Zero to Start VR Podcast: VR development for beginners
35 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 2 months ago -Dive into what you need to get started for developing VR experiences through inspiring conversations with industry leaders, developers and creators who are on the cutting edge of immersive technology, building the future of spatial computing. Our spotlight series featuring immersive artists and developers is sponsored by Meta.
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Launching JADU on mobile, a first-of-its-kind multiplayer AR fighting game, with Sarah Stumbo Huth, Gameplay Engineer, Jadu AR
May 19, 2024 14:00 - 47 minutes - 32.7 MBIn just a few short years, mobile gaming has exploded, now accounting for almost half of all gaming, with the market worth an astounding $90 billion dollars. According to Statista, by 2026 the mobile AR market is predicted to reach $36 billion dollars in revenue. As mobile AR gaming evolves beyond Pokemon Go, one company is going all-in to redefine the space with a first-of-its- kind multiplayer augmented reality fighting game. Joining me on the latest Zero to Start is AR/VR pioneer Sa...
Retail Therapy: My inner child said no to a $4,500 Apple Vision Pro
March 01, 2024 02:00 - 11 minutes - 7.87 MBApple Vision Pro doesn't have anything I really need, just everything I want. They're the coolest goggles on the planet. While hot takes about the price, the returns, the meaning of this moment continue to light up our news feed, I’m still integrating the 3 days I spent with The Vision Pro. Using Apple's spatial computer for the first time consumed me with intense, satisfying, emotional connections between software place and time. So after all my excitement why did I return it? The ans...
Apple Vision Pro's paradigm shift with Ash Baccus-Clark, Speculative Researcher and Creative Strategist, ABC Worldwide
February 02, 2024 18:00 - 43 minutes - 29.9 MBIt's Apple Vision Pro Day! Will it be as paradigm shifting as the first iPhone? If Apple is hedging its bet on spatial computing, did oculus/Meta do the hard excavation work to prove there is an innovative market for XR? Does an early adopter really need another headset in their vast collection of goggles, glasses and gadgets? These are some of the questions Ash Baccus-Clark, Director, Keynote Speaker & Creative Strategy Consultant at ABC Worldwide asks as she contemplates whether or n...
Seeing is believing (and hearing): Apple Vision Pro sold out - inside the presale, sales results and visionOS
January 25, 2024 11:00 - 24 minutes - 16.8 MBThe Apple Vision Pro presale on Friday Jan.19th was a resounding success, erasing any doubt about Apple’s ability to capture the public’s imagination - and their wallets, with its first spatial computer. The Vision Pro marks a new day in the XR industry, or rather, a new tune that has the potential to transcend the friction and failures of the last decade. Despite some early device limitations and the steep price tag, speculation is rampant about the Vision Pro selling out its preorder s...
Reflections: Apple Vision Pro and the new era of spatial computing
January 19, 2024 07:00 - 39 minutes - 27.1 MB"The new era of spatial computing has arrived." Our first episode of 2024 brings you a readout of last week's proclamation from Apple CEO, Tim Cook on the news of the highly anticipated Apple Vision Pro launch, which is just hours away from pre-sale, on Friday January 19th at 5am pacific. Vision Pro will be available in the U.S. on February 2nd. Are you walking up at 5AM tomorrow to pre-order? We are! (hopefully...) What does the Vision Pro mean for early adopters, creators and consumers...
Presence, immersive storytelling & the ultimate potential of XR with Kent Bye, Voices of VR podcast
December 26, 2023 14:00 - 51 minutes - 35.7 MBThis holiday we’re celebrating our 25th episode of Zero to Start with a very special guest, Kent Bye, host of the Voices of VR podcast. Since May 2014, Kent has published over 1,300 Voices of VR podcast interviews featuring the pioneering artists, storytellers, and technologists driving the resurgence of virtual & augmented reality. Kent is an oral historian, experiential journalist, & philosopher, helping to define the patterns of immersive storytelling, experiential design, ethical frame...
Presence, experiential design & the ultimate potential of XR with Kent Bye, Voices of VR podcast
December 26, 2023 14:00 - 51 minutes - 35.7 MBThis holiday we’re celebrating our 25th episode of Zero to Start with a very special guest, Kent Bye, host of the Voices of VR podcast. Since May 2014, Kent has published over 1,300 Voices of VR podcast interviews featuring the pioneering artists, storytellers, and technologists driving the resurgence of virtual & augmented reality. Kent is an oral historian, experiential journalist, & philosopher, helping to define the patterns of immersive storytelling, experiential design, ethical frame...
HaptX G1 Glove and the future of human-computer interaction with Linda Jacobson, Director of Marketing, HaptX
December 14, 2023 10:00 - 34 minutes - 24 MBAre you game for a full-body haptic suit? HaptX Inc. takes us one step closer with the imminent launch of their G1 Glove. HaptX invents and builds wearable technology that simulates touch with unprecedented realism, enabling haptic interaction in virtual reality and robotics. Joining me to explore the magic of the HaptX G1 glove and the future of human-computer interaction is Linda Jacobson, the Director of Marketing at HaptX. An industry pioneer, Linda helped seed VR technology as the...
Sam Altman, OpenAI and the quest for ethical AGI with Avi Bar-Zeev, Founder and President Reality Prime, XR Guild
November 22, 2023 02:00 - 43 minutes - 30.2 MBIn the few days since OpenAI's board of directors removed its co-founder and CEO Sam Altman, the future of the company and what it means for the race to AGI Artificial General Intelligence is anyone’s guess. Joining me to put this fast moving saga into perspective is Avi Bar-Zeev founder and president of Reality Prime an independent consulting service providing world-class expertise in AR & VR design and engineering, since 1997. Avi Bar-Zeev has been at the forefront of Spatial Computing ...
Metaverse Safety Week Dec.10th-15th 2023 with Kavya Pearlman, Founder and CEO, XRSI
November 16, 2023 15:00 - 30 minutes - 20.8 MBOn December 10th XRSI will kick–off their 4th annual Metaverse Safety Week - XRSI’s flagship conference, an annual occasion to meet industry leaders and discuss the challenges of safety, privacy and artificial intelligence in spatial computing. Kavya Pearlman, Founder and CEO of XRSI, X Reality Safety Intelligence, a leading non-profit organization globally recognized for advocating safety, privacy, security, and inclusion in the domain of emerging technology joins me on the podcast to ...
Reimagined Vol. II: Mahal - Emmy Award-Winning XR Director Michaela Ternaksy-Holland on innovation, affordances and social impact of XR storytelling.
November 07, 2023 10:00 - 42 minutes - 29.4 MBPrepare to be amazed and inspired by special guest Michaela Ternasky Holland, Emmy Award-Winning XR Director, Creative Strategist and Impact Producer leading equity and social change in XR and the Metaverse. A pioneer in VR journalism and experience design, Michaela shares the evolution of her unique industry journey and how her latest immersive film, Reimagined Vol. II: Mahal, is redefining traditional narratives and Tagalog / Filipino mythology to create authentic, innovative, heart-fel...
Emmy Award-Winning XR Director Michaela Turnaksy-Holland on her innovative career and creating social impact with Reimagined Vol. II: Mahal
November 07, 2023 10:00 - 42 minutes - 29.5 MBPrepare to be amazed and inspired by special guest Michaela Ternasky Holland, Emmy Award-Winning XR Director, Creative Strategist and Impact Producer leading equity and social change in XR and the Metaverse. A pioneer in VR journalism and experience design, Michaela shares the evolution of her unique industry journey and how her latest immersive film, Reimagined Vol. II: Mahal, is redefining traditional narratives and Tagalog / Filipino mythology to create authentic, innovative, heart-fel...
Reimagined Vol. II: Mahal - Emmy Award-Winning XR Director Michaela Turnaksy-Holland on innovation, affordances and social impact of XR storytelling.
November 07, 2023 10:00 - 42 minutes - 29.4 MBPrepare to be amazed and inspired by special guest Michaela Ternasky Holland, Emmy Award-Winning XR Director, Creative Strategist and Impact Producer leading equity and social change in XR and the Metaverse. A pioneer in VR journalism and experience design, Michaela shares the evolution of her unique industry journey and how her latest immersive film, Reimagined Vol. II: Mahal, is redefining traditional narratives and Tagalog / Filipino mythology to create authentic, innovative, heart-fel...
