Everything Virtual - Your Source for Everything VR and Virtual Reality

In today's episode Ronnie and Zain discuss the two major announcements from HTC (Vive Pro 2 and Vive Focus 3), as well as comparing these headsets to the broader VR landscape. Thanks for listening! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/everythingvirtual/support

In today's episode Ronnie and Zain discuss the recent announcement regarding Rec Room's latest round of funding and valuation at $1.25B. Also, speculation on the next Valve Index is that it may be wireless or even standalone! Thanks for listening! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/everythingvirtual/support

In this episode, Ronnie and Zain discuss the recent announcement from Sony regarding the upcoming PSVR 2 controllers. The standards across the VR industry are setting in when it comes to hardware and that is great to see! Thanks for listening! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/everythingvirtual/support

In today's episode, Ronnie and Zain discuss their reactions to Mark Zuckerberg's interview on The 411 podcast about the future of Oculus and VR. If you haven't heard it yet, we highly recommend giving it a listen. We also cover the announcements about the new HTC Vive Tracker updates. Thanks for listening! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/everythingvirtual/support

In today's episode, Ronnie and Zain discuss the recent ambiguous tweet from HTC and what this may mean for the rumored Project Proton hinted at last year. Thanks for listening! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/everythingvirtual/support

In this episode, Ronnie and Zain discuss the recent interview by the Washington Post of Playstation CEO Jim Ryan as well as the post on the Playstation blog discussing the future of PSVR. This includes the new hardware/controllers, speculation on the type of tracking, and what the long term vision of VR and consoles looks like. Thanks for listening! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/everythingvirtual/support

In this episode, Ronnie and Zain discuss the implications of Google abandoning Tilt Brush although the project will be open sourced. They also touch on the Oculus App Lab announcement. Thanks for listening! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/everythingvirtual/support

In this episode, Ronnie and Zain discuss the recent statements made by the Survios team about how they believe PSVR 2 is the future of VR and the rumors of Apples VR headset costing $3,000. Thanks for listening! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/everythingvirtual/support

Ronnie and Zain give their perspectives on the Apple VR News and what the tech giant's entry into the space would mean not only for VR, but AR as well. Thanks for listening! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/everythingvirtual/support

In this episode John, Ronnie, and Zain discuss the major announcements from Facebook Connect 7 and their thoughts on where this pushes VR (and XR) over the next couple of years. Thanks for listening! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/everythingvirtual/support

In this episode, Damon interviews author Blake J. Harris. Blake J.Harris, - Author, journalist and historian of video gaming. Author of two best selling books on the subject. Harris possesses a writing style that often allows the reader to feel hyper-present in the captivating moments of each book, a willing participant who is there for the journey and feels the risk and C on Flo as it unfolds. Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo, and the battle that defined a generation. CHRONICLES the history of early 90s gaming giants Nintendo and Sega as they battled for control of an industry. Console Wars the film (was slated to be a main feature at SXSW 2020 before the pandemic) directed by Harris and produced by Seth Rogan, due out on CBS All access on Sept. 23rd. The History of the Future: Oculus, Facebook, and the Revolution That Swept Virtual Reality An incredible and often near 1st person account through the early days of the founders of the rebirth of Virtual Reality at Oculus as they fight to bring their visions to reality. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/everythingvirtual/support

In this episode, Ronnie and John talk about the leaked details of the Oculus Quest 2. Thanks for listening! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/everythingvirtual/support

In this episode, Ronnie and Damon join Steve and Jonny Pardo, to talk about the exciting game they are both currently working on, SAXOPHONE (VR). The Pardo Brothers have a deep knowledge of music and rhythm games, having previously worked at Harmonix, and Rockband VR, amongst other titles. We delve into what led them to take on this indie project, as well as what the duo hopes to achieve with SAXOPHONE upon its release. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/everythingvirtual/support

