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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
Senior Editor & Developer

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

James Tocchio
Junior Editor - Gaming

Writer published in Game Informer, Retro Gamer Magazine, Debug Magazine, Unwinnable, and in books from Ninty Media, HarperCollins, and Lost in Cult.

Mike Johnson
Junior Editor - Gaming

Writer, video producer, & livestreamer covering VR games & news.

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.

Contributors

Richie Shoemaker
Games Contributor

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
Games Contributor

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.

Luna
Tech Contributor

Luna is a VR enthusiast and dataminer mainly specializing in insights related to the operating system powering Meta Quest devices.

Luis Aviles
Games Contributor

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

Laura Mingail
visionOS Contributor

Laura Mingail helps companies navigate the future of entertainment, shaping strategies for content and tools to thrive in an evolving landscape. She also contributes to its evolution as a media contributor, SXSW Advisory Board Member and speaker.

Diego Nicolás Argüello
Games Contributor

Diego Nicolás Argüello is a freelance journalist from Argentina who has learned English thanks to video games. You can read his work in places like Polygon, the New York Times, The Verge, and more.

Craig Storm
Fitness & Variety Contributor

Craig Storm is a freelance VR journalist and creator of NextWave XR. His work explores how virtual reality is changing fitness, culture, education, and everyday life, with a focus on the people, experiences, and technologies shaping the medium.

Alicia Haddick
Japan Contributor

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

Patrons

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