Virtuality Podcast

The Virtuality Podcast features discussions with technologists driving Virtual and Augmented Reality forward. We speak with Enterprise intrapreneurs, game developers, creatives, and enthusiasts from Boston Massachusetts and around the globe. It’s produced by Jason Parks (@jasonparksvr ) and hosted by Craig Herndon (@craigvready) and Neil Gupta (@MrNeilGupta). We would like to keep sharing more about #VR & #AR with you so please consider a few dollars to our patreon linked in the show notes. The Virtuality Podcast is produced by Jason Parks and music by Rachel Dysinski. This podcast is in collaboration with Boston VR and Boston AR, monthly meetups and events can be found on meetup.com. You can also follow us on Twitter @VirtualityCast and learn more at our website virtuality.show. Boston VR is a 501(c)(3) non-profit so all donations are tax deductible.

#26 PTC Reality Lab Director Valentin Heun 11/13/2019

#25: XR for Education - Lorenzo Vallone - Xennial Digital 06/06/2019

#25: XR for Education - Lorenzo Vallone - Xennial Digital XR is changing how we learn. Lorenzo Vallone, from the Award winning studio Xennial Digital, sat down with us at VRX 2019 to share their thirteen STEM education experiences, A Magic leap climate change visualization, and their social impact work in Guatemala and Columbia. Xennial Digital won the award for the 2018 most innovative company by the La Prensa newspaper. The most unique part of Xennial Digital is how they are partnering with schools to make high school students product designers on their educational platform. This results in a product that is made for students by students with expert oversight and guidance. Their success is shown when students spend forty minutes modifying variables to observe and understand outcomes. 00'35": Xennial Digital general overview 01'20": Working with private schools for a virtual reality pilot to get kids excited about science 03'20": Getting students involved in the development process as product designers 05'30": Formalizing the program with an interdisciplinary group of kids 08'40": Discovering what about STEM children love or find interesting and capturing that curiosity in the product. 12'40": Climate change visualization for Magic Leap 15'00": Working with non-profits in Guatemala to provide students with XR technology 17'28": How experiences in the virtual world were able to transcend into the real world and provide people with the aptitude to change the world around them. 22'30": Columbia Human rights festival project around landmines in rural areas that are still killing over one thousand people each year. 25'50": How to dissect a pig. 27'25": The business value of XR technology 29'45": Perception of the self and others in virtual reality 30'58": Rebuilding the Globe Theater and performing William Shakespeare Virtual Reality live with trained actors 34'25": Training people on these new technologies is critical to adoption. Facebook: Twitter: Linkedin: Instagram: xennialDigital.com Miami VR Expo /episode/index/show/virtuality/id/10079750

#24: - Derek Belch, CEO of Strivr - Enterprise VR Training at Scale 04/25/2019

#24: - Derek Belch, CEO of Strivr - Enterprise VR Training at Scale We sit down with Derek Belch, CEO of Strivr, to discuss enterprise VR training. Strivr is the leader and best known for their product delivered to Walmart installed in each store on over 17,000 Oculus Go's. The conversation begins around the origins of Strivr between Derek Belch and Jeremy Bailenson then moves into the details and challenges of onboarding enterprise clients. After covering the details of custom XR training we move onto the bigger picture of of using AR and VR for training and their use cases from custom training, to sports, and improving soft skills. Lastly, Derek closes out the conversation by sharing proven value and stats delivered to clients. 00'00": How did Strivr get started? 03'25": The Strivr mission statement 05'00": Approach training as religion and performance improvement 05'20": Was VR a hard sell to clients? 06'45": challenges in the enterprise space 07'20": Oculus enterprise licensing 08'27": Logistics of building for enterprise at scale 10'00": Is everything custom or are some things reused? 12'20": Training modules aren’t all that different from games. What are the differences? 15'14": How do you work with the creating a statement of work? 17'05": Is strivr set to exclusively working in the enterprise and sports verticals? 18'10": What’s next and how is newer technology changing how VR training is done. 21'20": Is the cost or the technology holding back AR from widespread enterprise implementation? 23'20": Who is requesting AR? 23'50": How setting unrealistic expectations are misleading stakeholders and consumers. 25'15": What are the most requested use cases from potential clients? 26'30": Soft skill use cases and how Soft skills are a hard sell because it’s difficult to measure value. 28'22": What are the challenges behind implementing sexual harassment training? 31'00": The science supports that VR is more effective for training. Links: Strivr.com virtuality.show bostonvr.org /episode/index/show/virtuality/id/9534629

