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Welcome to the Enter VR podcast! On this episode we are joined by a fellow scholar and gentleman of virtual reality, Kenny Nichols. \n\nHere is snippet of some of the things we talked about: \n\n15: Welcome to the shittiest sounding podcast on the internet!\n\n1:00 The Nichols VR dynasty has spread lots love across the cosmos.\n\n3:00 Being different makes you an easy target to dummies with nothing better to hate.\n\n6:00 The VR community is kind and open. \n\n8:00 Coping mechanisms post psychological abuse. (We all have them)\n\n11: 30 The effects of vision impairment on Kenny's career. \n\n14:00 Higher Resolution HMDs could help the visually impaired a lot, but only if the right interfaces are created.\n\n\n17:00 Kenny is working on getting more WebVR browsers to be more accessible. \n\n\n19:00 The VR alliance seems like a good group to reach out for Kenny.\n\n\n21:00 How can HMD's be more accessible to the visual impaired?\n\n\n23:00 Wearing an HMD with glasses sucks balls.\n\n\n25:00 What can be done at the game engine level to make UI more friendly to the visually impaired?\n\n29:00 The marketing behind the movement to help the visually impaired.\n\n35:00 https://twitter.com/joshcarpenter/status/798701917069197313\n\n\n38:00 E-book reading in VR needs to come to every HMD.\n\nhttp://www.chimerareader.com/\n\n45:00 Navigating a virtual world with 'echo location'.\n\n48:00 The ultimate conclusion of exponential technologies. \n\n50:00 3D printing ultimately promises to let you have whatever you want.\n\n53:00 Synthetically biology ultimately promises to let you be whoever or whatever you want.\n\n55:00 AI ultimately promises to let you do whatever you want. \n\n58:00 Universal basic income is the best way to deal with job automation.\n\n1:01:00 (I say Hears the thing way too much)\n\n1:02:00 VR could be used positivey in mental health applications. \n\n1:07:00 The ultimate promise of VR is to let you go wherever you want to do whatever you want. \n\n1:08:00 Too much of anything is never good.\n\n1:12:00 Civic Center station on a Tuesday night. \n\n1:18:00 The most intense election ever. \n\n1:22:00 FREE PIZZAS FOR EVERYONE/Kenny 2020\n\n1:23:00 (It wasn't hot air)\n\n1:26:00 Your perpetual problems are profitable to someone. \n\n1:32:00 AI government couldn't come any sooner.\n\n1:37:00 Your model of the world is wrong. So is mine. \n\n1:38:00 Both sides are vulnerable to the influence of fake news.\n\n1:41:00 VR can catapult our systems of education.\n\n1:43:00 "Having tools that help us express thoughts visually"\n\n(I need to stop saying here's the thing)\n\n1:49:00 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trivium\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadrivium\n\n2:01:00 Southpark Vs. Rick and Morty. \n\n2:05:00 Closing thoughts \n\n\nThanks again to Kenny for coming on the show!\n\nConnect with Kenny:\n\nhttps://twitter.com/kennynichols\n\nhttp://guntersuniverse.com/\n\nIntro sound clips include:\n\nLas Mananitas by Pedro Infante\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1Q6Zg8LPM4\n\nDuck and Cover Nuclear safety alert\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKqXu-5jw60\n\n\nlumi & subsequent - pov (atlas flip)\n\nhttps://soundcloud.com/iamatlas/pov\n\n\nPlease support the artists!\n\n\n(Views are my own)\n\n\nThanks for listening