Welcome to our brand new weekly feature where we ask some of the industry’s leading developers and personalities 20 questions.

The week we present Cory Strassburger Co-Founder of Kite & Lighting and one of the Creators of Senza Peso.

1. State Your Name:

Cory Strassburger

2. What is your current Job / Role ?

Co-Founder of Kite & Lightning. Primarily doing the creative / 3d creation

3. What are you most famous for ?

Senza Peso , Kite & Lightning

4. What is currently on the desk in front of you ?

A giant mess!= A Mac, A PC, an Oculus HD prototype, a DK2, earphones, Anaglyph 3D glasses, a small HD monitor, speakers, memory cards, business cards, trail mix, cereal bowl (from this morning), 2 half full apple juice bottles, microphone, ipad, pingpong paddle, 1 dead bamboo plant (my fault) + 1 still alive.

5. What was your first VR experience ?

Ikrima (Other K&L Co-Founder) showed up with a DK1 after the kickstarter and put me in the Tuscany demo. After that, the idea of working on anything aside from VR seemed incredibly boring and pointless!

6. Did you feel any sim sickness or do you ever feel any sim sickness ?

I’m not super sensitive but when I’m building a VR experience I end up in the Rift allot and at low frame rates so i’ve gone home many nights feeling like Godzilla was kneeling on my head all day.

7. What’s the longest amount of time you have spent in VR in one play session ?

Play session, probably 10 min.

8. What’s the strangest experience you have had with VR ?

We had a 3D capture of a Budweiser bikini girl that we did for an AR demo years ago, I put her into a random 3D village and when i walked right up to her in the Rift, I had a really strange feeling of invading someones personal space. Maybe it was amplified because i knew her and in real life I would have never walked right up, inches from her face. Hey, someone had to check out the texture resolution! 😉

9. What’s the funniest experience you have had with VR ?

Probably watching people go through some of our experiences. Especially Senza Peso when the big head rises up, people gasp and say some funny $h!t.

10. What game or hardware device are you currently working on ?

We have a few projects in the works but i can’t really divulge any juicy details.

11. Do you have a release date in mind for your project ?

Don’t quote me but I think we should have something new out in a couple months?! Maybe 3?

12. What is the biggest surprise you have had since you started to work in VR ?

To see such a strong & quality dev community grow so quickly and one that is very open to exchanging ideas and knowledge, Including many of the big boys!

13. If you could only choose one game from your childhood to be remade for VR what would it be ?

Good question…I’d have to say, MYST. Of course, i’d probably loose 3 months of my life and get kicked out of my company for not showing up to work…so maybe its better that one stays non-VR!

14. Besides games what do you think will be the most useful application for VR ?

I think it will become an incredibly powerful tool for learning / education. At least until we’re in the matrix and can then download anything we want to know!

15. What advice would you give to people on how to get into VR development ?

I’d say, find an idea that gets you really excited and just dive in. Get messy and be creative with learning and solving problems. Don’t worry about doing everything right or try to figure out every detail of whats going on, just get something cool to work and have fun doing it. Do all that in a short amount of time and then do it again. The rest will fall into place naturally.

16. What is your favorite VR related movie ?

Matrix for sure. My brother and I have watched that movie literately hundreds of times.

17. If you had a crystal ball and could see 10 years into the future what developments in VR do you think will have happened?

My ratio of living in Virtual Reality will have crossed the 80% mark….My girlfriend and two dogs will have left me. I’ll have subscribed to new Amazon services were people come to your house once a month to cut your nasty hair and trim your Howard Hughes inspired nails. New home I.V. drip machines will be invented and cheap. They will be triggered to give you nourishment when you eat virtually. Maybe there will be VR Folks Homes, were you go to be physically taken care of while in VR.

18. Outside of VR what do you do to relax ?

Spend time with my girl friend and two dogs (Though one of the dogs is a wild krackin and doesn’t allow me to relax…at all.) watch episodes on netflix, cook, eat, travel, hang with friends (Rare!).

19. What’s your current favorite VR experience that you have not developed your self ?

I’d say Chris Milk’s Beck experience.

20. Sum up how you feel about Virtual Reality in 6 words or less ?

Life Time of Serious Fun!

You can visit Kite & Lighting website by going to www.kiteandlightning.la

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