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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 Enter VR! On this episode, Dee from eVRyday VR drops by to philosophize and discuss the future of the final medium.

Here is a snippet of some of the things we talked about.

3:00 The 360 camera that wants to tackle consumer 360 video capturing.

6:00 The consumer 360 camera landscape.

7:10 What does the “perfect” 360 camera look like?

9:30 How will the internet of things intertwine with the advancements in computer vision?
Thanks to Brian Redband for inspiring this idea.

11:34 How long before we can stream light field videos?

12:00 How does Dee define reality? Do we have the freedom to live out the majority of our lives in VR?

15:20 Using VR as an education tool to raise awareness about Climate change. Why VR is a better education tool than what we already do or have.

18:00 Increasing your understanding of the fabric of the Universe by playing “cut the rope”.

23:00 How do you provoke questions of wonderment in a user in a virtual reality environment.

27:00 How can someone with a 9 to 5 job become involved in the virtual reality industry?

31:00 What Dee is passionate about these days. Hint: parallax

37:30 360 panoramic capturing within Unity applications. What does the let’s player of the future look like?

40:00 What will let’s plays look like 5 years from now?

45:00 The future of E-sports.

49:00 How can VR enhance the mental health of the average person?

52:00 Will VR bring about the dawn of a new class of human?

53:00 What is mental health? At what point does using become detrimental for your mental health? Can it be detrimental?

1:03:00 Having the ability to shut out shitty moments in life. What will that do to our psychology?

1:05:30 Will there be a marketplace for “Shit on your plate simulator” type experiences?

1:07:00 A new era of trolling is upon us.

1:13:00 Virtual reality and legal system. How will the law handle simulated crime?

1:18:00 How Dee curates content.

1:20:00 Dee dropped out from the PHD program at Berkeley to pursue VR.

1:23:00 Dee vs Frooxius in a Pokemon battle. Who would win?

1:25:00 Going inside of Virtual Desktop to download Dee’s demo.

Note* I did not edit this podcast in VR.

1:26:00 Dee’s favorite thing about having a Youtube channel.

1:28:00 Working with the VRChive to provide 3D lightfields.

1:34:00 Trying out a captured 360 video from Neos the Universe. Dee created a 360 video panoromic capture for Unity environments.

360 panoramic capture

1:38:00 Dee is giving away cool VR free shit and looking for a job.

1:40:00 Closing thoughts and how to stay in touch.

Thanks again to Dee for being scholar and pioneer of virtual reality. Also, thank you for listening!

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Stay in touch with Dee with the links below:

https://twitter.com/eVRydayVR

https://www.youtube.com/user/eVRydayVR

https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/en/#!/content/38755

https://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/3f2bo1/stereo_360_video_capture_script_for_unity_demo/

Intro song is Through the Fire and Flames from Dragon Force

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Hello and welcome to the EnterVR podcast. On today’s show I speak with Eddie Lee from Funktronic Labs, the people who brought you the awesome “Collider” experience for Dk2.

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

40: Intro. How Funktronic Labs came about.

1:20 Figuring out what kind of Studio to build. Becoming involved with the Leap Motion VR initiative.

3:00 Embodying a particle that is traveling inside the Large Hadron Collider in VR.

5:00 Relaying a story through Collider?

6:00 What is Generative Art?

7:30 The difference between procedural systems algorithms and generative art.

9:30 Use cases where generative art really shines.

12:40 Will generative art render artists obsolete? What will the future of generative in vr look like?

16:40 How people are reacting to generative art in virtual reality.

19:00 Creating a content studio with two teams creating two types of software.

21:00 Is the average gamer looking for something new?

25:00 What are Funktronic labs future plans for vr content?

28:00 Should you make a product right now for a non existent vr consumer market.

30:30 How to bridge the gap between early adopters and the mass market consumers.

40:00 Are humans hardwired to want to “escape”?

42:00 Will VR make people smarter?

45:00 Learning highly abstract subjects in vr.

46:20 Can you imagine life without the internet?

50:30 What made Eddie want to teach himself generative art through the internet?

56:20 The relationship between Oculus Story Studio and the lack of input device.

1:03:00 What version of the metaverse will be more predominant, the open source version or the walled gardens?

1:07:00 What will be the best monetization models look like in the first year of the consumer version?

1:10:00 Is advertising more effective in vr?

1:16:00 How will a fully featured metaverse compete for your time while awake.

1:18:30 What is one thing that will never be better in vr?

1:22:00 What if VR doesnt take off?

1:26:00 Will there ever be a Metaverse? What comes after the smartphone?

1:32:00 What kind of experiences and games is Eddie forward to in vr?

1:34:00 Creating music in vr?

1:36:00 Making your daily computer interactions more efficient through vr interfaces.

1:41:00 What do you see inside your head when you listen to music?

1:43:00 Do Orcas, dolphins or chimpanzees dance?

1:44:00 Closing thoughts and how to stay in touch.

Thanks again to Eddie for being a true scholar and gentleman of virtual reality and thanks for listening.

Keep in touch with Eddie and Funktronic labs with the link below.

funktroniclabs.com/

twitter.com/eddietree

apps.leapmotion.com/apps/collider/windows

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Announcements:

Come hang out at the first official meetup of the San Francisco Metaverse Scholars Club!

Exploring VR outside gaming and surviving the first year of consumer VR

Tuesday, Feb 17, 2015, 6:00 PM

pivotal labs
875 Howard St San Francisco, CA

53 Scholars Went

Hello fellow scholars of the Proto Metaverse! This month’s event we are bringing to you a special night filled with demos, a great panel and awesome people to meet.Join us as we peek inside the minds of Manish Gupta, James Blaha from ApolloVR , Tony Parisi founder at Third Eye and Matt Bell founder at Matterport. The panel will be moderated by Cr…

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