Teaching in Virtual Reality Every day, I feel incredibly fortunate to go to work in such an amazing industry that has no shortages of new and exciting things to explore and learn. This past week, I got a chance to bring together two of my favorite things that I’ve been doing over the past several […]
Okay, so I’m a bit late to the party, but I finally finished reading Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle that defined a Generation today and wanted to share my thoughts. Console Wars is a book about the birth of the home entertainment console industry in the early 1990’s, and leads us through Nintendo’s journey […]
So, I’ve had a fire pit in the game room of my High Fidelity domain for about six weeks and up until now, it has been sitting sadly, unlit, waiting for the right particle system to come along and bring the flames to life. I am more excited than I should be that I finally […]
If you follow me on Twitter, you might have seen a post a few days back where I shared a survey for virtual reality creators to share their feelings about the state of immersive development / building as the first month of 2017 draws to a close. It was insightful to take a look at […]
Do you ever occasionally catch yourself in a memory, only to realize that your perspective has changed? Last night, I found myself replaying a fairly mundane memory when I realized, to my surprise, I was replaying the memory from the third person perspective. It’s unlikely that this was the first time that I had ever […]
A few days ago, between sniffling, sneezing, and attempting to nap away a pretty nasty cold, I was spending some time working on my home-away-from-the-physical-world that I’m building using High Fidelity when something quite literally out of my imagination happened. It was very clearly a scenario where the “problem was between the chair and monitor” – […]
One of my goals for 2017 is to stay more organized – and part of that has been figuring out a good system for all of my VR headsets and associated gear. When I first got my HTC Vive, I played around with the Makerbot in the office and printed out a controller mount for […]
2016 was a long year. I traveled to 8 countries, took 33 flights, and spent weeks away from home – so when I got back from my North Carolina > New Jersey > Virginia tour during the Christmas holidays, I was, to be completely honest, ready for a few days of staying in and ringing […]
I can’t believe that 2016 is now officially over! The past year was an absolutely incredible year for VR & AR development. We got all sorts of access to hardware with the Oculus, Vive, Daydream, HoloLens, and Tango development kits going on sale, WebVR has begun to come into its own (I expect we’ll see […]
I recently started playing around with High Fidelity, an open source virtual reality content creation platform. It’s a distributed, self-hosted way to create your own virtual reality domains and socialize in VR, and I’ve been interested in the technology for a while, so I decided to document the process that I went through to get […]