#23: XR for physical therapy with Brian Cohn from Kaspect 03/15/2019

#23: XR for physical therapy with Brian Cohn from Kaspect After the reality virtually hackathon, we spoke with Brian Cohn from the winning team move2improve. Others on the team were The reality virtually hackathon had 450 developers from 35 countries composing 105 teams competing for various prizes. 40% of participants were women/non-binary. This makes the reality Virtually hackathon the largest, most diverse XR hackathon in the world. Brian is the chief data scientist at Kaspect working with fortune 10 companies, hospitals, and biotech companies. Brian's Phd focused on human muscle control patterns as they related to heath, development, aging and pathological conditions. We discuss Brian's experience at the Reality Virtually Hackathon before digging into his medical background. We then dig into Brian’s work using peripherals to track and treat diseases such as Parkinson’s. In each of the topics we discuss, a resounding theme is data privacy and how collected data is used and we ask the question... Does the data even need to be collected? 01’30”: how did move 2 improve go from idea to hackathon winning team among 105 teams. 03’00”: diseases and traumas that require physical therapy 03’35”: Building the team at the Reality Virtually hackathon. 04’27”: Is XR the best fit for move2improve? 06’20”: The move 2 improve experience explanation. 08’20”: How does move to improve help the clinician? 08'55”: USC study to evaluate the VR data collection of tremors and “shakiness”. 10'50”: healthcare expenses and VA initiative to do more telemedicine. 12’00”: HIPPA and XR as a data collection device 13’10”: FDA approval for commercial grade therapeutics 14'00”: building in safety protocols into XR environments 14'50”: At what point did Brian pick up XR development? 16'05”: The importance of conservatively collecting and user data 17'00”: Oculus Runtime and mobile app data collection example 18'00”: Data doesn’t have to be big to make a big change! 19'50”: Brian’s takeaway from the Reality Virtually Hackathon. BrianCohn.com realityvirtuallyhack.com virtuality.show /episode/index/show/virtuality/id/9018593

#22: Gabe Paez: The Wild XR 02/19/2019

#21: Charity Everett : Go Back Fetch It 01/13/2019

#20 Project Daredevil bringing immersive media to the Visually Impaired - Matthew Shifrin, Daniel Levine 11/21/2018

#20 Project Daredevil bringing immersive media to the Visually Impaired - Matthew Shifrin, Daniel Levine Matthew Shifrin has been visually impaired his entire life and is working with Daniel Levine on Project Daredevil to make comics available in a more inclusive and accessible format than what currently exists. They are doing this with an experimental headset that allows for new sensations such as the feeling of flipping, falling through a portal and utilize that to immerse users into the scene. The core focus on the project is to make Daredevil, the only blind super hero, acessible to the visually impaired. You contact Matt and Daniel via email at: [email protected] Bookmarks: 0'00": What is Project Daredevil? 1'25": What blind people miss in film and comics. 2'55" “Hey, isn’t ironic that the comic book industry’s only blind character is completely inaccessible to blind people.” 3'44": Matt meets daredevil writer Mark Wade. 4'30": Experimental VR headset 5'40": What would different super heroes feel like? 6'35": how intense are the sensations from this header? 7'45": Current haptics and what innovation this headset brings 9'20": Practical Foley like eating potato chips 9'50": New England Conservatory Grant for the radio drama. 10'08": The energy that comes from a room of voice actors and the use of a 3D microphone. 11'40": What are the next steps for project daredevil? 12'45": Companies , conventions, and Authors in support of adapting their works to audio drama. Marvel, DC,Neil Gaiman, Jamie Delano. 14'45": What does this headset feel like? 16'00": The process of adapting comics to audio. 18'35": Can you have a VR or AR headset too? 20'55": How are these effects tested? 24'15": What are the theories behind the design of the headset to generate these effects? 26'30": Has this been done before? 27'00": What audio dramas inspired the type of work that is being done for project DareDevil? 28'15": Using headtracking with 3D audio to create new experiences. 32'15": This project is to bring blind children into comics and have the shared experience that sighted children have. Credits: Host: Craig Herndon, Produced by Jason Parks Music by Rachel Dziezynski Got comments on the show? Did we miss something? Did we get something wrong? Reach out to us on twitter. /episode/index/show/virtuality/id/7650908

