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What will the experience feel like for the first users of virtual, augmented and mixed reality? How might designers prepare for this new, multi-dimensional digital canvas?  Hosts Marek Pawlowski and Alex Guest discuss with Greg Taylor, General Manager of Tigerspike Next in London, a pioneering digital agency. Greg has been thinking about ways of breaking outside the traditional form factor of digital screens for many years, including a prescient talk at MEX in 2010, entitled ‘Screen today, gone tomorrow’.

On this edition

• Marek Pawlowski, co-host & founder of MEX (@marekpawlowski)
• Alex Guest, co-host & CEO of Zingy.life (@alexguest)
• Greg Taylor, General Manager, Tigerspike Next (@greg_taylor)

Links

• Blippar
• Magic Leap
• Vanity Fair article on the story of Oculus
• Google’s January 2016 update on Cardboard user numbers, app installs etc
• Samsung giving a free Gear VR to customers pre-ordering a Galaxy S7
• Kevin Slavin and the layer of enchantment
• Greg’s LinkedIn post summarising significance of developments in VR
• Mixed Reality Lab at Nottingham University
• Kent Bye’s Voices of VR podcast
• Mark Zuckerberg’s grin at Mobile World Congress zombie audience
• Peter Law of Flying Object on multi-sensory design in Episode 3 of MEX Design Talk
• Wired: The Untold Story of Magic Leap, the World’s Most Secretive Startup
• Medium: The Storyteller’s Guide to the Virtual Reality Audience
• TechCrunch: The reality of AR/VR business models
• Motherboard: How Many VR Headsets Could Realistically Sell This Year?
• NSFW Refinery29: This Virtual Reality Sex Suit Will Haunt Your Dreams

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