EnterVR

Welcome to Enter VR! On this episode we are joined by Zhen Cao, a VR investor and UX designer.

Here is a snippet of some of the things we discussed

3:00 What does Outpost VC invest on? Intro to Zhen.

5:00 What guides Outpost's investment strategy?

7:00 Microdose VR has killer app potential. Tiltbrush comparison does not match well.

8:00 What sets a company apart from the competition?

Tiltbrush and Microdose are both great but they are not the same thing.*

13:30 What makes some companies more easy to invest to than others?

"Harnassing human relationships is one of the greatest powers a start up can leverage."

12:00 Why E-sports are interesting to pay attention to for investors?

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/inke-broadcast-amazing-life/id978985106?mt=8

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/inke#/entity

"E Sports taps into our human need to want to be part of a group"

20:00 China is poised to bring E-sports and VR together.

22:00 The VR industry should take note of the monetization strategies coming out of E sports.

30:00 Will the dominance of vr arcades in China change what kinds content people will buy?

31:00 What is the worst thing you can do in the realm of moneytization?

33:00 How do you end up loosing focus of your initial goals?

35:00 Zhen is looking for the 'prezi' of vr.

https://prezi.com/

37:00 Popular IPs need to come to VR.

44:00 VR and AR will battle for your attention. How does affect investment?

48:00 Will VR adaptations of movies be better than the movies that inspired them?

1:04:00 Sell me VR property in google earth VR.

1:05:00 Zhen's thoughts on the VR AI startups?

1:09:00 Zhen's hope and fears for the future of VR.

https://twitter.com/GemInVR

http://www.outpostvc.com/

Intro sound clips are from:

"World of Tomorrow" By Don Hertzfeldt

Worshyper - Dreamt (Hard Comma White Remix)

https://soundcloud.com/doandroidsdance/worshyper-dreamt-hard-comma-white-remix

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Disclosure.

The views expressed in this podcast are my personal opinions.

Thanks for listening!

Welcome to the Enter VR podcast. On this episode I'm Joined by the lovely and amazing Erika Barrazas!

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

30: Intro

1:00 Triggered warning: 2016 election recap spoiler alert skip to 1:20:00 to skip the political propaganda commentary comrade. (cue the obligatory masturbation joke)

3:00 Will virtual reality become more or less important in the next 4 years?

6:20 How to create messages that will go outside of affirmation bubbles?

9:50 The future of censorship under a Trump administration.

13:00 How do we defend a dying democracy?

17:00 Poverty is a lot scarier when you know what it can be like.

17:20 Using virtual reality as a petridish to model different political experiments, with the goal to develop better government.

22:40 Fake news is one of the many reasons why the election went a certain way.

24:00 Social media has morphed since it first began. What will VR morph into in the next coming years? Does social media provide potential parallels?

28:00 (insert skin color) power becomes a problem when hateful ideology takes hold of government. Wrestling with the freedom to hate one another.

32:00 The American public is being divided and conquered. Being poor has no skin color requirement and Americans have a lot more common goals than we are led believe.

35:00 Cults of personalities are dangerous. Please do not make this podcast popular.

41:00 Can VR help us solve our crisis of apathy?

43:00 What is the longterm psychological impact of having the "cure for boredom" in our hands?

46:00 Natural vs unnatural interfaces.

48:00 Rough seas ahead.

50:00 Can suicide rates be good metrics on whether a technology is going in the right direction or not?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegory_of_the_Cave

57:00 What does it mean to call yourself a professional?

58:00 "My happy little evil."

1:04:00 Asking for forgiveness can be easier than asking for permission.

1:07:00 Business advice from Erika.

1:10:00 Bad Audio up ahead, sorry!

1:11:00 Education thrives on tools, Google Earth VR is a tool for geography.

1:15:00 This podcast is not a place for political correctness.

1:19:00 The need to start a drone security company. Will drones armies will be used against us?

1:22:00 Cannabis edibles will make VR great again.

1:26:00 Closing thoughts.

Thanks again to Erika for being a true scholar and lady of virtual reality.

Thank you for listening

Stay in touch with Erika with links below:

http://evrealities.com/

https://twitter.com/SV_SocEnt

The song used in the intro was

Smallpools - Karaoke (Manila Killa Remix)

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https://soundcloud.com/nickraymondg/smallpools-karaoke-manila-killa-remix-thissongissickcom-premiere-free-download

This episode was recorded in November 2016

(Views are my own.)

