VR Podcasts
The Extremes of Mental Presence: Cognitive Enhancement, Biohacking, Psychedelics, & Transhumanism
Eric Metzner identifies as a Techno-Optimistic Futurist who sometimes works an entire second workday within VR exploring different ways to expand his mind. He's pushing the limits of mental presence by using nootropic supplements for cognitive enhancement from his...
VR Veteran Tony Parisi is Leading Unity’s AR & VR Strategy Beyond Gaming
The keynote from Unity's Vision VR/AR Summit yesterday showcased just how far Unity is reaching into non-gaming content when it comes to augmented and virtual reality. The person who is in charge of Unity's xR strategy is Tony Parisi,...
Upload LA Opening Represents a Focus Shift From VR Tech to VR Content
UploadVR opened up their new 20,000 square foot Upload LA co-working space in April. I had a chance to catch up with co-founders Taylor Freeman and Will Mason as VRLA to get the inside scoop. Mason told me that opening...
VR Storytelling Highlights from Tribeca Film Festival
The Tribeca Film Festival featured over 30 different VR experiences within their Storyscapes and Immersive Virtual Arcade, and I had a chance to catch up with curator Loren Hammonds about some of the highlights of the festival program with...
Zoning AR Permissions with the Mixed Reality Service Spec
Mark Pesce is a VR pioneer who has been thinking about networked virtual and augmented reality for over 20 years now. He developed the Ono-Sendai Sega VR helmet prototype, co-created VRML, and presented his Cyberspace Protocol spec at the...
A Vest That Can Cure Deafness, and Maybe One Day Give Us Entirely New Senses
Back in 2015, Neuroscientist David Eagleman gave a TED talk about the potential to expand and create new senses. He showed off a haptic vest prototype that could translate audio input into an array of 32 vibrating motors that...
YouTube VR Wants to Find the Next Billion Dollar Genre That Hasn’t Been Created Yet
At Sundance this year, I had a chance to catch up with a couple of representatives from Google to talk about what's happening on the YouTube VR platform with 360 videos. I talked with Jamie Byrne, YouTube's Director of...
Flying in VR: How Mindride’s Airflow Takes Immersion to the Next Level
One of the most immersive VR flying experiences that I've had a chance to try so far is Mindride Airflow. I got to experience it last fall at VRLA 2016, and the weightless harness combined with a variety of different...
‘#Archery’ Takes VR’s Bow & Arrow Mechanics to the Logical Extreme
Shooting a bow and arrow in VR is a satisfying game mechanic. It uses both hands in a 6-DoF interaction that couldn't work with a traditional game controller. VR Unicorns' new game #Archery takes this bow and arrow shooting mechanic...
Viveport President on HTC’s New VR Subscription Service
April 4th was the one-year anniversary of the HTC Vive, and HTC released the subscription service for Viveport for $7/month to try out five new VR applications per month. I had a chance to catch up with Viveport president...
Sundance’s Shari Frilot on the Power of VR Storytelling to See Ourselves in a New Way
Shari Frilot started the New Frontier program at Sundance in 2007, and produced the festival's first VR experience in 2012 with Nonny de la Peña's Hunger in LA using an early Rift prototype made by Oculus founder Palmer Luckey....
SVVR Keynote: Historical Context of VR + Elemental Theory of Presence
I had the chance to give the keynote at the Silicon Valley Virtual Reality Conference where I provide some historical context for virtual reality tracing the evolution of communications mediums in order to contextualize my elemental theory of presence....
Oculus’ VR Privacy Policy Serves the Needs of Facebook, Not Users
I had a chance to catch up with Oculus' Nate Mitchell at GDC where I asked him about privacy in VR. Oculus has delegated the design and maintenance of their privacy policy to their parent company of Facebook so...
Now on Rift: How Harmonix Turned ‘Rock Band VR’ Into a Brand New Gameplay Experience
The developers at Harmonix didn't set out to create an open-ended music creativity tool with Rock Band VR, but once they realized how compelling it was to simulate the feeling of being a rock star on stage in VR,...
Advanced Brain Monitoring EEG Metrics and Experimental VR Treatments for Neurodegenerative Diseases
Advanced Brain Monitoring is a 17-year old neurotechnology company that has been able to extract a lot of really useful information from EEG data. They've developed specific EEG Metrics for drowsiness, inducing flow states, engagement, stress, emotion, and empathy...
