VR Investor and developer Tipatat Chennavasin joins us to talk about how far we've come over the past 2.5 years of consumer VR. 

Topics discussed: 
- Jumping from development to venture capital
- Which businesses _need_ VC investment, and which don't
- How media hype overvalued VR companies

Key takeaways:
- Right now is the BEST time to be investing and developing in VR, with no real AAA competition, no overinflated hype, with a growing and hungry for content userbase.
- Plenty of business models than don't need venture capital to be successful 
- You're better off prototyping AR apps in VR than on mobile AR today

The State of the VR Industry with Tipatat Chennavasin, GP at The VR Fund - 80

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By combining our background in Cognitive Science and VR Research, we break down important Neuroscience to extract Design principles. 

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In this final episode of Research VR, Casey Sapp, the CEO of VRTUL, an high-end underwater panoramic filming company, joins Azad to talk about the difficulties of creating VR experiences deep in the ocean.

Final Episode: Underwater Panoramic Filmmaking w/ Casey Sapp (CEO of VRTUL)

Jeff Powers, Cofounder of Occipital and Arcturus Industries joins Azad to discuss active depth cameras, Apple's LiDAR, and his vision of the future of consumer volumetric reconstructions. 

Topics discussed: 
- The market for depth cameras in 2014 for consumers, developers.
- Why they focused on mobile-first with the Structure sensor.   
- Google's Tango project not being adopted. 
- Building a developer friendly ecosystem for 3rd party companies. 
- A general Perceptual layer in software that can take any input.
- The economies of scale with new and niche hardware. 
- Did Tesla pick the right choice with cameras vs LIDAR? 
- Building the Room View 3D with Valve
- Interesting applications of the Index's dual cameras. 
- VR eating up AR's use cases in the short term.

Active Depth Cameras w/ Jeff Powers (Cofounder Occipital, Arcturus Industries) - 101

Petr Legkov, Krzysztof Izdebski, and Azad Balabanian, the three cofounders of the podcast come back together to discuss the last four years of VR, the podcast, and their lives.

Topics discussed:
- Why/how the podcast started
- revisiting old arguments
- retrospection on VR industry over 4 years

Retrospective on:
- locomotion theories 
- roomscale gaming not being the goal
- best value VR headset
- European tech glass ceiling 
- focusing on learning

Episode 100! The original cast retrospective on 4 years of VR - 100

Jessica Outlaw, a culture & behavior researcher and Rebecca Hyman, a mental health therapist to discuss human culture in-and-out of VR, VR marketing demographics, as well as representation in media. 

Topics discussed:
- Building non-violent cultures in VR
- VR's target demographics and identities
- The unreleased Intel VR HMD's marketing campaign
- The border between messing-around vs griefing/harassment 
- Reddit's subreddit self moderation framework 
- The basics of culture in a community

Culture and Behavior in Social VR (Jessica Outlaw + Rebecca Hyman) - 99

Cofounder and CEO of Sketchfab, Alban Denoyel joins Azad to talk about all things 3D on the web. 

Topics discussed:
- Why sketchfab was created 
- Why the large tech companies can't compete against Sketchfab's community
- The importance of having downloading/remixing functionality   
- Why it’s difficult to be build both a community and a store
- What’s the point of 3D reality capture?

The State of the VR Industry with Tipatat Chennavasin, GP at The VR Fund - 80

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