WEBVTT - Bonus Episode: Virtual Reality 0:00:14.360 --> 0:00:18.239 Right, boom, here we go. It's neartif sing y'all, it's 0:00:18.320 --> 0:00:20.799 your boy if you want away here with my wonderful 0:00:20.840 --> 0:00:25.000 co host Danny Fernandez. Yeah, no one's ever ready for 0:00:25.120 --> 0:00:28.920 like the lob to like say your name. I think 0:00:28.960 --> 0:00:32.320 you introduced me as well. Yeah, yeah, exactly, you dropped 0:00:32.360 --> 0:00:34.400 like a few adjectives and people are like, oh, yeah, 0:00:34.400 --> 0:00:36.839 it's about to be they're about to say my name 0:00:36.920 --> 0:00:39.599 is like nah, introduce yourself. No, I got it. I 0:00:39.640 --> 0:00:43.040 am Danny Fernandez here in today. If we are talking 0:00:43.080 --> 0:00:47.440 about virtual reality virtual vr v R, that that's what 0:00:47.479 --> 0:00:50.360 all the cool kids call it now. But virtual reality 0:00:50.520 --> 0:00:53.319 was like the term like it was like getting we're 0:00:53.400 --> 0:00:57.400 jacking into the system. I love that that's the adjective 0:00:57.480 --> 0:01:01.080 you used for it, jacking. You know, we'll get into that. 0:01:02.840 --> 0:01:06.120 So for those of you that don't know what virtual 0:01:06.200 --> 0:01:11.520 reality actually is, technically it means any artificially computer generated 0:01:11.560 --> 0:01:15.480 world that can be experienced and interacted with. So technically 0:01:15.520 --> 0:01:19.120 any video game ever's virtual reality, even if you're just 0:01:19.160 --> 0:01:22.080 playing it on a screen or phone. To agree with that, 0:01:22.120 --> 0:01:24.800 if that's not like what people think of, yeah, but 0:01:24.840 --> 0:01:28.240 I typically I think open world games like sometimes I 0:01:28.240 --> 0:01:30.160 feel like, yeah, I'm living in this world. Like when 0:01:30.160 --> 0:01:33.600 I was eighteen, I used to play True Crime Streets 0:01:33.600 --> 0:01:35.280 of l A and it was like actual l A 0:01:35.360 --> 0:01:37.800 streets and it was before I had my license, So 0:01:37.840 --> 0:01:39.760 I drive around like this is how it's going to 0:01:39.840 --> 0:01:46.640 be driving and not obeying any traffic laws. So VR 0:01:46.880 --> 0:01:49.840 is often referred to when the user uses a piece 0:01:49.840 --> 0:01:52.520 of equipment to completely immerse themselves. That's the main thing 0:01:52.840 --> 0:01:54.680 that will kind of go over in this episode. It's 0:01:54.720 --> 0:01:57.639 basically the immersion part of it that's that's really important 0:01:57.680 --> 0:02:01.480 because it's different than a r men in reality is 0:02:01.560 --> 0:02:05.000 different because you are still experiencing the world around you, 0:02:05.120 --> 0:02:08.239 so like you're still seeing exactly with your same vision, 0:02:08.280 --> 0:02:10.519 but you're like putting a layer over it. So essentially 0:02:10.560 --> 0:02:12.360 like a game where you can still see your friend 0:02:12.360 --> 0:02:14.440 that's standing next to you, but you can throw banana 0:02:14.560 --> 0:02:16.880 peals or spider webs or something. I think the simplest 0:02:17.040 --> 0:02:21.679 version would be yeah that or Instagram filters, Like that's 0:02:21.760 --> 0:02:24.360 a our technology because it's true, you're putting a layer 0:02:24.560 --> 0:02:27.200 on yourself and it's your real time too, when you 0:02:27.240 --> 0:02:29.320 like stick your tongue out and the dogs like but 0:02:29.400 --> 0:02:32.359 we'll compare those two towards the end, but right now 0:02:32.400 --> 0:02:34.480 we just want to do that deep dive, so we'll 0:02:34.520 --> 0:02:37.920 go start off in the origins, which is crazy because 0:02:38.160 --> 0:02:41.480 the exact origins of like virtual reality as an idea 0:02:41.760 --> 0:02:46.239 are disputed because the first two ideas of virtual reality 0:02:46.360 --> 0:02:50.359 where Lawrence mannings three series of short stories, The Men 0:02:50.440 --> 0:02:53.520 Who Awoke, which describes a time where people are connected 0:02:53.520 --> 0:02:56.800 to a machine that replaces their senses with electrical impulses, 0:02:57.040 --> 0:03:00.360 which is basically like the Matrix. So like, this guy 0:03:00.400 --> 0:03:03.760 made the matrix back in nineteen three, and that was 0:03:03.840 --> 0:03:07.440 his kind. You're saying, everyone's been copying him after the 0:03:08.160 --> 0:03:10.840 Sisters Jack, that idea from a black woman, the black 0:03:10.880 --> 0:03:13.440 women probably Jack, we have like a shade button. I 0:03:13.480 --> 0:03:18.920 feel like this podcast also the shade. I was going 0:03:18.960 --> 0:03:23.400 to say, going back before then, before that idea, we 0:03:23.480 --> 0:03:27.799 did have stereoscopes essentially, and this was taken from the 0:03:27.919 --> 0:03:31.079 Virtual Reality Society, but you didn't even know that there 0:03:31.120 --> 0:03:34.280 was an actual That sounds like a cult slightly, and 0:03:34.320 --> 0:03:40.800 they actually declared so stereoscopes lead to head mounted displays 0:03:40.840 --> 0:03:45.080 what we have now. So, Sir Charles Wheatstone, actually in 0:03:45.280 --> 0:03:48.240 eighteen thirty eight came up with the first stereoscope, which 0:03:48.360 --> 0:03:50.080 used a pair of mirrors at like a forty five 0:03:50.120 --> 0:03:53.000 degree angle to the user's eye, which reflected a picture 0:03:53.440 --> 0:03:56.560 off to the side, and that later ended up coming 0:03:56.720 --> 0:03:59.640 into what we now know as view masters. Do you 0:03:59.640 --> 0:04:03.040 remember are those little big conspiracy with view masters? That's 0:04:03.040 --> 0:04:05.720 what trick kids into staring into the sun. Just to 0:04:05.840 --> 0:04:08.160 use the view masters, you have to put the joints 0:04:08.240 --> 0:04:12.400 up in the sky. So that but but kids were like, yo, 0:04:12.480 --> 0:04:15.280 what if I just look at the sun? So so 0:04:15.520 --> 0:04:19.080 according to the virtual reality society, that's kind of what 0:04:19.200 --> 0:04:21.480 is seen as like what eventually led to or the 0:04:21.520 --> 0:04:23.920 type of technology that eventually led to these kind of 0:04:24.200 --> 0:04:27.919 immersive head mounted gear that we have now. Yeah, but 0:04:28.000 --> 0:04:31.800 I see that and I think, no, no way. You 0:04:31.839 --> 0:04:33.320 don't want to give them credit. I don't want to 0:04:33.320 --> 0:04:35.279 give them any credit because you can't blade run in 0:04:35.279 --> 0:04:38.120 a stereoscope. How are you gonna blade run in a stereoscope? 0:04:38.240 --> 0:04:41.520 Small think of the time that it was their their 0:04:41.560 --> 0:04:44.360 technology was eventually they were saying, hey, you can immerse 0:04:44.400 --> 0:04:48.279 yourself into a different world. Yeah yeah, Now that's that's 0:04:48.279 --> 0:04:52.040 the same way of being given credit to Alexander Graham 0:04:52.040 --> 0:04:53.719 Bell for all the porn I watched on my phone. 0:04:53.760 --> 0:04:56.920 Oh god, he helped a little bit. Okay, So before 0:04:56.920 --> 0:04:58.520 I move on, I just want to throw one more 0:04:58.560 --> 0:05:00.600 person in here, if and then I'll you take over. 0:05:00.640 --> 0:05:04.760 So in nine Edward Link came up with the Link Trainer. 0:05:04.880 --> 0:05:08.160 It was the first flight simulator. It was an immersive 0:05:08.200 --> 0:05:10.680 flight experience, so that I said it would be a 0:05:10.720 --> 0:05:12.479 little bit more three D, you know. They started to 0:05:12.600 --> 0:05:15.160 use that as far as training with pilots, So that 0:05:15.400 --> 0:05:20.320 was kind of an extremely immersive experience with all senses. 0:05:20.440 --> 0:05:22.720 But VR as we know it, So that dropped in 0:05:22.800 --> 0:05:28.560 like nineteen twenty nine ish right few years later. Five 0:05:28.760 --> 0:05:31.880 Stanley g. Wind Bob had a short story called The 0:05:31.920 --> 0:05:37.040 Pigmalion's Spectacles, which described a goggle based virtual reality system 0:05:37.279 --> 0:05:41.920 with holographic recording of fictional experiences, including smell in touch. 