#019 ART Advanced Realtime Tracking - Andreas Werner 10/16/2018

#018 Kaon Interactive at VRX 2018 09/13/2018

#017 Ubimax - Hendrik Witt 08/28/2018

#016 - Andy Greff - PLANR 07/24/2018

#015 Academy Award Winner Ross Shain 06/05/2018

#015 Academy Award Winner Ross Shain We chat with Ross Shain about his Sci-Tech Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts given to the Mocha team in 2013. Mocha has been used for the Harry Potter films, latest Marvel Movies such as Black Panther, and other known films such as Black Swan and Birdman. In short, In the Oscars for VFX the artist most likely used Mocha at some point in the workflow. Mocha VR has won multiple awards across the industry. Below is a sampling of the more recent awards. 2018 Advanced Imaging Society Technology Award -Mocha VR 2018 Studio Prim "Bleeding Edge Award" -Mocha VR 2017 Multiple "Best of Show Awards" at NAB (Post magazine, Digital Video Magazine) In addition to Mocha, the parent company, Boris FX sells multiple editing tools. We talk with Ross about his experience and how these tools are being used for VR and 360 content. Bookmarks: 1'35": Ross explains how Mocha was used in Harry Potter films 3'00": Academy Sci-Tech Award and Plan Tracking Discussion 4'45": Black Swan Natalie Portman 6'00": Birdman - Michael Keaton 7'00": common editing issues object removal, stabilization, “invisible effects” 7'50": Ross’s favorite scenes, Harry Potter, Marvel films such as Black Panther 9'45": Are movies ruined for Ross? 11'15": History of visual effects in film such as Star Wars, King Kong, and other films that came before green screens. 14'20": What gaps is editing software does Boris FX and Mocha fill? 17'00": What challenges does Stereo bring to editing versus monoscopic? 20'50": stereographer 21'25": How did mocha get into 360 video 25'25": What’s the mocha team like? 26'50": Specific use cases that mocha 360 solves 30'35": types of 360 cameras in the market 32'12":Visual Effects arms race for 360 content 34'30":Common 360 video mistakes and how Mocha can solve them. 37'10": importance of reference shots and thinking about the set to avoid post production problems 38'40": Parent company BorisFx plug-ins for Adobe and Avid 39'10": Continuum VR unit by Boris Fx and features 40'57": How have creatives used mocha in ways that Ross did not expect? Stephen King IT. 43'00": Horror In VR , Speak of the Devil 44'35": Interactive 360 content 47'00": What is Ross’s favorite 360 content he has experienced? 47'50": Felix and Paul Isle of Dogs Experience 50'10": How Stephen Spielberg used VR while filming Ready Player One 52'05":What are the hard to reach problems that everyone would love solved via software but isn’t done yet? 53'50":Beat Saber 56'00": Speeding up the processing time per frame 57'50":Is the team looking to grow? LINKS : : Wes Anderson : Check out the : Isle of Dogs : Behind the Scenes in /episode/index/show/virtuality/id/6669579

#014 - Pax East VR Coverage Part 2 05/24/2018

#013 - Pax East VR Coverage Part 1 04/30/2018

#012 - Eric Vezzoli - GoTouchVR - Virtuality Podcast 03/22/2018

#012 - Eric Vezzoli - GoTouchVR - Virtuality Podcast We talk with Eric Vezzoli of gotouchvr and dig beyond haptics as a tool for increased immersion. We discuss how haptics is currently best used for training motor memory, the differences between U.S. and European start ups along with other uses for haptics outside of VR. Eric is the youngest awarded by the European Commission for outstanding research applied to entrepreneurship in at the MSCA 2017 prizes. He is one of the most cited young Haptic Scientist in the world. He published 23 scientific papers and deposed 5 patents. 00’57”: Eric background 02’50”: Haptics is a bidirectional interaction 04’00”: There is no one solution for haptics 08’00”: Using real world objects to enhance the virtual experience. 09’20”: It is not clear how to communicate touch. Nor is there a protocol 11'00": Haptics companies are struggling to justify the cost versus benefit. 12’20”: Getting investor attention for a Haptic device. 13’28”: Using Haltic’s to train multi modal memory 15’58”: Haptics aren’t scalable 17’25”: Haptics aren’t shareable 20’35”: Haptics as a platform 24’25": The Haptics community is small 26’22": Go Touch VR: The VR Glove without a glove. 30’45”: Who is Go Touch working with? 32’11”: what’s next for Haptics? 35’05”: What’s the difference between U.S. and European start ups? 37’40”: What is the European VR community like? 40’40”: How does one get into Haptics? 43’18”: How is haptics used outside of VR? 46’30”: Can Haptics increase user engagement? 49’13”: How can we make haptic devices shareable? 50’30”: What are the next steps for Gotouch VR? 53’20”: Can consumers get Gotouch VR? gotouchvr.com Credits: Host: Craig Herndon, Produced by Jason Parks Music by Rachel Dziezynski Got comments on the show? Did we miss something? Did we get something wrong? Reach out to us on twitter. /episode/index/show/virtuality/id/6469338

