100 episodes

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

Research VR Podcast - The Science & Design of Virtual Reality Azad Balabanian & Petr Legkov

    • Technology

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

    Sketchfab's omnipresnce in the 3D world (Alban Denoyel, CEO of Sketchfab) - 98

    Sketchfab's omnipresnce in the 3D world (Alban Denoyel, CEO of Sketchfab) - 98

    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?

    • 55 min
    AR Superpowers, VR in the 90's, & Data Privacy (Avi Bar-Zeev, ex-Apple/MS/Disney) - 97

    AR Superpowers, VR in the 90's, & Data Privacy (Avi Bar-Zeev, ex-Apple/MS/Disney) - 97

    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.

    • 1 hr 25 min
    CTRL-kit's Intent-Based Finger Input (Jesslyn Tannady, Tech. Prod. Manager @ CTRL-labs) - 96

    CTRL-kit's Intent-Based Finger Input (Jesslyn Tannady, Tech. Prod. Manager @ CTRL-labs) - 96

    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:
    - CTRL-Kit, finger tracking and intent tracking
    - Interesting use cases:
    - Controlling robots in an intuitive way with intent
    - Typing for VR/AR
    - using it as a game controller
    - thoughts on Neuralink

    • 1 hr 3 min
    Rec Room's Origins and its UGC Future (Shawn Whiting, Community Designer @ Against Gravity) - 95

    Rec Room's Origins and its UGC Future (Shawn Whiting, Community Designer @ Against Gravity) - 95

    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.

    • 1 hr 6 min
    Building Leap Motion's "Project North Star" Kits (Noah Zerkin, PM at Noah Labs) - 094

    Building Leap Motion's "Project North Star" Kits (Noah Zerkin, PM at Noah Labs) - 094

    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

    recorded in Feb 2019

    • 1 hr 33 min
    Livestreaming Mixed Reality with LIV (Dr Doom & Ruu, Cofounder & CTO) - 093

    Livestreaming Mixed Reality with LIV (Dr Doom & Ruu, Cofounder & CTO) - 093

    The CEO 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

    • 1 hr 36 min

Customer Reviews

PlaceboDealer1428 ,

Excellent conversation + research

Az and Petr do an amazing job on this podcast. It's clear that the hosts do significant research before each interview. Their conversations dive deep into topics. If you're into understanding the science of virtual and augmented reality, this is the podcast for you. Highly recommend.

I notice some of the older reviews mention poor audio quality. I have not noticed this for episodes released in the past year.

Marcusaurelius001 ,

This podcast is about the future

Learning about VR is rad! Why? Because we are all going to using it sooner or later, and if you take the time now, it will be that much easier when the curve kicks and the whole world goes, "Crap! How did I not see this coming?" (has that already happenened?)

But seriously, Az and Peter sound like good people, and the guests are always interesting. Plus, if you work in VR for a living, then you will want to hear what's happening with your colleagues around the world. Conferences are frequently referenced, and these are the places where the news usually breaks about new gear and new techniques.

Lastly, I'm pretty sure they actually record the episodes in VR Chat. umm. yeah. You know you wish you could do that.

mbcauley ,

Always interesting topics

I look forward to each episode from these guys as it is always interesting. I like the mix of research and science related developments in VR and AR mixed with talk of consumer hardware and software as well.

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