0:05:42.120 --> 0:05:44.400 So that's going to be the difference between VR as 0:05:44.440 --> 0:05:46.800 we know it versus like this idea, where VR as 0:05:46.839 --> 0:05:48.800 we know it is just the experience of seeing and 0:05:48.839 --> 0:05:52.240 hearing it, where in this story you kind of smell 0:05:52.320 --> 0:05:54.880 and you can touch things, and we're trying to get there. 0:05:55.120 --> 0:05:59.160 But the first official attempt was when more ting he 0:05:59.320 --> 0:06:04.080 likes it help HIGHLG. Maybe Yeah, I'll just say morton 0:06:05.240 --> 0:06:10.799 my boy in the nineteen fifties of an experienced theater 0:06:10.920 --> 0:06:13.960 that could encompass all the senses in an effective all 0:06:14.040 --> 0:06:17.160 the senses. What are we talking about here? Which all 0:06:17.200 --> 0:06:21.120 the senses? YEA, all of them. Taste, That's all the 0:06:21.120 --> 0:06:29.320 ones I know to taste, hearing, smell, smell vision. Yeah. 0:06:29.360 --> 0:06:31.800 He built a prototype of his vision, dubbed the sense 0:06:31.839 --> 0:06:34.479 Arama in nineteen sixty two, along with five short films 0:06:34.680 --> 0:06:38.440 to be displayed in it while engaging multiple sen Yeah. 0:06:38.680 --> 0:06:41.279 So it was pre dating digital computing. The censor Arama 0:06:41.320 --> 0:06:44.839 was a mechanical device. He likeok also developed what he 0:06:44.960 --> 0:06:48.120 referred to as the telesphere Mask, which was patented in 0:06:48.200 --> 0:06:51.800 nineteen sixty The patent application described the device as a 0:06:51.839 --> 0:06:56.320 telescopic television apparatus for individual use. The spectator is given 0:06:56.320 --> 0:06:59.960 a complete sensation of reality, for example, moving three dimension 0:07:00.200 --> 0:07:02.640 images which may be in cooler. It's spelled with a U, 0:07:02.839 --> 0:07:05.840 and I only pronounced color with a U. Cooler with 0:07:06.400 --> 0:07:10.040 peripheral vision by neural sounds, sense and air breezes. And 0:07:10.080 --> 0:07:13.240 I actually added a picture I almost want to photoshop 0:07:13.280 --> 0:07:15.040 boobs on the side of it, because it's just this 0:07:15.120 --> 0:07:19.280 man sticking his head into it looks like something a 0:07:19.320 --> 0:07:23.480 dude going, well, there's boobs, and this looks like that 0:07:23.600 --> 0:07:26.480 machine where they like shoot the puff of air into 0:07:26.520 --> 0:07:30.120 your eyes at the optometry. This is my most hated 0:07:30.160 --> 0:07:32.880 machine right here. This is exactly what that looks like. 0:07:33.040 --> 0:07:36.680 You know, it's it's super huge. And can you imagine 0:07:36.840 --> 0:07:39.920 if the VR that we're experiencing now, like you had 0:07:39.960 --> 0:07:42.400 to be in public in front of a giant machine, 0:07:43.040 --> 0:07:45.280 it'd be like, did you go to library much when 0:07:45.320 --> 0:07:48.120 you're and you remember there was always that weird guy 0:07:48.160 --> 0:07:51.600 who was definitely watching pornography and the library and you're like, 0:07:51.880 --> 0:07:55.960 all right, dude, like we see, Like that's that's what 0:07:56.080 --> 0:07:58.440 I feel like would happen if we had VR machines, 0:07:58.520 --> 0:08:01.160 But who knows. I think this is very similar to 0:08:01.440 --> 0:08:03.400 kind of the VR machines we kind of grew to 0:08:03.520 --> 0:08:05.840 know and love and at Chucky Cheese, like that taking 0:08:05.960 --> 0:08:10.880 game put your whole head in it and you'd be like, oh, yeah, 0:08:10.880 --> 0:08:13.000 there's a lot of games like this now at David 0:08:13.040 --> 0:08:16.360 Busters and even like that horror one that I won't 0:08:16.360 --> 0:08:19.200 ever do because it has three D glasses. I don't 0:08:19.240 --> 0:08:23.200 do three D horror. And I get very infused when 0:08:23.320 --> 0:08:24.960 I said I would never do it. Yeah, no, I 0:08:24.960 --> 0:08:28.120 don't do horror. My friend Bidium Bidium bazoon A for 0:08:28.200 --> 