Talking Spatial

Linda and Sean Dive in to the current state of "Virtual Humans" and take a look at multiple companies and organizations involved in pushing this technology into the future. 

https://www.kara.tech/ is providing an amazing use case for Virtual Human tech, their goal is to "Make content accessible to sign language users". Have a look and see for yourselves. They are well on their way to this goal! 

https://www.soulmachines.com/ builds virtual humans for multiple industries and use cases. Soul Machines patented "Digital Brain" and "Digital DNA" Studio is pushing the boundaries of virtual human technology. 

 https://www.neon.life/ Neon is bridging the gap between human and virtual human. They are constructing Virtual Humans to be more than an AI Assistant or 3D Avatar, but an interactive friend, teacher, teammate and so much more. 

If you want some help in the kitchen, Toll House has rolled out Ruth, their Virtual Cookie Coach. https://cookiecoach.tollhouse.com/

We are just getting started with Virtual Human integration into our daily lives.

Linda and Sean dig into Earth Two and the Digital Real Estate Experiences that came before this new platform. Purchasing the digital equivalent of actual land isn't a new thing. Will the new crop of digital frontier software get it right or will they flop? There's also a little Crypto talk towards the end of the episode. We are nothing without a good tangent!

If you read the title and sang the last four words, you get bonus points! 

Ben Erwin is our first official guest on the show and we have a great time talking about The WebXR Awards (The Polys) and Beyond.

Find out more about the WebXR Awards At:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/webxrawards

Linda and Sean talk about where we currently are in the world of Concerts in VR and where this is heading in the short and long term. There have been some EPIC artists showing up in XR lately. 

Topics of conversation include:

Jean Michel Jarre and his New Years Eve show at Notre Dame. Check out the replay here! (Sadly... in 2D/Pancake view only) 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKjFjFtKBRI&ab_channel=jeanmicheljarre

Amazing Mixed Media Shows and the insanely incredible Amon Tobin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqyEZ0GwS3E&ab_channel=AmonTobin

And, joy.lol and his quest to bring one off digital interactive art into all of our lives. What? You didn't know you could purchase VR based art with blockchain based currency and then display your art knowing it itself is protected and guaranteed to be the only one of it's kind by the same blockchain based tech you bought it with? Know you do! Go get some! 
https://www.joy.lol/

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Do we have ideas for the what's and why's we are going to talk about? YES! 

Did we just record episode 0 on not so up to spec equipment just to get one in the books? Abso-Freakin-Lutely!!! 😁

Are we posting this here before we even have a logo or give it a listen for sound quality and editing? Again... YEP!!! 🤣

Welcome to Talking Spatial. It's Linda and Sean talking about all things Augmented and Virtual Reality, because we LOVE IT!!!

This week we start talking about VR mindfulness and meditation... Wait... Sean starts talking about that and then we do what we do and tangent off into something sort of related yet totally different😁👍

We are pretty sure we just found a way to unite the entire planet Bill & Ted style through XR tech. So... we have that going for us!

Today we got into where we see XR tech heading into the not so distant future and some of things that motivate us to jump in and stay involved with VR/AR tech. Don't worry! There are plenty of tangents along the way!

In this episode of Talking Spatial we jump into the deep end of what is real and where we see AR/VR tech taking our perceptions of reality in the future. Which pill are you taking? Red or Blue?