Looking for Female Unreal VR Developers in the SF Bay area

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(1) The quality of discussion and topics is often significantly improved by having a more diverse panel - the prior event at this space had all male speakers for a Unity panel, some of which were at best, lackluster presenters.

What makes you think that has anything to do with gender?

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(2) The quality of the industry is significantly improved by being diverse - women have different brains than men, want different things from their experiences, and design different things when they start to build. Funnily enough, this particular panel was about non-gaming VR, a field much more likely to attract female developers, because we don’t have to wade through all of these assumptions that we’re not qualified to work in games.

I never heard of those assumptions. Maybe it does happen, dunno; but it sounds like one of those lies “feminists” spread to make women feel more victimized than they really are.

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(5) VR and AR are amazing things. There will be no shortage of FPS games in VR. There should also be a wealth of other, alternate content, made by a vast variety of people. Wanting to increase their representation in the industry, including on panels, as speakers, as employees and developers is a good thing for everybody. I love this technology and the potential it has, and for it to really succeed, we need every kind of creator creating every kind of content, so it’s not some marginalized, specialist, basement dwelling stereotype pursuit.

I believe the concern people are expressing here is diversity by itself doesn’t guarantee quality; having a representative that is a bumbling idiot does the demography no favors.

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Oh, and (6) My target audience isn’t male developers. The vast majority of VR events I go to have 25-75% female attendees. Don’t you think they might like to see female speakers too?

Perhaps it would be better to treat them as developers, and not “female developers”?

Creating/reinforcing the perception a given group is “the others” is bad for promoting integration.

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(7) It bears repeating. Highly qualified women exist in every field, including VR and AR. My personal network is light on Unreal developers in this area, for whatever reason, I only know one, and he lives in Nevada, hence me reaching out to this community in the hopes that someone here was in this area or knew someone. I think it’s a little weird, personally, that in a community of unreal developers, not one of you has someone that you know who fits my ‘narrow’ band of qualifications. Ask yourself why that is - why don’t you know any female unreal devs in VR? (Given that a huge number of VR devs live in the SF bay area, I’m not as worried about the location being restrictive) Is it that there are no Unreal developers in VR here?

I dunno about the distribution of genders here; but I suspect the reason you got such strong reactions to your post, is you gave a sorta SJW vibe (to be more specific, of the type that spread misandry and put women on pedestals unconditionally. I’m not saying you actually did that stuff, but some of the stuff you said could be interpreted as leaning in that direction). SJWs have put lots of people on edge, ready to defend themselves from serious unjust accusations and debunk falsehoods that spread hate and fear.

edit: Seems I mixed a few people; for that last paragraph I assumed OP had been responding to the convo and didn’t realize there was someone else defending her position. Unfortunately I don’t got time to figure out how to adjust it right now because I got some stuff I need to go do.