There are people who believe our reality is that we are all part of a computer simulation.

Futurists say that’s not true, but that we will one day soon live in virtual worlds of our own devising.

Others say that any kind of virtual realities will never happen because we all look silly with big headsets strapped to our faces.

We can argue about these points, but one thing’s certain: with recent leaps in virtual and augmented realities, big changes to technology are coming — and that’s what we’re talking about on this week’s episode of Men in Gorilla Suits. (Okay, so it’s really about virtual reality, virtual worlds of games, augmented realities, and data modeling…)

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We begin with our first experiences with virtual reality, and then talk about if we’ve ever modeled things before building them. Also: find out the last form of virtual and augmented realities we’ve used.

After that we discuss the best — and worst — virtual environments we’ve ever experienced. Getting personal, we chat about the most complex things — and the dumbest things — we’ve ever modeled before construction.

We talk about augmented reality’s use in games like Pokemon Go and Ingress. Next, we devote some time to ways virtual reality, augmented reality, and data modeling are not being used in ways we’d like to see.

Find out what our ultimate virtual reality/augmented reality games would be like…and we wrap it up with the future of virtual and augmented realities.

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