Simulation Nation

Riz is a best-selling author, renowned MIT computer scientist and Silicon Valley video game designer who will break down for us why we may be living in The Matrix.... For real.

Riz draws research and concepts from computer science, artificial intelligence, video games, quantum physics, speculative fiction and ancient eastern spiritual texts.

Are we living in a simulation? Join us for this discussion that promises to be mind-blowing. You don't want to miss this one!

Southern Californian independent developer Prodigia Games has a new vision for VR development: bringing hardware and robotics to create experiences that standard games can't match.

We'll talk about VR games, robots, and why we really haven't seen anything yet when it comes to interactive media.

Check it out!

Today we interview M. Stern, who is an author whose science fiction has appeared recently in publications such as cyberpunk magazine Write Ahead/The Future Looms and the relaunched pulp sci-fi magazine Startling Stories. He also writes weird/horror fiction in which you might find a science fictional concept or two.

You can learn more about the fascinating and frightening world of M. Stern at http://www.msternauthor.com and follow on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/msternauthor.

Come check out this talk where he'll break down the state of the industry, his work, and how to get published.

Curious about NFTs?

This week we interview Candice Houtekier, the founder of Art Collision, and Co-director of Art Gate VR!

Art Collision is a marketing agency for art businesses and Art Gate VR is an art market for post-modern and contemporary art in virtual reality. Together, they help artists find new ways to reach their audiences, and yes, also provide financial opportunities... in VR!

If you are an artist and want to learn how to expand your reach through VR, then you’ll have to check out what Candice has to say.

The multiverse is colliding! Yes, we are having a joint podcast interview between Simulation Nation and VR Verdict.

We are Simulation Nation, interviewers of VR professionals and worldbuilders, reviewers of games and movies about VR.

And they are VR Verdict, interviewers of game devs about how they do what they do.

Together we will meet at the nexus point of parallel podcast universes, and interview each other simultaneously! Who knows what could happen??

Join us for this all-out podcast explosion to find out!

Nationites! We are very excited to interview Charlie Fink.

Charlie is a futurist who writes about XR on Forbes. Variety calls him “XR’s explainer-in-chief.” He is the author of the new book, Remote Collaboration, Virtual Conferences and the Future of Work (2020), and the critically acclaimed AR-enabled books Charlie Fink's Metaverse (2017), and Convergence, How The World Will Be Painted With Data (2019). Fink teaches XR at Chapman University Film School in Orange, California.

Please join us for this amazing opportunity to speak to Charlie about the state of XR and where he thinks it's headed.

You're not going to want to miss this one!

Welcome to our second episode of our Virtual Money Series, which explores the ways the cryptocurrencies are transforming our world.

This time we have EtherChest Founder Daniel Pittman.

Daniel will give us an overview of the EtherChest Ecosystem on the Ethereum 2.0 and HIVE Blockchains, and talk about how you can stake your virtual money and make it earn income for you.

Heard about cryptocurrencies but don't quite know what it is? Wish you could make a living in virtual reality? Let us show you how with the Virtual Money series.

For our past episodes, please check us out on Spotify-- https://open.spotify.com/show/3hAzKpikTB1CqiT1MzeIZn

And as always, stay plugged my friends!

World on a Wire, as far as we know, was the first ever vision of a simulation put on film, way back in 1973. This is our discussion of Part 2 of the film. We recommend checking out our review of Part 1 in Episode 35 before listening to this one!

World on a Wire (German: Welt am Draht) is a 1973 science fiction television serial made for German television as a two-part miniseries. It was based on the 1964 novel Simulacron-3 by Daniel F. Galouye. A movie based on the same novel entitled The Thirteenth Floor starring Craig Bierko was released in 1999. Want to see the first ever vision of a simulation put on film? You gotta check out this episode.

The year is 2021. Society is obsessed with virtual reality, but mega corporations are taking over.

In comes Johnny, played by world's greatest human Keanu Reeves, who must smuggle sensitive data implanted in his brain.

Will he deliver the data alive, or will his brain be fried? Let's 'remember' this cyberpunk cult hit.