Hello listeners!
On today’s show I speak with Sebastien Kuntz Founder/CEO of I’m in VR, President of VRGeeks association and an all around thought leader in the French virtual reality community. Come along as we learn about reality control experiments, the most practical applications of VR and predicting what will be the killer app for your grandparents. (Sebastien also created the VR lemmings Oculus Rift experience)
Here is a quick preview of what we discussed:
30: Intro
1:00 How Sebastien found himself working in VR.
3:10 , Sebastien’s career journey in VR and how he founded his company.
4:40 , How to decide what to create?
6:40 , What the VR industry looked like in France before the Oculus Rift
9:00 , Which is better for the professional sector, HMD or Cave?
10:00, The state of the virtual reality community in France
12:30 , How can the educational system help prepare us for jobs in virtual reality? Will we be able to get Bachelor’s degrees in metaverse studies one day?
14:45, Sebastien’s goals for the short and long term.
17:00, What is it about VR that makes it different from other mediums.
20:00, Dealing with the potential consequences of democratizing VR creation.
22:00, Could VR threaten the political class?
22:30, How long before your grandparents are using VR. The killer VR app for grandparents.
24:00 Predicting what will be the most popular applications. What are the most useful future applications?
27:00 Firefighters using VR to train better.
28:30 The advantages of utilizing presence to learn.
30:10 Will VR make future generations smarter?
33: 13 How much money will the VR industry be worth in 5 to 10 years?
35:00 Will the VR industry follow the same trayectory to maturity that the smartphone industry did?
37:40 What is happening inside your brain while you are in VR?
40:50 What is the threshold at which the hardware is good enough to fool the brain and the senses?
43:00, How VR can help improve reality.
45:00, Making money on socially conscious VR content?
46:30, Could VR be used to create super soldiers?
48:30 , What will the next generation of VR devices look like?
51:02 , What is the Metaverse and who will end up owning it?
54:00, How will law and order be worked in the Metaverse? How do we deal with assholes?
55:20, Will you need a ‘passport’ to navigate the metaverse of the future?
57:00, How will wealth distribution look like inside the metaverse?
58:00, What is the ideal input device for VR?
1:00:00, The most ideal version of the metaverse? What will the most popular version of the metaverse look like?
1:03:00, How will VR change us?
1:05:00, Will we able to communicate with animals in this century?
1:06:00, How old do you want to be? Will you see humans born in other planets in your lifetime?
1:07:00, The challenges of being born on Mars.
1:09:00, Will we ever find some form of life on our Solar System?
1:10:48, Closing thoughts and how to stay in touch with Sebastien.
For more information on Sebastien and IminVR check out the links below:
https://developer.oculusvr.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=6142
Thanks again to Sebastien for being a true scholar and gentleman of virtual reality
and
Thank you for listening!
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