0:08:32.280 his birthday. He wanted to do this like VR imax 0:08:32.400 --> 0:08:35.760 thing down across the street from the Grove and it 0:08:35.880 --> 0:08:38.760 was like a horror maze that you would do in 0:08:38.760 --> 0:08:41.040 like VR. And I was like, that sounds like my 0:08:41.120 --> 0:08:43.280 worst nightmare. You could take it off at any time. 0:08:43.640 --> 0:08:46.040 They don't let you. They get mad when you take 0:08:46.080 --> 0:08:48.439 that thing off there, like it's not over. I remember 0:08:48.480 --> 0:08:50.679 I was at E three and I was doing this 0:08:50.720 --> 0:08:52.920 and I knew it was going to be three. For 0:08:52.960 --> 0:08:55.480 people that don't know, yeah, well yeah, for the people 0:08:55.520 --> 0:08:58.640 who don't know, E three, it stands for like, let 0:08:58.679 --> 0:09:03.719 me get electronic three. E three is like a convention 0:09:03.840 --> 0:09:10.440 that's solely I would say Electronic Electronic Entertainment Expo E three, 0:09:10.600 --> 0:09:14.920 and so it's it's basically super comic con for video games. 0:09:15.240 --> 0:09:16.960 And so I went one year and I went to 0:09:17.040 --> 0:09:19.840 the indie developers kind of get together and because I 0:09:19.880 --> 0:09:23.040 support the little guy, and it was crazy because like 0:09:23.080 --> 0:09:25.400 This was probably two years ago, and this is when 0:09:25.520 --> 0:09:27.520 everyone in the game industry was like, VR is going 0:09:27.559 --> 0:09:30.320 to be the next wave. So all these indie developers 0:09:30.320 --> 0:09:33.800 had these indie games. And I put on the helmet 0:09:33.960 --> 0:09:35.640 and it was super dark and it was like some 0:09:35.840 --> 0:09:39.640 underwater experience, and I already knew. I was like, this 0:09:39.720 --> 0:09:42.160 is a scary game, but like it was harder to 0:09:42.200 --> 0:09:45.320 be like nope, because this is an indie developer and 0:09:45.400 --> 0:09:48.480 he's like, Hey, this is my game. I want to 0:09:48.520 --> 0:09:51.240 show you. This is my baby, So you can't be 0:09:51.320 --> 0:09:57.120 like nah, because I look at his face and I'm 0:09:57.160 --> 0:10:01.320 just like, all right, he really wants me to experience this. 0:10:01.679 --> 0:10:04.000 So I pop it on and it's one of the 0:10:04.120 --> 0:10:08.200 scariest things because I figure the most scary type of 0:10:08.240 --> 0:10:11.960 games are when there's nothing around, yeah, because you turn 0:10:12.040 --> 0:10:14.120 your head, you turn your head and then that person 0:10:14.200 --> 0:10:16.840 is right there. Yeah. Yeah. So I'm walking through this 0:10:16.960 --> 0:10:22.920 underwater base. It's super dark and there was literally nothing 0:10:23.120 --> 0:10:26.520 till like the very end, which made it even more scary, 0:10:26.520 --> 0:10:30.080 where you look at these scary faceless suits and then 0:10:30.280 --> 0:10:33.040 you turn around and you hear a sound and you 0:10:33.080 --> 0:10:36.400 turn around it's right behind you. And I almost died. 0:10:36.640 --> 0:10:39.000 I almost died. We were on a roof and I 0:10:39.040 --> 0:10:43.000 almost ran off the roof. Oh my god, really, but 0:10:43.080 --> 0:10:46.440 we should We'll hit on possible yeah, injuries that have 0:10:46.480 --> 0:10:48.880 happened from v R. Yeah. No, I was seated, so 0:10:49.120 --> 0:10:51.320 I couldn't possibly run off the roof, but I met. 0:10:51.360 --> 0:10:53.240 I was so scared I wanted to take the helmet 0:10:53.240 --> 0:10:56.959 off and jump off the roof. Um. So you're okay 0:10:56.960 --> 0:10:59.120 with that Indian developer, but you have no love for 0:10:59.200 --> 0:11:02.600 my man search Earls Wheatstone that created the stereoscope all 0:11:02.600 --> 0:11:04.960 on his own. Oh no, I got love for him. Okay, 0:11:05.040 --> 0:11:06.880 but I love for him, all right, I love for me. 0:11:06.920 --> 0:11:08.640 I'm just saying you can't blade run in that, and 0:11:08.679 --> 0:11:10.280 then this is this is what we're talking about, the 0:11:10.320 --> 