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Tender Claws From Virtual Virtual Reality & The Under Presents To Stranger Things VR & Body Proxy The co-founders of Tender Claws explore the joy of making.

The latest episode of the Good VR Podcast goes live on all podcast platforms this Sunday talking with Tender Claws -- the creators behind some of the most memorable experiences in VR.

Listen now as a paid subscriber. www.goodvirtualreality.com/p/tender-cla...

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The Biggest Problem To Solve For Mass Market VR Is Colocating People & Media Alex Coulombe and Steve Lukas discuss the importance of colocated experiences.

Alex Coulombe and Steve Lukas are pioneers and they have a vision of VR headsets that share their reality with colocated people both physically and remote. The problem they are solving is the key to mass market use of headsets. www.goodvirtualreality.com/p/the-bigges...

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Kluge's Arturo Perez On Taking Synth Riders Everywhere Beat Saber Won't Go Kluge CEO Arturo Perez joined the Good VR Podcast from his home in Marina Del Rey, California for an in-depth conversation about everything from competition with Beat Saber and the coming addition of…

Kluge CEO Arturo Perez joined the Good VR podcast for an in-depth conversation covering next steps for Synth Riders (Dua Lipa!) and the changing realities of the VR market, from layoffs to eye tracking. www.goodvirtualreality.com/p/kluges-art...

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Artist Ashley Pinnick From Tilt Brush To Starship Home In 2014 while she was still in college, artist Ashley Pinnick asked her mom to meet someone at a 7-Eleven to pick up an Oculus Rift DK2 for her from a Craigslist ad.

The Good VR podcast talked with artist Ashley Pinnick, who worked on Tilt Brush, Cosmonious High, Color Space, Starship Home and more.

The 46-minute conversation is now available on all podcast platforms.
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JoyReign and JDun From Horizon Worlds To Apple Vision Pro JoyReign and JDun, aka Shika Duncan and Jeremy Duncan, each wore an Apple Vision Pro to record an episode of the Good VR podcast from their home in Louisiana.

VR evangelists JoyReign and JDun, aka Shika Duncan and Jeremy Duncan, each wore an Apple Vision Pro to record an episode of the Good VR podcast from their home in Louisiana.

Listen to our conversation now on any podcast platform.

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Gravity Sketch Founder Oluwaseyi Sosanya After A Decade Of Designing In VR Gravity Sketch co-founder Oluwaseyi Sosanya joined the Good VR podcast from London for a 50-minute conversation covering their path into VR and spatial computing.

Gravity Sketch is more than a decade old with clients using the software to make products both digital and physical. Founder Oluwaseyi Sosanya recounts the path and offers advice to others exploring VR on the Good VR podcast. www.goodvirtualreality.com/p/gravity-sk...

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"In VR, we take the weirdness in our minds and make space for one another to look around. This space is vast and ever-growing, and we need each other to call out good VR when we see it."

Hell yeah. This article from @ianhamilton.net is hitting hard on the dead parrot that is the metaverse. #pcvr

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VR Explorers Make Discoveries Outside The Metaverse Leave the metaverse to metamates working for captain Mark Zuckerberg.

VR folks who were on the subreddits in the early days will remember Damo's illustrations poking fun at VR leaders. He's created some new art for Good VR here on the idea of the metaverse.

www.goodvirtualreality.com/p/vr-explore...

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Beat Saber is coming to kill the wifi on your airplane. Via:

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Good Virtual Reality Month 2 Rec Room is dead, Horizon Worlds is on life support, and the second month of Good VR ramped up introducing new people to headsets at a jigsaw puzzling convention.

Month 3 of Good VR kicks off tomorrow with a podcast recorded with the founder of Gravity Sketch. Become a paid supporter today to receive that conversation in your inbox a week before it goes out to all podcast platforms.

Here’s the month 2 summary:

www.goodvirtualreality.com/p/good-virtu...

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As Rec Room Shuts Down VRChat Builds 'For The Long Term' Rec Room closes June 1 while planning a tool for creators to download their work.

The latest on Rec Room, VRChat and Horizon Worlds is covered here by Good VR.

Please share and subscribe.

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The Consumer PC VR Market Turns 10 Years Old This Week 10 years ago this week the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive started arriving to PC buyers.

Artists and explorers around the world mark 10 years of consumer PC VR this week.

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A Developer Tries To Make VR Buyers Of People Who Have Never Worn A Headset Puzzlers try VR headsets for the first time at the USA Jigsaw Nationals.

One weekend of speed puzzling on tables and in space. open.substack.com/pub/goodvr/p...

