Resources

General Overviews

• UX Pointers for VR design | Timoni West on Medium
• The Near Future of Consumer VR | Timoni West on Medium | A good overview of the state of VR hardware and inputs
• Designing for Virtual Reality and the Impact on Education | Alex Faaborg | TEDxCincinnati
• Designing to Minimize Simulation Sickness in VR Games | Ben | GDC 2015 | A great in depth discussion with lots of examples and research

VR News & Newsletters

• All Things VR
• Hammer & Tusk
• UploadVR
• Road to VR
• VR Focus
• Rift Arcade

Game Design Related

• Jesse Schell’s six lessons for making VR games
• Making Great VR: Six Lessons Learned From I Expect You To Die
• 5 game design rules to unlearn when working in VR

Recommended Demos

• Tactera
• Sight Line Chair
• Small People Problems
• Cafe Ame (can cause simulation sickness)
• I Expect You to Die
• The Night Cafe (causes simulation sickness)
• Guided Meditation VR
  More demos and links to come

Guidelines

• Google Cardboard Guidelines on designing for Cardboard
• OpenVR SDK

Metaverse + Social Applications

• AltspaceVR
• VRChat
• There are a bunch more…