Welcome to the Enter VR podcast! On this episode we are joined by a fellow scholar and gentleman of virtual reality, Kenny Nichols.

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

15: Welcome to the shittiest sounding podcast on the internet!

1:00 The Nichols VR dynasty has spread lots love across the cosmos.

3:00 Being different makes you an easy target to dummies with nothing better to hate.

6:00 The VR community is kind and open.

8:00 Coping mechanisms post psychological abuse. (We all have them)

11: 30 The effects of vision impairment on Kenny's career.

14:00 Higher Resolution HMDs could help the visually impaired a lot, but only if the right interfaces are created.

17:00 Kenny is working on getting more WebVR browsers to be more accessible.

19:00 The VR alliance seems like a good group to reach out for Kenny.

21:00 How can HMD's be more accessible to the visual impaired?

23:00 Wearing an HMD with glasses sucks balls.

25:00 What can be done at the game engine level to make UI more friendly to the visually impaired?

29:00 The marketing behind the movement to help the visually impaired.

35:00 https://twitter.com/joshcarpenter/status/798701917069197313

38:00 E-book reading in VR needs to come to every HMD.

http://www.chimerareader.com/

45:00 Navigating a virtual world with 'echo location'.

48:00 The ultimate conclusion of exponential technologies.

50:00 3D printing ultimately promises to let you have whatever you want.

53:00 Synthetically biology ultimately promises to let you be whoever or whatever you want.

55:00 AI ultimately promises to let you do whatever you want.

58:00 Universal basic income is the best way to deal with job automation.

1:01:00 (I say Hears the thing way too much)

1:02:00 VR could be used positivey in mental health applications.

1:07:00 The ultimate promise of VR is to let you go wherever you want to do whatever you want.

1:08:00 Too much of anything is never good.

1:12:00 Civic Center station on a Tuesday night.

1:18:00 The most intense election ever.

1:22:00 FREE PIZZAS FOR EVERYONE/Kenny 2020

1:23:00 (It wasn't hot air)

1:26:00 Your perpetual problems are profitable to someone.

1:32:00 AI government couldn't come any sooner.

1:37:00 Your model of the world is wrong. So is mine.

1:38:00 Both sides are vulnerable to the influence of fake news.

1:41:00 VR can catapult our systems of education.

1:43:00 "Having tools that help us express thoughts visually"

(I need to stop saying here's the thing)

1:49:00 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trivium

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

2:01:00 Southpark Vs. Rick and Morty.

2:05:00 Closing thoughts

Thanks again to Kenny for coming on the show!

Connect with Kenny:

https://twitter.com/kennynichols

http://guntersuniverse.com/

Intro sound clips include:

Las Mananitas by Pedro Infante

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1Q6Zg8LPM4

Duck and Cover Nuclear safety alert

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKqXu-5jw60

lumi & subsequent - pov (atlas flip)

https://soundcloud.com/iamatlas/pov

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