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Hope in the horizon

2 hour 10 minutes Posted Feb 27, 2017 at 1:53 pm.

The Nichols VR dynasty has spread lots love across the cosmos.

Being different makes you an easy target to dummies with nothing better to hate.

The VR community is kind and open.

Coping mechanisms post psychological abuse. (We all have them)

Higher Resolution HMDs could help the visually impaired a lot, but only if the right interfaces are created.

Kenny is working on getting more WebVR browsers to be more accessible.

The VR alliance seems like a good group to reach out for Kenny.

How can HMD's be more accessible to the visual impaired?

Wearing an HMD with glasses sucks balls.

What can be done at the game engine level to make UI more friendly to the visually impaired?

The marketing behind the movement to help the visually impaired.

https://twitter.com/joshcarpenter/status/798701917069197313

E-book reading in VR needs to come to every HMD.

Navigating a virtual world with 'echo location'.

The ultimate conclusion of exponential technologies.

3D printing ultimately promises to let you have whatever you want.

Synthetically biology ultimately promises to let you be whoever or whatever you want.

AI ultimately promises to let you do whatever you want.

Universal basic income is the best way to deal with job automation.

(I say Hears the thing way too much)

VR could be used positivey in mental health applications.

The ultimate promise of VR is to let you go wherever you want to do whatever you want.

Too much of anything is never good.

Civic Center station on a Tuesday night.

The most intense election ever.

FREE PIZZAS FOR EVERYONE/Kenny 2020

(It wasn't hot air)

Your perpetual problems are profitable to someone.

AI government couldn't come any sooner.

Your model of the world is wrong. So is mine.

Both sides are vulnerable to the influence of fake news.

VR can catapult our systems of education.

"Having tools that help us express thoughts visually"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trivium

Southpark Vs. Rick and Morty.

Closing thoughts

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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.

Here is snippet of some of the things we talked about:

15: Welcome to the shittiest sounding podcast on the internet!

11: 30 The effects of vision impairment on Kenny's career.

http://www.chimerareader.com/

(I need to stop saying here's the thing)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadrivium

Thanks again to Kenny for coming on the show!

Connect with Kenny:

https://twitter.com/kennynichols

http://guntersuniverse.com/

Intro sound clips include:

Las Mananitas by Pedro Infante

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1Q6Zg8LPM4

Duck and Cover Nuclear safety alert

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKqXu-5jw60

lumi & subsequent - pov (atlas flip)

https://soundcloud.com/iamatlas/pov

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