Hello and welcome to the Enter VR podcast featuring Vasanth Mohan from Fused VR as our guest! Get a preview of the topics we discussed with the show notes below.
30: What is Fused VR?
3:30 How to keep up with the pace of innovation when putting out learning material for the VR industry.
5: 45 What does success look like for Fused VR?
7:30 How do you pay the bills while working in the VR industry?
8:00 What does the demand for VR contract work look like?
9:30 Where to get started if you want to learn to develop VR.
10:30 The struggles of learning to program. (As of the publishing of this podcast, Cris has decided to learn to program. )
16:45 (To be honest I don’t even know how API’s really work)
18:30 Please don’t steal my idea! I was just kidding!
19:30 Spoiler ALERT! Dragon Ball Super ending discussion.
35:00 Dragon Ball Fighter Z is a great game!
36:00 Vasanth’s review of Ready Player One. SPOILER ALERT!
41:00 Was the Oasis portrayed in a realistic way?
44:00 VR needs to have an effect on the real world for it to take off?
47:00 What will it take for VR to reach mass adoption?
53:00 How do we communicate the true value of virtual reality.
57:00 The impact of Crypto currency on the VR market and the potential of the Lenovo Mirage.
1:00:00 The good old days haven’t left yet !
1:01:30 The biggest challenges with running Fused VR.
1:03:40 What are Vasanth’s biggest hopes for VR?
1:05:00 How to stay in touch with Vasanth and Fused VR.
Thanks again to Vasanth for being a true scholar and gentleman of virtual reality and thank you for listening!
Check out the links below to get in touch with Vasanth:
Welcome to the Enter VR podcast! On this episode we are joined by Az Balabanian from the Research VR podcast. Check out the show notes below to get a preview of what we talked about.
1:00 Reminiscing the good ol days and 100 vr hour project
2:30 What keeps Az busy these days.
5:00 The dynamics of doing a podcast in VR with Bigscreen VR.
7:00 Shopping around for the right social VR world to host a talk show.
11:00 Enter VR dance crew is on the way.
12:40 Recalling playing vr games and experiences these days.
16:00 VR environments can have a real effect on you?
27:00 Could VR environments be designed to minimize trolling and bad behavior?
35:00 Self policing communities can actually happen in VR
37:00 What is the current state of photogammetry?
43:30 What is the difference between lightfields vs. photogammetry ?
49:00 Is lightfield technology dead?
51:00 Can you pay your rent just by doing work with photogammetry?
54:00 What are LIDAR cameras?
59:00 Who will win? Spinning lasers or machine vision for VR tracking?
1:03:30 How long will it take for VR to leave the trough of disillusionment. How do you make money VR right now while anticipating where the future will be?
1:09:00 Reflecting on the impact Ready Player One can have on the current state of the industry.
1:14:30 Trying out the Varjo headset and the potential it will have on the industry.
1:19:00 How far away are we from a complete 5G connected future?
1:23:00 The existential potential and threat of eye tracking technology.
1:28:00 Trying to wrap our minds our around the current state of social media.
1:35:00 How to stay in touch Az and closing thoughts.
Thanks to Az for being a true scholar and gentleman of virtual reality and thank you for listening!
Welcome to the Enter VR podcast! On this episode we are joined by Alison Raby and James Hanusa from Digital Raign. Check out the show notes below to get a preview of what we talked about.
20: Intro: What is Digital Raign?
1:40 Why is VR important for James and Alison?
4:00 Envisioning the benefits and consequences of VR once it goes mainstream.
7:40 How do you keep the VR industry in a trajectory where the technology is used for good?
11:30 How can impact driven communities advance the progress of vr?
13:00 Practical advice for people who want to get more involved with VR while paying the bills?
18:00 What are the challenges of organizing communities around emerging technologies?
23:40 Is there a formula to creating thriving communities?
30:20 Parting thoughts and upcoming dates to keep in mind.
Thanks to Alison and James for being true scholars and wizards of virtual reality and thank you for listening!
Check out the links below to stay in touch with James and Alison.
Welcome to the Enter VR podcast! On this episode we are joined by Barry Pousman from Variable Labs. Check out the show notes below to see what we talked about.
20: What is Variable labs?
1:00 Why use VR to enhance soft skills in the first place?
3:30 How to persuade companies to see the value in virtual reality based training.
7:00 What are the limitations of virtual reality?
10:50 What’s the best thing that could happen to virtual reality at this point?
14:10 Will VR become common place in the work place?
18:00 Could VR enhance your productivity?
20:00 VR has something for everyone.
22:00 Is the mainstream ready for VR?
25:40 Barry’s favorite tools to make VR with and working with Discovery VR.
