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Type :
VR Experience
Released :
11 / 2014
Primary Roles :
Director
Involvement :
Concept through final delivery
Responsibilities :
Conception, creative direction, game direction, business development, hiring
Recognition :
- Launch title - Gear VR
- Protoaward 2015 - best educational game (winner)
- Protoaward 2015 - best mobile game (winner)
- Digital Hollywood 2015 - Mobile VR Experience – Original Content and Advertising
Media:
Market Wired Article
theBluVR gameplay
Description :
theBluVR transports you into a gorgeous virtual reality experience that’s not only interesting and fun, but educational. theBluVR allows you to live through the creatures in the ocean as they actually are, in their own habitat, untouched by humans - not in a zoo.
Platforms :
Gear VR
Partners :
Wevr, Samsung
theBluVR is a 20 minute immersive and educational roller coaster ride through three photo-realistic ocean environments. theBluVR features a toggleable Planet Earth like narration and sweeping score by the talented composer Kevin Brough
theBluVR was my first VR project as Director and Creative Director and I originally designed it as a fully interactive ocean experience. We pivoted to an on-rails experience due to the strict hardware limitations in rendering photoreal environments and characters
theBluVR was a defining creative experience for me and the insight I gained formed the basis of many of my early VR presentations at SVVR, GDC, Immersed
As part of the leadership team at Wevr and business developer, I demo’d early versions of theBluVR at many conferences and events like Sundance, SXSW, and GDC. At last count, I have personally introduced VR to over 200 people using theBluVR.
The critical success of theBluVR directly led to Valve tapping Wevr to create early VR content (theBlu: Encounter) for the in-development HTC Vive.