Two years ago, not very many people were thinking about how important audio was going to be for consumer VR. Jason Riggs was pitching what would eventually become OSSIC by claiming that it was going to be the Oculus...

Sound is probably the second most important part of creating a compelling immersive VR experience, but it's also usually put off to the end as an afterthought. The visual system is so dominant that this is not a huge...

Josh Farkas has given over 6000 VR demos over the last couple of years, and he's been in the position of having had to try to explain the potential of VR to many skeptical businesses. That's in part because...

The first time that I experienced Sequenced, I had no idea that my gaze directions might have been triggering different branches or small events within the story. Experiencing an interactive drama, but not knowing it was one of the...

VR on exercise bikes like VirZOOM is going to be AMAZING... for some people, and I may not be one of those people. Movement within virtual environments is a hard problem, and while VirZOOM addresses some of the challenges...

Academic VR researchers have shown that "people typically underestimate egocentric distances in immersive virtual environments," sometimes up to 20%. This could have huge implications for architectural visualizations, but also for anyone making aesthetic judgments based upon the proportion and...

Eva Hoerth is a VR design researcher & community organizer, and she enjoys recording videos of people as they're immersed within a VR experience. She shot a video of of her co-worker in VR trying out the latest Leap...

Sony's The London Heist is one of the best fusions of narrative VR storytelling with interactive game components. It's structured as a flashback sequence starting with you being confronted within an interrogation room, and there are branching narratives that...

At GDC this year, Sony revealed some of their first experiments into social VR with a four-person demo that was showing at their press event. The avatars looked like South Park characters, and the thumbs up or down gestures...

Machine Learning has the potential to revolutionize so many different aspects of our lives, and it's starting to enter into game development with IBM's Watson. LISTEN TO THE VOICES OF VR PODCAST http://d1icj85yqthyoq.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Voices-of-VR-390-George-Dolbier.mp3 For instance, developers could integrate cloud-based AI services into...

Astronaut Edgar Mitchell was the sixth man to walk on the moon, and upon his return to earth he had a profound mystical experience. Being able to see the earth from space expanded his worldview about human's role on...

Jenn Duong is the Director of VR at 1215creative as well as the co-founder of "SH//FT," which stands for "Shaping Holistic Inclusion in Future Technology." SH//FT has been partnering with VR companies who plan on supporting diversity and inclusion...

Tipatat Chennavasin is a general partner at The VR Fund, which is an early stage VC fund focusing exclusively on virtual reality and augmented reality startups. One of the services that Tipatat does for the community is maintain a...

Azad Balabanian is the co-host of the ResearchVR podcast where he discusses the latest cognitive science research that applies to virtual reality with fellow cognitive scientists Petr Legkov and Krzysztof Izdebski. The premise of their work in VR is...

For the past three years, Cris Miranda has been taking VR pioneers down the rabbit hole of thinking about the deepest philosophical implications of virtual reality on his Enter VR podcast. He has been seeking out the boundaries of...