MN VR and HCI monthly meeting for February 2026: Arcology Zero by Clement Shimizu and Carol TrindadeThe Arcology Zero Hypothesis - Clement Shimizu and Carol Trindade@DrClementShimizu and @CarolTrindadeArtist had a dream of building an artist ARCOLOGY inspired by SimCity 2000, When investors said, “OBJECTION!”, the pair took Delusional Action to make it real!In this talk, […]
MN VR and HCI monthly meeting for January 2026: Display Glasses overview and demosAnother 50/50 split of presentation and hardware demos. Check the demo and parking details below!Smart Glasses Overview and Display Glasses in Depth - David Mann and Zach WendtWith the recent debut of consumer smart glasses that look fairly normal, descriptors like AR […]
MN VR and HCI monthly meeting for October 2025: Gaussian Splatting and VR demos of Meta HyperscapeOur last meeting of 2025 will be about 50/50 presentation and VR demos of Hyperscape and Gracia.Intro to Gaussian Splatting - Zach WendtGaussian Splatting (GS) is a great way to render detailed real world scenes and polygon unfriendly content […]
MN VR and HCI monthly meeting for September 2025: Meta Connect 2025 conference highlightsMeta Connect XR HighlightsThe annual Meta Connect developer conference is Sept 17-18th (with all sessions online.) Join our annual event to cheer and jeer all the announcements from the main keynote, developer's keynote, and other XR highlights - condensed into 60-ish minutes! […]
MN VR and HCI monthly meeting for September 2025: Meta Connect 2025 conference highlightsMeta Connect XR HighlightsThe annual Meta Connect developer conference is Sept 17-18th (with all sessions online.) Join our annual event to cheer and jeer all the announcements from the main keynote, developer's keynote, and other XR highlights - condensed into 60-ish minutes! […]
MN VR and HCI monthly meeting for August 2025: Making Into The Light, an upcoming VR dungeon crawler, using Unreal Engine.Making Into The Light - Matt SummersInto The Light is an upcoming immersive dungeon crawler designed for VR. It focuses on teamwork and the strategic use of five unique character classes and their abilities, and […]
MN VR and HCI monthly meeting for August 2025: Making Into The Light, an upcoming VR dungeon crawler, using Unreal Engine.Making Into The Light - Matt SummersInto The Light is an upcoming immersive dungeon crawler designed for VR. It focuses on teamwork and the strategic use of five unique character classes and their abilities, and […]
MN VR and HCI monthly meeting for July 2025: Making VELOCIBLASTER for Quest and PC VRMaking VELOCIBLASTER - Matt ForemanVELOCIBLASTER is a multiplayer VR sci-fi shooter for Quest and PC VR, where you play as a sentient velociraptor wielding high-tech blaster cannons. Fly with rocket thrusters, master vertical combat, and outmaneuver your raptor rivals to […]
MN VR and HCI monthly meeting for July 2025: Making VELOCIBLASTER for Quest and PC VRMaking VELOCIBLASTER - Matt ForemanVELOCIBLASTER is a multiplayer VR sci-fi shooter for Quest and PC VR, where you play as a sentient velociraptor wielding high-tech blaster cannons. Fly with rocket thrusters, master vertical combat, and outmaneuver your raptor rivals to […]
MN VR and HCI monthly meeting for June 2025: Spiders for Quest, AWE and WWDC recapsMaking a market-friendly Spider - RJ WhiteEarlier this year in a quick and dirty development cycle, I developed a concept for a multiplayer VR game in a month, and had 50,000+ players less than a month after launch. I’ll be […]
MN VR and HCI monthly meeting for June 2025: Spiders for Quest, AWE and WWDC recapsMaking a market-friendly Spider - RJ WhiteEarlier this year in a quick and dirty development cycle, I developed a concept for a multiplayer VR game in a month, and had 50,000+ players less than a month after launch. I’ll be […]
MN VR and HCI monthly meeting for May 2025: Quest 3 MR For RealsQuest 3 MR For Reals - Zach WendtQuest has steadily gained MR/AR features over the last year, and now has nearly the full feature set of Apple Vision Pro / HoloLens. Even without the full performance of those $4k headsets, this allows […]