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Research VR Podcast - The Science & Design of Virtual Reality
Research VR Podcast - The Science & Design of Virtual Reality

Research VR Podcast - The Science & Design of Virtual Reality

The Podcast behind the Science and Design of Virtual Reality and Spatial Computing. By combining our background in Cognitive Science and VR Research, we break down important Neuroscience to extract Design principles. Each week, we feature the companies, founders, and researchers that are shapers of this Immersive Tech Industry. Join our Discord community for Episode discussions, guest suggestions, and listener-only meetups!: https://discord.gg/rrgnxEk

Available Episodes 10

The Science and Design behind Virtual Reality

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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.

This is the final episode of the Research VR Podcast! Much thanks to all of our guests and listeners for being with us for the last 5 years!

Episode begins at 11:50 if you'd like to skip over the announcements!

Topics discussed:
  • Dealing with syncing high FPS + high resolution cameras
  • Dealing with lens distortion while filming underwater
  • Difficulties of finding sharp, wet lenses
  • Deep sea mining
  • The current state of the VR film industry

recorded in July 2020. - Best of Research VR Podcast episodes -


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Guest: Casey Sapp

Research VR: Azad Balabanian, Petr Legkov

Podcast: Research VR Podcast


Discord Community Channel: https://discord.gg/rrgnxEk

Twitter: @ResearchVRcast

Youtube: ResearchVR Podcast

Patreon: Patreon Page

Email: researchvrcast@gmail.com

The Science and Design behind Virtual Reality

Shownotes

Jeff Powers, Cofounder of Occipital and Arcturus Industries joins Azad to discuss active depth cameras.

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.

recorded in July 2020. - Best of Research VR Podcast episodes -


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Guest: Jeff Powers

Research VR: Azad Balabanian, Petr Legkov

Podcast: Research VR Podcast


Discord Community Channel: https://discord.gg/rrgnxEk

Twitter: @ResearchVRcast

Youtube: ResearchVR Podcast

Patreon: Patreon Page

Email: researchvrcast@gmail.com

The Science and Design behind Virtual Reality

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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

recorded in March 2020

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Hosts: Azad Balabanian, Petr Legkov, Krzysztof Izdebski

Podcast: Research VR Podcast


Discord Community Channel: https://discord.gg/rrgnxEk

Twitter: @ResearchVRcast

Youtube: ResearchVR Podcast

Patreon: Patreon Page

Email: researchvrcast@gmail.com

The Science and Design behind Virtual Reality

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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

Jessica Outlaw's Series on 9-Steps to Building a Strong Culture:

recorded in Sep 2019

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Guests: Jessica Outlaw, Rebecca Hyman

Hosts: Azad Balabanian, Petr Legkov

Podcast: Research VR Podcast


Discord Community Channel: https://discord.gg/rrgnxEk

Twitter: @ResearchVRcast

Youtube: ResearchVR Podcast

Patreon: Patreon Page

Email: researchvrcast@gmail.com

The Science and Design behind Virtual Reality

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

Topics discussed:

recorded in Oct 2019

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Guests: Alban Denoyel

Hosts: Azad Balabanian, Petr Legkov

Podcast: Research VR Podcast


Discord Community Channel: https://discord.gg/rrgnxEk

Twitter: @ResearchVRcast

Youtube: ResearchVR Podcast

Patreon: Patreon Page

Email: researchvrcast@gmail.com

The Science and Design behind Virtual Reality

Google Earth, Hololens, and Disney VR pioneer Avi Bar-Zeev joins Azad to share his perspective of the 3D/VR industry over the last few decades and make predictions of the near future.

Topics discussed & showlinks:

recorded in July 2019

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Guests: Avi Bar-Zeev

Hosts: Azad Balabanian, Petr Legkov

Podcast: Research VR Podcast


Discord Community Channel: https://discord.gg/rrgnxEk

Twitter: @ResearchVRcast

Youtube: ResearchVR Podcast

Patreon: Patreon Page

Email: researchvrcast@gmail.com

The Science and Design behind Virtual Reality

Jesslyn Tannady joins us to talk about CTRL-Labs's advancements in BCI's, finger tracking, and input methods for games and VR/AR.

Topics discussed / showlinks:

recorded in May 2019

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Guests: Jesslyn Tannady, CTRL-labs

Hosts: Azad Balabanian, Petr Legkov

Podcast: Research VR Podcast


Discord Community Channel: https://discord.gg/rrgnxEk

Twitter: @ResearchVRcast

Youtube: ResearchVR Podcast

Patreon: Patreon Page

Email: researchvrcast@gmail.com

The Science and Design behind Virtual Reality

Shawn Whiting, the Community Designer at Against Gravity joins Petr and Azad to discuss the origins and the future of one of the most popular games in VR: Rec Room.

Topics discussed:

  • origins of Rec Room as "WiiSports of VR"
  • the variety of results when building a "networked VR app"
  • handling major updates to a multi-platform VR app
  • Creating the written and unwritten rules of social spaces
  • self-moderation vs moderator intervention
  • Creative tools to build user generated rooms
  • Deciding when to use user-feedback and when not to
  • Differences between VR players vs 2D screen players
  • currency and in-game economy

recorded in April 2019

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Guests: Shawn Whiting

Hosts: Az Balabanian, Petr Legkov

Podcast: Research VR Podcast


Discord Community Channel: https://discord.gg/rrgnxEk

Twitter: @ResearchVRcast

Youtube: ResearchVR Podcast

Patreon: Patreon Page

Email: researchvrcast@gmail.com

The Science and Design behind Virtual Reality

Leap Motion's open source Project North Star has been fascinating VR/AR enthusiasts for the last year, but due to the scarcity of sourcing the components, finding a fully built kit is quite rare.

Noah Zerkin, based out of Shenzhen, China has been focusing on fabricating and building the necessary components to build kits. He joins the podcast to chat about the headset, its advantages, and the challenges of what goes into building one.

Video podcast: https://youtu.be/G010rKFJMyY

Topics discussed:

  • the benefits of vertical field of view
  • the various ways of positional tracking for the North Star
  • The culture of Shenzhen and how people in China respond to AR in public

recorded in Feb 2019

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Sergey Brin on the subway wearing Google Glass

Video podcast

Project Northstar Kit - Buy


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Guests: Noah Zerkin

Hosts: Az Balabanian, Petr Legkov

Podcast: Research VR Podcast


Discord Community Channel: https://discord.gg/rrgnxEk

Twitter: @ResearchVRcast

Youtube: ResearchVR Podcast

Patreon: Patreon Page

Email: researchvrcast@gmail.com

The Science and Design behind Virtual Reality

The cofounder and CTO of LIV, Dr. Doom and Ruu join us to talk about the past, present, and future of green screen Mixed Reality and livestreaming VR games.

Topics discussed:

  • Origins of green screen Mixed Reality - how did it start?
  • How is Mixed Reality being today and by whom?
  • Discord and the importance of building a community for a product
  • GameChanger API : Adding audience interactivity into a streamer's game
  • Vtubers and avatar copyright laws
  • The state of VR streaming on Twitch

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Colin Northway's first ever tutorial on Green Screen Mixed Reality

What NOT to shoot in Mixed Reality - video

LIV Discord


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Guests: Dr Doom, Ruu,

Company: LIV

Hosts: Az Balabanian, Petr Legkov

Podcast: Research VR Podcast


Discord Community Channel: https://discord.gg/rrgnxEk

Twitter: @ResearchVRcast

Youtube: ResearchVR Podcast

Patreon: Patreon Page

Email: researchvrcast@gmail.com