Welcome to the Enter VR podcast! On this episode we are joined by Chris Smith, the founder of Juno VR, helping people breathe better with virtual reality.

Here is a snippet of some of the things we discussed:

3:00 That one time, lag helped Chris in a counterstrike tournament.

2:00 Intro, What Chris is up to in VR.

3:30 Virtual reality software that trains you to breath.

5:00 Defining the meditative state.

7:30 How do you measure the meditative state?

10:00 The marketing behind making meditation applications popular.

13:00 Knowing when to try new strategies.

16:00 Using new types of sensors to augment our virtual reality experiences.

20:00 Why is breathing such an important mechanism to control?

26:00 Why you can't give Chris your money right now.

29:00 How much value is drawn from measuring exact breath?

32:00 How do you get people to keep coming back to your meditation application?

35:00 Staying positive is difficult to maintain.

41:00 How to keep the internet neutral for virtual reality in the future?

46:00 Case in point this episode is 3 months late.

48:00 Our screws up with exponential technology can be really catastrophic.

51:00 https://www.soothe.com/

https://scoot.co/

(this podcast is not endorsed in any way by these companies)

53:00 Top five apps on Chris's phone.

55:00 Top five subreddits for Chris.

56:00 Why Chris chose Unreal over Unity.

58:00 Integrating breathing sensor data into a cohesive VR ui.

1:00:30 Rumor: CV2 will have a heart rate sensor.

1:01:30 "The more people breath in the world, the better".

1:04:00 Tuba simulator coming to your neighborhood radio shack very soon!

1:09:00 Chris is looking for Unreal devs, hit him up!

1:11:00 How can the Unreal Engine improve for Chris?

1:14:00 The future of the HMD.

1:20:00 What is the role of government in the next 20 years.

1:22:00 Closing thoughts.

Connect with Chris with the links below:

https://twitter.com/clssmitty

http://www.christopherlsmith.com/

Soundclip in the intro is:

Oh Wonder - Body Gold (Louis The Child Remix)

https://soundcloud.com/louisthechild/bodygold

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