Blog – Reality Next

Ready Player One good for box office, bad for business

Joel — Thu, 12 Apr 2018 21:14:32 +0000

My low opinion of the film notwithstanding (or perhaps in spite of it), Steven Spielberg’s adaptation of Ernest Cline’s fanboy novel Ready Player One has done reasonably well at the box office—topping $100 million domestically this past weekend. The virtual reality-based dystopian adventure takes viewers through a classic hero’s journey with lots of special effects, […]

Why stories matter. And they matter.

Joel — Mon, 02 Apr 2018 05:01:27 +0000

It happens to everyone at some point in their life. You lay in bed at night, knowing in your gut that you’re in the wrong place. Maybe it’s the wrong career, the wrong relationship, the wrong city. Maybe it’s the noise of politics, social media, or the never-ending news cycle that doesn’t feel right. Whatever […]

RealityNext goes to college

Joel — Wed, 07 Mar 2018 19:19:31 +0000

We know that kids in middle school and high school have a great time going through our story-game making workshops. But we didn’t know how the methodology would transfer to people in different age groups and demographics. So on March 3, we tried something new: we got together with the Virtual Reality Association at the […]

Teens Produce Their First Game in Virtual Reality

Joel — Mon, 05 Feb 2018 22:34:46 +0000

When 13 teens showed up at Fluke Hall on the University of Washington campus one wet November day, they had no idea what they were in for. When they emerged from Portal VR in Ballard on Jan. 28, they had just played a virtual reality game they had made through learning, narrative-building, performance and collaboration. […]

Students step up for our first RealityNext Workshop

Joel — Thu, 16 Nov 2017 07:43:26 +0000

On November 11, 2017, RealityNext conducted a workshop for teens (mostly middle and early high school) to assess how our mixed-modal methodology work in the field. RealityNext’s supplemental education model enables students to collaborate on learning about a topic within a specific subject inside virtual reality, then turn the knowledge they have synthesized into a […]

Inspiring figures

Joel — Thu, 02 Nov 2017 13:18:11 +0000

As we’ve built the concept for RealityNext and our One World Initiative, we’ve come across a large number of figures who have provided inspiration for our direction. Some of these experts in the fields of education, technology and philosophy may have inspired us through a single quote, others through their large bodies of work. Here […]