0:11:12.800 steps to get. By the end of this podcast, we'll 0:11:12.800 --> 0:11:15.680 talk about how you can blade run. Okay, have you 0:11:15.720 --> 0:11:18.200 tried VR at all yet? Yeah? Of course. Yeah. I'm 0:11:18.240 --> 0:11:21.680 going to talk about Google Cardboard, which was my first introduction. Okay, Well, 0:11:21.679 --> 0:11:24.080 have you ever played any of the Giant games, because 0:11:24.120 --> 0:11:26.640 I remember you played I saw you played the Star 0:11:26.679 --> 0:11:29.080 Wars when you were into it. But have you ever 0:11:29.080 --> 0:11:31.480 played any of those old school VR games? Where you 0:11:31.520 --> 0:11:33.720 have to put your head into a helmet, not that 0:11:33.760 --> 0:11:36.640 I recall, because they used to have. And the reason 0:11:36.679 --> 0:11:38.640 I'm bringing all these up is because I feel like 0:11:38.760 --> 0:11:42.160 this is the pioneer, Like this specific setup is probably 0:11:42.240 --> 0:11:45.200 the pioneer for all of those arcade games. So I 0:11:45.240 --> 0:11:47.280 remember the boxing one where you'd stick your head in 0:11:47.320 --> 0:11:51.680 and yet oh yeah, yeah, and you would just be punching. 0:11:52.120 --> 0:11:54.480 Looking at this picture, I'm like, oh yeah, I can 0:11:54.520 --> 0:11:57.200 see how this spun that out where you're where the 0:11:57.200 --> 0:12:01.000 censorrama was like, this is a attraction for mass appeal. 0:12:01.160 --> 0:12:04.000 I agree. I was like, I don't have further points 0:12:04.000 --> 0:12:09.880 on that. So aside from my man, Sir Charles. In seven, 0:12:10.080 --> 0:12:14.240 Jason Laner is actually the one who took it upon 0:12:14.360 --> 0:12:18.640 himself to coin the term VR. So he actually developed 0:12:18.720 --> 0:12:22.560 a range of virtual reality gear and he had a 0:12:22.640 --> 0:12:27.679 device that was called the iPhone. This was back in seven. 0:12:27.720 --> 0:12:29.760 It was spelled E y E like your eyes. It 0:12:29.800 --> 0:12:33.200 was called iPhone and it was a head mounted display. 0:12:33.280 --> 0:12:36.480 So they were the first company to sell virtual reality 0:12:36.520 --> 0:12:39.840 goggles and the iPhone. You think they're expensive now was 0:12:40.000 --> 0:12:45.920 nine give a second to do the math, oh for inflation. Yeah, 0:12:45.960 --> 0:12:50.160 back in seven, They also had a glove as well, 0:12:50.240 --> 0:12:52.080 because you know a lot of which we'll get into 0:12:52.160 --> 0:12:54.200 some of this VR gear. A lot of times you 0:12:54.280 --> 0:12:57.160 not only have a helmet or some type of headpiece, 0:12:57.360 --> 0:13:00.800 but you also have gloves that are of matching your 0:13:00.840 --> 0:13:03.400 movements as far as like the boxing game, or they 0:13:03.440 --> 0:13:06.439 also have ones for artists where you'll put on the 0:13:06.480 --> 0:13:08.160 glove and you can kind of like paint in this 0:13:08.240 --> 0:13:12.040 virtual reality space. So their glove was also nine thousand dollars, 0:13:12.360 --> 0:13:16.600 so they probably were the pioneer for the who owned 0:13:16.679 --> 0:13:24.120 this though. Steve Jobs definitely definitely mega nerd. Yeah, I 0:13:24.280 --> 0:13:26.680 got this iPhone and was like, I see what you're 0:13:26.679 --> 0:13:32.920 doing here. It costing nine thousand, four hundred is similar 0:13:32.960 --> 0:13:41.600 to today would be twenty thousand dollars and yeah, five 0:13:42.360 --> 0:13:46.280 six dollars ninets, so you can get an iPhone or Sedan, 0:13:47.520 --> 0:13:50.600 no joke. But that was the beginning of like the 0:13:50.679 --> 0:13:53.920 next level of VR because nineties had a huge boom, 0:13:54.000 --> 0:14:17.880 and we'll get into that right after the break. I 0:14:17.920 --> 0:14:22.320 feel like that's how n music sounds, So it's just 0:14:22.360 --> 0:14:27.760 like Seinfeld and rockos Wadern life basically that's nineties music 0:14:27.840 --> 0:14:30.680 to get us ready for the VR nineties boom because 0:14:30.760 --> 0:14:35.000 VR became like culturally