SXSW 2017 - Learning From the 1st VR Boom to be Successful Now

I'll be speaking on March 15th at SXSW, talking about the lessons we learned from the first boom of VR back in the early 90's. Join Jacki Morie, Linda Jacobson, Chris Stapleton and me as we talk about what it was like in those early days and what we can learn today from our successes and failures back then.

If you're at SXSW, please join us!

VR IS a new medium; but we've been here before. Experts from the early days of VR will present lessons learned with their relevance to today’s more affordable and accessible VR. We’ll use our collective history and examples to look at the future. Today, VR is still being tied to old media - trying to be film, games and storytelling, when its strengths lie far beyond these older media forms. Even with more people creating VR, the gear is far more visible than the experiences enabled by it. VR creators must learn from the past, and build works to provide immersive experiences that bring us emotional resonance, and agency to form our own memories as a normal part of our everyday future lives.

Learning From the 1st VR Boom to be Successful Now