It's time to get technical this week with Survios Co-Founder and CTO Alex Silkin! Join us for a deep dive into VR gamedev in Unreal Engine as we cover decisions and challenges faced by Survios while making some of the market's biggest VR games like Raw Data, Creed: Rise to Glory, Sprint Vector, and an upcoming Aliens title.

0:00 - Welcome back/intros. 
1:55 - How Alex approaches game design. 
5:38 - VR games as fitness tools. 
7:31 - Player fatigue and session playtime.
13:41 - Designing gameplay loops around fatigue. 
14:50 - Survios "must-haves" when designing for VR. 
20:33 - What Survios considers before production. 
22:27 - Flat screen games vs VR. 
29:45 - Lessons Survios has learned. 
33:31 - Survios' standards with VR design. 
40:51 - Survios' testing process. 
45:29 - Collaboration between designers and engineers. 
53:06 - Survios' "must-have" tools. 
1:05:20 - Best practices for architecting systems in Unreal Engine. 
1:27:32 - Shift from blueprints to next steps. 
1:33:12 - Alex's thoughts on Nanite/Lumen. 
1:38:32 - Mistakes made and lessons learned. 
1:44:28 - Lightning Round

Xtended Realities Podcast | #016 | S2 E1 | SURVIOS Co-Founder Alex Silkin

Let’s figure out what it takes to open and run a game studio, with Nesting Games Co-Founder and Studio Head, Frederick Brassard! Tune in as we chat about his early days helping to found Ubisoft, lessons he learned with failed companies in the past, and how he’s worked with a full team to create an original IP. Plus, he’ll share his advice for aspiring game developers, and folks considering opening their own studios. Keep your eyes on the horizon for the announcement of Nesting Games’ first release, and enjoy this inside scoop before they announce! &nbsp;  0:00 - Intros 1:26 - Frederick’s early career at Ubisoft 8:57 - Differences founding a studio in the past vs. the present 11:35 - Lessons learned from past mistakes 13:30 - Nesting Games’ core principles 15:38 - How to turn Vision into an actual Studio 16:37 - Biggest challenge starting a studio 19:06 - How to approach funding a studio 21:11 - Structuring a roadmap when starting a company 24:35 - Approaching publishers 30:02 - Building a team from scratch 36:20 - Prepping the team for a first pitch 41:30 - Maintaining a solid team throughout the process. 45:00 - Developing an IP from scratch 49:40 - How to successfully communicate across teams 53:43 - Removing ego 59:25 - Frederick’s biggest professional risks, and how he keeps taking them 1:03:43 - When to finalize your game and prep for release 1:10:37 - Frederick’s first step for upcoming devs who want to break into the industry 1:13:39 - Lightning round and conclusions

Xtended Realities Podcast | S2 E2 | Nesting Games Co-Founder/Studio Head Frederick Brassard: Starting A Studio and Creating An IP

This week we’ve been watching all news out of Augmented World Expo 2019 in Santa Clara, CA. There’s some huge news we’re getting about new chipsets from Qualcomm, new AR headsets, and some big changes from Google, Facebook and Leap Motion.

Xtended Realities is a podcast production of ICVR - a software development studio based in Los Angeles, CA that specializes in VR/AR & emerging tech.

00:56 - Qualcomm news! XR1 Chipset details announced&nbsp;https://venturebeat.com/2019/05/29/qualcomm-enables-xr-smart-viewer-augmented-reality-smartphone-apps/  6:24 - NReal AR&nbsp;https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/30/18646160/nreal-light-ar-xr-qualcomm-snapdragon-sunglasses-consumer-price-shipping-release-5g  10:50 - MR Rokid Vision&nbsp;https://www.gizchina.com/2019/05/29/mr-glasses-rokid-vision-shown-at-awe-2019/  12:58 - Facebook AR/Speaker Patent Filing  https://mashable.com/article/facebook-ar-glasses-cartilage-conduction-patent/?europe=true  15:25 - Leap Motion Sold Off&nbsp;https://www.wsj.com/articles/leap-motion-once-a-virtual-reality-high-flier-sells-itself-to-u-k-rival-11559210520  18:44 - Google Shuts Down Jump VR  https://vrscout.com/news/google-shutting-down-jump-vr-program/  22:23 - Google Glass Returns  https://mobile-ar.reality.news/news/hands-on-heres-augmented-reality-google-search-works-0198193/  24:15 - AR Google Searches  https://mobile-ar.reality.news/news/hands-on-heres-augmented-reality-google-search-works-0198193/  25:21 - Minecraft AR 27:38 - Lightning Round