significant. There was movies like Arcade, 0:14:35.120 --> 0:14:37.240 Ghost in the Shell was out for all my anime 0:14:37.360 --> 0:14:40.720 heads back then the Matrix this is late nineties, and 0:14:40.760 --> 0:14:43.080 then The Thirteenth Floor, which I totally forgot, but that 0:14:43.120 --> 0:14:44.760 was a huge deal back in the day I saw 0:14:44.800 --> 0:14:48.160 that movie. But then you also had like stuff in 0:14:48.160 --> 0:14:51.880 the nineties happening like the Virtual Boy, Sega VR and 0:14:52.320 --> 0:14:56.600 battle Zone, all these different attempts that VR. The nineties 0:14:56.640 --> 0:15:00.960 were so confident in VR that in on Computer Gaming 0:15:00.960 --> 0:15:05.840 World predicted affordable VR. Oh my god, we barely have 0:15:05.920 --> 0:15:08.920 it now, we don't have it now, Yeah, it's not 0:15:09.760 --> 0:15:13.320 let's do a cardboard oh yeah, Google cardboards, yes, which 0:15:13.320 --> 0:15:16.760 we'll get to change the game. But like when they 0:15:16.760 --> 0:15:19.840 thought affordable VR was going to be around, yeah, and 0:15:19.880 --> 0:15:22.440 so like most of what was available up to this 0:15:22.520 --> 0:15:26.320 point was too expensive or not accessible to the average person, 0:15:26.800 --> 0:15:30.000 or it didn't work well and it wasn't very comfortable. 0:15:30.400 --> 0:15:32.400 So that was another thing that I still feel like 0:15:32.440 --> 0:15:35.640 they're working on. As far as headsets, it's a it's 0:15:35.680 --> 0:15:38.800 a twofold thing because I think the biggest issue now 0:15:38.920 --> 0:15:41.880 is that sickness. You get while doing it, Like you, 0:15:42.080 --> 0:15:44.800 there's a lot of motion sickness, So that's their biggest obstacle. 0:15:45.320 --> 0:15:47.480 And then I think when they're done with that is 0:15:47.520 --> 0:15:49.720 when they'll try and make it, make it small, cheaper, 0:15:49.760 --> 0:15:53.120 but also smaller. I think smaller and just I mean 0:15:53.160 --> 0:15:56.520 there's nothing attractive about having a massive headset on your head. 0:15:56.720 --> 0:15:58.760 I think if they could make it spectacles that were 0:15:58.760 --> 0:16:03.880 still immersive, still entirely immersive. But speaking of Google Cardboard, 0:16:04.520 --> 0:16:06.840 for those of you that don't know, that is a 0:16:06.920 --> 0:16:09.080 mobile headset, I mean it literally is what it says. 0:16:09.080 --> 0:16:11.680 It's like a little cardboard box that you can insert 0:16:11.720 --> 0:16:14.360 your phone into and you just have to download an 0:16:14.360 --> 0:16:17.360 app on your phone. It costs ten dollars. I got 0:16:17.400 --> 0:16:20.440 mine for free, like Verizon was giving them out, and 0:16:20.520 --> 0:16:22.080 the one that you were talking about that you saw 0:16:22.120 --> 0:16:25.960 me in, which was a Verizon commercial for Force Awakens. 0:16:25.960 --> 0:16:28.120 They had a huge promotion for it, so they were 0:16:28.200 --> 0:16:30.560 you could just go into the store there and pick 0:16:30.640 --> 0:16:33.840 up a Google Cardboard and you could use other games 0:16:33.840 --> 0:16:36.080 and stuff with it. It wasn't just Force Awakens, like 0:16:36.120 --> 0:16:37.960 once you got the app, you could I actually did 0:16:38.000 --> 0:16:41.520 play a Haunted House game with it, so if I 0:16:41.560 --> 0:16:43.560 can picture this for you. You take your phone like 0:16:43.600 --> 0:16:46.560 your iPhone, you slip it into this little cardboard piece, 0:16:46.960 --> 0:16:48.800 you hold it up to your head and then you're 0:16:48.840 --> 0:16:51.440 totally immersed. That's all you can see with your vision, 0:16:51.760 --> 0:16:54.640 and when you move your head to the right, you see. 0:16:54.920 --> 0:16:57.160 So if we're talking about the Haunted House, it's moving 0:16:57.160 --> 0:16:59.440 your head in the Haunted House, so you're now seeing chairs, 0:16:59.480 --> 0:17:01.480 you're seeing the right side of the room. You move 0:17:01.520 --> 0:17:03.120 your head to the left, and