EnterVR

Huge thanks to Azad for being a true scholar and gentleman of the metaverse!

Check out my impressions of Puzzling Places:

https://youtu.be/84BE2qq8Mh4

Stay in touch with Azad with the links below:

https://twitter.com/Azadux

https://twitter.com/realities_io

https://twitter.com/PuzzlingPlaces

https://twitter.com/researchvrcast

Thanks for listening and thanks for all your support these past 7 years!

Credits:

Photo for this episode is courtesy of my dog

Music made in the intro made by Cris Miranda with the Bandlab app on Android.

Welcome to the Enter VR podcast, featuring Jesse Filipko aka nomono. Excited to bring another conversation at the intersection of VR, business, design, technology, gaming and society.

Join us on this wonderful adventure down the rabbit hole with topics spanning:

-Half Life Alyx mods

-Under rated VR cockpit games

-VR and your mental health during the pandemic

-Why Facebook can go get fucked. . .

and more!

Huge thanks to Jesse Filipko for being a true scholar and gentleman of the metaverse!

Stay in touch with Jesse with the link below:

https://twitter.com/AgtXenon

Thanks for listening and thanks for all your support these past 7 years!

Credits:

Photo for this episode is from VRchat World : VKET4 PARAREAL TOKYO ＂LITTLE FAREWELL" By User VirtualMarket1

Music made in the intro made by Cris Miranda with the Bandlab app on Android.

Welcome to the Enter VR podcast! On this very special episode, we review the 2010's decade for the virtual reality industry. Join Jon Oaks, Blair Renaud and Jesse Filipko as we review highlights of the virtual reality industry for the past 10 years!

Show notes

Best VR game of the decade

Most profitable VR game of the decade

A new frontier for human communication is here

Check out these links to stay in touch with the guests:

https://twitter.com/Anticleric

https://twitter.com/JonVirtual

https://twitter.com/AgtXenon

Thanks to my guests for being true scholars and gentlemen of virtual reality and thank you for listening!

Happy 2020 everyone!

Welcome to the Enter VR podcast! On this very special episode, I speak with my good friend Vasanth Mohan from Fused VR on a whole range of topics regarding the current and future state of the metaverse. Join us for a conversation full valuable VR industry knowledge!

-Topics include:

-Reselling the Quest for triple its price

-Valve Index woes

-Half Life Alyx's impact on VR adoption

-Enjoying the journey of VR and the friends you make along the way

Thanks to Vasanth for being a true scholar as well as a gentleman of virtual reality and thank you for listening!

Check out the links for references and how to get in touch with Vasanth

https://twitter.com/FusedVR

https://bit.ly/2PwZxGA

https://fusedvr.com/

Links to eVRyday VR's timewarp videos:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvtEXMlQQtI

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

Welcome to the Enter VR podcast! On this episode we'll be exploring the intersection of adult entertainment and virtual reality with special guest Ela Darling, the marketing director at ViRo club! (Virtual Romance Club). Join us for an awesome conversation at the edge of knowledge!

Show Notes

1:00 Intro to Ela Darling

3:00 Top 3 things Ela has learned so far working in this new medium.

4:45 A birds eye view on the landscape of the VR adult industry.

9:00 How long will we find our selves in the "early days" of the VR adult industry?

11:30 An intro to Viro club : Virtual Romance Club

15:00 Exploring the appeal of Viro Club's shows.

16:30 How was Viro Club created and why?

20:00 Who is ViroClub for?

25:00 It should be okay to have regular social VR experiences/platforms for only adults.

27:00 The challenges ahead and how the team plans to address them.

30:00 How to make sure minors are not allowed inside the app.

32:00 What does privacy on the platform look like?

35:00 Monetization strategy

37:00 How to make sure there is a healthy balance of community feedback.

39:00 Ela's hopes for the future of the adult VR industry.

41:00 The effects on the safe and legal access to adult content for adults viewed from a macro level :

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19665229

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/homo-consumericus/201001/pornography-beneficial-or-detrimental

47:00 Exploring haptic devices and the potential for full body suits.

48:00 Discovering the true purpose for the existence of tens units TENS units.

49:00 How to become a part of the Viro Club community.

51:00 Personalized avatars and custom rooms confirmed.

53:00 The challenges of marketing a VR adult app.

56:00 Having VR "sex" with live consenting adults is hard to describe.

57:00 Viro Club has no intention of being used as a population control tool by the Chinese Communist Party.

59:00 Will Viro Club ever become a VR brothel?

1:04:00 Ela's message to her future self.

1:05:00 How to stay in touch with Ela

Thanks to Ela for being a true scholar as well as an absolute bad ass of the metaverse and thank you for listening!

References and how to stay in touch with Ela and the team at ViRo Club

https://twitter.com/ElaDarling

https://twitter.com/ViRoClub

https://viro.club/

https://viro.club/haptic-devices/

https://www.patreon.com/ViRoClub

Welcome to the Enter VR podcast! Join us for an amazing episode featuring my friend Yui Araki. Come learn about Yui's journey in the industry and catch a quick glimpse into the landscape of the VR community in Japan.

Show notes:

45: Yui's past life before VR.

