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Using Virtual Reality to Archive Art Installations with Matt Henderson

Matt Henderson is a visual artist from Portland, OR who has been creating art installations of abstracted Christmas nativity scenes for the past six years. Matt has been inspired to use virtual reality in order to document and preserve...

Video Game Violence: Protecting the Frontiers of VR with ESA Ratings

  Mike Gallagher is the CEO of the Entertainment Software Association, which is the political arm of the interactive industry. The ESA established the Entertainment Software Ratings Board in 1994 in response to criticism of violent content found in video...

Epic Games Founder Tim Sweeney Talks Three Major Modes of VR Gameplay

Tim Sweeney is the founder of Epic Games, which has been collaborating with Oculus over the last two years creating a number of different tech demos with their Unreal Engine 4. I had a chance to catch up with...

NVIDIA’s GameWorks VR Features & Integration with Unreal Engine

NVIDIA recently announced the first steps towards supporting foveated rendering with Multi-Res Shading as well as VR SLI integration in Unreal Engine 4. I talked with Nvidia's Tony Tamasi, the senior vice president of content and technology, at the VRX Conference...

Sony’s Richard Marks on the Evolution of PlayStation VR

Sony is no stranger to virtual reality, having a long history of exploring the technology throughout the years. Sony's 'Magic Lab' Director, Richard Marks, tells me about the company's history with VR and the development of PlayStation VR. LISTEN TO...

Building the Metaverse with janusVR

James McCrae wants to lower the barrier to entry for creating virtual worlds with janusVR. He has a PhD in computer science from University of Toronto, and he's created a sophisticated technology stack that allows front-end web developers to...

Presence Capital’s Amitt Mahajan Brings Lessons from Casual Mobile Games to VR

Presence Capital is a new early-stage venture capital firm that's focused on funding virtual reality and augmented reality startups. I had the chance to interview one of the co-founders Amitt Mahajan at the VRX Conference about this new fund...

Going Beyond Gaming and Entertainment with Clay Park VR’s Shauna Heller

Shauna Heller worked as a developer relations specialist focusing on non-gaming and non-entertainment experiences at Oculus for a year and a half before leaving to start her consultancy Clay Park VR. She's had a lot of exposure to the...

Predicting the Future of VR and AR with Gartner’s Brian Blau

Brian Blau is the research director in the personal technologies group at Gartner specializing in mobile apps and video game software in the consumer domain. He's also been analyzing the market for virtual and augmented reality for the past...

A Conversation with the Creator of the Award-winning ‘The Night Café’

The Night Café is an amazingly surreal immersive VR experience of walking through a space that's inspired by a painting by Vincent van Gogh. I speak with Mac Cauley about the inspiration behind the experience, which won both the...

Inspiring Wonder and Dreaming with Baobab Studios’ Animated VR Shorts

Maureen Fan is the former vice president of gaming at Zynga, but she's always had a passion for animation. Maureen's mind was blown open the first time she experienced VR because she saw that the future of animation was...

How Unity is Enabling this First Wave of Virtual Reality Experiences

Pete Moss is Unity's "VR Dude" in that he's been a long-time believer and advocate in the cross section between VR and gaming and how the Unity game engine could play a significant part. He talks to me about...

Sophia Dominguez’s Career Path into VR & her AllThingsVR Newsletter

Sophia Dominguez is going all in with virtual reality, and she talks her journey of making virtual reality a career. She's the author of the weekly AllThingsVR newsletter, and she has been working as the entrepreneur in residence at...

Signia Venture Partners on 8i Volumetric Capture, Photorealism, and Presence

Sunny Dhillon is a principal and co-founder of Signia Venture Partners as well as a lifelong gamer. Signia has been an investor in mobile games, and so he knows what to look for in terms of a solid team...

Google Venture’s Investment Strategy and Outlook for Virtual Reality

Joe Kraus is a general partner at Google Ventures, and he was on a panel at the Virtual Reality Intelligence conference in San Francisco talking about VC investment trends in virtual reality. Joe predicts that 2016 will be a...
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