Orchidee Stachelig is editor of Gamesauce, an on-line portal for the game industry with focus on the video game industry and a content manager at Casual Connect, working with independent game developers. She was previously a foreign affairs journalist with ICTV, based in the Ukraine. She has been a journalist since 2007, and has been covering technology since …
Sarah Hill is a National Edward R. Murrow and twelve-time Mid-America Emmy award-winning digital storyteller and virtual reality storyteller. Her company, StoryUP, captures reality in virtual reality. Hill recently completed an immersive experience for terminally ill and aging veterans not able to physically travel to see their memorials in Washington, DC with the virtual reality industry on Honor …
Marie Claire ran an article about virtual reality today, with mentions of both Women in Virtual Reality and WIVR member Resh Sidhu, creative director of virtual reality at Framestore. Media attention to women in this field is always welcome, but this particular article also attracted a number of new members to the organization, both those interested in …
Women in Virtual Reality was mentioned in an article on Bust this week. Author Daphne Stanford wrote: The media tends to cover VR as though it is just another extension of existing, male-dominated institutions like Wall Street and the tech world. Surprisingly, it’s not; rather, it’s a cutting-edge, exciting point of entry for women interested …
WiVR founding member Fee Berry, project manager at UK-based e-learning company Mediverse, was quoted in a Network World story about how virtual reality is transforming health care. The March 28 article, written by WiVR’s Maria Korolov, was also reprinted by CIO and other business and technology publications. From the article: Medical students need to practice deciding when …
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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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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Dr. Jacquelyn Morie, founder and CTO of All These Worlds recently met with PCMag met in Los Angeles. To learn more about this informative interview read \”Inside NASA\’S Version of the Holodeck\”.
Who is Jane Wilde? We are delighted to start the Spotlight Interview series with a virtual reality learning designer extraordinaire Jane Wilde. Jane has worked for many years to help others learn how to harness technology for great impact in education. Jane has worked for more than 30-plus years in the area of learning in the …
3D ICC CEO Julie LeMoine presented on the topic \”Virtual Reality in the Enterprise\” today at the OpenSim Community Conference. The full video of her speech will be up soon, but meanwhile she has shared her slides here: Download PDF: VR for Enterprise – LeMoine OSCC 2014