Building the next generation of spatial computing with Robin Moulder, Founder & CEO, 3lb Games and 3lb XR
October 31, 2023 15:00 - 37 minutes - 25.9 MBXR Pioneer Robin Moulder, Founder and CEO of 3lb Games and 3lb XR joins the podcast to share details about their latest releases including VR Workout and Grokit, a hand tracking multiplayer mixed reality game aimed at rapid fire interactions focused on fun while giving newer headset players more confidence - perfect for introducing your friends and family to the magic of mixed reality on a Quest 3 at your holiday gatherings. GroKit Core is their B2B resource that will help companies accele...
Hauntify Mixed Reality horror game for Quest 3 with David Montecalvo, Founder and President, VirtualGo LLC
October 24, 2023 09:00 - 24 minutes - 16.6 MB"What if I could make an app that could change an entire play area into a horror game?" That's what David Montecalvo, Founder and President of VirtualGo LLC asked himself when he saw the black and white pass-through on the Meta Quest 2, inspiring him to create Hauntify, one of Quest 2's earliest mixed reality games that combined the headset's new experimental pass through with a ghostly room-scale experience - available now for Quest 3 on Sidequest and App Lab. On this spookacular episod...
WebAR for Social Impact: The 8th Wall Hope for Haiti Challenge with Sarah Porter, Director of Innovative Philanthropy, Hope for Haiti
October 17, 2023 12:00 - 21 minutes - 15 MBWeb AR and social impact is a powerful combination that fuels dynamic connection, community building, awareness and action - at scale. On this episode of Zero to Start, Sarah Porter, Director of Innovative Philanthropy at Hope for Haiti joins me to share the nonprofit's mission, how they started their immersive journey and how you can join 8th Wall's Hope for Haiti challenge happening now - the deadline to enter is November 6th at 11:59 pm Pacific. You can jump right to the Challenge d...
Calder Archinuk, Developer Evangelist at Cognitive3D on building better experiences with spatial analytics
October 10, 2023 11:00 - 21 minutes - 15 MBDiscover how Cognitive3D’s SDK for Unreal and Unity empowers immersive creators to unlock player behavior and build better 3D experiences with Calder Archinuk, Developer Evangelist at Cognitive3D. Designing for Player agency in virtual environments is one of many challenges in VR development, yet player agency is also what makes VR an essential medium for capturing and studying player behavior. How can developers quickly and easily leverage spatial analytics to build better immersive expe...
Amir Bozorgzadeh Cofounder and CEO of Virtuleap on improving brain health with Enhance VR
May 03, 2023 21:00 - 33 minutes - 23.1 MBDive into the power of Neuroscience and VR to improve brain health with Amir Bozorgzadeh, the cofounder and CEO of Virtuleap. Brain health as you age affects each and every one of us. Caring for your cognitive well-being is essential for living an independent and fulfilling life. Virtuleap combines neuroscience and virtual reality to help increase attention levels, and address cognitive illnesses, disorders, and learning challenges. Virtuleap’s' Enhance VR app is a fun and immersive wor...
SPOTLIGHT: Sadah Espii Proctor, XR & Experiential Designer on narrative VR for theater music and art
April 03, 2023 20:00 - 42 minutes - 29.5 MBStepping into the Spotlight is Sadah Espii Proctor, XR & Experiential Designer Composer & Spatial Sound Designer On our 8th and final spotlight episode, recorded on January 2021, Espii shares her philosophy on creating narrative VR experiences for theater, music and art - and how the pandemic is ushering in new ways to experience live performance. Among Espii's many accomplishments in immersive film, art and sound, she is the director of 2019's Girl Icon. Globally, over 130 million girl...
SPOTLIGHT: Kai Frazier, CEO, KaiXR on creating the most accessible and inclusive VR platform for kids on the web
January 18, 2021 11:00 - 43 minutes - 30.3 MBStepping into the Spotlight is Kai Frazier, Founder and CEO of KaiXR, the most inclusive and accessible VR platform for kids where they can explore, dream and create! On our 7th spotlight episode Kai shares how she radically changed her life as an educator to a solo nontechnical founder in the highly volatile world of VR entrepreneurship. Find out how Kai built an inclusive and accessible VR platform for kids over the web, how to engage students with virtual reality, surviving and succeedi...
