Discover Virtual Reality Design Podcast

In this episode, we discuss a paper that attempts to formalise VR design space, and how experiences like Tender Claws’ The Under Presents defies such formalisations.

Read the accompanying blog post at

https://medium.com/discover-virtual-reality-design

In this episode, we discuss the use of scale and perspective in VR as a design technique. Our examples include Eleven Eleven and Journey of the Gods.

Read the accompanying blog post at:

https://medium.com/discover-virtual-reality-design

In this episode, we discuss the following:

- Dooley’s recent purchase of Oculus Quest and his adventures with SideQuest

- Impossible spaces through research papers and games in development, such as Tea for God and Eye of the Temple

- Blog posts that will accompany the podcast episodes

In this episode, we discuss the following:

- Aki’s experience of Fly, a location-based VR installation

- Dooley’s dip into lesser known narrative VR experiences

- Our peer review of Defector in the context of embodied cognition

Follow us on Twitter: @discovrdesign

We’re back from our summer break! Season 2 kicks off with a recap of our VR-related activities, including visits to immersive non-VR experiences such as Sleep No More by Punch Drunk and Coma by Darkfield. We also briefly cover Oculus’ announcements from Oculus Connect 6, before moving onto our interview with Drew MacQuarrie and his research into Cinematic Virtual Reality.x§x§

Episode 10: “What makes an immersive experience meaningful?”

In our final episode of Season 1, we cover the following:

- What’s up: Dooley’s upcoming trip to Asia, Aki’s recap of Surroundscapes immersive audio event

- Question of the month debrief: Best VR audio

- Vocabulary: 'Meaning' in interaction design

- Peer review: assigning a new title for next episode

We will be back for Season 2 in September!

In episode 9, we cover the following:

- What’s up: War of the Worlds immersive experience, Dooley’s conference visits to Hamburg & Santa Fe

- Peer review: Wolves in the Walls and Fisherman’s Tale

- Question of the month revisited

Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/discoVRdesign

In episode 8, we cover the following:

- What’s up: Opera Beyond XR project (Dooley), starting job at Digital Catapult (Aki)

- Question of the month debrief

- Vocabulary: Haptics and haptic design

- New peer review titles picked

In episode 7, we cover the following:

- What’s up: Immersive Arts Lab, Opera Beyond XR project

- Peer review: Self-Portrait (Interior) by Theo Triantafyllidis: https://theotrian.itch.io/self-portrait-interior

- Guest interview: Tilt Brush artist Rosie Summers on her practice

In episode 6, we discuss the following:

- Guest interview: Doug North Cook on Immersive Design Residency at Fallingwater and creating Immersive Media university courses

- Peer review: State of social VR design in Rec Room, AltSpaceVR, VRChat, Sansar, and High Fidelity

- Our ongoing question of the week: Which VR experiences present the most interesting examples in haptic design?