#011 - Kathy Bisbee - Brookline Interactive - Public VR Lab - Virtuality Podcast 02/20/2018

#011 - Kathy Bisbee - Brookline Interactive - Public VR Lab - Virtuality Podcast Welcome to Season 2 of the Virtuality Podcast. We brought Kathy Bisbee on the show to talk about the Brookline Interactive Group and their Public VR Lab. Once a community broadcast group, Kathy has led the transformation into a media center with VR at it's focus. We talk about her projects locally and with the United Nations. 0'00" Brookline interactive group 4'00" Public vr lab 6'15" projects for the United Nations 9'45" Cultural differences in experiencing VR 11'45" Immersive story telling and media literacy 15'00" Hero’s journey 17'15" Agency within an experience 18'50" Difficulties of communicating what VR is like to those who haven't tried it. 20'20" AR experience with local monuments 21'26" possibilities with the freedom trail 23'00" Standardization of distribution in AR 24'00" Location based services 24'48" Creating a community for collaborative creation without economic incentives 27'05" Empowering new creators with the skill set to make their own XR experiences 28'40" Is google cardboard doing VR a disservice? 31'23" VR is on the eve of adoption 31'45" Technology driven adoption versus Consumer first Adoption 33'40" What first demo 34'20" Creator of Rick and Morty, Justin Roiland at VRLA 2017 35'55" VR creatives need to think about what people want 37'40" importance of Location based VR experiences 39'48" VR is a paradigm shift equivalent to the internet 41'00" Public VR lab projects 43'00" Immigration stories told through VR 48'00" Dip in VR adoption makes it a great time to learn 49'30" We need more diversity in VR 50'15" purpose of viveport 52'50" Talk to your community media centers about VR 53'50" Hamilton is just one immigration story, what could more do? 56'31" making the experiences, technology , and VR industry as a whole accessible. Links: Public VR : http://publicvrlab.com Hubweek Justin Roiland co-creator of Rick and Morty VRLA talk Eyes Wide Open: VR Journalism The Blu http://store.steampowered.com/app/451520/theBlu/ or Ritchie’s plank Google Earth Future of storytelling festival Mindtrek VR Traces Credits: Host: Craig Herndon, Produced by Jason Parks Music by Rachel Dziezynski Got comments on the show? Did we miss something? Did we get something wrong? Reach out to us on twitter. /episode/index/show/virtuality/id/6469339

010 - 2017 VR Review - Jason Parks - Craig Herndon - Virtuality Podcast 12/22/2017

010 - 2017 VR Review - Jason Parks - Craig Herndon - Virtuality Podcast Join us as we reflect on 2017 and recap the big moments that stuck out for us this year! This is the first episode where we decided to just sit down and chat instead of an interview. Let us know what you think and may do more like this! 0'00" State of the industry: sales overview 2'00" AAA’s come in VR -Skyrim 4'00" Farpoint 5'25" Favorite VR experience this year -Chocolate 7'48" From other suns 9'55" House of the dying sun 11'28" Using joysticks for movement 12'00" episode highlights of the virtuality podcast 15'40" big stories from 2017 19'19" so many headsets! 20'20" headset recommendations 22'25" TP cast wireless VR 23'35" Stand-alone headsets ' Oculus Go, Vive focus 25'15" Oculus commercial license 26'25" exit reality 28'40" Social VR 31'00" Facebook spaces 34'00" Vancouver VR Scene : CVR expo (rebranded to vu.live) 35'55" Call to action 36'30" Ready player one 39'00" Movie VR experiences 40'10" China VR Scene 42'21" Mind Trek VR 42'50" VR, AR, XR, MR... what? 44'55" Magic Leap Headset 48'13" AR tools and solutions 49'30" VR fitness challenge #VRFit 52'50" did we miss anything? Websites: VrHealth.institute - this site shows how many calories a vr expereince burns on average Boston VR steam group: VRTK - Ready Player One: Experiences and games: Chocolate vr expereince - From other suns - Farpoint - Skyrim VR - Fallout 4 VR - Doom VR - Pavlov VR (essentiall vr counterstrike) - Vacation Simulator - Headsets: Standard headsets: Vive Oculus Rift https://www.oculus.com Playstation VR : Newer headsets Pimax VR headset - Magic leap- https://www.magicleap.com/ Lenovo - Suite of Microsoft headsets - Standalone headsets: Oculus Go - Vive Focus - Social VR Alt space High fidelity VRChat Facebook spaces VR Near you Void : Mindtrek TPCAST (wirless vr for vive) - Exit reality -http://exitrealityvr.com/ Conferences mentioned: Pax South - South.Paxsite.com CES - Vancouver VR Conference - vu.live SVVR - AWE - Credits: Host: Craig Herndon, Produced by Jason Parks Music by Rachel Dziezynski Got comments on the show? Did we miss something? Did we get something wrong? Reach out to us on twitter. /episode/index/show/virtuality/id/6469342