Xtended Realities | #008 | AWE2019 AR News and More!

It's time to have a current look at the state of the VR Gaming market, and make predictions as to where it's headed.  Size of the market 1:23  https://venturebeat.com/2019/01/24/superdata-vr-grew-30-in-2018-thanks-to-psvr-oculus-quest-will-be-2019s-hit/  Number of active players, broken down between device/platform 11:01  https://www.roadtovr.com/2018-ends-with-a-record-number-of-vr-headsets-on-steam/  Player Demographics 14:40https://www.statista.com/statistics/831819/us-virtual-augmented-reality-device-average-session-time/ VR Content 16:20 (https://quanticfoundry.com/2019/03/01/vr-adoption/)  Sales projections &amp; ROI 18:20https://www.roadtovr.com/vacation-simulator-among-steams-20-top-selling-games-released-april  Digital distribution revenue vs. LBE 29:59 How to make a VR game 36:16 Future market 43:30

Xtended Realities | #009 | The State of the VR Gaming Market

A look at the recent events from E3 2019 as it relates to the XR community. Oculus Quest Ecosystem - No Steam Features! https://www.reddit.com/r/OculusQuest/comments/c084cn/virtual_desktop_update_142_steamvr_feature/ - 1:03  https://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/c08s31/pavlov_vr_wont_come_to_the_oculus_quest_store/ - 9:17 Oculus Quest Development: https://developer.oculus.com/blog/submitting-your-app-to-the-oculus-quest-store/ - 10:48 UPDATE: Pavlov is coming to Quest Store - 16:31 https://www.reddit.com/r/virtualreality/comments/c0qt8a/pavlov_developer_my_apologies_there_was_some/?utm_medium=android_app&amp;utm_source=share QA with Oculus’s Jason Rubin (VP of Special Gaming Strategies @ Facebook) - 16:54 https://uploadvr.com/jason-rubin-oculus-quest-index-rift-go/ HTC to reveal Vive Cosmos next week - 27:18 #HTCVIVE #HTCVIVECosmos pic.twitter.com/7WkqnH32Yq New Games! https://www.roadtovr.com/lone-echo-2-larger-than-predecessor-e3-2019-gameplay/  Lone Echo 2 - 30:07 ACORN: Attack of the Squirrels - asymmetric couch party game, Oculus Quest + Mobile - 33:46 The Curious Tale of the Stolen Pets - cute game with Alumette like art - 37:57 Espire 1: VR Operative - Splinter Cell type experience - 38:15 SpaceTeam VR - 42:17 RedPill - 39:05 Lightning Round - 43:04

Xtended Realities Podcast | #010 | E3 XR News

Today we look at the world of 360 Video- we tout it, we criticize it, we discuss the biggest market for it.&nbsp;  If anyone is going to attend SIGGRAPH 2019 this year, please come visit us in person at Booth #647/649 and try our Digital Human Project. Enjoy!  Show Notes  02:45 Google Carboard History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Cultural_Institute  04:31 Jaunt VR https://variety.com/2015/digital/news/jaunt-virtual-reality-disney-evolution-media-65-million-1201598574/  12:43 Samsung GearVR John Carmack https://www.engadget.com/2014/09/04/samsung-gear-vr-john-carmack/  15:38 Android Poll https://www.androidpolice.com/2017/03/19/weekend-poll-do-you-regularly-use-vr/  19:16 ARtillery Studies (paywall) https://arinsider.co/ 21:33 Challenges of 360/VR https://fortune.com/longform/virtual-reality-struggle-hope-vr/  29:18 The Nun VR Experience https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evzsN1BGR6A  34:41 Adult VR content https://venturebeat.com/2018/07/23/porn-and-games-are-the-biggest-drivers-of-vr-revenues/  40:39 Future of VR Video https://uploadvr.com/jason-rubin-oculus-quest-index-rift-go/  44:03 Disney Kite’s Tale https://vrscout.com/news/first-look-disney-vr-film-a-kites-tale/  55:44 Lightning Round

