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In this episode, Ronnie interviews Jani Joki, Director of Engineering at UL Benchmark (formerly Futuremark).  The company’s 3DMark suite of software has been the preiminent PC 3D graphics benchmark for the better part of two decades.  UL has since developed VRMark, a tool specifically designed to gauge VR performance.  Jani discusses the early development of 3DMark, their goals for VRMark, and the future of 3D […]

In today’s episode, we chat about Ronnie’s experience at E3 and some of his favorite moments and highlights. We also dive into the news about the new EV2 Knuckle controllers from Valve and how they are Gen 2 VR tech. Finally we wrap up with a bit of game talk and what we’re currently playing. Hope you enjoy and thanks for listening!

E3 2018 is in the bag!  In this episode, Ronnie sat down with Alan Jernigan (Co-Founder/Managing Director) and Derek Young (Co-Founder/Creative Director) of Charm Games to hear their thoughts regarding this year’s show.  Alan and Derek are no strangers to the podcast, as they met with Ronnie to discuss their prior VR title, FORM, in Episode 83.  While Charm Games is hard at work on […]

In what was definitely one of the highlights of our E3 coverage this year, Ronnie had the pleasure of speaking with Danny Bulla.  Danny is the Design Director and Co-Founder of Polyarc Games.  In this episode, Danny speaks about the development of their hit title “Moss”, what it was like going from Bungie to VR development, and many of the challenges and joys of working in this exciting new […]

In this episode, Ronnie interviews the developers of two (2) games he had a chance to demo on the E3 2018 show floor.  The first interview is with Alan Flores, the Creator/Lead Designer of Drums of War.  Partially inspired by the troll-led armies from Lord of the Rings, Drums of War uses drumming as a means of movement and attacking the game’s dwarven enemies.  The second interview is […]

Bethesda recently announced two (2) new VR titles that it has currently in development: Wolfenstein Cyberpilot and Prey: TransStar VR*. Unlike the company’s previous releases, both of these titles were developed from the ground-up for VR and it really shows. Ronnie had the opportunity to play early versions of both of these games. In this episode, he provides his in-depth reactions and thoughts on what […]

In a somewhat unexpected turn of events, Ronnie was lucky enough to meet Ben Vance, the man behind Irrational Exuberance: Prologue.  Ben is a co-founder of FLOAT.  Together with the team’s producer Daniel Lisi, the two discussed with Ronnie their upcoming title “Screensavers: Extreme Classics”.  Definitely a team to be keeping a close eye on!

In this episode, Ronnie spoke with Evan Bluetech, Audio Engineer/Producer, and Scott Hedstrom, Chief Technical Officer, of Microdose VR.  While you really cannot put Microdose VR into words, we spoke about what they have been working on up to this point and what they hope to build for the future.  As the team from Microdose VR puts it, VR allows for the merging of visual art, music, […]

To begin this year’s E3 festivities, Ronnie had the pleasure of speaking with HTC Vive’s Director of PR, Troy Edwards.  Troy and Ronnie discussed HTC’s partnership with DisplayLink on their upcoming release of the official Vive Wireless Adapter. Following Ronnie’s conversation with Troy (at the 05:45 mark), Andy Davis took a moment to explain more of the details as to what makes DisplayLink’s wireless solution for […]

In today’s episode, we talk about our experiences with Downward Spiral: Horus Station. Previously, Ronnie had interviewed the developers as well as talked about his experience with an earlier version of the game. With the full release available now, we broke our conversation down into 3 main topics: Presence/Atmosphere Narrative Gameplay Mechanics If you’re into Sci-fi at all we think you’ll love this game as […]