then all of a 0:17:03.160 --> 0:17:05.600 sudden there's a ghost right there or something. So that 0:17:05.600 --> 0:17:07.320 that those are the games that if he doesn't like, 0:17:07.920 --> 0:17:11.480 I will say it is very jarring. So there was 0:17:11.520 --> 0:17:14.520 one where I think it was a woman screaming. I 0:17:14.520 --> 0:17:16.760 could see like she was in my vision just like 0:17:16.840 --> 0:17:22.359 screaming at me, and they are I think it was 0:17:22.400 --> 0:17:25.800 an indie game developer whatever. So that's moving on to 0:17:26.119 --> 0:17:30.920 the actual equipment. So so HMD is a headmounted display. 0:17:30.960 --> 0:17:33.560 Those are the visors that go over your face. Each 0:17:33.720 --> 0:17:36.359 I sees a different image and as your head moves, 0:17:36.359 --> 0:17:38.359 like I said, it changes the image and it tracks 0:17:38.400 --> 0:17:40.919 it appropriately. So that's kind of what makes it the 0:17:41.000 --> 0:17:43.479 most immersive part of it, where you kind of can 0:17:43.520 --> 0:17:47.160 get lost in this VR experience and then and that's 0:17:47.160 --> 0:17:49.479 pretty much just the jump to Like I feel like 0:17:49.520 --> 0:17:52.159 Google Cardboard kind of came out. What was it like 0:17:52.400 --> 0:17:55.760 four years ago? Was it? Uh? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, you're right. 0:17:55.840 --> 0:17:58.000 So the fact that the New York Times distributed it 0:17:58.080 --> 0:18:01.760 to one point six million people makes it the most 0:18:02.080 --> 0:18:06.080 widely distributed VR platform two dates. Yeah, and it was free. 0:18:06.160 --> 0:18:10.240 So basically the computer gaming world was twenty years off. 0:18:10.320 --> 0:18:12.720 But just to jump back to the nineties real quick, 0:18:12.720 --> 0:18:14.199 so they had this big boom, but none of it 0:18:14.240 --> 0:18:17.440 was successful. Everything was too expensive and the VR wasn't 0:18:17.960 --> 0:18:21.520 like it is today. I think today we've gotten technology, 0:18:21.600 --> 0:18:25.960 both three D rendered technology versus like you know, HD 0:18:26.119 --> 0:18:29.240 video technology to a point where like we have it 0:18:29.280 --> 0:18:31.800 on our phones and it's amazing. We're back then trying 0:18:31.840 --> 0:18:34.840 to get any of that technology on your screen was 0:18:35.000 --> 0:18:39.080 very expensive. But back in the day nineties, the idea 0:18:39.119 --> 0:18:42.320 of VR was at its peak, and I feel like 0:18:42.359 --> 0:18:44.399 it died down because it just didn't work. And I 0:18:44.440 --> 0:18:47.560 feel like just now it's starting to peek again, especially 0:18:47.600 --> 0:18:51.919 with things like Google Cardboard and other things. But what 0:18:51.960 --> 0:18:55.560 are those other things? If other things porn? The Google 0:18:55.600 --> 0:18:58.640 Cardboard came out four years ago, and I remember when 0:18:58.640 --> 0:19:01.600 it came out because that year at Comic cont Legendary 0:19:01.640 --> 0:19:04.879 gave out Google cardboards to promote Warcraft, and Warcraft is 0:19:04.920 --> 0:19:08.359 a game no the movie, so it was a you 0:19:08.400 --> 0:19:11.120 would be writing a griffin throughout as a roth And 0:19:11.359 --> 0:19:13.520 two years later that's when I got into it because 0:19:13.520 --> 0:19:16.080 I had these free cardboard things and I was blown 0:19:16.119 --> 0:19:19.280 away by the fact that porn hub already has the 0:19:19.320 --> 0:19:22.199 setting for Google cardboard. Like porn Hubb is very interesting 0:19:22.280 --> 0:19:25.600 in the sense that pornography has always been kind of taboo, 0:19:26.160 --> 0:19:30.440 and I feel like porn hub is the pr company 0:19:30.520 --> 0:19:33.760 for porn as a whole. Like they've outreach, They've been 0:19:33.760 --> 0:19:36.600 doing lots, they donate to lots of charity, give out 0:19:36.680 --> 0:19:40.399 lots of information about their site that gets into the 0:19:40.440 --> 0:19:45.120 news cycle, like when the Hawaii disaster where