It's almost Spring(ish!) - time for a VR meet-up!
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Hey there everyone.
Hope you all had an amazing festive period...it seems so long ago now. Not to worry, we're here to brighten up your life with another VR meet-up.
Here's what we have in store for you this time:
Speaker 1
"The User Experience of Land’s End"
Peter Pashley is Head of Development at ustwo Games and co-designer of Land’s End.
"Our primary goal when making Land’s End was to provide a great VR user experience for a wide range of players, from VR enthusiasts to novices. I’ll talk about the successes and failures along the way and go into depth on some of our final design solutions."
Speaker 2
"Search for the ultimate escapism – Developing VR at Bossa Studios"
Sylvain Cornillon - CTO at Bossa Studios
Sylvain will talk you all through a short history of VR development at Bossa Studios. He’ll talk about the changes that Bossa has made to the cult Surgeon Simulator game to make it a true VR experience and speak about the company’s latest experiments in the development new virtual reality content.
Demos
• Peter Pashley from ustwo will be bringing some Gear VRs so that you can all play Land's End - http://www.landsendgame.com/
• Surgeon Simulator ER will of course be available on the HTC Vive
• James Edward Marks will be showing #HackthePlanet on Google Cardboard - http://www.psychfi.com/
• Ryan Bousfield will be bringing A Chair in a Room for the Vive.
If you'd like to bring your game to demo, please drop me a line. We'd love to have you there. :)
Poppy B
On behalf of Bossa Studios