Welcome to the Enter VR podcast! This episode features: Android Jones, Anson Phong, Manish Gupta, James Blaha, Jordan Braunstein.

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

20: More housing woes in San Francisco.

2:36 Android Jones saves you from a life of eternal torture.

3:00 Starting an "afterlife ponzi scheme".

4:00 Introductions

6:00 Will teledildonics bring about the end of humanity?

12:00 Can technology satiate our need for love?

16:00 What will be the state of mental health in a ubiquitoes vr future?

18:00 Can a simulation pass a romantic turing test?

19:30 "A neural net that can write and read memory"

22:00 What are the limits of AI?

25:00 "AI is the symbol for the coming of the anti christ. "

35:00 Merging humans with AI? The path towards general intelligence.

40:00 "The biggest humilition to human science that you can think of".

54:00 Robot armies will end all human revolutions.

57:00 Burning Man is a pattern interrupter.

1:03:30 The future of art.

1:15:40 How Android Jones reconciles his relationship with technology and nature.

1:21:00 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toba_catastrophe_theory

1:23:20 We are the last generation of non genetically modified humans.

1:27:00 Profiting off the prevention of suffering.

1:32:00 Crispr coming to a biological 3d printer near you!

1:35:00 A glow in the cris code clone.

1:36:00 Last comments and how to stay in touch.

Thanks to Android and Phong for being true scholars and gentlemen of virtual reality!

Thanks again to James, Manish and Jordan!

All views my own. duh.

Connect with Android with the links below:

https://twitter.com/microdoseVR

http://microdosevr.com/

https://www.facebook.com/microdoseVR/

Intro song by Desiigner. Song is called "Panda"

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https://soundcloud.com/lifeofdesiigner/desiigner-panda

Notes and time stamp:

1:00 Industrial grade robots at the price of a laptop. Dan Corkum joins the show.

2:17 A robot arm you can plug to your wall and run on batteries. Can these robots be programmed with Unity or Unreal?

4:00 "This is going to change robotics". The future of interacting with robots.

5:00 VR and Robotics intersect.

7:20 "Robot get me a sandwich".

8:20 Communicating complicated constructs more intuitively.

11:00 Dull, dirty, dangerous.

13:00 Suffering does not have an inherent value.

14:10 Synthetic leather made from mushrooms.

26:00 Trying to comprehend hate.

33:00 VR and AR will break your mind. Moving the Overton window.

37:00 How to prevent VR affirmation bubbles that are more thick than ever before.

40:00 Moving the Overton window.

44:00 Witnessing the making of the post scarcity economy.

47:00 A realistically terrifying future brought to you by AI.

52:00 Phrenology is making a come back...

55:00 Adding techno magic to racism.

58:00 Will the human species ever conquer racism?

1:04:00 Why would we "need" AI?

1:11:00 ALL mechanics will be out of jobs soon.

1:12:00 Machine vision tries to mimics human vision.

1:21:00 We now have the technologies to build an Utopia.

1:26:00 Will AI designate you're next job based on the needs of the society?

1:29:00 Is AI going to "tame" humans like we tamed the wolf to become the modern dog.

1:32:00 Google "Clathrate gun"

1:38:00 World peace is within reach.

1:39:00 The boundary between mind expansion and brain washing?

1:45: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3c2MJ71DEWg

1:48:00 The future can and will be better.

Thanks to Dan for being a true scholar and gentleman of the metaverse

Follow up with him with the links below:

http://www.carbon.ai/

https://twitter.com/carbonrobotics

The clip in the intro is from an adult swim commercial. Please support the artist.

Time stamp and notes:

30:00 Intro

1:00 How has VR changed Cosmo since he began working in the field?

3:00 Why VR appeals to Cosmo.

4:00 Is there something VR will never be able to achieve?

8:00 Will vr porn eclipse all the good VR applications out there to their detriment?

9:00 How do you teach people in VR? How do you know if someone learned what you wanted them to learn?

11:30 Cosmo's tips on getting shit done.

19:00 Does creating VR experiences count as free speech? What are the boundaries of this form of "free speech".

31:00 Teaching kids to eat healthy with augmented reality?

35:00 How good of a simulation will we be able to create?

37:00 Are you addicted to your phone?

39:00 How do you prevent mind prisons?

42:00 Would Pixar branded content conquer the VR market?

45:00 Thoughts on the Vive's sales figures.

49:00 What's the best way to get into VR?

57:00 Cosmos perspective on how the industry has changed.

