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Engaging and Sharing Your
VR Experience
PatCat, founder of DevDiner.com
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How you can (and should) be
making an impact on the future
of Virtual Reality.
PatCat, founder of DevDiner.com
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Approx 4 years
Ago…
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I want to help people
get into emerging tech
and make great things.
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Okay. So, what
should you do?
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4 easy steps!
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1Get VR.
Show VR.
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Microcontrollers are
fun.
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OSVR
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FOVE
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Dlodlo
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Qualcomm’s reference platform
VR820
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Microsoft VR!
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1Get VR.
Show VR.
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2Make
things.
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2Avoid the
drawer.
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Create entire
worlds from your
imagination
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Use those worlds to
inspire others to make
their own worlds.
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Personal
projects
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Community
projects
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Hackathons
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VR community
events
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There is so much
info online!
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3Don’t go it
alone.
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There are already
people here to help
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(Preview of final
slide…)
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Got questions? Need a
hand?
E-mail me:
pat@devdiner.com
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Let’s make VR an
inclusive
community.
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We need all cultures,
industries, communities,
personalities…
everyone.
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The most exciting
thing?
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4You can help
shape VR
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Share your
experiences, your
findings and creations
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Your contributions
are more valuable
than you realise!
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Try things and
show how it
went!
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So much of VR is
still largely
unexplored!
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Blog!
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Medium
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WordPress
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Squarespace
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Ask questions
and join
conversations!
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StackOverflow
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Slack groups
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Give guidance
to others
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Don’t have or
want a blog?
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I’m looking for
more writers!
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www.devdiner.com
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If you do write
content
elsewhere
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Send me a link
to your article!
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I run a weekly e-mail
newsletter and (daily) Twitter
www.devdiner.com
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Speak at
events!
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Don’t like public
speaking?
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Share your
findings with other
speakers instead
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One common
question.
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Will VR last?
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People don’t want to lug a computer with
them to the beach or on a train to while away
hours they would rather spend reading the
sports or business section of the newspaper.
Somehow, the microcomputer industry has
assumed that everyone would love to have a
keyboard grafted on as an extension of their
fingers. It just is not so …
- New York Times, 1985
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The truth [is] no online database will replace your
daily newspaper, no CD-ROM can take the place
of a competent teacher and no computer network
will change the way government works.
…
Yet Nicholas Negroponte, director of the MIT
Media Lab, predicts that we’ll soon buy books and
newspapers straight over the Internet. Uh, sure.
- Clifford Stoll, Newsweek, 1995
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“[Television] won’t be able to
hold on to any market it captures
after the first six months. People
will soon get tired of staring at a
plywood box every night.”
- Darryl Zanuck, 20th Century Fox, 1946
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“When virtual reality gets
cheaper than dating,
society is doomed.”
- Dogbert (Scott Adams, Dilbert)
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I in no way think that VR is
going to be like 3DTV. It’s
already too far along and
you see so much investment
from all of the major players
- Kelly Alfieri — The New York Times’ VR Team
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The first half of 2016 alone
saw $1.3 billion invested in
VR.
- 2016 report by IAB
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“I just tried HTC’s virtual reality
headset Vive, and I’m certain
we’re on the precipice of a major
change in computing. This is
going to change the world as we
know it. Really.”
Dave Smith, Business Insider 2015
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It’s expected that 24 months from now,
we’ll have a much better understanding
of the four or five key use cases around
how and why consumers will use VR,
versus what they do on their phones,
iPads, TVs, and everything else.
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VIRTUAL REALITY
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IS STILL BEING
WORKED OUT.
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Which is an
opportunity not
a disadvantage!
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Remember
the last point?
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4You can help
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How people respond to
life-changing inventions…
- Morgan Housel, Innovation Isn’t Dead, Time Mag, 2015
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1I’ve never
heard of it.
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I’ve heard of it
but don’t
understand it.
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3
I understand it,
but I don’t see
how it’s useful.
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4
I see how it could
be fun for rich
people, but not me.
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5I use it, but
it’s just a toy.
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6
It’s becoming
more useful for
me.
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7I use it all
the time.
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8
I could not
imagine life
without it.
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9Seriously, people
lived without it?
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Don’t wait
until step 9.
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Wrapping
up…
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1Get VR.
Show VR.
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2Avoid the
drawer.
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3Don’t go it
alone.
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4You can help
shape VR
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5Please help
shape VR
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Got questions? Need a
hand?
E-mail me:
pat@devdiner.com

Engaging and sharing your VR experience