Nicole Lazzaro on the Four Keys to Fun in Virtual Reality

Nicole Lazzaro is the founder and president of XEODesign, Inc., and she has twenty years expertise in Player Experience Design for mass-market entertainment products. She’s recently started developing a VR game called Follow the White Rabbit and consulting on a number of different virtual reality projects.

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She has a lot of insights for how to go beyond an interesting VR tech demo and the elements required to translate that into a full game. She’s come up with a model called Four Keys to Fun, which she describes as the following:

1. Easy Fun (Novelty): Curiosity from exploration, role play, and creativity
2. Hard Fun (Challenge): Fiero, the epic win, from achieving a difficult goal
3. People Fun (Friendship): Amusement from competition and cooperation
4. Serious Fun (Meaning): Excitement from changing the player and their world

She talks about some of the VR experiences that she thinks have started to bridge that gap between a novel tech demo and experiences that start to incorporate those challenging and hard fun elements.

Nicole also recently gave a presentation about 5 Must Have VR Strategies for Better Games that provides more details. For more information, then be sure to check out her website for XEODesign, Inc.

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