Xtended Realities Podcast | #011 | 360 Video Deep Dive

Today's episode looks at Virtual Production practices for Hollywood motion pictures and more! Featuring special guest Adam Maier, of Fox VFX labs. We explain what virtual production is, why it's so important in today's film production, and how it uses emerging tech like VR to bring CGI sets to life onstage.

Xtended Realities Podcast | #012 | Virtual Production with guest Adam Maier

You heard that right. We're going down the whole gamut of all the news in XR including a massive announcement from Valve, a rather unexpected acquisition from Oculus, and yes fam, cows in VR. Let's do this.  

Show Notes: 
0:29 Half Life: Alyx 
18:13: Boneworks VR 
22:47 Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 (VR Support??) 
26:03 No Man's Sky Updates 
27:41 Google Stadia Launch Woes 
35:49 SuperData- over 400,000 Oculus Quests sold 
37:08 Black Friday/Cyber Monday Sales!! 
38:02 Beat Games Sold to Oculus! But muh MODS! 
44:54 VR For Cows?? 
50:36 Lightning Round

Xtended Realities Podcast | #013 | Huge XR Industry News with Half Life Alyx and...Cows in VR??

We talk all things VR education-related on this week's episode with special guest Taylor Freeman - co-founder of UploadVR We'll also look at some of the latest industry news and market numbers. Learn from Taylor's hands-on experience about what works and what doesn't, what verticals present the best use cases for VR education, how it is currently being used most effectively, and what VR education will look like in the future. 

0:00 - Intro with Taylor 
1:07 - Superdata: 180k units in Q3, over 400k total before the holiday season 
4:11 - Steam Hardware Survey 
7:38 - PSVR2 
9:50 LYNX-R1 14:04 Facebook acquires Scape 
22:10 Taylor and Axon Park intro 
28:27 5 Key Areas of Enterprise Training 
45:06 Health and Safety 
52:09 HR and Culture 
56:44 - Soft Skills 
1:06:25 - Technical Skills 
1:09:04 - Operations and Compliance 
1:12:13 - Obstacles 1:19:58 - Future of Axon Park 
1:22:18 - Lightning Round!

Xtended Realities | #014 | Education in VR with UploadVR Co-Founder Taylor Freeman + Industry News

Arkit - :45      Apple AR glasses - 6:50      Oculus Go dead - 18:00    No more 3DOF   Success of HL:Alyx - 24:50   At least 500,000    Star Wars Squadrons - 26:10   Full VR support!     Industry impact of covid - 27:09   The work from home shift, and how tech companies were already well-suited to making the change We’ve covered virtual production before https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/icvr-xtended-realities/xtended-realities/e/64617153 Most steam players ever - 34:45      Mobile gaming doing better than ever before More offices using virtual offices:  AI-enabled semi-autonomous food delivery robots - 36:05    Virtual Events Shit:   Fortnite - 37:30   Travis Scott:  Marshmello - 37:50  Christopher Nolan movies (Inception, Batman Begins, The Prestige) Where is Fortnite going with Party Royale Island?   John Legend       Lindsey Stirling    WaveXR   Virtual Burning Man - 40:35      Portal submissions through Kindling, new internal app:      LIB Festival - 39:10    What it did well and not so well   Used Vita Motus:      Red Dead Redemption 2 for meetings:  Lightning Round - 48:30    &nbsp;

Xtended Realities Podcast | #015 | Industry news, COVID, and Virtual Events

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