Matthaeus Krenn is a user interface designer who published a prototype for an operating system in VR called VR-OS. Before VR-OS, he worked on the Prototyping team at Apple and helped shape cool projects like Animojis that now hundreds of millions of people use. Check out his Twitter and website.

What we talked about:

At Kosmos School, we make digital toys for VR.

Shane Harris is the co-founder of SideQuest. SideQuest helps gamers find and install games and apps for the Oculus Quest that are not on the official Quest store. SideQuest is growing in popularity and as of today has over 280,000 monthly active users. Check out their Patreon to support them.

Some of the things we talked about:

At Kosmos School, we make nerdy VR games.

Rosie Summers is a VR artist by night and 3D animator at XR Games by day. Check out her beautiful art on her Twitter, Instagram or website.

Some topics in this episode:

At Kosmos School, we make nerdy VR games.

Lucas Rizzotto is the creator of Where Thoughts Go, an app where you can listen to voice messages left by others and contribute your own voice to be heard. Our conversation focuses on how VR and AR shape and will continue to shape human and social interactions and how the headset technology will change in the coming years to facilitate that.

Some more topics:

At Kosmos School, we make nerdy VR games.

In this episode, Brandy Goodrick shares her experience of making VR games as an indie developer, reducing motion sickness in VR games, and how the VR community and events have helped her in her carrier.

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Brady is an indie VR game developer who's currently working on her VR Horseback Riding Simulator. Learn more on her Twitter.

In this episode with Tyler Cowen we talk about a broad range of topics. For example, why it's important that students have less homework, the Swiss science culture, and the low university completion rates.

Tyler is an economics professor at George Mason University, the director of the Mercatus Center, author of many economics books and runs the blog Marginal Revolution.

At Kosmos School, we make fun educational VR games.

In this episode, we talk about Virtual Reality's impact on the future of education. We discuss different modes of learning, such as blended learning and how VR can add tremendous value there. Futhermore, we look at non-science examplse where VR can be beneficial, such as history or arts.

Phil is an EdTech entrepreneur and is building Curie, a digital space for teachers and students to come together and learn. Interestingly, Curie runs not only in VR, but also has also web/desktop version. For example, while the teacher is explaining physics topics in VR, students might join via their desktop browser and still benefit from the lecture.

In this conversation with Jan Rihak, we talk about engagement in the classroom and how technlogy can help teachers supercharge their relationship with their students. Also, we discuss why bottom-up sales strategies in EdTech make life easier for entrepreneurs and startups.

Jan is co-founder and CEO Europe of Classtime, a solution for classrooms that complements in-class teaching with immediate feedback on students’ level of understanding based in Los Angeles and Zurich.

I met with Esteban Sosnik of Reach Capital in his San Francisco office. We talked about his background in making games and why it is exteremly difficult to make successful educational games. Also, we touched on the future of the educational technology market and why Esteban believes that it will become more attractive for entrepreneurs and investors alike.

Esteban is a partner at Reach Capital a VC firm that invests in EdTech companies such as ClassDojo,  Nearpod and Replit. 

I talked to Manish and Ketan Kothari of Edmodo in San Mateo, California about taking their first EdTech company AlphaSmart public, about the importance of teachers, and about the question if technology makes people more or less creative.