👉Recommended Resources

Recommended VR Showcases/

• “Tribeca Immersive.” Tribeca Film Festival. https://www.tribecafilm.com/immersive

• “XR.” SXSW. https://www.sxsw.com/conference/xr/

• “XR For Change.” Games for Change. http://festival.gamesforchange.org/festival-xr-for-change

• “VR/AR Award.” The Lumen Prize. https://lumenprize.com/award/vrar-award/

Recommended VR (XR) Communities

• Rlab. https://www.rlab.nyc/ (NYC's Home for VR, AR, & Spatial Computing)

• XR Access https://xraccess.org/ (Virtual, Augmented & Mixed Reality for People with Disabilities)

A Comprehensive List of XR Applications (compiled by Rob Theriault at Georgian College): EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING CATEGORIES include Acupunture, Agriculture, Anatomy, Architecture, Art, Astronomy, Bartending, Biology, Business, Career, Coffee Barista, Collaboration, Communications, Correction Services, Data Analytics, Dental, Design, Disaster Management, Driving, Emergency Preparedness, Engineering, Environmental, Firefighting, Flight Attendant, General, Health & Safety, History, Indigenous, Interior Design, Language, Medical, Mental Health, Mining, Museums & Galleries, Music, Opticianry, Pharmacology, Physics, Police, Robotics, Social Studies, STEM, Subscriptions, Teacher Training, Training General, Trades, Travel & Tourism, Vertinary, Welding | EMPATHY CATEGORIES include Autism, De-biasing, Eldery, Empathy, Environmental, Palliative Care, Sexual Harrassment, Social Studies, Soft Skills, Mental Health, Violence / SPATIAL NETWORKS / 360 VIDEOS / VIDEOS ABOUT XR

Creative Life Resource The Creative Independent (TCI) a growing resource of emotional and practical guidance for creative people, published ad-free by Kickstarter. We produce interviews, wisdom, and guides that illuminate the trials and tribulations of living a creative life, as told by working artists—including writers, musicians, designers, visual artists, and others. Our goal is to feed and grow the community of people who create.

Radiance VR Radiance is a research platform and database for VR art. Its mission is to present artists working with VR from all over the world to create visibility and accessibility for VR art and for faster adoption of virtual technologies. The platform works closely with artists, institutions and independent curators to select the highest quality of virtual art for public institutional exhibitions.

Grants and Residencies New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) a great resource for finding art jobs, space, grants,and residencies. Eye Beam Pioneer Works Culture Hub Signal Culture Wave Farm Institute for Electronic Arts at Alfred University NYSCI Designer in Residence Program Rhizome Net Art Micro-grants Flux Factory ZKM Web Art Residency Outpost Artist Resoources

Talks and Blogs Eyeo Festival TED talks Reply All “A podcast about the internet’ that is actually an unfailingly original exploration of modern life and how to survive it.” – The Guardian FunnyAsTech A tech ethicist & comedian tackle the thorniest issues in tech! Should this Exist It’s the question of our times: How is technology impacting our humanity? On Should This Exist? We invite creators of radical new technologies to set aside their business plan, and think through the human side: What is the technology’s fullest potential? And what could possibly go wrong? IBM ThinkLeaders State of the Art Each week host (and NYU ITP professor) Gabriel Barcia-Colombo speaks with a new artist, curator, technologist, AI, collector, innovator, about the ever-changing relationship between art and tech.

Recommended Books Non-fiction

• The VR Book: Human Centered Design for Virtual Reality by Jason Jerald, PH.D.

• Future Presence: How Virtual Reality Is Changing Human Connection, Intimacy, and the Limits of Ordinary Life by Peter Rubin

• Disruption: Emerging Technologies and the Future of Work by Victor del Rosal

• Storytelling for Virtual Reality: Methods and Principles for Crafting Immersive Narratives by John Bucher

• Marketing New Realities: An Introduction to Virtual Reality & Augmented Reality Marketing, Branding, & Communications by Cathy Hackl and Samantha G. Wolfe

• Understanding Virtual Reality: Interface, Application and Design, By William R. Sherman and Alan B. Craig

• Hamlet on the Holodeck, by Janet Murray

Speculative Fiction

• Ready Player One: A Novel by Ernest Cline

• Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson

• Neuromancer by William Gibson

• Rainbows End by Vernor Vinge

• He, She and It by Marge Piercy

• Pygmalion's Spectacles by Stanley G. Weinbaum

Recommended Science Fiction Films

• Welt am Draht (World on a Wire) directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder

• Brainstorm directed by Douglas Trumbull

• Total Recall directed by Paul Verhoeven

• Until the End of the World directed by Wim Wenders

• The Lawnmower Man directed by Brett Leonard

• Strange Days directed by Katherine Bigelow

• Johnny Mnemonic directed by Robert Longo

• The Matrix directed by Lana and Lilly Wachowski

• eXistenZ directed by David Cronenberg

• Ready Player One directed by Steven Spielberg

Recommended Television

• Star Trek: The Next Generation, the holodeck

• Black Mirror, episodes San Junipero and Striking Vipers

Recommended Resources for Asset Creation

• 3D Assets

  • https://assetstore.unity.com/

  • https://sketchfab.com/

  • https://poly.google.com/

  • https://www.turbosquid.com/

  • https://www.cgtrader.com/

  • https://free3d.com/

• Fair Use Media (images / audio /video)

  • http://creativecommons.org

  • https://www.pond5.com/

• Royalty-Free sound

  • http://freesound.org

  • http://freemusicarchive.org

  • http://ccmixter.org

  • http://soundbible.com

  • http://www.audioblocks.com

  • http://incompetech.com

• Creative Commons Video

  • http://archive.org

Git Links

• Unity Technologies

  • https://github.com/Unity-Technologies