The current state of photogrammetry and the ultimate potential of eye tracking with Az Balabanian

Welcome to the Enter VR podcast! On this episode we are joined by Az Balabanian from the Research VR podcast. Check out show notes below to get a preview of what we talked about. 1:00 Reminiscing the good ol days and 100 vr hour project 2:30 What keeps Az busy these days. 5:00 The dynamics of doing a podcast in VR with Bigscreen VR. 7:00 Shopping around for the right social VR world to host a talk show. 11:00 Enter VR dance crew is on the way. 12:40 Recalling playing vr games and experiences these days. 16:00 VR environments can have a real effect on you? 27:00 Could VR environments be designed to minimize trolling and bad behavior? 35:00 Self policing communities can actually happen in VR 37:00 What is the current state of photogammetry? 43:30 What is the difference between lightfields vs. photogammetry ? 49:00 Is lightfield technology dead? 51:00 Can you pay your rent just by doing work with photogammetry? 54:00 What are LIDAR cameras? 59:00 Who will win? Spinning lasers or machine vision for VR tracking? 1:03:30 How long will it take for VR to leave the trough of disillusionment. How do you make money VR right now while anticipating where the future will be? 1:09:00 Reflecting on the impact Ready Player One can have on the current state of the industry. 1:14:30 Trying out the Varjo headset and the potential it will have on the industry. 1:19:00 How far away are we from a complete 5G connected future? 1:23:00 The existential potential and threat of eye tracking technology. 1:28:00 Trying to wrap our minds our around the current state of social media. 1:35:00 How to stay in touch Az and closing thoughts. Thanks to Az for being a true scholar and gentleman of virtual reality and thank you for listening! Check out the links below to get in touch Az: https://twitter.com/Azadux http://azadux.com/ https://itunes.apple.com/fi/podcast/researchvr-podcast/id1072936162?mt=2 https://twitter.com/researchvrcast The song from the intro is Remix of the Legend Zelda's Song of Storms by Deon Custom https://soundcloud.com/deoncustom/zelda-song-of-storms-deon-custom-remix Please support the artist!