Sponsor: Good Virtual Reality At The Jigsaw Nationals Convention March 27-29 In Atlanta By Way Of Jigsaw Night & VR Villa
VR Villa is arming itself with the best puzzling apps and bringing them to the USA Jigsaw Nationals Convention in Atlanta later this month.
Good Virtual Reality is attending the event and meeting Jeff Basladynski, the organizer of VR Villa, as well as checking out the latest features in Jigsaw Night developed by Steve Lukas and his team. I’ll be there from Friday afternoon through Sunday with Lukas enabling me to attend by becoming the first sponsor of Good Virtual Reality.
If you’re in Atlanta, I’d love to see you there from March 27-29.
Jigsaw Night
Jigsaw Night is an early access project challenging some of the ideas Meta executives have about VR and mixed reality. Apps like Puzzling Places, which allows for piecing together 3D objects, are a tremendous good time in headset and will be present at the VR Villa too.
Jigsaw Night, though, aims to recreate the full social experience of putting together a 2D jigsaw puzzle with none of the restrictions.
A headset, of course, is still a restriction, with the weight and resolution and software operating the system itself often blocking people in unexpected ways from connecting with those nearby. A developer can create an engrossing single-player experience that can keep you entertained for hours in that headset and some developers create online games that rely on active servers filled with strangers. A vanishingly small number of developers attempt co-located projects allowing people in the same room to enjoy an experience together — and co-location is where Lukas started with his design and expanded from there. What I’ve seen in pre-release builds is Lukas working tirelessly to ready for public release a piece of software that uses everything from the LIV camera to Meta avatars in ways that stretch beyond the bounds of the Quest platform to erase as many barriers to social interaction between people as possible.
VR Villa is a volunteer-driven organization and Lukas is an independent developer who is the first to sponsor my independent publication. There’s no big platform money here funding my trip to Atlanta, nor making the effort to bring a bunch of headsets to a convention in Georgia to show VR to people who have never tried it before.
The aim from both VR Villa and Jigsaw Night is to create lasting memories for people who have never experienced VR before.
My thanks to Steve Lukas and VR Villa for supporting my work here with Good VR and if you’d like to discuss scheduling a sponsorship or receive more information, email Ian Hamilton at ianontherecord@gmail.com with “Sponsor” in the subject line.