they accidentally 0:19:45.160 --> 0:19:48.919 said a missile was going to launch and they dropped 0:19:48.920 --> 0:19:51.919 that data there. They're like, this many users were still 0:19:52.000 --> 0:19:54.199 on porn hub when that news came out, and this 0:19:54.320 --> 0:19:58.760 many users like there was a huge spike, like the spike, Yeah, 0:19:58.760 --> 0:20:00.800 there was a spike after that. People Oh I thought 0:20:00.840 --> 0:20:02.720 you were like people are like, I'm gonna die, but 0:20:02.800 --> 0:20:06.240 as we'll get one more in, it dropped and then 0:20:06.359 --> 0:20:10.640 right after you just spiked. And that kind of information 0:20:10.840 --> 0:20:12.960 is kind of just I don't think a lot of 0:20:12.960 --> 0:20:16.320 people really get it, like at the forefront, but it's 0:20:16.359 --> 0:20:18.720 kind of just being like, yeah, everybody's doing it. You 0:20:18.760 --> 0:20:22.400 don't need to be ashamed. But to talk about pornography 0:20:22.520 --> 0:20:25.040 driving technology, I wanted to drop some fun facts that 0:20:25.080 --> 0:20:29.840 I got from thrillists about how pornography has driven technology 0:20:29.840 --> 0:20:33.960 thus far. So um. Pornographic movies have been around since 0:20:34.040 --> 0:20:37.119 the eighteen hundreds. In eighteen ninety six, film called the 0:20:37.200 --> 0:20:42.960 Cushare La Mary or Marie Sorry look I don't read 0:20:43.000 --> 0:20:45.719 French showed a woman performing a strip tease, and this 0:20:45.800 --> 0:20:48.879 is generally considered to be the first pornographic film in existence. 0:20:49.160 --> 0:20:52.000 The high demand for this early masterpiece lead the French 0:20:52.040 --> 0:20:54.600 filmmakers to realize that people would pay top dogs to 0:20:54.640 --> 0:20:57.399 see women get naked on screen. They still will. Yeah, 0:20:57.640 --> 0:21:00.119 and then uh, and so here's some cool thing that 0:21:00.200 --> 0:21:03.680 porn has dumb porn standardized Super eight film. The accessibility 0:21:03.680 --> 0:21:05.800 of porn on VHS is what killed the Sony Beta 0:21:05.840 --> 0:21:09.400 Max and uh, they kind of pioneered online payments because 0:21:09.400 --> 0:21:13.280 all of the porn sites that existed, they basically needed 0:21:13.320 --> 0:21:15.920 a way for people to pay to access it, and 0:21:15.960 --> 0:21:18.840 so they kind of created a system to pay for it. 0:21:18.920 --> 0:21:21.960 As a matter of fact, Richard Gordon, who founded the 0:21:22.040 --> 0:21:25.760 Electronic Card Systems, got super rich off of the Pamela 0:21:25.800 --> 0:21:28.879 Anderson sex tape. Just like Beta Max porn killed h 0:21:29.000 --> 0:21:31.760 D DVD there it was more accessible on Blu Ray 0:21:31.880 --> 0:21:35.760 versus HD DVD, and um. The last fact they had 0:21:36.200 --> 0:21:39.080 was that, uh, you can have sex with Google soon. 0:21:39.320 --> 0:21:43.080 And this was written in uh two thousand fourteen, because 0:21:43.080 --> 0:21:46.400 there was this app that worked with Google Glass, which 0:21:46.560 --> 0:21:50.120 of course now is dead. But Google Glass was. Oh yeah, 0:21:50.160 --> 0:21:52.920 Google Glass was. It was these glasses you would wear 0:21:53.240 --> 0:21:55.399 that would have a heads up display for you and 0:21:55.600 --> 0:21:59.240 display information for you, and it just did not kind 0:21:59.240 --> 0:22:01.720 of like smart gasses. Yeah, and so this app would 0:22:01.760 --> 0:22:03.840 allow you to see yourself from your partner's point of 0:22:03.920 --> 0:22:10.560 view while you Yeah, something I needed less. Why you 0:22:10.640 --> 0:22:13.560 do that? Yeah, Well, it says by sinking. The app 0:22:13.680 --> 0:22:16.280 was called Glance, and by sinking your devices with Glance, 0:22:16.320 --> 0:22:19.800 you'll be able to control the music and lighting around you. 0:22:20.000 --> 0:22:22.800 And when you're ready to start you'd say, okay, glass, 0:22:22.880 --> 0:22:26.280 it's time, and when you're done, you say, okay, glass, 0:22:26.520 --> 0:22:29.400