Thanks to Cosmo for being a true scholar and gentleman of virtual reality!

Follow up with him with the links below:

https://twitter.com/cosmoscharf

Anime in the intro is called "Dartanian". Please support the original artist.

Thanks for listening

Get in touch with Enter VR via twitter: @entervr

Time stamp and notes:

1:00 Intro

1:30 What does a break up feel like?

3:00 How Charity got involved in VR.

5:00 What is experience? Will we ever find the answers to the Hard problem of consciousness?

13:00 Using VR to develop catharsis?

15:00 How do we visualize emotions in VR?

18:00 Elijah Wood is starting his own VR horror movie company.

20:00 Using simulations to create psychological profiles of all of humanity.

25:00 Anoymously releasing a vr experience that reliably gives people ptsd.

26:30 Can VR empathy get out of hand?

35:00 Education in VR is going to be crazy!

43:00 Don't forget, you can always take the headset off.

47:00 What responsibilities do artists have when working with the VR medium.

49:35 The effects of length of time when trying to deliver a message in VR.

52:00 Can machines replace artists?

56:00 What will the jobs of the future look like?

1:04:00 How would you spend the rest of your life if we had a "Star Trek" future?

1:09:00 Where will VR lead the human species towards?

1:11:00 Read the books:

-Wool

-The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect

1:12:00 Closing thoughts

Thanks to Charity for being a true lady and scholar of virtual reality.

Stay in touch with the links below:

https://twitter.com/charitylovesvr

https://twitter.com/jamesblaha

Thanks for listening

The song at the intro is called Old days. Link to soundcloud page:

https://soundcloud.com/barongfamily/old-days

Time stamp and notes:

1:20 "Something like the Singularity is happening".

2:15 What is the Singularity?

4:30 We will become incapable to live without our smartphones. 37

5:37 What is holding back the progress of the technology?

9:12 Humans expect change to be linear.

10:43 Different paths to the singularity.

12:30 How do you get the human species to pay attention to the technological change around us?

15:00 Making humanity proactive about the rise of AI.

16:26 The machine economy is already here and our human systems are not ready for the amount of change this will bring about.

18:00 Technological unemployment is one of the defining issues of this generation.

20:00 Why Marc Andresseen is wrong about the machine economy.

23:00 Programmers will also see their jobs be replaced by software.

26:00 What happens when a sizeable proportion of people can't make a living?

27:00 Revolution is longer possible in the 21st century.

30:30 What will the balance of power look in our life times?

36:00 Creating an open movement that will equalize the balance of power through the acquisition and democratization of exponential tools.

39:00 Go learn Tensorflow!

45:00 Why universal basic income could fail.

49:00 No one has a good answer to the exponential problem of the machine economy.

The collapse of human civilization will be caused by our inability to adapt to the machine economy.

53:00 Running out of your government quota of robot anal massages.

56:00 An open initiative to democratize cognitive enhancement.

59:00 What will we you do when computers "wake" up?

1:03:00 Open source AI has fatal vulnerabilities.

Thanks to James, Eriks , Maggie and Liz for being scholars, ladies and gentlemen of virtual reality.

Follow up with them with the links below:

https://twitter.com/jamesblaha

https://twitter.com/EriksStrals

Song in the intro is by Enya. Please support the artist!

Thanks for listening!

Time stamp and notes:

30: What is VRChive?

2:00 The origins of VRChive.

4:00 A new frontier has opened up.

8:00 What did the first year of the second wave of VR look like?

14:00 Working on VR while living in paradise.

17:30 Imposing your will on your clone.

18:00 Startup founders in VR share their advice on finding a founder.

23:00 The long term vision for VRChive.

27:00 You will be compelled to explore the version of reality you are most familiar with. (360 videos vs. In engine)

33:00 Social VR is where VRChive will shine.

36:00 Making VRChive style 360 gifs.

38:00 What the VRChive team does to relax?

43:00 What not to do when pitching your vr startup.

45:00 Open source vs. walled gardens

51:00 The long road to launch

Thanks to Evan and Ka'i for being true scholars and gentlemen of virtual reality!

Follow up with them with the links below:

https://twitter.com/VRCHIVE

http://vrchive.com/

Song in the intro is from the Sleeping Dogs soundtrack.

Time stamp and notes:

Intro: Dealing with wet shoes.

1:00 Japanese people can't handle their expectations about Paris. https://www.reddit.com/r/nottheonion/comments/4a3cce/paris_is_too_dirty_for_the_japanese_tokyo_travel/

4:00 VR and AR are on the spectrum of mixed reality. AR will integrate itself into your life with useful things. VR will entertain you immersively.