29:30 Is 360 video considered “VR”?
31:00 What is medium of 360 video evolving into?
34:00 *I’ve been back to the WAVE since this conversation and can confirm that you CAN DJ inside the wave.
36:00 Will VR environments become the offices of the future?
39:00 Designing VR UI that gives you back a couple of hours of your day.
43:45 Reflecting on the opportunity to work on Clouds over Sidra.
47:00 Monetizing and doing VR for good, could go hand in hand?
51:50 What is the ultimate potential of virtual reality?
52:30 How to stay in touch with Barry
Thanks again to Barry for being a true scholar and gentleman of virtual reality and thank you for listening!
Check out the links below to stay in touch with Barry.
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!
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:
Hello and welcome to another installment of the Enter VR podcast! On this episode I hang out with Aaron Lemke, Founder at Unello Design and all around scholar and gentleman of the proto metaverse. Come along as we dive into conversation about VR deving and some other loosely tan genial subjects to VR.
1:00 Getting a proper Audio metronome to work in Unity?
1:10 What is Unity good and bad at?
2:50 12 hour work days will ruin your posture.
5:00 Can standing desks be bad for you ?
6:10 Wearing an HMD while walking on a treadmill?
7:30 VR developers on the side walk eating tacos.
10:40 This podcast is not sponsored by anyone and all the views reflect my own opinions or the opinions Incepted into my mind via subliminal messages.
11:30 Going to the Unity Vision Summit.
13:00 “We’re all optimists about this technology”.
13:30 Altruism Vs. Profit.
(I actually like Buzzfeed blue. Buzzfeed is the phenomena of supply demand being played out in the exchange of digital media. How do you make money with media companies these days? How does technology reflect our human nature?)
18:00 Everything in life is on a spectrum.
18:33 I need a new catch phrase.
20:00 We want to be productive in VR!
21:30 Dreams by Media Molecule has got us hyped.
23:00 Turning the obstacles of VR into business opportunities.
25:30 I wouldn’t mind owning a Nintendo Dolphin.
27:20 People want to escape reality? Why do we want to escape reality?
28:38 Elegant is probably not right term.
30:10 The rise of a new jock mentality through e-sports?
Welcome to Enter VR. On this episode I catch up with Steve Drash the creator of Titans of Space and currently working with the Apollo 11 VR experience, VR Girlz and more!
Here is a snippet of some of the things we talked about:
1:30 Intro, Apollo 11 VR update. As of the posting of this episode they have won the award.
3:00 The google Cardboard version of Titans of Space ported over awesomely!
5:00 The latest download numbers for Titans of Space.
6:00 Was Steve anticipating his download numbers?
7:00 What’s in store for the future of Titans of Space?
10:00 Is Steve motivated by the same things he was 2 years ago?
12:00 Why its hard to monetize on your passion projects?
14:20 Steve’s involvement in the Apollo 11 experience.
17:00 Apollo 11 is targeting release Q1 2016.
18:00 VR Girlz is an up and coming VR adult entertainment platform.
19:00 The competitive advantage of VR Girlz.
20:30 VR Girlz intends to make my penis freak out.
21:30 Experimenting with a paid app. (Mars is a real place)
24:00 What do you value more as a vr entrepreneur? Download numbers or sales?
26:00 Which of Steve’s projects will draw in the most money? Which project is he most passionate about?
27:00 What does Steve wish he knew back when he first started getting involved in VR.
29:00 The bright side to staying frugal.
30:00 Mars has been on the news a lot lately. Titans Of Space is updating to the latest info we have of the planet.
31:00 Is there a way to collaborate with NASA?
(Enceladus is a moon of Saturn)
32:30 Could Titans of Space ever be social?
34:00 What does Steve do for fun these days?
35:00 What will take to get humans to Mars? Steve lays out his plan.
36:40 Do you need positional tracking on board a space ship on course to Mars.
37:00 Becoming a space tourist…in VR!
39:30 We’re gonna need to make humans so that they can fight in the future robot war.
40:00 Steve’s vision of an ideal future.
45:00 VR is a new vehicle for mind expansion. What are Steve’s concern for this technology.
47:00 What will it mean to “work” in the next 25 years?
48:30 Accelerating the growth of the jobs of the future through VR?
50:00 Can you name 3 companies that will make a lot of money is 3 years?
51:00 Steve bets on Frooxius creating the Oasis.
52:00 360 films vs. in engine content.
(I left this blooper on purpose)
53:30 Can anything stop VR at this point?
54:00 Getting feedback from teachers and researchers has been really rewarding for Steve.
Thanks again to Steve for being a true scholar and gentleman of virtual reality and thank you for listening!
Stay in touch with Steve with all the links below:
