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[{"content":{"text":" It's been an exciting 2024 both for Schell Games and the folks at Meta! We've celebrated the release of five total Limited Time Events for Among Us VR , Puzzle Sculpt on Apple Arcade and Silent Slayer: Vault of the Vampire on Meta Quest and SteamVR. Meanwhile, Meta is celebrating 10 years of exploring mixed reality and the metaverse with gamechanger products such as Meta Quest 3S and Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses hitting the market. To help celebrate, Meta spoke with Jesse Schell, CEO of Schell Games, to help spotlight pioneers of the mixed reality industry. Read the full article here , or keep scrolling to read on. "},"id":"ee4bedd6-b1aa-4eb0-961e-2b55733b4355","isHidden":false,"type":"textBlock"},{"content":{"location":"kirby","image":["file:\/\/m8YJfPZZlqUyz0jG"],"src":"","alt":"Concept art from I Expect You To Die 3: Cog in the Machine","caption":"Concept art from I Expect You To Die 3: Cog in the Machine ","link":"","ratio":"","crop":"false"},"id":"943f3456-def5-4991-805f-c6a591fe4215","isHidden":false,"type":"imageBlock"},{"content":{"level":"h2","text":"Excerpt from the Interview","customid":""},"id":"599b5911-2df8-40ff-b2e7-43aba88c1be5","isHidden":false,"type":"headingBlock"},{"content":{"text":" Interviewer: And looking back over the last 10 years, are there any anecdotes or stories from the past decade building VR games and experiences that really stand out to you? Jesse Schell: One story I think of a lot is that whenever there\u2019s a new medium, people have a hard time figuring how to make new things, right? They always try and just copy what came before. You can go back and look at when film was invented. People said, \u201cOh, great. Now we can tell stories with film. We can go to a play and point the camera at the play and that\u2019s our movie.\u201d Right? But now it turns out there\u2019s a lot more to a movie than just pointing a camera at a play. The same thing happened when the touchscreen showed up. People said, \u201cGreat, we\u2019re just going to take PC games and dump them on the touchscreen.\u201d But that didn\u2019t really work. People had to invent games that were touch-oriented in order to really use the medium. We saw the same thing with VR. One of the ways we experienced it really up close and personal was when we were trying to build VR prototypes at Schell Games, and some of the developers were not really enthusiastic about it. They didn\u2019t like the restrictions that they felt in VR. I talked to one developer who was working on a prototype. I said, \u201cMake sure you don\u2019t do too much camera motion because it can make people a little uncomfortable sometimes. So maybe just do some teleporting in this experience.\u201d He totally disregarded what I had said, and he moved the camera all over the place and it was uncomfortable. I said, \u201cHey, I asked you not to do this. Why did you do it this way?\u201d He said, \u201cSee this is the problem with VR. When you put on the headset, you want to fly all around like a superhero and instead you get tied to a chair\u2014and nobody wants that.\u201d We all looked at each other, and we were like, \u201cOh! Superhero getting tied to a chair!\u201d Like, that happens actually all the time but nobody ever made a game about it. That was the moment we came up with I Expect You To Die \u2014because we thought about those moments where James Bond is trapped and he\u2019s got to get out of this deathtrap. "},"id":"74be16a2-f707-432f-a1e3-e3e6387c938d","isHidden":false,"type":"textBlock"},{"content":{"location":"kirby","image":["file:\/\/4mWzpD1v644jXwb6"],"src":"","alt":"Concept art of Until You Fall","caption":"Concept art of Until You Fall ","link":"","ratio":"","crop":"false"},"id":"b16ce7ea-1e37-4060-89d7-fea696eb606a","isHidden":false,"type":"imageBlock"},{"content":{"level":"h2","text":"Read the Full Interview","customid":""},"id":"f6ec5d64-7c80-4d80-9440-c35be7a86fba","isHidden":false,"type":"headingBlock"},{"content":{"text":"For a lot of people, [XR] can be really liberating and freeing to be able to show the world: \u201cHere\u2019s how I see myself.\"","citation":"Jesse Schell, CEO of Schell Games"},"id":"a5feedbb-65b6-4702-af7f-b22a7bcfde10","isHidden":false,"type":"quoteBlock"},{"content":{"text":" Quotes like the one above are just a taste of the wonderful insights from Jesse Schell in this engaging interview. Read the full interview on the Meta Quest Blog for even more. "},"id":"19ded51b-7b1c-45a2-b904-2d15209ba03e","isHidden":false,"type":"textBlock"},{"content":{"link":"https:\/\/www.meta.com\/blog\/quest\/jesse-schell-games-vr-mixed-reality-history-future\/","text":"Read More","class":"","id":""},"id":"86a5f6f5-0078-46e7-b1bb-b8451b18ad59","isHidden":false,"type":"buttonBlock"}]

CEO Jesse Schell Featured in Meta Interview

October 25, 2024 · news

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