Showing posts with label virtual reality. Show all posts
Showing posts with label virtual reality. Show all posts
Saturday, May 30, 2020

The powerful presence of non-presence in "Out For Delivery" by Yuxin Gao, Lillyan Ling, Gus Boehling

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" Out For Delivery is a 42 minute playable documentary shot with a 360-degree camera. The slice-of-life experience follows a food de...
Thursday, May 3, 2018

A MAZE 2018 after-action report

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This year I attended A MAZE 2018 in Berlin . It's still probably one of the best video game events in the world; it happens in one of...
Friday, April 6, 2018

A call for video game neorealism

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Bicycle Thieves (1948) This is adapted from a spur-of-the-moment Lost Levels 2018 talk. In video games, we understand realism as mea...
Saturday, September 30, 2017

Adventures in VR sculpting

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I've been sculpting a lot in VR lately (via Oculus Medium) trying to figure out whether it's "the future" or not. While ...
Wednesday, August 30, 2017

On the hopeful undead future of VR and "A Short History of the Gaze", by Paolo Pedercini / Molleindustria

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I played Paolo Pedercini 's first (and maybe last?) virtual reality piece "A Short History of the Gaze" last year at Weird...
Saturday, June 24, 2017

Some recent conversation on cultural appropriation

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A few months ago, I wrote about how I think VR "empathy machines" are basically just a form of appropriation , where VR brands ...
Saturday, June 10, 2017

On that one brilliant episode of Murder She Wrote that thinks VR is kind of bullshit

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Murder She Wrote was a long running TV show about an elderly mystery novelist (played by Dame Angela Lansbury ) who happens to solve all t...
Wednesday, May 3, 2017

The war in heaven: a three-dimensional VR culture clash

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Virtual reality is a weird collaboration between several different fields / industries, and each practice brings its own assumptions and ...
Thursday, April 6, 2017

"If you walk in someone else's shoes, then you've taken their shoes": empathy machines as appropriation machines

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EDIT, 23 June 2017: want to know more about "cultural appropriation"? I wrote a post about it, where I also try to recap a lot ...
Wednesday, March 22, 2017

"Take ecstasy with me": a manifesto for Gay VR

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Before I explain what the heck I mean by "Gay VR", let's review why Gay VR would be necessary. I gave a MVR talk on this topi...
Friday, March 3, 2017

"Queer Utopian VR" for MVR 2.2 in Brooklyn, 7 March 2017

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Next week I'm participating in MVR, an arts-technology presentation series by Pioneer Works and Nancy Nowacek. This particular instal...
Tuesday, February 21, 2017

On cs_ppc, "school maps", and the politics of remediating / re-mapping real-life places

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[ cs_ppc.bsp ] by: Walnut<+>Warrior for: Counter-Strike pic.twitter.com/P8XWw0ppuD — .BSP (@dot_bsp) February 18, 2017 The ex...
Wednesday, February 1, 2017

Teaching, Spring 2017

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This semester, I'm teaching three game development classes. Here's a bit about each one: "Intermediate Game Development"...
Tuesday, December 6, 2016

A progressive future for VR: why VR is already getting worse, and how to make it better

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Last time , I wrote about how I think of game culture as too conservative and too product-oriented to truly change or redirect toward more a...
Saturday, February 13, 2016

Oculus Rift DK2s kind of (secretly) do work on laptops (sometimes) and you can make VR stuff in Unity (maybe)

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This is a rant + technical guide about how to get an Oculus Rift DK2 to work with Unity 5 so that you can make stuff with it. Maybe. I...
Sunday, November 1, 2015

The limits of a conceptual VR student game; and what would a "better" game about 9/11 look like?

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The internet has been abuzz about "8:46" , "a narrative driven experience designed for virtual reality, which makes you embo...
Thursday, May 1, 2014

Get Better Soon, dev diary #4: conceptualizing input in virtual reality.

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This is a development diary series for "Get Better Soon", an NEA-funded gay club VR simulator game I'm making for Different G...
Friday, September 20, 2013

Nostrum and clouds.

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Hey! I made "Nostrum," a short flight sim game for the Oculus Rift VR Jam thing , and I placed 2nd. I won a bunch of money and ...
Sunday, September 1, 2013

Further notes on developing games for virtual reality.

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I'm pretty sure no one remembers that I promised to release Radiator: Polaris at the end of August 2013 (shhh), but here's what h...
Saturday, May 25, 2013

Thoughts on VR aesthetics

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The current working standard for first person games is Valve's VR implementation in Team Fortress 2 : the player uses the mouse to mov...