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Welcome to Enter VR! Featuring Karl Krantz from Silicon Vallley Virtual Reality (SVVR).
Check out the show notes below to preview what we talked about.

1:00 Karl’s thoughts on OLED micro displays.

3:00 Impressions of the Vive Pro.

3:30 Vive Pro’s comfort factor.

5:00 What’s going on with the Knuckles controllers?

6:50 www.roadtovr.com/4-most-important…akdown-analysis/

7:20 Vive Focus vs. Google Mirage vs. Oculus Go. .

11:00 Where are all the triple A VR games in 2018?

16:30 Stories from the VR frontline (Sparc, VRchat)

19:30 VR dancing is a thing!

25:00 Communities self policing in VRchat

27:00 Which social VR space will be the next “Second Life”?

32:00 GDC VR Mixer details

36:00 2018 SVVR expo details

38:00 SVVR has a new headquarters!

43:00 What do the VR communities in South Korea and Japan look like?

47:00 Thoughts on Ready Player One

49:00 What is the state of virtual reality as it stands today?

52:00 Taking the time to reflect on the implications of the decisions we make with technology.

57:00 Struggling with social media

1:0030 How to stay in touch with Karl

Thanks again to Karl for being a true scholar and gentleman of virtual reality and thank you for listening!

Get in touch with Karl with the links below:

svvr.com/

www.vrmixer.com/

twitter.com/SVVRLIVE

Intro song:

My Neighbor Totoro – Chillhop Remix

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Welcome to the Enter VR podcast! Featuring Tina Sauerlaender and Philip Hausmeier, the team behind Radiance VR. Check out the show notes below to preview what we talked about.

30: What is Radiance VR ?

2:00 Radiance VR’s mission and business model.

5:20 The process of curating VR art.

6:00 The source of inspiration for VR artist?

7:00 When is something considered art?

12:00 What is the value of art for society?

14:00 What does the traditional art world think about VR?

19:00 Does the marketing behind VR affect how the tech is viewed by the traditional art world?

22:00 How will VR affect the things you believe are real?

27:00 Digging deeper into the value and purpose of VR Art and art in general.

30:00 Advice for people who would like to create art in VR.

32:00 The art piece that has imprinted on Tina and Philip the most. When is art is good?

35:00 The best creation tools for VR art.

36:40 What is the importance of intention when creating art?

41:30 The biggest challenges facing VR artists right now

45:00 Protecting the rights to digital art with a block chain protocol?

46:45 Why is VR important?

48:30 How to stay in touch with Philip and Tina

Thanks again to Philip and Tina for being true scholars and wizards of virtual reality and thank you for listening!

Get in touch with the links below:

www.radiancevr.co/

www.facebook.com/vr.radiance/

www.instagram.com/radiance_vr/

Intro song:
Me Gustas tu by Manu Chau

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Welcome to the Enter VR podcast! Featuring Gunter S. Thompson from VRChat! Check out the notes below to get a preview of what we talked about.

30: 2 years feels like a decade in VR

1:15 What’s keeping Gunter busy these days.

3:15 The origins of Gunter’s Universe

11:45 Using Social VR to connect with hundreds of people from all over the world.

17:40 What keeps people coming back to social VR?

25:00 How did VRChat grow to 3 million users?

33:45 What is the purpose of memes in virtual reality?

35:40 An example of a community self policing itself in VR.

37:30 Best worlds to go dancing in.

41:00 What kind of economy is starting to form around VRchat?

47:00 Piano concerts in VRchat

49:00 VRChat reality shows?

50:00 Gunter’s predictions on the future of social VR?

53:00 What does it look like to moderate VRchat these days?

1:07:55 Can social VR have an impact on the way we communicate in the real world?

1:17:00 Upcoming features for VRChat and events to check out

1:24:00 Using the VRChat SDK

1:31:00 Making events easier to find in VRChat

Thanks again to Gunter for being a true scholar and gentleman of virtual reality and thank you for listening!

