Building Experiences to better engage Students.
Building Experiences to better engage Students.
Blogging about our experiences with VR/AR around Texas!
Blogging about our experiences with VR/AR around Texas!
Ashton Kennedy has been working in the entertainment industry for over 7 years. Her passion for filmmaking stems from the fulfillment that comes with creating exceptional entertainment with a driven and collaborative team. She recently joined the full-time MBA program at the University of Texas at Dallas to learn the business skills and expertise required to become an effective leader and manager within the entertainment industry. Previously, she worked as an associate producer at Monkey Deux in Los Angeles assisting with the production of EPKs and behind the scenes materials for major studio projects such as "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty."
Veena Somareddy is currently working on her PhD in Virtual Reality at the University of Texas at Dallas. She previously worked as a software developer at Dimensions and Shapes and interned at Intuitive Surgical as a Virtual Reality Software Researcher working on 3D sandbox style games for the medical industry. She is currently developing a number of VR applications while working on her degree.
Rhiannon Koehler graduated from Loyola Marymount in May 2012, with Honors, with a major in History and a minor in Theatre Arts. Her seminar paper, “Beyond Womanhood: Complicity and Action in Nazi Germany,” won the 2012 History Department Award for Best Research Paper by a History Major. She is currently a Teaching Assistant and Ph.D. student in American history at UCLA.
For our first installment of featured studios, we have Mike Leach, the founder of Make or Break Games (MorB), a game studio located here in Dallas, Texas. Read our interview to learn more about MorB's work and also Mike's thoughts about the emerging VR industry!