2:00 Yui's journey into the industry.

4:00 Why Hatsune Miku makes so much sense in VR

6:30 Hatsune Miku is not alive but she is also not "dead"

9:15 Hatsune Miku will transcends all mediums, including VR

12:30 Anime is driving VR adoption in Japan.

13:30 A migration towards the metaverse has been underway for some time. 

14:00 Why are people in Japan migrating to the metaverse?

16:15 Does Yui want to leave reality and live in the metaverse?

18:00 Yui is ready for the metaverse. 

19:45 Enjoying beer parties in VR

20:45 Yui wants to own her country in VR while raising a wholesome family. 

24:30 VR allows Yui to form a family across long distances

25:30 Going from cram school teacher to VR industry professional

28:00 Yui taught herself Unity on her phone while on the train

32:00 The ultimate Hatsune Miku experience would be an ultra realistic AI. 

35:00 Yui's lessons navigating the industry

37:30 Present Yui's message to future Yui.

Thanks to Yui for being a true scholar and bad ass of virtual reality and thank you for listening !

Stay in touch with Yui with the link below:

https://twitter.com/Somelu01

Welcome to the Enter VR podcast! Join us for a special episode featuring my friends Jesse Filipko and Evan Young, with a short appearance by Bella, (spent the whole episode inside the Valve Index). Come learn about the latest VR use cases, how there's more to VRchat than just memes plus combining AR/VR in one seamless experience and more!

Show notes:

1:00 Expect lots of cheese and bread at Oculus Connect

2:00 VR as an anxiety relief tool for the masses. 

4:00 Trying to understand the value of untethered 6dof VR.

8:00 The merging of gaming and exercise is coming

11:00  VR biometric data for exercise games --  https://yur.fit/

13:00 Linking your meat vehicle to real time biometric data will be manifested in VR.

14:30 Using VR to teach yourself to have more bravery, courage and discipline.

17:30 VR has the potential to open the door to new forms of "suffering porn"

19:00 No Man Sky teaches you the consequences of bad resource management.

23:00 Can VR experiences give us visceral reactions like some movies can? 

27:00 Windlands is a great but it gives me too much vertigo

29:00 What will it take to accelerate VR? 

31:00 The dream of the ultimate MMO for Spatial Computing. 

34:00 Red Dead spoiler alert

36:00 The Red Dead open world needs to come to VR

39:00 Being inside the temple of time is hard to describe. 

42:00 VRchat connections are great, reconnecting back to people in VRChat is hard, but why?

44:30 " I just came here for the memes. "

49:00 VR is here to stay and it's okay for it to take its time to reach the masses.

Thanks to Bella, Evan and Jesse for being true scholars of virtual reality and thank you for listening! 

https://www.patreon.com/SideQuestVR

https://hubs.mozilla.com/

Welcome to the Enter VR podcast! Join us for an insightful episode featuring my friend Nobuyuki Tomiuga. Come learn about Nobu's journey through the VR industry!

1:00 How Nobu got introduced to the idea of VR.

2:30 How Nobu first got involved with the VR community.

7:00 SVVR did something special for the VR community.

11:00 Google Cardboard was a double edged sword.

14:20 Nobu's experience with VR porn. (Not much)

22:00 What made Nobu leave the VR community in Japan?

25:00 Who is the community in VR for?

28:00 Alternative VR communities in Tokyo?

34:00 " There's no need to be at the heart of the industry to feel satisfied. "

41:00 Present Nobu's message to future Nobu.

Thanks to Nobu for being a true scholar and gentleman of virtual reality and thank you for listening!

Welcome to the Enter VR podcast! Join us for an awesome episode featuring Kent Kajitani, the CEO at Meson AR. Come learn about the AR industry landscape in Japan and much more!

Show notes:

45:  What is Meson AR?

1:30 Kent's journey through the industry.

4:00 Strategies and challenges Kent faces when selling to corporate partners. 

6:00 Communicating the potential of AR to Japanese audiences.

8:40 Discussions about privacy in AR are more prevalent in Japan.

11:40 How to approach advertisement in AR the right way.

15:00 Going to the root of what gives an AR app a use case.

18:00 Do people in Japan want AR? 

19:00 What Kent envisions himself doing every day with a mature AR platform. 

22:00 Hado is taking off in Japan and it's amazing.  https://hado-official.com/en/

23:45 Passthrough AR VS. Seethrough AR

27:50 Apple knows how to read the Japanese market.

29:30 Kent's advice for people trying to break into the AR industry.

31:30 Present Kent's message to future Kent. 

34:00 How to stay in touch with kent:

https://twitter.com/kajikent

https://meson.tokyo/en/

Welcome to the Enter VR podcast! Featuring Ando Shah from Ballast VR!

Follow us down the rabbit hole as we explore how Ando and his team is creating real value combining water and virtual reality!

Thanks to Ando for being a true scholar and gentleman of virtual reality and thank you for listening!

Stay in touch with Ando and Ballast VR with the links below:

https://twitter.com/BallastVR

https://ballastvr.com/

https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2018/7/17/17582004/virtual-reality-water-slide-vrslide-ballastvr