Aaron Frank of Singularity University – Virtual & Augmented Reality
Finding Genius Podcast
Richard Jacobs
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 8 May 2017
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Aaron talks to us about the new VR tools enabling people to do fascinating things. How VR is being used to help eliminate the fear of public speaking by providing a VR experience that exposes people beyond their comfortable level to help them overcome the fears. He describes how VR is being used to reduce pain for burn victims by showing them a VR environment where they feel more relaxed and calm which reduces the pain.
Will virtual reality reduce peoples' willingness to have real-life interactions? What about augmented reality inside of virtual reality – i.e. holding a coffee cup and feeling the warmth of the cup inside of a virtual reality space. This interview covers a lot of unusual ground that you won't hear on many virtual reality and augmented reality podcasts.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Almost Here, Around the Corner of Future Technology Podcasts with Richard Jacobs. |
| 0:08.0 | Future technologies are always to transform our lives for better or worse or the focus of this podcast. |
| 0:13.7 | Almost here means these technologies are now here and starting to be used. |
| 0:18.2 | We're just around the corner. |
| 0:19.8 | From Bitcoin to artificial intelligence, 3D printing the corner, from Bitcoin to artificial intelligence, |
| 0:22.1 | 3D printing, blockchain, virtual reality, and more. |
| 0:26.0 | This is Richard Jacobs with Future Tech Podcast. Today I have another singularity university guest, |
| 0:31.8 | Aaron Frank, and we're going to be talking about virtual reality and augmented reality applications. |
| 0:37.6 | Aaron, how you doing? |
| 0:38.8 | I'm doing well. |
| 0:39.9 | Thanks, Richard. |
| 0:41.6 | Yeah, thanks for coming. |
| 0:43.9 | Virtual reality, augmented reality is, you know, it was around for a long time. |
| 0:48.0 | It was quiet until just a couple years ago, and now it seems to be taking the world by storm. |
| 0:54.7 | There's headsets everywhere. |
| 0:56.0 | It's a common topic of conversation. |
| 0:58.1 | So tell me about the work that you're doing in this realm. |
| 1:02.3 | Yeah. |
| 1:02.7 | So it's interesting. |
| 1:03.9 | You mentioned this idea that virtual reality, it's true that it's been around for quite |
| 1:08.6 | a while. |
| 1:10.0 | So at Singularity University, one of the things that we look at in the development of technology |
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