In this episode, Ronnie and Damon discuss the recent news about the next-gen headset currently being developed by Oculus. Thanks for listening! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/everythingvirtual/support

In today's episode, Ronnie and Zain go through their top picks for the Steam Summer sale happening until Thursday, July 9th. Make sure to grab any games you've been eyeing if they are heavily discounted. Thanks for listening! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/everythingvirtual/support

In today's episode, Ronnie and Zain recap this past week's big news items. Topics include: Oculus Go Discontinued Ready At Dawn Acquired by Facebook/Oculus Apple's VR/AR Plans and History Steam Summer Sale Thanks for listening! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/everythingvirtual/support

In this episode, Ronnie and Zain recap the main takeaways from the Upload VR Showcase earlier this week as well as dig into the hype around Star Wars: Squadrons and it's VR support. Thanks for listening! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/everythingvirtual/support

In today's episode, Ronnie, John, and Zain chat about the recent PS5 announcement by Sony and what this means for the future of PSVR. Thanks for listening! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/everythingvirtual/support

In this episode, Ronnie, Damon, and Zain share what games and experiences they have been playing over the past week. These include: - Vader Immortal Ep. 2 - Jar Wars - Pixel Ripped 1989 & 1995 Thanks for listening! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/everythingvirtual/support

In today's episode, the team recaps this week's top news items. Topics include: - HP's Upcoming Headset, the G2 - Pico's Neo 2 Headset - Qualcomm's role in standardizing the next generation of VR headsets - Upcoming major title announcements for Star Wars and Vertigo Games Thanks for listening! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/everythingvirtual/support

In today's episode, Ronnie and Zain discuss the titles they have been playing over the past week. - Box VR - Acron: Attack of the Squirrels - Baby Shark VR Thanks for listening! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/everythingvirtual/support

In today's episode, Ronnie and Zain recap this week's top news items. Topics include: - Oculus Hand Tracking - Quest for Business now available - Apple Buys Next VR - Valve/HP/Microsoft Partnership Thanks for listening! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/everythingvirtual/support

In this episode, Ronnie and Zain discuss the recent games they have been playing and give their impressions. - Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice - Echo VR - Perfect Thanks for listening! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/everythingvirtual/support

In this episode, Ronnie and Zain discuss the past week's top news items! Topics include: - Supernatural VR pricing and model announced (including a 30 day free trial) - Echo VR open beta is available now on Oculus Quest for free - Spatial VR is now free to everyone during COVID19 Thanks for tuning in! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/everythingvirtual/support

In today's episode Ronnie and John discuss the following topics: - Half Life: Alyx Reactions - COVID19 Updates Thanks for tuning in! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/everythingvirtual/support

In today's episode Ronnie, Zain, and John discuss the following topics: - Impact of Coronavirus quarantine on the VR industry - VR equipment cleaning tips (DO NOT use rubbing alcohol!) - Half Life: Alyx preview Thanks for tuning in! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/everythingvirtual/support

In this State of VR episode, Ronnie and Zain discuss the following topics currently trending around the VR industry. - Companies skipping GDC due to Coronavirus - Facebook acquires Sanzaru Games - HTC Cosmos Updates Thanks for tuning in! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/everythingvirtual/support

In this episode, Ronnie and Zain chat about the future of VR and what this new decade might bring across the technology, both on the augmented and virtual aspects of it. Thanks for listening! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/everythingvirtual/support

Apologize for uploading this later than expected, but here are our thoughts on some of the big topics that arose in the VR world last month! - John Carmack stepping down as CTO of Oculus - Oculus Link release and reactions - Half Life: Alyx announcement (releasing March 2020) As always, thanks for listening and hope you have a great holiday season! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/everythingvirtual/support

