Programming Throwdown, Episode 52, Scientific Python. Take it away, Patrick.

Virtual reality. When we're recording this podcast, we're, I think, just after the game developers

conference, and so there's been a lot of tech news buzz about virtual reality and all the

cool, awesome demos people have of their games and projects that they're running virtuality.

So I thought this would be a good opportunity to talk about it.

Personally, I've never gotten the chance to use any of the new generation, the Vive, or the, I guess, Sony has one now, or the Oculus Rift.

But I hear it's a very awesome experience, and I'm starting to see, like, videos that make me excited to try it, but I hear it's a very awesome experience and I'm starting to see

like videos that make me excited to try it. And I know it's virtual reality has going to, will,

is always supposed to have been the next big thing for a while now, but I feel like it might

actually happen this time. Or maybe it'll just fizzle and then they'll give up on it forever.

Jason, have you tried, actually gotten to try any virtual reality headsets? I have. I tried, I tried the Oculus. It's pretty cool. One of the big

things that I think I'm still waiting for, I mean, I'm obviously a huge gamer, right? And so the

gaming part of it, I think, is cool.

But what I really want is actually a way to, like, produce content, VR content.

I mean, right now, almost all the content is synthetic.

It's all video games, you know, rendered.

But it would be amazing if, you know, you could just, like, set up a bunch of cameras in your living room

and then, you know, put your newborn baby or a toddler or something in the living room

and your parents could just kind of walk around, like, you know, your parents would be maybe in, you know, Australia or something,

but they could walk around the living room. So it but doesn't that require either like a robot or something like computational photography?

Like, you're taking a light field picture or whatever, some weird multi-camera pictures and then computationally adjusting for a virtual camera location.

Yeah, I mean, what I'm envisioning is, like, what I envision is like you put a bunch of

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