In this episode, the hosts discuss the potential of virtual reality technology in business, including the possibility of using VR to change the appearance of a room and the potential for creating a business in areas like finance and accountancy.
The speaker discusses a virtual reality training program for snipers where they can control their arm movements and practice in various environments, including crawling behind slopes and facing off against virtual walkers at different distances.
Learn about how Virtual Reality is being used as an innovative treatment for chronic pain, which impacts around 50 million Americans.
Chris and his friends like to play Oculus while drinking, but it often leads to them getting distracted and derailed from the game.
The speaker has a business idea centered around creating virtual reality technology that allows people to watch and interact with events in real-time. The idea came from a place of confidence in their own capabilities.
The speaker tells a story about a virtual world where everyone adopts different perspectives, and how someone played it cool in a library where they found a man face down on a table.
As technology advances, virtual worlds may become sophisticated enough to simulate a brain or have a genuine artificial general intelligence. However, currently, the mind remains somehow outside the virtual world.
Virtual and augmented reality have the potential to unlock new social and economic opportunities by creating environments where people can be present regardless of their physical location. This could become a way to explore various ideas and see which environments are more appealing to people in different ways.
VR is a new media that offers a different way of telling stories, which allows the exploration of various elements like emotion and humanity. The speaker announces the availability of their product, which costs $4.99 and can be experienced on multiple platforms.
The podcast discusses the use of virtual reality technology to create a show that looks like a real-life documentary about dinosaurs, and how it allows interaction with the environment and characters.
The availability of content is key to sustaining a broad enough variety for a self-sustaining ecosystem that creates network effects.
The power of virtual reality is not just limited to gaming, with large scale social movements being pushed through extreme beliefs that are often birthed in virtual worlds, but have real-world consequences.
The inventor of the Oculus had people try on the virtual reality device to show how billionaires are going to need services and that people want to contribute to society in a meaningful way.