In this episode, Ronnie chats with Derek Ham, founder/designer at Logic Grip regarding their upcoming VR peripheral for the Oculus Rift S/Quest controllers, the Axe One. Derek’s team is looking for people interested in joining the Logic Grip Developer Program to work on specific use cases for their peripherals and is hard at work preparing for the consumer launch of the product. The two discuss how VR peripherals have the ability to offer users altogether-new experiences, along with specifics about Logic Grip’s overall company mission. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/everythingvirtual/support

In this episode, Ronnie and Damon chat about their experience with Stormland, Oculus Link updates, and their thoughts on the upcoming Half Life: Alyx. Thanks for listening! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/everythingvirtual/support

In today's episode, Ronnie gives his impressions on the newly released Pistol Whip. This game has had quite a bit of hype and Ronnie gives his thoughts on why it totally lives up to it. Thanks for listening! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/everythingvirtual/support

In today's episode, Zain and Ronnie discuss a variety of topics across the VR space in a new series - The State of VR! YouTube Video Link: https://youtu.be/1aOzwxu1ti4 --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/everythingvirtual/support

In today's episode, Ronnie and Zain give their top picks for games/experiences on sale for Halloween 2019 - both on Steam as well as the Oculus Store. You can find the sales here: Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/sale/halloween2019 Oculus: https://www.oculus.com/blog/trick-or-treat-score-some-spooky-savings-with-the-oculus-halloween-sale/?locale=en_US Thanks for listening! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/everythingvirtual/support

In this episode, Ronnie interviews Blair Renaud of IRIS-VR. Blair is the creator of TECHNOLUST on the Oculus Rift and he is now setting out to create a new cyberpunk themed game that is far more ambitious in scope and potential. The open-world and open-gameplay approach that Blair is taking with LOW-FI sounds absolutely incredible. The Kickstarter campaign for LOW-FI ends in less than 25 hours from when this episode is being posted, so if you are interested go check it out ASAP at the following link: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/irisproductions/low-fi --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/everythingvirtual/support

In this episode, Ronnie and Zain chat about their initial reactions to a lot of the major announcements at OC6. Plenty to talk about which will be broken down into more organized topics in future episodes but a lot of excitement and enthusiasm to share after the conference. Thanks for listening! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/everythingvirtual/support

In this episode, Ronnie interviews Erik Odeldahl, Creative Director and Co-Founder at Fast Travel Games. Erik shares details about two upcoming titles from the studio, The Curious Case of the Stolen Pets and Budget Cuts 2, the later of which is being co-developed with Neat Corporation. Both of these games are highly anticipated and both games are set to be released before the end of the year - a highly ambitious goal to be sure. These are two of my most anticipated VR titles for the year, so this is definitely an episode to check out! More about Fast Travel Games: https://www.fasttravelgames.com --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/everythingvirtual/support

In this episode, Ronnie chats with Devin Reimer, the CEO (Chief Executive Owl) of Owlchemy Labs about his studio's development for the Quest. The team is targeting a holiday release for the Quest version of Vacation SImulator, so he has a lot to say on the subject. Devin also shares his thoughts on Michael Abrash and John Carmack's competing visions for VR, hand tracking, and other developments from OC6. Devin is always a pleasure to speak with and his enthusiasm is truly contagious. More about Owlchemy Labs: https://www.owlchemylabs.com --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/everythingvirtual/support

This was a fun one. In this interview, Ronnie hosts 3 guest developers to chat about their thoughts after the first day of Oculus Connect 6. Brian Fetter, Co-Founder of Steel Crate Games (Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes) joins EVP veterans Richard Eastes (Richie's Plank Experience) and Thomas Gwyn (Containment Initiative) to talk about the Oculus Quest, hand tracking, the current and future states of the VR ecosystem at large, and much more! Special thanks to everyone for joining us for this one! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/everythingvirtual/support

SPECIAL OC6 COVERAGE In this episode, Ronnie chats with Mike Daly of Insomniac Games about their upcoming title: Stormlands. It is an open world game and Ronnie shares his experiences from the demo along with getting details from the lead designer about how the game came together. More on Stormland: https://insomniac.games/game/stormland/ Thanks for listening! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/everythingvirtual/support

