experience and interact with. There is a process of world building...
‘Dark Corner’ Creates a New Distribution Channel for Immersive Horror
The Dark Corner app is creating a new distribution channel for immersive horror experiences and 360-degree videos. Guy Shelmerdine and Teal Greyhavens are hoping...
Being in Two Worlds at Once with ‘UTURN’ – Parallel Stories & Quad Binaural...
UTURN is a 360-degree video that seamlessly blends together two 180-degree hemisphere worlds containing parallel storylines of two different perspectives at a tech start...
