Uploaded October 2024 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago

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A fireside chat with Prof. Grigore Burdea on the occasion of the launch of his third book about VR, 31 years after the first one he published. We covered many interesting topics, spanning from motion sickness to neural interfaces, not to mention scent emission.

If are interested in Dr.Burdea's book, you can find it here: wiley.com/en-us/Virtual+Reality+Technology%2C+3rd+Edition-p-9781118014806

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Timestamps:

0:00 Hello everyone
0:36 Grigore, introduce yourself
13:34 What has changed in XR in the last 30 years?
25:57 Why is it so hard to replicate taste and scent in VR?
36:23 When can we expect smell and taste commercially available in VR?
37:37 Why are neural interfaces inevitable?
42:20 Can we have neural interfaces without drilling the skull?
44:45 When are BCI going to happen?
47:24 Anything else to add?

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