Kennett Square’s Ben Lang – Road to VR founder’s story
The simulated adventure begins with your trusty dog atop Vesper Peak in Washington State. Then, it’s on to an underwater shipwreck with a whale swimming at arm’s length—and later a trip to the operating room for an examination of a human spinal chord and brain. Hosting this hour-long itinerary is Ben Lang of Kennett Square, Mushroom Capital of the World and the unlikely fertile ground for Road to VR.
Meanwhile, Lang was celebrating a year in business since launching Roadtovr.com as a Temple University student. At first, the blog was a hobby for a guy curious about technology. Lang had worked in tech journalism, and he figured the best way to learn about VR was to write about it. He found himself immersed in an exploding industry.
At the techie age of 26, Lang is the co-founder and executive editor of the leading virtual-reality news source. He doesn’t sleep much—and won’t—
until he popularizes the industry enough that supply-and-demand makes start-up prices affordable, giving the technology mass accessibility. Virtual reality “yields the richness of the digital ecosystem,” he says.
Lang has always viewed technology as something that can change lives for the better. “I look at my parents’ lives compared to mine,” Lang says. “When they left high school, how did they keep in touch with friends? I had Facebook. My mind races at night with what’s possible [with VR] beyond gaming and entertainment.”
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