E21 | Creating VR Experiences Using Amazon Sumerian | Ben Moore

In this episode, I interview Ben Moore, the lead Product Manager of Amazon Sumerian. What is Amazon Sumerian you ask? It’s a VR development application that runs in your browser focused on letting Enterprise developers create VR experiences that are WebVR ready and take advantage of Amazon Web Services (AWS).

QUESTIONS ASKED:
- Tell us a bit about your background.
- How did you get into VR as a user? What was your first experience like?
- What’s your favorite VR experience as of today and why?
- Give us an overview of what Amazon Sumerian is.
- Are you looking at creating a desktop application version of Sumerian?
- Why would a developer create a native app as opposed to a web app?
- What scripting language does Sumerian support?
- Are you planning on adding any kind of console or debugging tools?
- Is Slack the best place to contact you about feature requests and bugs?
- What AWS services do you currently integrate with? What about in the near future?
- Can you animate hosts yourself?
- Can you use certain services without hosts?
- Talk about projects and how scenes work.
- What HMD’s do you currently support?
- Do you provide any optimization tools?
- What browser is needed for creating scenes?
- Any plans to allow users to create VR scenes in VR?
- Any plans to support MOCAP?
- Where do you see Sumarian in 5 years?
- Are you planning any events or competitions?

VR EXPERIENCES:
- https://www.discoveryvr.com/

LINKS:
- slack.sumerian.world
- aws.amazon.com/sumarian
- howtocreatevr.com
- howtocreatevr.com/itunes
- howtocreatevr.com/soundcloud
- howtocreatevr.com/meetup