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Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 2:08
AMA with DAVID W. SIME : An Expert in AR / VR. Global speaker and enthusiast! Let’s go!
The wonderful thing about AMAs on Swell is they can last forever. So thank you for participating. This is a great opportunity for us to really dig into all the things that David finds so interesting as a curator, actually of what's going on in this space. He's also somebody who is a chief technology officer of Riot Digital. He really understands what's going on in multiple industries with regard to VR
David Sime
@David_W_Sime · 2:45
Hi, Deborah, thank you for having me. What gets me out of bed in the morning at the moment, while we're doing so many things at the moment in virtual reality, I'm doing a lot of work in education, a lot of work in energy transition and renewable energy and and a lot of work in medicine and just medical, mental health care and physical health care at the moment. So we've got a lot going on
Erika Schon
@Riki · 1:11
I'm wondering what you think, what innovation might be in the future to help this cost be reduced, and also what they could make virtual reality teaching more acceptable versus categoric teaching. And we're thinking orthopedic surgery right now. And do you think they'll exist together in the future? Do you think virtual reality will ultimately have a place in teaching and categoric studies and that type of thing he's very excited to dive into. He's working with a fellow who's also talented in this space
Michael J.
@goatea · 1:18
I mean, we just walked around the room and everyone was an avatar of something else, and it was very lifelike. So I imagine if you could do that in a business setting, you could kind of replace the need for some of those wasteful flights. So I want to get your thoughts on that
David Sime
@David_W_Sime · 5:00
The issues at that point, we're getting realistic haptics, which is to say, the physical feedback that when you're cutting through soft tissue and you're coming up to a heart which is still beating in virtual reality, you need to be able to feel that for it to be realistic, so that when you're in an actual surgical environment, you're feeling what you would be familiar with. The sensations
David Sime
@David_W_Sime · 2:16
So there's that and then there's the equipment, I suppose, because up until recently, it's very expensive to get good virtual reality headsets, but now you can get very good ones for between two and £500 that are perfectly usable here, particularly if you're streaming what we call game streaming or Pixel streaming information, which means to say you're not having to run this big, complicated computer game on your headset
David Sime
@David_W_Sime · 4:59
But you can't really easily do again, really useful for education, but really useful for good meetings. So there's that now previously you had to download things onto your computer or use headsets. Both of these are what we call friction points that stopped people from wanting to do it. But using things like care, we've been using Mozilla hubs that doesn't require any downloads, and you don't need to use a virtual reality headset
Erika Schon
@Riki · 0:28
Thank you, David. That was an incredibly thorough answer. And I am connecting you now to my husband, Lou L-E-W. And he will continue the conversation with you on use of VR in surgical training. Thanks again. Fabulous, really interesting field you're in. And your depth of knowledge is so impressive
They see dollar sign, but it's such a small market that I can't afford to do it myself. So can you give me some names of groups or companies that I could work with that could get this launched without the big price tag. It will really help a lot of people with bad ankles with arthritis get straighter and more fluid in their motion and take them out of pain. Thank you so much. Much. Bye
David Sime
@David_W_Sime · 3:44
I had a really interesting conversation with some friends of mine that run a company called River Realities into virtual reality, and they create training for first responders mainly. But they create training, which is three degrees of freedom and six degrees of freedom
Alex Harvey
@Alextench · 4:19
And I used to work in the games industry for ten years making racing games and Codemasters. Now we've got a VR company doing video production and VR development from scratch. And yeah, thanks, David. I'm so pleased you shouted about three dots and six dot. I was about to jump in on an earlier post and mention, Come on, they read six dot, three doff, but I waited out and then you dropped it
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 1:38
When someone creates something that's amazing, will there always be a place in the marketplace for it, or will there be sort of a more of a Creative Commons user license where people can leverage all this great work and not have to pay a gazillion dollars for it? What does that range look like right now? What have you seen already evolved with virtual reality creations that kind of include all of these great specific industries that are now using them specifically
Alex Harvey
@Alextench · 1:55
So anything that I make, that's just mine that I filmed and edited I'm NFT so that in the future everyone knows that it's mine and you could do the same thing with video content, training lessons and tutorials about things. If you're a specialist in that industry, I would be absolutely using all my time. Just make content contextual content that I own that you own
David Sime
@David_W_Sime · 2:28
It takes out of the realm of just specialist 3D modelers and allows those of us who have maybe got a broader concept for using these models to to put them together for education and put them together for entertainment or really any other purpose. So I'll put those links in and I'll see if I can get Thomas and Alex involved in this conversation
Michael J.
@goatea · 2:21
Wow, a lot of interesting discussion here. Sorry I'm late to the reply. It's nine days later. And you weren't kidding. Deborah, when you said this was a different form of AMA, we can keep replying into the long term. I had a question just specifically, and it's not really about virtual reality. But you had mentioned David about the idea of lower satellite and the Ping time. I think you said was 50 milliseconds and the delay in that