The metaverse is the future. Here’s how you can become a part of it. Introduction As a veteran of the XR industry, I constantly get questions about how to get started with AR/VR. There are many ways to do this, and you can really get down to the nitty-gritty depending on…

Technology is not as objective as we like to believe. When you think of the future, what does it look like? Maybe flying cars? Glass cities? Holographic advertisements? Going to school or work in virtual reality? Robots and AI assistants? You likely didn’t imagine the people behind those innovations. All…

Easily convert any city name into a mappable geolocation. — Tableau has a built-in function to recognize the names of major cities. But what if the cities you need for your visualization are not automatically recognized by Tableau? If you only have a handful of cities, it might be faster to Google the latitude and longitude values manually and add…

Simulator sickness is subjective, but it can be measured. I’ll show you how. — Back when I first started researching this area of VR comfort, it was a nightmare sifting through studies and fighting paywalls to find a copy of an actual simulator sickness questionnaire, including those which aimed to modify the original Simulator Sickness Questionnaire as part of their study design (which is…

Everyone experiences it differently, so be prepared! — While as UXers we do our best to design our VR experiences in the most comfortable ways possible, the truth of the matter is that we’re all different. How our users experience the world around them — and react to it — all depends on the unique combinations of their…

Understand and mitigate the impact of simulator sickness on VR users. — Given that up to 1 in 3 people [1, 2] experience some type of motion sickness, it’s highly likely that either you or someone you know has felt a bit queasy after using a virtual reality (VR) simulator for the first time. And this includes your users. Although simulator sickness…

Stay in tip-top application shape for the new year. — The holiday season, for most companies, is the busiest time of year. While certain seasonal positions may be in high demand, other companies take this time to to recoup costs and focus on closing out the year rather than onboarding new hires. This is especially true when office attendance is…

Sometimes articles aren’t enough. Dive deeper with these UXR titles. One of the most difficult parts of switching careers, in my humble opinion, is not the technical skills. Technical skills, while time-consuming to master, can usually be obtained through a systematic study of tools. …

Let me help you through some issues I had to solve the hard way. (That’s trial and error.) The Vive Focus 3 is pretty new, having only been released less than 1 year ago in June 2021 as of this article. …