#009 - Hugh Handcock - Left Hand Path - Virtuality Podcast 11/22/2017

#009 - Hugh Handcock - Left Hand Path - Virtuality Podcast We invited Hugh Hancock, founder of machinima.com and the person who coined the term of the art form “Machinima”. We discuss how Machinima’s early days relate closely to the VR medium today. Hugh’s background in film feature itself in the story and presentation of Strange Companies premiere VR title “Left-Hand Path” which released on steam November 10th. It is one of few experiences featuring over 15 hours of content. We go into the game’s mechanics before wrapping up with a brief discussion of motion capture and the state of the VR market for indies. 0’00": Summary 1’00": Hello 2’00": Machinima vs Machinima.com : What's Machinima? 5'15": What did Machinima mean to film and creators when it started? 11'48": When was it apparent Machinima was a new medium for film? 14'25": Video streaming before YouTube 16'15": The Server Froze 18'25": Limits of technology in 1996 for machinima 23'00": How did manage the actors/cast? 27'45": Legal Barriers to Machinima 36'00": How long would Bloodspell take today? 37'50": VR as a new medium for film 40'00": Avatar “technically machinima”:clarifying Hugh’s definition for Machinima 43'00": VR makes it easer to produce 46'00": Left Hand Path 51'10": “This game is designed to make you feel like a scared, fragile, human” 52'40": Casting spells like you're a wizard 56'25": Husk mechanic 57'45": Latest monsters 59'45": Types of spells 61'20": Lovecraftian influence 62'20": What’s next for Left Hand Path? 63'00": What’s after Left Hand Path? 64'22": What’s the limit of tech now? 68'40": Motion Capture systems: NVN, Neuron Perception, Rokoko,Hi5 Glove 80'20": Left-Hand Path and how indie devs are more accessible than their AAA counter parts. 80'22": Flight sims and training 88'10": The indie difficulty of content discovery and marketing in VR 91'50": Will we miss the Minecraft of VR? Show notes: Left-Hand Path: Hugh’s company website: Hugh’s twitter: Links mentioned: BloodSpell: Eschaton Nightfall: Not currently available online. Darkening Twilight: (Part1) Death Knight Love Story: Hardly Workin' : Male Restroom Etiquette: The machinima piece Craig worked on: Operation Burning Sands Part 1: BF2 Mine video mentioned by Craig: Affectiva: Virzoom: Face fx: Raquette NX: Virtuality.show BostonVR.org BostonAR.org Credits: Host: Craig Herndon Produced by Jason Parks Music by Rachel Dziezynski Got comments on the show? Reach out to us on twitter. /episode/index/show/virtuality/id/6469343

#008 - The Glimpse Group - Lyron Bentovim - Virtuality Podcast 10/26/2017

#007 - Duncan Irschick - Digital Life - Virtuality Podcast 09/29/2017

#006 - Leap Motion - Rachel Sibley - Virtuality Podcast 09/08/2017

#005 - Morph 3D - Ben Hesson & Jesse Janzer - Virtuality Podcast 06/21/2017

#004 Healthcare - Julia Dobbelaar - Virtuality Podcast 06/09/2017

#003 - Qualcomm - Nigel Williams - Virtuality Podcast 05/19/2017

#002 Introduction Part 2 - Boston VR Founders - Virtuality Podcast 05/05/2017

#001 Introduction Part 1 Craig Herndon And Neil Gupta - Virtuality Podcast 05/05/2017

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