Hypergrid inventor and OpenSim core developer Crista Lopes, also known as “Diva Canto” in-world, just won the $10,000 prize for software in the public interest from the Tides Foundation, a social justice and sustainability-focused organization. Lopes, who is the first woman to win this award, is also a professor of informatics at the Donald Bren School of …
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Murray Center for Women in Technology “Digital Realities” Conference Explores New Career Opportunities NEWARK — The Murray Center for Women in Technology at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) will hold a one-day conference, “Women Designing the Future: Digital Realities, Today and Tomorrow,” on Friday, April 1, beginning at 8:30 a.m. in the university’s Campus Center …
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WiVR member Helen Situ interviewed at the GDC conference. “You’re really creating these incredibly powerful, emotional experiences where you\’re shaping worlds,” says Helen Situ, virtual reality evangelist at NextVR, at the Game Developers Conference here this week. Excluding part of the population creates a gap in the experience, she said. Read full article here.
Sports and education are two of the key areas in which both individuals and companies can become successful in virtual reality today, ahead of the impending launch of the major headsets later this year, according to a panel of VR experts that included WiVR members Helen Situ and Nonny de la Pena. “An easy concept …
UploadVR just ran a piece profiling women working in virtual reality, including some of our WiVR members: A New Era: Women Working in VR The only thing I would have added to this is that women have been working in virtual reality all along, and have been among some of the earliest pioneers in this …
PitchBook just published a round-up of five U.S. venture capital firms that target female-led companies, which included BBG Ventures, BELLE Capital USA, Female Founders Fund, Golden Seeds, and the Women’s Venture Capital Fund. Read full report here. One firm, which is particularly focused on virtual reality, was missing from the list, and that is Rothenberg Ventures. They are a friend of WiVR, …
WiVR founding members Nonny de la Pena and Jacki Morie were featured prominently at Vision Summit 2016, a Unity-hosted conference dedicated to virtual and augmented reality held this month in Hollywood, California. This is the first year for the conference, which is a cross industry event for artists, engineers, programmers, designers, musicians, directors and producers, hardware manufacturers …
Founding member of the WiVR and CEO of Machinima Studio Pooky Amsterdam recently created an informational video for HealthlinkNY. The video, titled Consent and the HIE, defines concisely what The Health and Information Exchange is to the viewer. The video also stresses the importance for doctors to have the ability to access vital medical history and …
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Immersive storytelling takes center stage at first-ever annual event featuring innovators from across the virtual reality landscape, including, HTC, Google, USA TODAY, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal and Framestore ……..Read http://www.hypergridbusiness.com/2015/10/storynext-conference-features-virtual-reality/
According to a new survey by YouVisit, 8 percent of American women have tried out virtual reality — but that\’s just about half the rate at which men have tried it out. However, 21 percent of women say that they want to try virtual reality, a bit closer to the 36 percent of men who …