7:00 The conceptual weaknesses of a perfect implementation of AR.

10:00 Using SLAM (simultaneous localization And Mapping) to get positional tracking in AR.

12:30 Why Google Glass was not an AR device.

16:45 What will be the most ideal external input device for AR devices?

20:15 As of the publishing of this podcast AR has become hotter than VR thanks to Pokemon Go. Pokemon Go is the killer app of AR.

23:00 A stereoscopic webcam view of the world is coming.

24:00 What is a transparent light field display?

27:00 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Mann

http://www.laptopmag.com/articles/exclusive-cyborg-steve-mann-on-alleged-mcdonalds-assault

32:00 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifecasting_(video_stream)

33:00 What is the worst thing you can do with VR?

35:00 Will we us VR for mind reprogramming? Will brain washing with VR become more effective?

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/black-mirror/

36:00 Can you reach a trans state in VR?

38:00 Will you get withdrawal symptoms from being detached to your technology.

39:00 I did not end up using the Unreal Engine. I was worried the stream would break.

39:30 Machine learning and VR have yet to truly intersect.

42:00 Will the Have's trap the Have not's in a reality of their making?

43:00 The Sword Art Online of VR is coming?

45:00 How will machine learning be applied to VR?

46:00 Exponentially accelerated progress.

49:00 Will renewable energy save us?

50:00 Power has been centralizing over time. One day there will be a drone army that won't need anyones consent to do whatever it wants.

53:00 Self improving machine learning algorithms could get out hand?

56:00 How fast is the future approaching?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pq-S557XQU

https://www.ted.com/talks/jeremy_howard_the_wonderful_and_terrifying_implications_of_computers_that_can_learn?language=en

58:00 Quad copter taxis will be a thing?

1:02:00 What is the promise of AI?

1:07:00 Will AI replace our scientists?

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26400902-utopia

1:08:00 http://localroger.com/prime-intellect/mopiidx.html

1:11:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRhq-yO1KN8

1:18:00 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6bekli_Tepe

1:21:40 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerando

How do we retain our human identity?

1:22:00 Can we restart civilization in space?

1:24:00 Will AI help us govern?

1:25:00 https://www.amazon.com/Superintelligence-Dangers-Strategies-Nick-Bostrom/dp/1501227742

1:27:00 Why we party.

1:27:30 Looking back at Alpha Go.

1:30:00 What factions do you align yourself in Fall Out 4? (spoiler alert)

1:33:00 Can AI develop a desire for self determination?

1:35:00 Meat in the petridish is a moral imperative.

1:36:00 The 21st century is about how to go about having our collective cake and eat it without destroying ourselves and the planet.

1:38:00 There is a larger infinite number of simulations than there are infinite real universes.

1:41:00 Rick Sanchez is our idol.

1:41:45 What would you do with your own clone?

1:46:00 The magic of marketing

1:57:00 There are no Vives in Chinese jail.

2:00:00 Closing thoughts.

Thanks to Noah and Alpay for being true scholars and gentlemen of the metaverse!

Follow up with them with the links below:

https://twitter.com/noazark

https://twitter.com/alpaykasal

Stay in touch via twitter @entervr

Thanks for listening.

Intro provided by Rick and Morty. Please give the creators of Rick and Morty lots of money.

Time stamp and notes:

1:30 At the intersection of Hip Hop and Virtual Reality.

3:30 How does the World Cup of Hip Hop work?

8:00 The challenge of telling stories in VR without being gimmicky.

9:40 How to do 360 video documentaries the right way.

12:00 Why use virtual reality to tell underground Hip Hop stories.

21:00 Using virtual reality to supplement art. What will the future hold for the hip hop and virtual reality?

25:00 How will artists make a living with virtual reality?

31:00 Fears and apprehensions about VR as a technology.

36:00 How do we avoid a dystopian future with technology?

37:00 Best ice cream sandwich is the neopolitan.

39:00 L.A has too many good places to eat at.

40:00 Make a cool VR experience and you might just win an EMMY!

41:00 Closing thoughts

Thanks to Robinne for being a true scholar and lady of virtual reality!

Follow up with what she's up to with the links below:

https://twitter.com/robinneb

http://www.takebackthemic.com/

https://www.projectgreenlight.com/

Song in the intro by Molotov. Please support the artists!

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Thanks for listening!