SVVR Meetup #48 @SVVR Studio Mountain View

1931 Old Middlefield Way, Mountain View

1. CES Roundup
2. But is it ART...?
3. What makes an immersive app feel native?

New location

• mixed reality event venue
• VR museum
• will keep adding demo machines

SVVR Passport

• Membership network
• 24/7 access SVVR studio
  • lounge, demo rooms, meeting rooms
• SVVR slack
• $150/month
• company membership: $2000/y

1. CES Roundup

• Benjamin << picture >>

Takeaway from CES 2018

• Vive Pro - a lot more balanced, comfortable

  • wireless, T shape device at the back of the strap

• Lenovo Mirage Solo

  • under $400, mobile VR headset, good positional tracking, daydream

• Pimax ‘8K’

  • $15M kickstarter

• Xiaomi Mi VR(Oculus Go)

• facebook spaces integration with meetings

• ben is in sunnyvale

2. But is it ART…?

• Designing for the future of gallries
• Richard Warp and Scott Looney from Intonic
• Immersive audio solutions
  • VR/AR/XR/RR
  • Game Audio
  • Affective
• Pollen music group: oscaa winning short-film
• Acute Art
  • world first interactive art platform
  • Jeff Koons, Marina Abramovic, Olafur Eliasson
• Artistic Process <-> Design Process -> Development Process
• www.intonic.io, metaphys-media.com, acuteart.com

3. What makes an immersive app feel native?

• Lucas Rizzotto, https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCE4nLiG5vDeXZVzn9r21rhQ, right now 196 subscriber. Let’s see how many after this talk.
  • http://lucasrizzotto.com/
• youtube video
• VR & AR
  • VR: apps that requries users; full attention
    • building convicning world
  • AR: apps that thirve in real
    • building the convincing extension of world
• Two major challenges
  • input controller
• tips for non-gamer users
  • avoid teleportation
  • replace “pointing” interaction with physical interactions
  • make your products usable with just the trigger
• remove controllers and use hand tracking directly
  • hand based controller*
  • physical world becomes interface
  • youtube: cybersnake
• story telling and
• most app: functional, 2d interface in 3d world,
• functinal isn’t enough. no more 2d ui
• tips: don’t use 2d
• UI becomes invisible: deeply integrated into the world https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EU1JoKiZkM