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Hello and welcome to the EnterVR podcast. On today's show I speak with Eddie Lee from Funktronic Labs, the people who brought you the awesome "Collider" experience for Dk2.\n\n\nHere is a snippet of some of the things we talked about:\n\n40: Intro. How Funktronic Labs came about.\n\n1:20 Figuring out what kind of Studio to build. Becoming involved with the Leap Motion VR initiative.\n\n3:00 Embodying a particle that is traveling inside the Large Hadron Collider in VR. \n\n5:00 Relaying a story through Collider?\n\n6:00 What is Generative Art?\n\n7:30 The difference between procedural systems algorithms and generative art.\n\n9:30 Use cases where generative art really shines.\n\n12:40 Will generative art render artists obsolete? What will the future of generative in vr look like?\n\n16:40 How people are reacting to generative art in virtual reality.\n\n19:00 Creating a content studio with two teams creating two types of software.\n\n21:00 Is the average gamer looking for something new?\n\n25:00 What are Funktronic labs future plans for vr content?\n\n28:00 Should you make a product right now for a non existent vr consumer market. \n\n30:30 How to bridge the gap between early adopters and the mass market consumers.\n\n40:00 Are humans hardwired to want to "escape"?\n\n42:00 Will VR make people smarter?\n\n45:00 Learning highly abstract subjects in vr.\n\n46:20 Can you imagine life without the internet?\n\n50:30 What made Eddie want to teach himself generative art through the internet?\n\n56:20 The relationship between Oculus Story Studio and the lack of input device.\n\n1:03:00 What version of the metaverse will be more predominant, the open source version or the walled gardens?\n\n1:07:00 What will be the best monetization models look like in the first year of the consumer version?\n\n1:10:00 Is advertising more effective in vr?\n\n1:16:00 How will a fully featured metaverse compete for your time while awake.\n\n1:18:30 What is one thing that will never be better in vr?\n\n1:22:00 What if VR doesnt take off?\n\n1:26:00 Will there ever be a Metaverse? What comes after the smartphone?\n\n1:32:00 What kind of experiences and games is Eddie forward to in vr? \n\n1:34:00 Creating music in vr?\n\n1:36:00 Making your daily computer interactions more efficient through vr interfaces.\n\n1:41:00 What do you see inside your head when you listen to music?\n\n1:43:00 Do Orcas, dolphins or chimpanzees dance?\n\n1:44:00 Closing thoughts and how to stay in touch.\n\nThanks again to Eddie for being a true scholar and gentleman of virtual reality and thanks for listening.\n\n\nKeep in touch with Eddie and Funktronic labs with the link below.\n\n\nhttp://funktroniclabs.com/\n\nhttps://twitter.com/eddietree\n\nhttps://apps.leapmotion.com/apps/collider/windows