Kate Edwards shares a quality with many people in the game industry: She didn’t set out to work in games. Edwards served as the Executive Director of the International Game Developers Association for five years, during which she fought to increase awareness about inclusivity and work-life balance for an industry…
A couple months ago on a murky Seattle day, my colleague Andrew and I were at the HaptX office discussing the upcoming release of Ready Player One. The new trailer had dropped, and it showed a set of haptic VR gloves worn by protagonist Wade Watts.
Having read the book…
Our senses are an interface with the world. Each sense adds a level of immersion in how we experience reality. Remove or alter even one sense and your perception of reality differs. A dolphin in the ocean can perceive creatures and objects in the sea from great distances, while I’m…
Remember the N64 Rumble Pak? When I was younger, I never tired of the mysterious vibrations emanating from my controller while I navigated through obstacle fields in Starfox 64. Then I got a Playstation with a DualShock controller. And then an Xbox with, well, a controller. By then, the novelty…
This proposal is part of the We Make Realities Makeathon in Seattle, Washington on April 1 (no joking). The goal of this Makeathon was to craft a social VR experience, which ideally addresses abuse and negativity in social VR.
Greg Bilsland is a graduate of the University of Washington’s digital…
No Man’s Sky handled its launch with a cocktail of miscommunication and missed expectations. Its players, drunk on poor PR, naturally took to the internet to vomit up complaints.
What could NMS have achieved if it hadhandled launch communications differently?
Did it leave money on the table?
As a professional in digital media and marketing, I feel a tension in the adoption of any new technology. When do you buy and how do you know if the purchase will be worth it? …
The din of conversation surges in my local Starbucks, drawing my attention to the line of people snaking its way among the high tables. …
