{"id":298,"date":"2017-01-02T12:00:25","date_gmt":"2017-01-02T17:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/schlaff.com\/wp\/?p=298"},"modified":"2022-01-04T18:36:02","modified_gmt":"2022-01-04T23:36:02","slug":"how-to-experience-the-future-of-virtual-reality-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/schlaff.com\/wp\/how-to-experience-the-future-of-virtual-reality-today\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Experience the Future of Virtual Reality Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><strong>We\u2019re Already in the Future of Virtual Reality:<\/strong> When I go to Disney World I always go to the Carousel of Progress \u2014 Walt Disney\u2019s tour of American ingenuity through the decades. It ends with a <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/CmrSiJTMf7s\">Future<\/a> scene (produced in 1993) which involves virtual reality and speech recognition. <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/CmrSiJTMf7s\">If you take a look at the video, <\/a>you\u2019ll see that with virtual reality and an Amazon Echo, we\u2019re just about to surpass it.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Use Your Phone:<\/strong> I have an iPhone which hasn\u2019t yet come up with it\u2019s own VR accessories so I\u2019ve been using a <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20191128100615\/http:\/\/www.view-master.com:80\/en-us\">Mattel Viewmaster<\/a>. If you\u2019ve got a Samsung phone <a href=\"http:\/\/www.samsung.com\/global\/galaxy\/gear-vr\/\">Samsung Gear<\/a> is a lot better and if you have a Google Pixel, the <a href=\"https:\/\/vr.google.com\/daydream\/\">Daydream headset<\/a> looks pretty great. Either way, it\u2019ll give you a pretty great way of seeing what all the fuss is about. These sites are especially useful:\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/with.in\/#films\">With.in<\/a> has some great content including <a href=\"http:\/\/with.in\/watch\/snl-40-camera-one-seinfeld-q-a\/\">watching a taping of SNL<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/with.in\/watch\/invasion-ep-1\/\">being a character in an animated short<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/with.in\/watch\/nyt-mag-vr-take-flight\/\">flying in New York<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"https:\/\/vr.google.com\/cardboard\/apps\/\">Google Cardboard<\/a> site has a lot of good links and the <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/app\/id987962261\">cardboard app itself on the iphone<\/a>includes a lot of great content as well.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/store\/locations\/htcvive\">Demo an HTC Vive at the Microsoft Store:<\/a><\/strong> I\u2019ve tried a few different VR systems but they didn\u2019t put me much more in \u201cThe Matrix\u201d than Google Cardboard. Then I tried the HTC Vive at the Microsoft Store. It\u2019s really amazing. You can walk around in the environment and it totally feels like you\u2019re there. Pretty mind blowing.<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/hearapp.io\/\">Hear<\/a>:<\/strong> \u2014 This is an awesome app that does Augmented Sound. It\u2019s a truly incredible experience. Roman Mars <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/roman-mars\/99-invisible-19x-rjdj-reactive\">highlighted the company\u2019s first app, RJDJ, it in one of the first episodes of 99% Invisible<\/a>. Listening to the world through Hear really changes your perception of the world. A door slamming or the pings on an ATM start to have a musical lyricality that you\u2019d never heard before. It\u2019s a really wonderful experience. I\u2019ve never done mushrooms but all the review on their site say, \u201cIt\u2019s like Mushrooms without the mushrooms.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>Some final thoughts on VR:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.citivelocity.com\/citigps\/ReportSeries.action?recordId=54&amp;src=Home\">Citi has a really great overview on VR<\/a> (~100 pages)<\/li>\n<li>One comment I heard recently was \u201cVR is great because I can be fully in the moment \u2014 without any notifications from my phone.\u201d I think this is a bit short sighted and see notifications coming to these platforms pretty soon. I think Dave Pell said it best that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/dave-pell\/technology-using-heroin-t_b_2357764.html\">relying on technology to solve your technology problems is like using heroin to kick your methadone habit<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re Already in the Future of Virtual Reality: When I go to Disney World I always go to the Carousel of Progress \u2014 Walt Disney\u2019s tour of American ingenuity through the decades. It ends with a Future scene (produced in 1993) which involves virtual reality and speech recognition. If you take a look at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20,6],"tags":[45],"class_list":["post-298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun-stuff","category-ideas","tag-virtual-reality"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8wCkz-4O","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":856,"url":"https:\/\/schlaff.com\/wp\/a-very-brief-history-of-mixed-reality-and-disney\/","url_meta":{"origin":298,"position":0},"title":"A Very Brief History of Mixed Reality and Disney","author":"Robert Schlaff","date":"February 13, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"When we think about Augmented Reality or Mixed Reality, we're tempted to think this is a very new thing. 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