What We Offer
Empress VR is founded on the principle of amplifying diverse voices in immersive storytelling. We do this by providing educational opportunities that follow an economic justice model. If you can’t afford a class, we have scholarship opportunities available, please get in touch at classes@empressvr.com
Social VR Tours
The EmpressVR Social VR Tours focus on giving people who already own VR headsets a supportive and educational introduction to Social Virtual Reality Applications , such as VRChat, Horizon Worlds, RecRoom, and Spatial, among others.
If you’ve tried these apps on your own, you may have found that it’s a bit overwhelming to join a public lobby and not know who you might meet there. It can be loud, it can be confusing, and unless you have a friend to teach you about your menus and settings, it can be uncomfortable.
These tours are different!
In these tours, you will learn about your comfort settings, how to use your menus, change avatars, navigate to worlds that only your friends can join, and add friends that you meet in your tour group so that you can connect with them later on. We will visit at least 3 user-created worlds per tour, and as an added perk, you’ll be added to the EmpressVR Community so you can connect with creators, academics, and immersive storytelling professionals!
For the last 30+ years, social communities have been enthusiastically creating the realm of 3D virtual space, which can now be explored through virtual reality headsets! This wonderful space of connection and creativity is being expanded by users as they learn about world building, immersive storytelling, and creating delightful and surprising interactivity in their creations. Book a tour and join the community today!
Online Classes
Our Online Classes are designed with right-brained creatives in mind. Knowing that we all sometimes struggle with business concepts, technical skills, and fighting the myth of the starving artist, these classes are designed to move at your pace and focus on empowerment while keeping concepts simple and direct - freeing up your time to focus on the creative and emotive elements of your projects.
EmpressVR believes in economic justice and sliding scale pricing are available for all our courses, with the standard cost listed on our scheduling service. If you would like to either pay more, or if you would like to request a scholarship, please email classes@empressvr.com
Community Events
EmpressVR supports a Global Community of individuals from diverse backgrounds who are exploring careers as virtual reality developers, immersive storytellers, creative technologists, sound designers, and 3D modelers among many others. We are exploring the innovative intersection between technology and traditional art forms, to create emotionally complex and technically experimental works, to test the limits of our own imaginations, and surprise and delight audiences while working to make the world a better and more equitable place by fulfilling on our primary objective:
To Amplify Diverse Voices in Immersive Storytelling.
Sign up for a community event, join us in VRChat for Virtual Vibes on Sundays, or keep an eye out for other local events that we’ll be putting together over the coming months and years!
We can do more as a community than we can alone!
Join us and see what we can make together!