PickVidsBest VR, AR & spatial computing Videos
The 49 VR, AR & spatial computing videos here were recommended by different people across different months. Choose by who it is for: 1 introductory, 9 intermediate, 38 for a general viewer, and 1 for someone who wants the harder derivation. Most of them are a demo. What they share is that you see the result first and only then decide whether to follow the detail. Channels you will keep seeing include Meta VR, UploadVR, Google.
QuakeCon 2012 - John Carmack Keynote
John Carmack's long QuakeCon 2012 keynote, a free-ranging talk covering software engineering, game platforms, game streaming, and his early head-mounted display and VR work.
RiftSketch: Live coding in VR with the Oculus Rift, Firefox WebVR, JavaScript and Three.js
Brian Peiris demonstrates RiftSketch, a web app where you write JavaScript with Three.js while wearing an Oculus Rift and watch the world around you change live.
The Future is a Dead Mall - Decentraland and the Metaverse
Dan Olson of Folding Ideas spends months in the virtual world Decentraland and delivers a long critique of the metaverse, NFTs and DAOs, and why virtual worlds fail as places.
Head Tracking for Desktop VR Displays using the WiiRemote
Johnny Lee demonstrates head tracking with a Wii remote and a head-mounted pair of IR LEDs, so a screen acts like a window into a 3D scene as your head moves.
John Carmack Tech Talk with UMKC-SCE
John Carmack speaks at UMKC's 2017 commencement event about the difficulties of VR, especially end-to-end latency across hardware and software.
Oculus Connect 2: Live Coding Session with John Carmack
John Carmack live-codes a simple VR application at Oculus Connect 2 using a Racket-based environment for rapid development and deployment on Gear VR.
I could hardly believe my eyes! - Looking Glass Holographic Monitor
Linus Tech Tips reviews the Looking Glass 8K holographic display, a glasses-free 3D monitor.
John Carmack Facebook Connect 2021 Keynote
John Carmack's keynote at Facebook Connect 2021, where he speaks candidly about VR, Quest, and Meta's metaverse plans.
Mark Zuckerberg: First Interview in the Metaverse | Lex Fridman Podcast #398
Lex Fridman interviews Mark Zuckerberg in the metaverse, with both appearing as photorealistic avatars from separate locations.
Oculus Connect Keynote: John Carmack
John Carmack's keynote at Oculus Connect 2014 about the Gear VR and development stories from building it.
Making Sense of VRChat, the "Metaverse" People Actually Like
People Make Games explores VRChat, the social virtual world that many consider the metaverse people actually like, interviewing users and covering its communities and uncertain future.
This 1970s tank simulator drives through a tiny world
Tom Scott visits the Swiss Military Museum to see the last surviving 1970s tank-driving simulator.
E3 2012: John Carmack Interview
Giant Bomb interviews John Carmack at E3 2012 about his virtual reality head-mounted display prototype.
Project Starline: Feel like you're there, together
Google's short promo for Project Starline, a booth that shows a life-size, three-dimensional view of the person you are talking to.
Tested: Magic Leap One Augmented Reality Review!
Adam Savage's Tested spends a week with the Magic Leap One developer kit.
Hands-On with Meta's New VR Headset Prototypes!
Tested gets hands-on with four Meta Reality Labs research VR headset prototypes testing resolution, brightness, focus shifting and form factor, plus an interview with Mark Zuckerberg on display technology.
Keynote by John Carmack at Oculus Connect 2014
John Carmack's roughly 90-minute keynote at Oculus Connect 2014, covering mobile VR and the Gear VR work, followed by audience questions.
Facebook's Prototype VR Face Tracking Got Even Better
UploadVR covers a Facebook Reality Labs prototype that tracks facial expressions using cameras mounted in a VR headset.
What VR Could, Should, and Almost Certainly Will Be within Two Years (Steam Dev Days 2014)
Michael Abrash of Valve explains what affordable VR hardware will be capable of within a couple of years, and describes a prototype showing what that level of hardware can do.
Safespaces: An open source 3D / Virtual Reality Desktop
A one-minute demo of Safespaces, an open source 3D and VR desktop built on the Arcan project.
Apple Vision Pro Impressions!
Marques Brownlee shares his hands-on impressions of Apple's $3500 Vision Pro headset after trying it.
HYPER-REALITY
Keiichi Matsuda's short concept film depicting a future where physical and virtual realities have merged and the city is saturated with media and advertising.
The thrilling potential of SixthSense technology | Pranav Mistry
Pranav Mistry demos SixthSense, a wearable device that projects information onto the physical world and lets people interact with data through gestures.
Steve Jobs on Virtual Reality (D3, 2005)
A one-minute clip of Steve Jobs at the D3 conference in 2005 discussing virtual reality.