VR, with Elena Kokkinara (Inflight VR) - S03E08

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In this episode we speak to Elena Kokkinara, CTO at Inflight VR, a VR platform developer for in-flight entertainment. We discuss how VR has developed over the last decade, how the body ownership illusion can make you feel like you have an entirely different physical body, whether developers can code in VR environments, and whether AR is in competition with VR.

About Elena Kokkinara

Elena Kokkinara is CTO at Inflight VR, the first company that provides a VR entertainment solution for airplane passengers. Having completed a PhD in VR and published numerous papers on VR and computer vision, she is passionate about creating new experiences for Virtual Reality users and gamers. Her scientific interest is to explore the necessary parameters to design a flight-specific VR ecosystem.

Other things mentioned:

• Inflight VR
• Unity
• Unreal Engine
• Oculus
• Cave
• HTC Flow
• Pico

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Recorded: 2022-04-26.