SLIDE 1 History and Future of VR
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Part I: Early VR Demos Let’s put you on a rollercoaster!
SLIDE 3 VR Roller Coaster for Android
SLIDE 4 VR Roller Coaster for Android
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Rollercoasters:
NOT A GOOD IDEA FOR VR nauseating games and advertising demos
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Bad thing #2: People want to move! How can we make them move?
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What about Treadmills? Bad thing #2: People want to move! How can we make them move?
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SLIDE 11 Treadmill Drawbacks:
- Clunky
- EXPENSIVE
- Requires special
shoes
Google Search OMNI (hasn’t yet
SLIDE 12 FIXES!
with a ‘guide’
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SLIDE 14 Baseline Setup
- 1 Headset
- 2 room detectors
- 2 controllers
- 1 Computer
- Graphics card: GeForce 1080 or
higher
- LOTS OF RAM
- Babysitter for cord safety!
SLIDE 15 Source: HTC Vive Manual
SLIDE 16 Source: HTC Vive Manual
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SLIDE 18 Better Setup
Add:
- External Speakers
- External monitor
- Blue tape on floor for floor
boundary
SLIDE 20 Types of Games
Training Wheels
Task-Based
- Job simulator (expandable
based on
- Leaf blower (Monotasking,
immersive)
SLIDE 21 Types of Games
RTS
- Cosmic Trip (alternating wave
battle with territory building) FPS Hybrid
Old School
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Experiences
Reggie Watts live in VR! First time: “I DON’T want you to look to see if there is gum under these tables”. Second time: Reggie gets stuck in the stage.
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SLIDE 24 Job Simulator Owlchemy Labs
SLIDE 25 Space Pirates SoundCloud: James Marvel
SLIDE 26 Cosmic Trip Funktronic Labs
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What’s Next?
What about AR?
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Augmented Reality
AR relies on:
- Bandwidth
- Image recognition (not great in
real-time
- Objects (will be built through
games in VR)
SLIDE 29 Self-Portrait
Wearable Computing Apparatus 1981.
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Persistent Paleontology
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SLIDE 34 Diminished Reality vs. Augmented Reality
- Adding your own layer onto reality
- Replacing public messages with your own
SLIDE 35 Adblock: Image recognition, processing and replacement.
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Collaborative Reality
SLIDE 37 Remember the Milk Contextual Notification Systems Virtual Post-It Notes with Image Processing 1995
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Computer-Mediated Reality: Face Recognition and History
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Sousveillance:
MaybeCam
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Evolution of Prosthesis
SLIDE 42 Present-Day Steve Mann
- Extremely lightweight equipment
- Most people have this in their pocket
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Technology should consider social norms
SLIDE 44 Restorative Normal Enhancing Fear-inducing Accepted Invisible
Technology Social Effect Example
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The arrival of the smartphone camera
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Google Glass
SLIDE 47 Compare to the iPhone Launch
- Improvement on an existing system
(smartphones)
- Developer onboarding
- Limited Features
SLIDE 48 Like this… Remember the Milk Contextual Notification Systems Virtual Post-It Notes with Image Processing 1995
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SLIDE 49 Domestic Robocop Keiichi Matsuda
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- IV. Building VR Experiences
SLIDE 51 https://www.dropbox.com/s/qlg7z8itcnabjf0/S creenshot%202016-11- 06%2023.12.46.png?dl=0
VRTK – Steam VR Unity Toolkit
SLIDE 52 Stephanie Mendoza liooil.neocities.org
SLIDE 53 https://www.dropbox.com/s/qlg7z8itcnabjf0/S creenshot%202016-11- 06%2023.12.46.png?dl=0
A-FRAME Mozilla Web VR Framework
SLIDE 54 liooil.neocities.org/VR_webStuff/room+07/room07.h tml
SLIDE 55 People to follow: VR Church Portland Stephanie Mendoza Liooil.neocities.org Reggie Watts, Justin Roiland Owlchemy Labs
Web VR liooil.neocities.org
SLIDE 56 Stephanie Mendoza liooil.neocities.org
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SLIDE 61 Thank you!
Amber Case @caseorganic
Fellow @BKCHarvard & @civicmit Slides! Slideshare.net/caseorganic
QCon San Francisco, CA 07 November 2016