Get in touch with Gunter with the links below:

twitter.com/guntersuniverse

guntersuniverse.com/

www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLL…QDfpkaY-B8nCoygOw

Intro song:

Panic City remix of Skywalker by Miguel

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Welcome to the Enter VR podcast! Join us as we take you on an epic conversation with the legendary Cymatic Bruce! Check out the show notes below to preview what we talked about.

Show Notes:

30: Bruce’s thoughts on the Magic Leap reveal.

1:45 Pricing might become an obstacle for the early adoption of Magic Leap?

2:40 Magic Leap vs. the competition.

4:15 Cross platform compatibility on the new AR platforms?

7:00 What will the input devices of the future look like? (in the AR space)

11:00 AR haptic gloves on the way?

12:00 2017 analysis on the Oculus Rift, the HTC Vive, Samsung Odyssey and PSVR.

21:00 What should you keep an eye out for in 2018?

25:00 What VR titles Bruce looking forward to?

26:46 What major IPs should be brought to VR?

30:00 What does the success of Skyrim VR mean for the industry?

35:00 Cymatic Bruce’s best 3 games of 2017.

39:00 What makes Space Pirate Trainer so good.

42:00 The potential of role playing in virtual reality.

46:00 When is the next great VR MMO coming out? Is WoW in VR more addicting?

50:00 Will using VR ever become a necessity?

54:00 Who is winning the race to create the ultimate virtual world on a blockchain.

59:00 Valves needs to release SAO on a blockchain.

59:30 SVVR VR LAN party was a major success!

1:03:00 How to host a VR gaming tournament.

1:06:00 The implications of machine learning being combined with virtual reality.

1:09:00 How to follow up with Bruce.

Thanks again to Bruce for being a true scholar and gentleman of virtual reality and thank you for listening!

Stay in touch with Bruce with the links below:

twitter.com/CymaticBruce

cymaticbruce.com/

Intro features the song Kawavy by Multirex. Please support the artists!

Link to the intro tune:
Multirex – Kawavyy-1

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Welcome to Enter VR! Join us for an exciting conversation with Ian Forester, co-founder at VR Playhouse. Check what we talked about with the show notes below.

SHOW NOTES

1:30 Working on Archangel.

2:45 The origins of VR Playhouse.

5:30 How do I detach you from your own story?

8:45 Perfecting the art of thought loop disruption.

12:20 How to decide what to work on next?

15:40 Using VR to help patients going into surgery.

17:30 Where does Ian’s creativity come from?

20:15 General productivity tips and advice.

23:00 How do you measure the effectiveness of a VR experience.

30:00 How to put out consistently novel content.

33:00 What does the future of storytelling look like?

38:00 Emojis and hieroglyphs have a lot in common.

41:00 The formula for triggering certain emotions in the audience.

44:00 Assumptions proven wrong by VR.

50:00 W.B. Yates quote.

53:00 How to stay in touch with Ian.

54:00 Embedding with Cal Fire to report from the front lines of the Southern California fires.

Thanks again to Ian for being a true scholar and gentleman of virtual reality and thank you for listening!

Stay in touch with Ian with the links below.

vrplayhouse.com/

twitter.com/ianforester

twitter.com/VRPlayhouse

Link to the intro clip:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSkIwwdT79E

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Welcome to Enter VR! On this episode we are joined by Evan Young from Radial 3D. Check out what we talked about with the show notes below.

SHOW NOTES

1:00 What is Radial 3D?

4:00 Practical uses of anatomical 3D scans.

7:00 Getting doctors to use Radial 3D.

8:00 Info on signing up for the Beta.

10:45 Upcoming features and direction of the company.

11:40 Using 3D scans to train neural nets?

14:15 The state of the Scanning industry in health care.

17:00 What will medical 3D scanning look like from a patients point of view?

19:00 Business model.

20:30 Biggest obstacles going forward.

22:30 The magic of Web VR.

25:00 Marketing strategy

27:00 Sony sold 2 million PSVRs.

32:00 The potential of the Z Space system.

35:00 Playing video games with Street Fighter Gods.

