An emotionally intelligent metaverse, VR expo 2015 and drone taxi services with Karl Krantz

Published: April 23, 2015, 7:20 p.m.

Hello listeners! Welcome to the EnterVR podcast! On today's show I speak with Karl Krantz about organizing the largest virtual reality industry conference in the world, the creation of an emotionally intelligent metaverse and drone taxis of the future.\n\n\n\n1:00 What is the worst thing that could happen to VR right now?\n\n2:30 The general sentiment of the VR industry at this point.\n\n4:00 John Carmack's prediction for the gaming industry in the next 10 years. What can you afford with a billion dollar VR production.\n\n6:00 Envisioning an emotionally intelligent metaverse.\n\n9:20 What will make people come back to virtual reality?\n\n12:00 What will be the killer app for VR?\n\n14:00 User generated VR vs. content creator centric VR experiences.\n\n16:30 Figuring "discovery" for user generated vr content.\n\n18:00 How Valve came out of the blue with an HMD.\n\n22:00 What is the most important feature the consumer GearVR needs to have.\n\n24:00 Using Samsung Smart Waches as input for GearVR.\n\n24:30 Seeing miniature worlds in VR. \n\n28:00 Trying out Tiltbrush with the Vive.\n\n29:30 SVVR expo is right around the corner!\n\n32:00 Will HTC Vive, Crescent Bay and Morpheus be present at SVVR?\n\n33:00 Keeping up with the exponential growth of SVVR. \n\n34:00 Important companies will be making big announcements at the conference.\n\n35:00 There will be a VR museum exhibit at the conference this year.\n\n39:00 The lessons learned from putting on massive VR conferences.\n\n40:30 Volunteer at SVVR and get in for FREE.\n\n43:00 Drone taxi services, will replace car taxis in the future.\n\n47:00 What happens when you pair exponential technologies with other exponential technologies?\n\nThanks again to Karl for being a true scholar and gentleman of virtual reality and thank you for listening!\n\nKeep in touch and get more info with the links below:\n\n\nhttp://vrexpo.com/\n\nhttp://svvr.com/\n\nhttp://www.meetup.com/SiliconValleyVirtualReality/\n\nhttps://twitter.com/svvr2015