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Dreams of Dali Looking for a distraction while you’re at home? Here are 40 FREE and family-friendly, inspirational, and stress-relieving virtual reality applications. Dreams of Dali (HTC Vive, Oculus Rift) Acute Art  (HTC Vive, WMR) Anne Frank House VR (Oculus Quest) Bait! (Oculus Quest, Oculus Go) BBC Earth Life in VR (Daydream) Big Screen Beta (Oculus Quest) Boulevard(Oculus Rift,…

Virtual Reality for Mammograms and Annual Exam Anxiety

Virtual Reality for Mammograms and Annual Exam Anxiety

Kaiser Permanente has retrieved its poor reputation from the clenches of the 80’s and now boasts many accolades and awards of recognition for its leadership in healthcare and programs, leaders, and in places to work. Patients no longer complain regularly about mishaps, insurance nightmares and long office waits. Kaiser ranks top in member…

Self expression series "Infflicted Entanglement" on Flickr.

I visited the Floating Garden of Emotions at the Village Artist Corner (corner of Larkin and Fulton) last weekend with friends.

Inspired by The Eckmans’ Atlas of Emotions, the public was invited to explore their own personal journey of emotions through a whimsical participatory experience. It started with rolling a large-scale ‘emotional die’ to reveal what emotions to explore; this corresponded…

Awaken from the American Dream to surprise and teach us new narratives dedicated to inclusiveness.

Guest Post: Dr. Michelle Wang, PsyD

What a year it’s been. Precarious, strange, extravagant, horrific, real. It is staggering to know we are at once capable of feeling disillusion and awe, love and suffering, stillness and chaos. Where one ends and another begins is hard to tell. In times like this we are tempted to lose focus, but it is exactly this time that our full presence and participation…

Andy Warhold in TiltBrush

“I think everybody should like everybody.” ~ Andy Warhol

http://tiltbru.sh/0M2uCJUDMhZ/embed

Analysis of a Scene: Building Our First VR Prototype

by Guest Author Eiran Shalev, CTO, NewPathVR

When Lisa Padilla first approached me with her vision for NewPathVR, I was immediately inspired by what we could achieve. Imagine the possibilities to not only unlock the hidden power of the brain but to empower our users to look inside themselves and find a way to improve. To feel better. Gain the strength to refine, and then to share that with…

Can Virtual Reality Sidestep The Time Travel Paradox?

There are two technologies that humanity has been looking forward to for decades. One of these technologies is time travel. The other is virtual reality. You may want to throw ‘flying cars’ up there somewhere as well, but some people haven’t seemed to realize that planes essentially are just that. Regardless, of all of these technologies that humanity has wished for, only one of them has come to…

Originating in Buddhist philosophy, mindfulness is becoming increasingly popular in the West as the incidence of anxiety, depression, and stress-related disorders plague the undercurrent of our fast-paced industrialized way of life. Recent scientific research on mindfulness has demonstrated beneficial effects on several holistic aspects of personal health, including the mind, the body, and…

SpiritualVR finds a new home at Upload Collective

SpiritualVR is seeing some big changes this month. Our team is growing and we’re on the move. This week we added a desk over at Upload Collective, the hottest VR co-working space in the Bay Area, equipped with some of the latest AR/VR hardware and software coming off the presses. I’m seen here wearing the Microsoft Hololense, an augmented reality headset from the software giant, being used for…

Shifting the Paradigm Summit at Esalen Oct. 9-14th

Digital Raign and Wisdompreneurs presents a VR-focused event centered on entrepreneurship and wisdom practices in this week long immersion.

More on the experience: http://www.digitalraign.com/wp-esalen

This is an industry immersive with multifaceted components including: thought leadership & network expansion, a lab to bring ideas and impact initiatives to life, an invitation into balance and…

Is Your Startup Using the STUN Method? Think Twice Before You Do.

There is a theory of agriculture and farming called STUN. It means Sheer, Total, Utter Neglect. Essentially farmers spend less time cultivating the environment and finding good candidates for the surroundings and more time just throwing out a variety of seeds and seedlings and animals and reaping what does grow and what does survive. A fully operational STUN property includes an ecosystem of…

The Meaning of Colors

What’s in a color?

I’m about to launch a new company and we’re designing the logo. I’m here to tell you, don’t underestimate this part of the process.

Colors carry specific meaning. Colors push this meaning to you automatically, meaning you don’t need to calculate this upon seeing a color, your brain does this for you. So a color is very important to get right for your company, and a palette of…

The Future of TV (or “The 17 Things I Watch on TV”)

Managing Television Choices

While it’s great to have many choices, we also need to be able to quickly hone in on those to exactly what you want, when you want it, and how.

Last I checked, the U.S. TV home received, on average, 189 TV channels. Despite this, the number of channels we actually watch each day is just about 17.

So we’ve narrowed it down to 17 channels, that’s only 408 hours a day…

There is No Steering Wheel on a Roller Coaster

For me, 2015 had the highest highs and a lowest lows on record. At times I feel like I was on a roller coaster, trying to steer it! Months of hard work into my second startup, NamePlace, we received funding from our first investor. Finally, I’ve joined the ranks of those entrepreneurs who have received funding for their startup. [fluffs feathers]

San Francisco’s Ruby Skye is a dark night club,…