Mark Schramm's VR Collection Is A Sight To Behold
From SUPERHOT VR to Creature to building a physical deck, Mark Schramm believes you can achieve anything if you try.
You have been bitten by the VR bug that turns people into zombies obsessed with a future that’s always one more headset away from mainstream acceptance if you can’t stop looking at the photo Mark Schramm shared for Good Virtual Reality’s Recreation Rooms.
Up on his shelves I see everything from Tilt Five to Magic Leap to Galaxy XR to HTC Vive to Apple Vision Pro to the entire Oculus product line from DK1 to Quest 3, and so many more more besides.
When Schramm turns the camera to the corner of the room you might just break apart at the seams. That’s a Vive Tracker centering his seat in virtual reality attached to a DOF Reality Motion Simulator with Xboxes nearby. When he drives or flies in simulation he does so with up to 2X supersampling driven by an NVIDIA 5090 and 96 gigabytes of RAM.
If you are already staring at these images with eyes bulging I must warn you before you go any further. Prepare to eat your heart out in envy when you read the next sentence. Schramm is one of the few people on Earth who can tell the tax collector that everything depicted here is legitimate business expense. All of it is research for the future, installed on the path he found porting SUPERHOT VR to Quest and engineering the first-of-its-kind room-scale mixed reality experience Starship Home for Creature, led by Doug North Cook.
A video Schramm shared on social media shows the quick-change system he made to quickly swap from flying to driving. Since he first posted the video he’s now built a quick switch plate for the foot pedals.
While you’re thinking about the future VR projects Schramm might be involved in, let your imagination run wild with the secrets he’s pixelated on his wall above the spot where he and his wife work side by side in the living room.
When he’s not working on VR Schramm also woodworks. He built a deck, some shelves, and more interactive projects he chronicles on his Bluesky.
“My daughter watched me build a deck…and she watched me build a game from scratch to the extent that she asks of any other game if I had built that one as well,” Schramm wrote. “I want her to grow up knowing she can achieve anything as long as she tries.”
Episodes of the Good VR Podcast publish first to paid subscribers with the latest episode a conversation between Schramm and I covering his journey into immersive building from SUPERHOT VR to Creature.
Good Virtual Reality is seeking more Recreation Rooms to feature showcasing the spaces and hardware that take people where they want to go — details are here for how to share yours.