#7 Virtual Reality ain’t just for games anymore
In this weeks show we talk about VR / AR. Why it’s taking off. Why it’s not just a toy. The difference between the use and capability. Thomas Edison and his sermons. The weird tricks your brain use to map your body. Simulation vs. reality. The ethical implications of VR / AR and who owns your avatar. How culture absorbs an idea. The future ideas for Engineering, Education, Medicine and Journalism and Micheál desire to have 32 screens in a virtual space.
Show Notes
- Still Logged In: What AR and VR Can Learn from MMOs
- Ethic of VR/AR and industry that have experienced it already
- MMO → Massively Multiplayer Online (for Darragh)
- It’s just a toy for VR/AR response
- There’s a story told of the theoretical physicist Wolfgang Pauli that a friend showed him the paper of a young physicist that he suspected was not very good but on which he wanted Pauli’s views. Pauli remarked sadly “It is not even wrong”. For a theory even to be wrong, it must be predictive and testable and falsifiable. If it cannot be falsified – if it does not make some prediction that could in theory be tested and proven false – then it does not count as science.
- “The mistake to make in looking at Edison’s recording technology would have been to argue about whether people wanted sermons – the mistake is to look only at the application that this technology is proposed to provide, and not the actual capability that has been created. Sermons might not work**, but sound is a big deal. ”
- VR Builder Tool (Video) –
- Build 3d Models in VR
- VR for Engineering (Video) –
- VR used in Engineering for a Visualisation Tool
- Phantoms in the Brian (Book)
- All about phantoms limbs and how the brain maps the body and itself
- The Inner Life of a Cell (Video)
- Amazing Demo of the Chemicals and Processes Occurring inside every cell
- HYPER-REALITY (Video) –
- Hyper Reality Short Movie of the Worst Aspects of VR and AR
- Douchest Application Ever (Video) –
- Possibly the douchest potential application of the tech ever
- Web Technologies and webAR – Web Augmented Reality
- https://github.com/googlevr/chromium-webar
- WebAR examples https://twitter.com/jerome_etienne/status/865253909518069761 – Really Cool Examples
- https://twitter.com/jsantell/status/882994855328206848– This is the most mind blowing example with a portal you can enter in the augmented reality world
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUKq6VnHa8k – Demo from Googles Talk, the feature of physically placing objects you can buy is interesting
- Ted Playlist (video)
- VR in Education
- VR Laboratories
- 76% increase in learning effectiveness using virutal laboratories
- Working with game developers to
- VR Laboratories
- AR with Maps
- Some pretty cool features with live video being overlayed on a map. And this was from 2010. Whatever happened to Bing maps?
- VR in Journalism –
- Syrian bomb scene
- Guy collapsed into coma, people would cry watching it
- Tapping into empathy
- Microsoft Hololens
- The applications of it in design, communication, education
- An internet without screens
- Reach into the computer and grab a pixel
- Augmented realityfitting room
- Image recognition that triggers augmented reality
- The birth of virtual reality as an art form
- “Your consciousness is the medium”
- Movie making is not for the rectangle anymore
- How augmented reality will change sports … and build empathy
- Using augmented reality to win games
- VR in Education