Welcome to the Enter VR podcast! On this episode we are joined by Az Balabanian from the Research VR podcast. Check out show notes below to get a preview of what we talked about.

1:00 Reminiscing the good ol days and 100 vr hour project

2:30 What keeps Az busy these days.

5:00 The dynamics of doing a podcast in VR with Bigscreen VR.

7:00 Shopping around for the right social VR world to host a talk show.

11:00 Enter VR dance crew is on the way.

12:40 Recalling playing vr games and experiences these days.

16:00 VR environments can have a real effect on you?

27:00 Could VR environments be designed to minimize trolling and bad behavior?

35:00 Self policing communities can actually happen in VR

37:00 What is the current state of photogammetry?

43:30 What is the difference between lightfields vs. photogammetry ?

49:00 Is lightfield technology dead?

51:00 Can you pay your rent just by doing work with photogammetry?

54:00 What are LIDAR cameras?

59:00 Who will win? Spinning lasers or machine vision for VR tracking?

1:03:30 How long will it take for VR to leave the trough of disillusionment. How do you make money VR right now while anticipating where the future will be?

1:09:00 Reflecting on the impact Ready Player One can have on the current state of the industry.

1:14:30 Trying out the Varjo headset and the potential it will have on the industry.

1:19:00 How far away are we from a complete 5G connected future?

1:23:00 The existential potential and threat of eye tracking technology.

1:28:00 Trying to wrap our minds our around the current state of social media.

1:35:00 How to stay in touch Az and closing thoughts.

Thanks to Az for being a true scholar and gentleman of virtual reality and thank you for listening!

Check out the links below to get in touch Az:

https://twitter.com/Azadux

http://azadux.com/

https://itunes.apple.com/fi/podcast/researchvr-podcast/id1072936162?mt=2

https://twitter.com/researchvrcast

The song from the intro is Remix of the Legend Zelda's Song of Storms by Deon Custom

https://soundcloud.com/deoncustom/zelda-song-of-storms-deon-custom-remix

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