Ever since joining eleVR a few months ago, I have been exploring various apps to test whether virtual social art studios are feasible. Some of my favorite apps in this vein have been SculptVR, Anyland and a handful of the … Continued
When I was invited to Newsgeist, an exclusive invitation-only unconference for “news professionals”, I thought there had been a mistake. Which of my lives had attracted the attention of news folks? My YouTube videos? Parable of the Polygons? Maybe our … Continued
It’s hard to believe that our little group has made it through another year. These are some of our highlights for 2016 – our most productive year ever by some measures (eg. number of blog posts or projects worked on). Here’s … Continued
Evelyn and I recently attended the Body of Knowledge conference at UC Irvine. The gathering was focused on embodied cognition and the arts. Embodied cognition, and here I’m going to steal Wikipedia’s phrasing, “is the theory that many features of … Continued
Exploring Anyland In the past few weeks here at eleVR, we have been exploring Anyland, yet another creative and social VR playground, created by Scott Lowe & Philipp Lenssen. Anyland is a successor to its two-dimensional counterpart, Manyland. In Anyland, … Continued
We got some new headsets! 1. Google Daydream First Impressions Using a Google Pixel phone and the Daydream peripheral, this headset is in the class of non-positionally-tracked phone-holder headsets, and it does a great job of it, particularly with … Continued
If you’ve been following our hyperbolic VR project [project page], you’ll be happy to know that we finally moved it over to its own github page and updated the API for webVR. Positional tracking is now working in the Vive, and … Continued
In honor of American Thanksgiving (seeing as we’re based in California), I thought I would write a post about some of the things we’re thankful for here at eleVR. Our Team – This one should probably count for several bullet points. … Continued
Following last week’s post, I wanted to touch on another type of research that is sometimes difficult to explain: artmaking. The “art world”, where artmaking tends to happen, generally includes commercial galleries, museums, industry, academia and independent artists. Within these … Continued