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Could VR Transform the World of 3D Animation?

Could VR Transform the World of 3D Animation?

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"I once heard someone say that cinema is a window into other people’s dreams....

“I once heard someone say that cinema is a window into other people’s dreams. If that’s true, I thought, games are a window we can reach our hands through.” - The real question with VR: What happens if...

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Hound Internal Demo

Hound Internal Demo: This is the speediest voice recognition demo you’ll see today. I guarentee it.

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50 Meticulous Style Guides Every Startup Should See Before Launching – Design...

50 Meticulous Style Guides Every Startup Should See Before Launching – Design School: Nice collection of some brilliant style guides. But two comments:1. If you have a web product and you don’t have an...

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"I could write you an entire book on why that is absolutely not the case, but...

“I could write you an entire book on why that is absolutely not the case, but that’s the thing – it’s not the audience’s responsibility to read that book. It’s my responsibility deliver them quality in...

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Colosse: A Story in Virtual Reality. Gold winner of the Oculus’...

Colosse: A Story in Virtual Reality. Gold winner of the Oculus’ Mobile VR Jam 2015. Absolutely gorgeous.

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Handbook of Virtual Environments: Design, Implementation, and...

Handbook of Virtual Environments: Design, Implementation, and Applications, Second Edition (Human Factors and Ergonomics). Kelly S. Hale (Editor), Kay M. Stanney (Editor).Available for you to buy for...

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Building Virtual Reality, with Jody Medich and Daneil Plemmons....

Building Virtual Reality, with Jody Medich and Daneil Plemmons. Lots of great, practical advice.

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Conversations as mental habits

Humans are good at thinking through one potential solution, checking it for errors, and if none are obvious, going with it. But we are notoriously bad at doing more: when making a decision, we rarely...

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"Virtual Boy’s best traditional game, at least in the Nintendo style, bore...

“Virtual Boy’s best traditional game, at least in the Nintendo style, bore ideas that have been revisited in recent years. Virtual Boy Wario Land is likely the best game the machine had to offer, a...

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Project Tango is such a brilliant way to attack the proble of...

Project Tango is such a brilliant way to attack the proble of teaching computers about the real world…by literally showing computers the real world, rather than explaining it to them.

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"We’re no longer designing interactive movies; we’re imagineering playable...

“We’re no longer designing interactive movies; we’re imagineering playable theme parks.” - Jed Ashforth, Rebooting Game Design for Virtual Reality at GDC Europe 2014.

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"We have heroic efforts like the Internet Archive to preserve stuff, but...

“We have heroic efforts like the Internet Archive to preserve stuff, but that’s like burning down houses and then cheering on the fire department when it comes to save what’s left inside. It’s no way...

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"Madeline Ashby, a futurist with a degree in strategic foresight who has...

“Madeline Ashby, a futurist with a degree in strategic foresight who has worked for organizations like Intel Labs, the Institute for the Future, SciFutures, and Nesta, says that another big part of the...

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"In a traditional adventure game, objects are often uni-taskers: screwdrivers...

“In a traditional adventure game, objects are often uni-taskers: screwdrivers are for unscrewing and nothing else. Knives are for cutting and nothing else. It is a sort of “key and lock” mentality. But...

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The Near Future of Consumer VR

The Near Future of Consumer VR: It’s actually not that easy finding all the specs and descriptions of the new headsets, controllers, and motion sensing hardware coming out over the new few months. So I...

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"My advice is: don’t virtual reality design or work, because you’ll never...

“My advice is: don’t virtual reality design or work, because you’ll never want to do anything else after that. Mobile games—who cares about mobile games anymore? VR is the best thing ever for design or...

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"In terms of VR experiences, I really view VR as a compliment to current...

“In terms of VR experiences, I really view VR as a compliment to current gaming technology. And I think that it’s going to get bigger and bigger and bigger as time moves forward, as people put it on....

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"As for as their approach to new work, there’s one thing HUSH is adamantly...

“As for as their approach to new work, there’s one thing HUSH is adamantly against, and that’s brainstorming. “Brainstorming stinks,” says Schwarz. “You can’t just bring in a bunch of smart people,...

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"…Once you get what you want, you will just want either a greater amount of...

“…Once you get what you want, you will just want either a greater amount of it, or you will want something else.” - Richard Hell, answering the question “Are the best things in life free?” in the New...

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