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About Us

UploadVR brings you news, reviews, and analysis from the VR and AR industry. Our distributed team, supported by a pool of passionate freelancers, cover important software and hardware releases as well as the researchers and developers driving this technology into wider use. We strive for fairness, accuracy, and depth in our coverage, and we advocate the safe, ethical, and inclusive use of these technologies.

Staff

Kyle Riesenbeck

Operations Manager

Guiding UploadVR into the future. Manager, journalist, podcaster, early adopter.

David Heaney

Editor & Developer

Writing about XR hardware, technology, and industry trends while developing UploadVR's tech stack.

James Tocchio

Writer

Video games writer published in Game Informer, Retro Gamer Magazine, Debug Magazine, Unwinnable, and in books from Ninty Media and Lost in Cult.

Beck Gibson

Marketing Director

Taking care of UploadVR's partnerships for advertising, marketing and sponsorship opportunities. Producing content for our outlets and loving every minute of it.

Freelancers

Tomislav Bezmalinovic

Tomislav has been covering the VR industry for more than a decade. His interest in technology is driven by its potential to enable new forms of art and human experience.

Richie Shoemaker

Print dinosaur Richie started writing about games when news was delivered on paper tablets and Dactyl Nightmare was all the rage. He still hopes magazines (and W Industries) will make a comeback.

Pete Austin

Pete is a writer and avid enthusiast of gaming technology. He reports exclusively on VR gaming and has been publishing reviews as a freelance writer since 2020.

Mike Johnson

Mike is a video producer and streamer who has covered VR news & games exclusively since 2021.

Luis Aviles

I am a video games editor with a passion for new experiences and storytelling.

K. Guillory

K. Guillory is an illustrator and immersive journalist who writes about virtual design and gaming trends.

J Brodie Shirey

J. Brodie Shirey is a big comic book, video game, and science fiction fan, and has written video game news articles for Screen Rant and Game Rant. He currently lives in York, Pennsylvania.

Craig Storm

Craig is a VR writer, immersive fitness advocate, and Next Wave XR project creator. Based in New Jersey, he explores XR from the perspective of adult users discovering VR's potential beyond gaming.

Alicia Haddick

Journalist, Photographer, Scriptwriter. Born in England, living in Tokyo. Capturing life through words and photographs.

Alan Truly

Alan loves to explore and share how technology can expand what's possible. AR and VR live at that cutting edge and soon replace both phones and laptops as the best solution for work and play.

Patrons

Thank you to our UploadVR Patrons for helping us expand our coverage: