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Hello listeners! \n\nOn today's show I am joined by Aaron Lemke, the man behind Unello Design. Come along as we discuss his future plans for Eden River and Opera Nova, we also dip our toes inside the rabbit hole and explore the idea of crossing the uncanny valley with VR. \n\nHere is a quick preview of some things we talked about:\n\n1:01 \n\nHow Aaron first became involved in VR\n\n3:55 \n\nAaron's first impression with the Rift.\n\n5:05\n\nAaron's greatest VR influences\n\n\n7:20\n\nControlling the Avatar of a cat from a first 'person' perspective\n\n8:43\n\nAaron's thoughts on the virtual reality renaissance. \n\n13:00\n\nThinking outside the box when creating VR experiences , Why meditative games?\n\n14:26\n\nWhat sorts of new features are in the pipeline for Opera Nova and Eden River. \n\n22: 40\n\nStanding vs. sitting in VR. \n\n23: 36\n\nOur dream features and specs for consumer version one.\n\n24:14\n\nWhat its like to be a one man developer team.\n\n26:22\n\nWhat Oculus can do to help developers more. \n\n28:00\n\nThe promise of Android VR\n\n\n32:35 \n\nWhat the future of monetization will look like.\n\n37:09\n\nUsing the word experience to describe VR software just doesn't cut it, anymore. \n\n39:37\n\nWhat will it feel like to cross the uncanny valley for the first time? How would you react to the moment when you can't tell the difference between VR and real life?\n\n 41:52\nWill we fight post uncanny valley VR experiences or will we learn to accept it? \n\n45:05\n\nFiguring how to fool all of the human perceptual systems in order to provide the most presence.\n\n48:17\n\nWhat does it mean to be alive in an age of unprecedented technological growth?\n\n50:00\n\nThe best and worst thing that could happen with virtual reality technologies in the future.\n\n56:20 \n\nWill humanity be able to take full advantage of VR to our benefit or will we let the opportunities go to waste in the abuse of unpractical experiences?\n\n1:00:55\n\nWill there be class stratification in the Metaverse?\n\n1:01:54 \n\nHuman behaviors can transfer over to a virtual world?\n\n1:03:26\n\nWhat will the ultimate VR medium look like? Will we ever connect neurologically with the machine world?\n\n1:05:00\n\nCould a machine be able to predict what you are about to do before even "you" realize it with neural implants?\n\n1:07:06\n\nClosing thoughts, how to keep in touch with Aaron\n\n1:08:12\n\nEnter VR's first ever musical performance! Aaron performs a song from the Eden River Soundtrack.\n\n\nTo get in touch with Aaron or support his work, follow the links below:\n\nhttp://www.unellodesign.com/\n\nhttps://twitter.com/aaronlemke\n\nhttps://www.facebook.com/UnelloDesign\n\nThanks again to Aaron for being a true scholar and gentleman of virtual reality\n\nand \n\nThank you for listening!