XR Connections - Extended Reality - XR | AR | VR | MR

No. 18. VictoryXR's Steve Grubbs on building a Virtual Reality Classroom Environment and Developing a Standards-Based VR Curriculum

Steve Grubbs, founder and CEO of VictoryXR, discusses building a Virtual Reality Classroom Environment, engaging a team to develop and present a Standards-Based VR Curriculum, choosing the ENGAGE platform as VictoryXR's virtual campus, how hardware development is accelerating adoption of VR education, and some of his favorite educational VR experiences. VictoryXR Steve Grubbs Pico Neo 2 Engage Rene Gadelha Daniel Coyle The DAVE School Award-Winning VR Frog Dissection SideQuest Vive Focus Pro ChalkBites VR Corporate Training Kai Liang EduLearn20 AWE Anne Frank House in Virtual Reality 1943 Berlin Blitz

No. 17 Rene Pinnell on Cannes XR 2020, The VR Museum of Other Realities, Grants for XR Artists, and the Kaleidoscope Creator Community.

In Episode No. 17 Rene Pinnell of Kaleidoscope VR discusses Cannes XR 2020, The VR Museum of Other Realities, and how he and his wife have built Kaleidoscope and a community-funded grant model that helps artists migrate into the new medium of XR. Rene Pinnell Kaleidoscope Cannes XR - June 22-26 2020 Elie Levasseur - XR program Leader - Cannes XR / Le Marché du Film & Head of NewImages XR Market AltSpaceVR VRChat The Museum of Other Realities Tribeca Film Festival VEER Premium VR Experiences VHRAM! - Virtual Reality in Hamburg Virtual Festival 2020 Oculus Rift Titans of Space VR Game Wired Magazine BattleScar Immersive Film Acknowledgements: ​Call Recording: Skype Podcasting: Anchor Recording: Logic Pro X ​ Music: "Are You There" by DR. MARS

No. 16 XR Rapid Prototyping with Preview Lab's Bernard Francois

EPISODE 016 SHOW NOTES: ​Featuring an interview with Bernard Francois, founder of Preview Labs, who discusses the unique challenges and benefits of rapid prototyping for XR, his company’s VR and AR projects for the National Institutes for Health and Yale University, and his experience presenting and networking at the online AWE 2020 Conference in May 2020. Preview Labs ​Global Game Jam ​Oculus DK1 Retrospective from Road to VR ​HTC Vive ​XR Health ​National Institutes of Health ​Yale University - Play for Real Lab - Invite Only VR Vaping Prevention Game ​AWE 2020 Conference ​Preview Labs Blog ​Physics in Games and VR Simulations Presentation by Bernard Francois at NYU ​Game Developers Conference - August 4-6 2020 (Online) ​Boston Virtual Reality Meetup ​VRAR Global Summit ​Acknowledgements: ​Call Recording: Skype Podcasting: Anchor Recording: Logic Pro X ​ Music: "Are You There" by DR. MARS

No. 15 Virtual Reality and Education with Kai Liang of MEL Science

EPISODE 015 SHOW NOTES: Featuring an interview with Kai Liang of MEL Science and Smart Stone Technology. Kai discusses how he got his start in Virtual Reality for Education, the role quality content plays in the adoption of VR for K-12 use, subjects that VR excels at, and his recommendations of VR education content providers. Kai Liang MEL Science Smart Stone Autostereoscopic 3D Dimenco Vassilli Philippov (MEL) Bernard Frischer (Virtual Rome) ​The Body VR ​CoSpaces ​Wild Immersion ​Catherine D. Henry ​Alan Smithson ​Alvin Wang Gralin HTC ​Leland Hedges PICO ​Acknowledgements: ​Call Recording: Zoom Podcasting: Anchor Recording: Logic Pro X ​ Music: "Are You There" by DR. MARS

No. 14 Participating in the MIT XR Reality Hack with Tom Buchanan, Co-Founder of haptic glove maker Contact CI.

EPISODE 014 SHOW NOTES: Episode 14 of XR Connections features an interview with Tom Buchanan, Co-Founder and Chief of Product for the haptic glove maker Contact CI. Tom discusses his experience as a participant of the XR-focused MIT Reality Hack, his team's award-winning immersive Impact Journalism project, Rising Tide, haptic technology, the Varjo XR-1 Mixed Reality Headset, Contact CI's Maestro gloves and recent advancements in hand-tracking. Tom Buchanan Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT Reality Hack Discord Voice and Text Chat App Rising Tide MIT Reality Hack Project Rising Tide Team Members: Liam Broza LifeScope Lab, Carlos Calva, Clair Chuff, Grace Ma Varjo XR-1 Varjo XR-1 and Volvo Contact CI / Maestro Haptic Glove Cincinatti VR Meetup Vectre XR Development Studio Cincy Inno / American Inno Network Ultraleap, Leap Motion Tracking and Haptics Valve Index Controllers HandTracking/Oculus Quest NReal Glasses MagicLeap Acknowledgements: Call Recording: Skype Podcasting: Anchor Recording: Logic Pro X Music: "Are You There" by DR. MARS Hosted and Produced by Liam James O'Malley at Mars & Mercury