Welcome to another episode of Enter VR!Come along, as I speak with Eric Johnson the associate editor of mixed reality at Re/Code and Steve Gerhman a VR developer working on text input in virtual reality through Unreal Engine 4.
Here is a snippet of some of the things we talked about:
1:00 Intro
2:30 Eric’s rituals that get him ready for public appearances.
6:30 Getting people to overcome their everyday anxieties through VR?
7:30 Steve Joins the convo.
9:30 Do social connections need to happen organically in virtual spaces?
11:30 Vive Vs. Oculus. Which one has the best tracking solution?
14:00 Trying out the VRCADE experience at Dave and Buster’s.
17:15 The current state of the virtual reality industry according to Eric.
18:30 What needs to happen in order for VR to be successful.
19:30 How to keep people coming back to VR experiences. Do developers have to worry about the ethics of keeping people inside of VR for too long?
21:30 Which will pan out to be biggest flaw of VR in the long run…Its ability to isolate people or unknown health consequences with irresponsible use by consumers.
24:30 Why are we humans so compelled to look at screens constantly? What will come next after the screen?
27:30 Why user generated content platforms will be the killer apps of VR.
32:30 Creating music inside of virtual reality.
34:00 Injecting Deep dream into a 360 video.
34:30 Simulating an LSD experience using VR and transcranial direct current stimulation.
http://www.thync.com/
37:30 Dominating the world economy with a workforce powered by the coffee of the 21st century, TDCS.
39:00 The state of the wearable industry in relation to VR hmds.
40:40 If VR isn’t useful, it won’t be mainstream. Where the ultimate utility of VR really lies.
43:10 Disney World is experimenting with police state technology.
49:00 Will we ever see robot armies fighting on the behalf of billionaires?
http://qz.com/185945/drones-are-about-to-upheave-society-in-a-way-we-havent-seen-in-700-years/
51:30 Why Eric is not buying a Jeep. Balancing the pros and cons of self driving vehicles.
54:30 How will the sharing economy affect the capitalism we know of today? How will our concepts of property change over time.
“In the future you won’t have a job and everything will be cheap”.
57:30 How will the sharing economy morph our notions of the “American Dream”.\
1:00:30 Climate change is easier to solve than the San Francisco housing crisis. Eric’s path through journalism.
1:03:30 Eric’s biggest journalistic influences.
1:05:00 The state of tech journalism according to Eric.
1:06:00 How to balance between asking hard questions without losing your sources in journalism.
1:07:30 Eric’s feud with the Sony Morpheus team.
1:10:30 Making guesses on which platform will sell the most hmds after the first year of consumer VR.
1:13:30 Are there any Gear VR usage data? How much are people using their GearVRs?
1:20:30 Closing thoughts and how to stay in touch with Eric and Steve.
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Thanks again to Eric and Steve for being true scholars and gentlemen of virtual reality and thank you for listening.
eric@recode.net
http://recode.net
http://recode.net/
@HeyHeyESJ
steve@distantfutu.re
The track you heard at the beginning is José Larralde’s – Quimey Neuquen -The Be Svendsen Edit. Thanks to Be for allowing me to play his track. Find the track on Soundclould: