Voices of VR Podcast

I’m joined by D of the eVRydayVR YouTube Channel to discuss:

• Virtual Reality evangelism
• VR design tips
• VR communities
• The future of VR and Education

Here’s a link round-up and overview of topics discussed:

• eVRydayVR’s most popular videos teach people about technical topics about the Oculus Rift.
• How barrel distortion works on the Oculus Rift
• Low-Persistence & New features of the Oculus Rift Crystal Cove prototype from CES
• Oculus Rift – How Does Time Warping Work?
• Performing complete Let’s Play videos on longer games like Half-Life 2
• Michael Abrash’s Zen of Graphics Programming
• Dactyl Nightmare
• Making VR accessible so that everyone can use and develop for it.
• Creating demand for VR so that more people can contribute.
• The target audience for Let’s Play videos.
• What’s stuck out as great VR experiences and what to avoid.
• Google Street View in VR review.
• RedFrame Environment demo as the go-to demo to show people.
• Oculus Rift – Technolust (Kickstarter demo) – full playthrough (1440p)
• vorpX Driver
• Dishonored Playthrough.
• Minecrift and it’s HUD.
• Half-Life 2 VR Mod
• Razer Hydra & STEM system
• Importance of binaural sound for VR
• Participation in different VR communities
• Oculus subreddit at /r/Oculus
• Doc_Ok user on Reddit [Oliver Kreylos’ blog]
• Helping new community members
• eVRydayVR’s comments on Reddit.
• Cymatic Bruce’s VR Livestream on Hitbox
• Riftmax Theater
• VRChat
• Oculus Rift Development Forums
• VR social experiences and exploring identity
• Free culture and open source within virtual reality, and open questions around 3D scans
• Open source within the game developer community & Wikipedia’s approach to licensing their content
• Future of VR hitting the mass market, and figuring out hand input & binaural audio
• Kinect V2 Unity Plugin, and designed to track multiple people and not hand gestures
• issues of occlusion and tracking volume with Leap Motion
• Metrilus finger tracking using the Kinect V2
• Getting reliable hand-tracking from a wearable device because of the occlusion problem.
• Using STEM to get occlusion-free hand tracking
• Riftmax Theater “Virtual Incorrect” show that features hand tracking gestures.
• Cymatic Bruce’s Top 20 Oculus Rift VR Experiences of 2013
• Pros and Cons of what VR can bring to Education
• Titans of Space
• Foreign Language immersion learning in Virtual Reality & having conversations with NPCs with Augmented Reality elements like subtitles and captions in a VR environment.
• Every educational topic has aspects that could be better explained with words, and other aspects where you really need VR.
• Quantified Self
• Steven Jonas on Spaced Repetition and Super Memo
• Scheduled learning with game design and learning
• eVRydayVR’s future plans on VR development and evangelism
• Team Metatron and VR Chess

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Music: “Fatality” by Tigoolio