08 The state of VR and AR (aka "are you a rich kid or a nerd")

The Innovation Engineer Podcast

Today we ask ourselves if VR and AR are only toys for rich kids and nerds. I was promised full-body VR and a reality with way better graphics than our gray reality, but where is it? Or is the Oasis, our promised wonderland, already right before our eyes? Where are the breakthrough games and who is really using AR and VR? How is actually the porn expierenxe and VR and why is this not driving sales? Do I need to go shopping, right now?! And what should I buy, AR or VR googles? It’s all the fault of those damn crypto kiddies!

Welcome to The Innovation Engineer Podcast, your favorite place for picking brains of your favorite engineers. This time we ask ourselves what the state of VR and AR is and why there was no breakthrough during Covid.

Show Notes
0:00 Intro
1:00 A toy for rich kids
3:45 Fake VR in Star Trek
4:10 The State of VR/AR
5:40 It's not Ready Player One
7:40 Catwalk C
8:38 VR Games
10:48 Motion Sickness is a problem
12:45 Addicted to this Game
14:00 Pokemon Go
14:43 Why the global pandemic was not a breakthrough for VR
16:25 VR Porn is bad
20:35 Old Medium on new Devices
22:39 Do we need better Devices?
24:30 Is VR more than Gaming?
26:20 WWDC
27:30 Next Generation Meeting Point
28:45 A Question of convenience
30:45 It's a Bridge-Technology
31:50 Working in VR
32:30 Real AR Goggles
33:55 VR is a Special Experience
35:00 Military VR
35:25 Wrap Up

Stuff we mentioned

• Nintendo Virtual Boy 📺 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afcKtMNWfhk
• Valve Index 👓 https://store.steampowered.com/valveindex
• Beat Saber 🕺https://store.steampowered.com/app/620980/Beat_Saber/
• Kat Walk C 🐱 https://www.kat-vr.com/
• PlayStation VR2 for PS5 🎮 https://www.playstation.com/de-de/ps-vr2/
  
  

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