SPOTLIGHT: Lauren Frazier, CTO, Ramen VR on becoming a game developer and building Zenith, a VR MMO
December 14, 2020 11:00 - 30 minutes - 21 MBStepping into the spotlight is Lauren Frazier, Cofounder and CTO at Ramen VR, a Y Combinator VR game studio and makers of the award-winning Conjure Strike. On our 6th podcast episode Lauren fills us in on Ramen VR’s upcoming game, Zenith, a cross-platform massive multiplayer for VR funded in part by Oculus. She shares how Y Combinator prepared Ramen VR for the business world, Kickstarter tips for success and how she risked a stable career in iOS mobile development for VR gaming, with a litt...
SPOTLIGHT: Lauren Frazier, CTO, Ramen VR on becoming a game developer and building Zenith, a VR MMO
December 14, 2020 11:00 - 30 minutes - 21 MBStepping into the spotlight is Lauren Frazier, Cofounder and CTO at Ramen VR, a Y Combinator VR game studio and makers of the award-winning Conjure Strike. On our 6th podcast episode Lauren fills us in on Ramen VR’s upcoming game, Zenith, a cross-platform massive multiplayer for VR funded in part by Oculus. She shares how Y Combinator prepared Ramen VR for the business world, Kickstarter tips for success and how she risked a stable career in iOS mobile development for VR gaming, with a litt...
SPOTLIGHT: Jasmine Roberts, AR/ VR Software Engineer on developing for AR and how beginners can succeed in immersive tech
November 16, 2020 11:00 - 25 minutes - 17.8 MBStepping into the spotlight is Jasmine Roberts, an accomplished software engineer who has worked at pioneering companies including Unity, Sony Playstation and Google Creative Lab in New York City where she developed and launched, Lines of Play, a Google experiment AR app highlighting the features of Google’s new AR Core Depth API. Jasmine was a 2017 Oculus Launch Pad fellow and in 2020 Forbes recognized her on their Games 30 under 30 list. On this episode of Zero to Start Jasmine shares ...
SPOTLIGHT: Richard Duck, Store Operations Manager at Oculus on preparing your VR title for submission to the Oculus Store
November 06, 2020 11:00 - 36 minutes - 25.4 MBStepping into the spotlight is Richard Duck, Store Operations Manager at Oculus. On this episode of Zero to Start Richard talks about how his team helps guide developers as they prepare for publishing their titles on the Oculus Store. Richard highlights the importance of testing all aspects of your VR title and how testing helps create community around your work. We talk about the magic of VR, film and theatrical influences on VR, spatial audio and how studying the history of games can...
SPOTLIGHT: Richard Duck, Store Operations Manager at Oculus on preparing your VR title for submission to the Oculus Store
November 06, 2020 11:00 - 36 minutes - 25.4 MBStepping into the spotlight is Richard Duck, Store Operations Manager at Oculus. On this episode of Zero to Start Richard talks about how his team helps guide developers as they prepare for publishing their titles on the Oculus Store. Richard highlights the importance of testing all aspects of your VR title and how testing helps create community around your work. We talk about the magic of VR, film and theatrical influences on VR, spatial audio and how studying the history of games can...
SPOTLIGHT: Kathryn Hicks AR/VR Designer on new work and inspiration, open source creation tools
October 13, 2020 10:00 - 27 minutes - 18.8 MBStepping into the spotlight Kathryn Hicks, AR/VR Designer at the Danse shares how the Savannah College of Art and Design led her to virtual reality, igniting the creation of her first animated 360 film, Tall Tales of the Aerona Temple. Kathryn fills us in on her latest project working alongside Memphis developer Justin Palmer on Mend, a cross-platform puzzle game and 2019 Oculus Launch Pad scholarship winner. Plus Kathryn shares her recommendations for open source 3D tools that emerging ...
SPOTLIGHT: Clorama Dorvilias, Product Manager at Oculus on new product releases and achieving success in VR
September 10, 2020 10:00 - 40 minutes - 27.8 MBStepping into the spotlight Clorama Dorvilias, Product Manager at Oculus shares her first ah-ha moment in VR, her previous experience building VR training solutions to reduce bias in education, new Oculus product releases, tips for aspiring VR product managers and her quarantine playlist. Happy installing! Follow Clorama on Twitter @CreativeClo Subscribe to Clorama's YouTube Channel Share, like and subscribe to Zero to Start on your favorite podcast platform. ============================...
