Video and slides synchronized, mp3 and slide download available at URL http://bit.ly/2gCI7a2. Amber Case talks about the road from virtual reality to augmented reality and what is needed to build to get there. She talks about various topics on the history and future of wearables, human augmentation, infrastructure, machine vision, processing, distributed computing and wireless data transfer, a church dedicated to VR, computer backpacks, heads up displays, reality editing, and so on. Filmed at qconsf.com. Amber Case is currently a fellow at Harvard University’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society. She is a cyborg anthropologist and user experience designer. She studies the interaction between humans and computers and how our relationship with information is changing the way cultures think, act, and understand their worlds.

1. History and Future ofVR
Amber Case
@caseorganic
Fellow @BKCHarvard & @civicmit
Slides! Slideshare.net/caseorganic
Qcon San Francisco, CA
07 November 2016

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4. Part I:
Early VR Demos
Let’s put you on a
rollercoaster!

5. VR Roller Coaster forAndroid

6. VR Roller Coaster forAndroid

7. Rollercoasters:
NOT A GOOD IDEA
FOR VR
nauseating games
and advertising
demos

8. Bad thing #2:
People want to move!
How can we make them
move?

9. What about Treadmills?
Bad thing #2:
People want to move!
How can we make them
move?

11. Updated Version:
Omnidirectional
Treadmill
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12. Updated Version:
Omnidirectional
Treadmill
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13. Treadmill Drawbacks:
• Clunky
• EXPENSIVE
• Requires special
shoes
• Not great

14. FIXES!
• Allow limited movement
with a ‘guide’
• Add teleportation!

16. Baseline Setup
• 1 Headset
• 2 room detectors
• 2 controllers
• 1 Computer
• Graphics card: GeForce 1080 or
higher
• LOTS OF RAM
• Babysitter for cord safety!

17. Source: HTC Vive Manual

18. Source: HTC Vive Manual

20. Better Setup
Add:
• External Speakers
• External monitor
• Blue tape on floor for floor
boundary
• Umbilical cord

21. II. The Apps

22. Types of Games
Training Wheels
- Tilt Brush (Google)
Task-Based
- Job simulator (expandable
based on
- Leaf blower (Monotasking,
immersive)

23. Types of Games
RTS
- Cosmic Trip (alternating wave
battle with territory building)
FPS Hybrid
- Hover Junkers
Old School
- Wave Blaster

24. Experiences
Reggie Watts live in VR!
First time: “I DON’T want you to
look to see if there is gum under
these tables”.
Second time: Reggie gets stuck in
the stage.

26. Job Simulator Owlchemy Labs

27. Space Pirates SoundCloud: James

28. Cosmic Trip Funktronic

29. What’s Next?
What about AR?

30. III. The Road to
Augmented Reality
AR relies on:
• Bandwidth
• Image recognition (not great in
real-time
• Objects (will be built through
games in VR)

31. Self-Portrait
of Steve Mann with
Wearable Computing
Apparatus
1981.
slideshare.net/caseorganic

33. Persistent
Paleontology

36. Diminished Reality vs. Augmented Reality
• Adding your own layer onto reality
• Replacing public messages with your own

37. Adblock: Image recognition, processing and replacement.

38. Collaborative Reality

39. Remember the Milk
Contextual Notification Systems
Virtual Post-It Notes with Image
Processing
1995
slideshare.net/caseorganic@caseorganic

40. Computer-Mediated Reality:
Face Recognition and History

42. Sousveillance:
MaybeCam

43. Evolution of Prosthesis

44. Present-Day
Steve Mann
• Extremely lightweight equipment
• Most people have this in their pocket

45. Technology should
consider social norms

46. Restorative
Normal
Enhancing Fear-inducing
Accepted
Invisible
Technology Social EffectExample

47. The arrival of the smartphone
camera

48. Google
Glass

49. Compare to the iPhone
Launch
• Improvement on an existing system
(smartphones)
• Developer onboarding
• Limited Features

50. Like this…
Remember the Milk
Contextual Notification Systems
Virtual Post-It Notes with Image Processing
1995
slideshare.net/caseorganic@caseorganic

51. Domestic Robocop Keiichi Matsuda

52. IV. Building VR Experiences

53. https://www.dropbox.com/s/qlg7z8itcnabjf0/S
creenshot%202016-11-
06%2023.12.46.png?dl=0
VRTK – Steam VR Unity Toolkit

54. Stephanie Mendoza liooil.neocities.org

55. https://www.dropbox.com/s/qlg7z8itcnabjf0/S
creenshot%202016-11-
06%2023.12.46.png?dl=0
A-FRAME Mozilla Web VR Framework

56. liooil.neocities.org/VR_webStuff/room+07/room07.h
tml

57. People to follow:
VR Church Portland
Stephanie Mendoza
Liooil.neocities.org
Reggie Watts, Justin Roiland
Owlchemy Labs
Web VR liooil.neocities.org

58. Stephanie Mendoza liooil.neocities.org

63. Thank you!
Amber Case
@caseorganic
Fellow @BKCHarvard & @civicmit
Slides! Slideshare.net/caseorganic
QCon
San Francisco, CA
07 November 2016

64. Watch the video with slide synchronization on
InfoQ.com!
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future-wearable-vr