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Exploring Virtual Reality | Hemanth Satyanarayana | TEDxBITSHyderabad


I grew up in a small town called Sri

colossi which is home to the temple of

Lord Shiva who is referred to as

destroyer in Hinduism there are three

important things that played an

important role in my life out there

one was my uncle who kept telling me all

the time that a job that is 99% done is

not done completely is not done at all

unfortunately is not with me today it’s

not with me anymore

the second thing that was very important

for me was the bunch of trees that I

loved looking at in the town

the third was my favorite science

teacher mrs. Saracen Anthony who I am

sure is somewhere out there helping all

those young inquisitive minds out there

I Trenton jumping high I jumped jumping

high all the way up instinct we all have

those dreams where we always dreamt

about jumping high so I so some of the

dreams that I had helped me jump all the

way high that the only way out of there

was to jump from the sky but my dad is a

doctor as was with families out there

where there are doctor parents the

National choice of career is medicine

but with my case one of those odd cases

I chose to do engineering because

primarily my mom said so right that’s a

pretty bad reason but she didn’t want me

to work as hard as my dad but life has

its own ways it so happened that I

figured out a shortcut and I married a

doctor to fulfill my dad my dream of

being a doctor so on a serious note

going forward I tells into the fields of

virtual reality and augmented reality so

these sort of those fields that were

virtually unknown to a lot of people out

there in 2004 I entered this field

to my passion in medicine by working in

augmented reality based liver surgery

thanks to my advisor dr. Ke$ha with us

so we’ve built a device like hololens

that you see out there which enabled

open liver surgeons to see through a

liver while performing a surgery and

figure out where the tumors are hidden

so that kept me thinking you know much

more into the fields of AR and VR so let

me talk a bit about VR virtual reality

is an experience that you get where

you’re physically at at a certain place

but virtually you can be experiencing a

rollercoaster ride or all the way in

Mars it’s typically enabled through a

device like this with your smartphone on

the other hand augmented reality or

mixed reality these days is enable

through headsets like this I’m sure most

of you would have seen Pokemon I don’t

have to say more about it but augmented

reality is is essentially an experience

that enhances your visual experience

with more information on what you see so

after my work and augmented reality was

livered surgery I was in the job market

I couldn’t get any job that I wanted

there were no jobs so there were no jobs

that I could take up there were jobs

that were helping me get about $100 an

hour but none of those helped me work in

the field of virtual reality and

augmented reality so I ended up taking a

very low paying job thanks to a founder

of a start-up who believed in this field

and me and it so happened that it was

most of the times my myself and my boss

in a small room working on VR and they

are so that’s when I started to learn

more and I’ve started to a wall

so the more now you know I started

evolving I realized the dreams or

dreaming is not always about flying

hi sighing you know out of the world

right it’s at one day that when I heard

in Telugu that jha alok e save every

cell right so so that hit me really hard

essentially it’s when are you going back

to help those hands that helped you grow

so that helped me and that actually put

me in a spot I was and I was not willing

to let go all my learnings that I had in

the US and at the same time I really

wanted to come back to my roots so here

we are we continue to team dream big

aspiring to build cutting-edge

technologies in the small towns of

Tirupati and Hyderabad in the indices of

VR and they are we fail we failed a lot

of times but I’m happy and happy that

I’m here trying to build new

technologies and trying to have space

with my colleagues out here who are

helping us build it and most importantly

I’m here with my family right here when

they need me the most as my uncle said

earlier a job that is 99% done is almost

a job that is not done we continue to

work in VR and AR with a relentless

attitude to develop a world a shared

connected virtual world in using virtual

reality and augmented reality which is

as good as real I’m going to show you

what we are building towards end of the

presentation in a physical world we’re

taking big decisions to come back to

tier 2 or tier 3 towns and some

associations as hard as what I have no

update to – we are playing out bit using

technology to bring all those people who

are spread all across the world using

technology into one virtual world and

interact with one another have

meaningful conversations play or learn

evolved with that let me show you a

video of a worker here is my colleague

Shiva who is burying government’s

augmented reality device he will be

moving to a remote location here is

provide who is wearing an SDC file and

third I am VR device and with another

location will be Prasad who the very

heavy are I’m a while we are divided so

they are going to demonstrate our

platform new space when change a virtual

room filled with medical content which

you’ll see now is earlier anybody are ya

gonna this is to God I mean from Korea

oh hey guys I’m human so it has been a

change of plans

she was not here hi but how are you guys

doing oh thanks man

so what are you gonna show us really I

see your big screen here and escape into

the central ski yeah so the skeleton up

there is an indicated or video is that

yeah I just instead so that’s an

indicator of how we normally learn all

about a skeleton right here I’m going to

use that as a reference to tell you more

about this already right here yeah you

can walk around it all the way around

that just be careful to know then get

too close so well going ahead

I can also you know perhaps tell you

each and every bone the one that I’m

seeing right there on the large screen

is a clavicle which is right here I can

get a very close to it unfortunately in

the real rule that I am any there’s a

wall height movement of me but in the

virtual world I can see the scale

tonight in front of me okay hey man take

this to the next step

that was it our next step so what all we

can do is we can learn more about a jet

engine or we can know everything about

the muscular system of the body or

anything in medical science anything

that can be taught in a classroom so

this is the power of new space where

everyone can use a headset of their

choice you’re wearing a gear VR Prasad

and prana you’re doing an FCC vibe and

I’m here wearing a horns and get all

three different places thank you guys

signing off

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