Salsa-Virtual is featured in the new documentary “Fear of Dancing”, available this September.
Author: Jorge
Open Hand Hold testing
Sometimes we need to disable all the clutter of our virtual dance studio, the fancy avatars, their fancy clothing, the students, the music, the teacher’s voice recording, and the backdrop forest, and just set a testing environment just for our partner connection. In here I’m testing the correct handholds for a typical lead/follow open handhold. […]
Managing Height Differences While Dancing
One of my friends is a modern progressive follower with old-school romantic preferences: leads to be taller, dark and handsome. Now, for leads, if you are indeed taller, dark and handsome, you’ll likely have success both in romance and on the dance floor. As for me, I have two out of three! We can’t control […]
It’s here
Almost 2 years ago to the date we started going hard on developing Salsa-Virtual. There was much excitement as we pressed the “Release Now” button. Even more when STEAM said, “review and are you sure you want to publish?” And climaxed when we then had to type the text “Release my app.” Enjoy, Everyone! And […]
Can virtual reality dancing change your real life?
First of all, yes, virtual reality dancing is a thing! In fact, Salsa-Virtual is a step-by-step guide in Virtual Reality (VR) that teaches you how to salsa partner dance and increase your real-life social activities in a safe, yet fun-filled way. You learn at your own pace with virtual teachers. We made it for everybody to […]
Hands: Position, Rotation, Weight, Orientation, Confusion
Hello all, this is Jorge with some developer updates about Hands! I am super glad right now to have finally fixed some of the hands issues in Salsa Virtual. Why hands are complicated I remember a variety TV show in which a prankster would walking down the sidewalk carrying two huge garbage bags which […]
Wishlist Salsa-Virtual now in our Steam page!
Things are happening! We’re excited and anxious at the same time, because it’s becoming real. Which is an odd thing to say about a Virtual Reality app. But it is now listed on Steam, so you can wishlist, follow or tell your friends about it! Click here to add Salsa-Virtual and make magic happen! On […]
Learn to dance in Virtual Reality!
Have you ever been on the sideline at parties, thinking “I can’t dance,” but secretly wishing you could, so you can join in on the fun? Have you had to suggest alternatives when your date recommended you hit the dance floor? Did you try to try dancing, but you froze? Or maybe you liked dancing, […]
8 ways to recognize a great dance teacher (and 5 ways to identify bad ones)
Recently someone on /r/Dance asked a simple but powerful question about how to chose a dance teacher. Do have any tips about what to look for in a good dance teacher and what to avoid in a bad teacher? That’s a question that I often ask myself, and also actively research with veteran and newly […]
What are the most popular types of dance? And who are the dancers?
When we first started Dance-Virtual, we wanted to know what types of dance were most popular, and especially what dance styles people had difficulty learning. With this data we would tailor our Virtual Reality dance lesson app to help the most people get to the dance floor! Unfortunately we found very few statistics about styles of dance. So we […]