SPECIAL OC6 COVERAGE In this episode, Ronnie speaks with Heiko Behrens (Software Engineer at Oculus) right after the keynote to go over some of the major hardware and software updates that were announced! Learn more about Heiko here: https://heikobehrens.net Thanks for listening! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/everythingvirtual/support

In today's episode, Zain and Ronnie chat about their experiences with Battlewake (from Survios) and breakdown the different aspects during the game talk portion of the episode. They also provide a preview to what Ronnie has in store for Oculus Connect 6 later this week. More content from OC6 coming later this week! Battlewake: https://survios.com/battlewake/ --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/everythingvirtual/support

In today's episode, Ronnie gives his thoughts and reaction to the Vive Cosmos news that will be coming out later this week (spoiler: He's not very hopeful). Thanks for listening! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/everythingvirtual/support

GIVEAWAY INSTRUCTIONS BELOW In today's episode, we have Thomas Gwyn - the sole developer behind zombie-shooter Containment Initiative - on for a round three. We catch up with his development on the game and talk about some of the struggles and successes he's had over the last 3 years. Thomas is extremely generous in wanting to share his knowledge to help other aspiring developers avoid his pitfalls, and it's incredibly inspiring to see what he has done on his own. Hope you guys enjoy this one and make sure to check out Containment Initiative if you haven't already! Containment Initiative on Steam https://store.steampowered.com/app/527700/Containment_Initiative/ Discord Link: https://discord.gg/Xw7dHKt GIVEAWAY INSTRUCTIONS Please leave a review on iTunes and send a screenshot to zain@everythingvirtual.net. If you left a review previously you can still enter - just send a screenshot of the review! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/everythingvirtual/support

n this episode, Ronnie once again had the pleasure of speaking with Chris Hanney from I-Illusions. The team recently announced their ambitious follow-up to the now-legendary VR title Space Pirate Trainer. The new game, titled "Space Pirate Arena" is being developed with local multiplayer and huge play-spaces in mind - something we can't wait to try for ourselves! Come listen to Chris provide new details on how the project came about and what the team has been working on for the last few years leading up to their exciting announcement! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/everythingvirtual/support

In today's episode, Ronnie and Zain chat about the upcoming Oculus Connect conference later this year as well as some of the games Ronnie has been playing including No Man's Sky VR. Thanks for listening! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/everythingvirtual/support

In today's episode, Ronnie and Zain catch up on some news regarding the Oculus Quest update and the Valve virtual link cable cancelation. They also chat about Ronnie's RMA experience with Valve's customer service as well as some of the games/experiences they are currently playing. Thanks for listening! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/everythingvirtual/support

In this episode, Ronnie chats with Eddie Lee, co-founder of Funktronic Labs. Eddie and his team have a real passion for the experiences they bring to their audiences. Eddie speaks with Ronnie about the development of Cosmic Trip and Fujii, as well as the current project they are working on for Magic Leap. Thank you for listening and please enjoy! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/everythingvirtual/support

In today's episode, Ronnie and Zain chat about their collective experience with the Valve Index thus far and what this means for HTC and Valve moving forward. Thanks for listening! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/everythingvirtual/support

The Valve Index is finally here! In this episode, Ronnie gives his very detailed impressions of the Valve Index after spending several hours with the device. His thoughts on the Index are a bit different than what he was expecting, so it should definitely be an interesting discussion. Let us know what you think and as always, thanks for listen! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/everythingvirtual/support

In this episode, Eric Tereshinski of Master Indie joins Ronnie to discuss his latest updates to Jet Island (and the game’s upcoming Valve Index Support!), as well as his current take on Oculus Quest title curation. Come join us as we geek out over all the new awesome VR hardware coming to market! It’s never been a better time! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/everythingvirtual/support