VR Podcasts
Improving E-Commerce Conversions with 3D Models of Products with Prizmiq
Darrick Morrison is a the founder and CEO of Prizmiq, which is working as e-commerce tools to scan products with photogrammetry techniques, and then embed them within a shopping cart experience. Darrick comes from an ecommerce background, and he...
Using Psychedelics and Virtual Reality for Self-Discovery
Matthew Terndrup is a virtual reality journalist and content creator who's interested in exploring how the combination of psychedelics & virtual reality can help the process of self-discovery. Matt traces the influence that psychedelics have had in helping to...
Exploring Research into the Virtual Body Ownership Illusion
Domna Banakou is a Ph.D. student studying with Mel Slater at the Event Lab in Barcelona, Spain. She's been researching different aspects of the virtual body ownership illusion in order to investigate the short-term and long-term impacts of embodying...
Rev VR Podcast (Ep. 113): Thanksgiving and VR with Boaz Ashkenazy
Most of my regular listeners know that I have recently taken a job in the architectural visualization world. I have moved to Seattle to work for a company called Studio 216, and am very thankful for the opportunities provided...
Creating Meaning and Saving the World with CCP and Virtual Reality
Hilmar Veigar Pétursson has a bold vision for CCP with the mission statement "To create virtual worlds more meaningful that real life." He believes that after someone's basic needs on Maslow's hierarchy of needs are met, then humans will...
Nick Ochoa on the State of Social VR
Nick Ochoa is a co-founder of UploadVR, and he was recently at the VRX Virtual Reality Intelligence conference hosting a panel on social VR. Nick talks about of his open questions about social VR such as what does it...
Epic Games’ Ray Davis on Lessons Learned from ‘Bullet Train’
Ray Davis is the Studio Manager of Epic Games Seattle, and he talks about working on Bullet Train, which is Epic's latest VR tech demo that uses the Oculus Touch controllers and debuted at the Oculus Connect 2 gathering....
Analysis of Gear VR’s Place at the Inception of the Consumer Virtual Reality Ecosystem
Ben Lang jokes that we've been at 'Year Zero' of VR for three years now, and the official release of the Gear VR today marks the first official launch of a consumer-ready virtual ready head-mounted display. Ben joins me on...
Madrona Venture Group on Why Seattle is a Hotbed for VR and AR
Matt McIlwain is a managing director at the Madrona Venture Group, which recently announced their first investment in the virtual reality space with a $4 million Series A round of funding for Envelop VR. Matt talks about why Seattle...
50 Years in VR: Tom Furness’ Journey from Making More Lethal Pilots to Non-profit Learning
Tom Furness has been pioneering virtual and augmented reality for the past 50 years, longer than almost anyone else in the world. He has an amazing history that started back in 1966 while he was in the Air Force...
AMD’s Layla Mah on the Future of Advanced Rendering with LiquidVR
Layla Mah is the lead architect of virtual reality and advanced rendering at AMD. She talks about AMD's LiquidVR technology built to help bring comfort, compatibility and content to virtual reality. VR requires a lot of graphics processing resources,...
Daniel Fearon on Designing ‘Scorched Battalion’ Turn-Based VR Artillery Game
Daniel "SvenViking" Fearon is a developer behind the Scorched Battalion turn-based artillery game, which won the Silver prize for the Oculus Mobile Game Jam. Daniel talks about some of the design principles between alternating between first and third-person perspectives,...
Building Empathy with a 360-degree Video about a Sexual Assault from Two Perspectives
Specular Theory CMO Ryan Pulliam and founder Morris May talk about some of the 360-degree video experiences that they've produced over the last year including an edgy Sundance film called Perspective: The Party, which tells the story of a...
Jason Storey on Colosse’s Gaze-Controlled Narrative & Echo Red’s Motion Controls
Jason Storey (aka apieceoffruit) is a VR developer, Left-Handed VR podcast co-host, and all-around VR enthusiast who has worked on number of different VR experiences. He talks about working on the gaze-control mechanism in the cinematic VR experience of...
Rev VR Podcast (Ep. 112): Smell the Metaverse with the Cilia Kickstarter
Virtual Reality already does a pretty good job of fooling our eyes and ears, but we need to remember that we have other senses as well. Peter Sassaman is trying to add smell to our VR experiences with his...
