Voices of VR Podcast

Voices of VR Podcast

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...

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...

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...
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