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.)