37:00 Link, Fox and Pikachu are a winning combo.

39:00 But can it run Crysis?

40:00 Clues into figuring whether you are in simulation.

46:00 Managing information overload.

47:00 Checking Coinbase 5 times a day. (We are not financial advisors, take everything we say for a grain of salt). We have no idea what’s going on!

53:00 17 year old Bitcoin millionaires.

54:00 The intersection of Blockchain and virtual reality.

1:01:00 Social VR and Blockchain make sense together.

1:02:30 How to get in touch with Evan.

Thanks to Evan for being a true scholar and gentleman of virtual reality and thank you for listening!
Get in touch with Evan:

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Hello and welcome to a very special episode of the Enter VR podcast! On this episode I’m joined by my friends Dara Bonakdar, James Blaha, Steve Gehrman and Eric. Come along as we discuss a whole range of topics.

Here is snippet of some of the things we talked about :

1:00 Recap of CES. (please don’t sue me Christopher Nolan!)

5:00 Quad copter taxis are coming.

9:00 Hunting down drones with drones will become a business.

11:00 Grandmas can’t compete with VR porn reactions on youtube.

12:50 It doesn’t matter whether this reality is a simulation or not.

16:00 CV2 of the Rift and Vive will have AR capabilities.

20:00 Discussion on the price of the Rift.

48:00 A hand job is still a job. Virtual reality brothels will be a thing one day.

56:00 Which HMD is the most comfortable?

1:02:00 Will Android win the VR race in the long run?

1:13:00 Get ready for the self driving car economy.

1:43:00 The hidden reason why Foveated rendering is important.

Thanks to Steve, Erick, Dara and James for being true scholars and gentlemen of virtual reality and thank you for listening!

Follow up with the links below:

twitter.com/jamesblaha

seevividly.com/

www.linkedin.com/in/darabonakdar

steve@distantfutu.re

tentonraygun.com/

distantfutu.re/

steve@distantfutu.re

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Hello and welcome to another installment of the Enter VR podcast! On this episode I speak with Orion Bukantis from Logical Increments about getting the PC hardware necessary to run good VR this year. Let’s get educated!

Big thanks to Orion for being a true scholar and gentleman of virtual reality and thank you for listening!

Keep in touch Orion with the links below:

www.logicalincrements.com/articles/vrguide/

orion@logicalincrements.com
twitter.com/logicalinc

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Hello and welcome to Enter VR!

On this episode I speak with Azad Balabanian, a VR researcher at the University of California at Santa Cruz. Azad and I talked about finding where the feeling of presence comes from inside the brain, lessons learned in the realm of VR user experience design, body ownership through vr and much more!

Thanks to Azad for being a true scholar and gentleman of virtual reality and thank you for listening!

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Follow up with Azad and check out links to some of things we talked about below:

twitter.com/AzadUX

Leap Motion Dragonfly

Child Body size over estimation

body language, space taking, and confidence

Proteus effect

emotional intelligence

Thanks again to James Blaha for letting me use his ‘Clubbed to death remix’.

Check out the song on his soundcloud page:

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Hello and welcome to Enter VR!

On this episode I speak with Dara Bonakdar. Dara is the founder of Jahan, a platform that will allow you to visit the world’s museums and heritage sites with Virtual reality. Come along as we discuss the future challenges of VR, finding the money in the art world and cracking an egg with one’s buttocks.

Here is a snippet of the first ten minutes of one my favorite conversations yet:

1:00 The best bison burger in the world is in the middle of the California woods.

2:00 How Dara got involved in VR in the first place.

5:00 What will happen to tour guide jobs once VR museums become mainstream?

8:00 How Jahan will make profits.

10:00 How to find the ‘money’ in the art world?

Thanks very much to Dara for being a true scholar and gentleman of virtual reality and thank you for listening!

Follow up with Dara with the links below:

www.linkedin.com/in/darabonakdar

angel.co/dara-bonakdar

Also, thanks to James Blaha for letting me use his Tupac mix for the intro of this show. Find the song at his profile page:

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