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Colocation Is Still A Puzzle To Solve For Good Virtual Reality Jigsaw Night at the VR Villa presses Meta Quest to its limits.

The first on-location reporting from Good VR is from a jigsaw puzzle convention in Atlanta.

Tomorrow there’s a VR speed puzzling competition here.

www.goodvirtualreality.com/p/colocation...

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Excellent VR Tree Versus Squirrel Party Game Sees First Update In Over 5 Years Acron: Attack of the Squirrels from Resolution Games is one of VR's best party games and it's just been updated with a new map and better networking.

One of VR's best party games was just updated after a gap of more than five years since the last update. www.goodvirtualreality.com/p/excellent-...

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Do you have writing that speaks with passion about humanity in virtual reality?

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Owlchemy Labs continues to poke fun at various real-world locations with a trip to Sporelando in April inside Dimensional Double Shift.

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Really enjoyed my conversation with Ian on the Good Virtual Reality podcast - check it out below!

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Thomas Van Bouwel From Cubism To Laser Dance Thomas Van Bouwel is the solo developer behind Cubism and Laser Dance.

Some of VR's most skilled creators are trained architects, like Cubism and Laser Dance designer Thomas Van Bouwel, who focuses on the art of satisfying interactions.

Audio available first to paid subscribers and now free on all podcast platforms. www.goodvirtualreality.com/p/thomas-van...

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Neal Stephenson Comments On Metaversal Failure VR wins when the metaverse loses.

Neal Stephenson commented on Meta's failure: "There is no business case for headsets any more."

Good VR disagrees.

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iRacing Joins X-Plane 12 In Streaming High-End Simulation To Apple Vision Pro: What About Mac Support? Dual announcements from iRacing and X-Plane point to a big moment for fans of high-end simulation coming to Apple headsets.

The Venn diagram of people buying high-end Macs and high-end PCs shows as two separate circles. Apple can go after the other circle by increasing comfort and lowering both cost and complexity for high-end simulation. www.goodvirtualreality.com/p/iracing-jo...

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Meta Needs To Make Amends To Horizon Worlds Creators Creators didn't build in Horizon Worlds because of Meta. They built despite Meta. And they deserve more than a company that only listens when it's scared.

Dr. Ruth Diaz brought her experience in Horizon Worlds to my site as the second guest author on Good VR -- heartfelt thoughts on the meaning of community and the humanity poured into the spaces people make. www.goodvirtualreality.com/p/meta-needs...

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Podcast | Good Virtual Reality | Ian Hamilton | Substack Audio from people building toward good virtual reality. Click to read Good Virtual Reality, by Ian Hamilton, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.

Coming next week to all podcast platforms is a 45-minute talk with Thomas Van Bouwel, the creator of Laser Dance and Cubism. Listen now as a paid subscriber.

There's over 5 hours of audio now public from the Good VR podcast:

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It always bothered me that a guy in charge of VR things at Meta didn’t use often. Kind of like the whole company really. Watching them do this slow motion shuttering of their vr side is maddening.

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Dropping this here to note the moment the goal posts moved.

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Avi Bar-Zeev From Multiplayer VR In 1992 To Apple Vision Pro Podcast discussion on the language of mixing worlds, privacy, and the future of spatial computing with a professional who worked on projects that impacted Disney, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Apple.

Podcast discussion now available on your platform of choice covering the language of mixing worlds, privacy, and the future of spatial computing with Avi Bar-Zeev, who worked on projects that impacted Disney, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Apple.

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The Met Brings Art From New York To VR In Every Way New York's Metropolitan Museum Of Art explores the foundations of good virtual reality.

The Metropolitan Museum Of Art in New York explores the foundations of good virtual reality. www.goodvirtualreality.com/p/the-met-br...

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Horizon Worlds Is Dead As Meta Prepares To Reinvent The Metaverse Meta today sent an email putting structure to what was already said in February.

In an Instagram session on March 18, Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth said they decided today to “keep Horizon Worlds working in VR for existing games…for the foreseeable future.”

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That's It. XR Is Up to Us A wake-up call to the XR industry.

Steve Lukas issues a call to action for the immersive industry. www.goodvirtualreality.com/p/thats-it-x...

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Meta Took Down A Quest Piracy Effort Hosting 10 Terabytes Of VR Games Parallel to the announcement that Horizon Worlds is dead a Quest-focused piracy group deleted its 10 terabyte store of VR games due to a removal demand from Meta, according to posts made by members…

Meta took down a Quest-focused piracy group that had over 10 terabytes of content stored, according to members of the group. www.goodvirtualreality.com/p/meta-took-...

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