Schell Games: Former Disney VR creative director wants to make the world a better place

Presented by Intel  — “I have AR mania. I have the VR madness.” While consumer virtual reality headsets are still nascent, they are just the latest phase in VR’s history. For 25 years, Schell Games founder Jesse Schell has been part of that history, immersing himself in virtual worlds. And teaching people about them, too.

“I started doing VR experiences in 1992, and I’ve done them more or less continuously since that point. I did them all through graduate school, I went to Disney where I was creative director at the Disney virtual reality studio where we built Disney Quest, and when I started teaching at Carnegie Mellon in 2002, I started teaching a virtual worlds class — I’ve been building VR worlds this whole time. So when VR finally came into the market, I was like, ‘Yes! Let’s do this! I’m ready!’”