SPOTLIGHT: Allison Lee, Developer Program Manager at Oculus on Launch Pad 2020
August 16, 2020 22:00 - 40 minutes - 28.3 MBSiciliana Trevino is excited to bring you her new Zero to Start Spotlight series featuring insightful conversations with VR creators and industry leaders about how you can break into VR, brought to you by Oculus from Facebook. Now in its fifth year Oculus Launch Pad is an essential VR developer program designed for promising content creators from diverse backgrounds. 2020 Applications are open until August 20th. Our first spotlight guest, Allison Lee, Developer Program Manager at Oculus te...
Build Succeeded: Display.land assets in Unity, the end of Bose AR + War of the Worlds, the start of High Fidelity 3D audio, Black Lives Matter
July 13, 2020 10:00 - 23 minutes - 16.4 MBOur 7th episode finds us in another Mercury retrograde, over 100 days since Berkeley announced its shelter in place and reminiscing about Berkeley's annual Martin Luther King Jr. Breakfast last January. Melanie takes a 3D scan of her garden using the Display.land mobile app by Ubiquity6 (which is now discontinued), succeeds in building her first Unity scene, although we get an app ID error when we try to upload her project file to her Oculus test release channel. Happy Installing! We r...
The Moasis: Melanie's first Unity project, Unreal 5 announced, exploring Engage VR
May 29, 2020 19:00 - 20 minutes - 13.8 MBTen weeks ago the Bay Area began sheltering in place. Learning how to build an oasis in VR has never been more profound or essential, if not disorienting as we face a staggering loss of life from Covid-19 and outrage over the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis. As we learn how to turn on the lights in the virtual world we’re building with Unity, reality is in turmoil and in need of healing. While technology alone can’t cure disease or injustice, VR is a powerful medium that can inspire ...
All Systems Go! Our new VR setup, exploring AltSpace, VRChat, Tilt Brush and Facebook VR art communities
May 07, 2020 09:00 - 27 minutes - 18.6 MBWe're back! Thanks to Berkeley Community Media, Melanie has a new VR-ready gaming PC and is all set with Unity Hub and the Oculus Rift CV1. On this episode we reflect on my early days in VR (way back in 2015) and my first GearVR project, how VR development keeps you on your toes, we dive into Melanie's new PC and the VR experiences she's been exploring including AltSpace and VRChat. We also highlight a few of the many thriving VR art communities on Facebook that will inspire you on your VR j...
A Glitch in the Matrix-Corona lock down! Sidelined by an Oculus install bug from 2016
March 27, 2020 20:00 - 35 minutes - 24.4 MBWe're on lock down! Last week on March 15th Berkeley, then two days later, the state of California issued a Stay at Home order that moved us from the basement of the matrix and onto Zoom. What is an essential business and does it include cannabis clubs? Will social distancing increase VR adoption or will the supply chain limit VR to industry and early adopters? Are we living in a simulation sparked by alien technology? We contemplate our new reality and re-cap our encounter with an Oculus ...
Coronavirus Ignites VR-And Other Bytes From the Basement of the Matrix
March 10, 2020 14:00 - 20 minutes - 13.8 MBAs COVID-19 changes life as we know it and has industry scrambling to prioritize public health and employee safety by minimizing travel, canceling GDC and SXSW among many other high profile events, Social VR takes center stage in conversations about working remotely and collaborating at a distance. The challenge is, how accessible is VR outside of the industry's early adopters? The pandemic has us wondering beyond the scope of development into global supply chains and sustainability. For m...
Retrograde Redo-Unity and Visual Studio 2017
February 25, 2020 00:00 - 15 minutes - 10.4 MBWe're ready to blame the stars for the blues, snafus and surprises we encountered in the basement of the matrix this week. Whether or not you believe in Mercury Retrograde, when technical difficulties are at their astrological peak (happening now through March 9th btw), Unity development is a moving target that will have you retracing your steps just when you thought you knew where you were going. Installing Unity Hub we learned that we didn't need to install Visual Studio 2019. Ever sin...
First Things First-Installing Visual Studio
February 13, 2020 00:00 - 23 minutes - 16.2 MBWelcome to the basement of the matrix! We're kicking off our first episode with the basics of setting up your PC for VR development including installing Windows updates, clearing up the drives and installing Visual Studio 2019. We outline our project goals and talk about the benefits of making a VR portfolio to submit to the Oculus Start Program for independent developers. What's inside their box of goodies? For our weekly music playlist subscribe to Zero To Start on YouTube. Happy instal...