XR Design Theory and Practice for Digital Eyewear

[@UXwithCarl]

As a UX Designer working on AR/VR, this is hands-down one of the best introductions to this topic!

[@MugurMarculescu]

Amazing video. I can't believe how much content you packed in there! Your videos are going to become the future history of this space.

[@yexia5930]

Best XR UX Induction for beginners!

[@Anticleric]

Honestly, this is the best piece of content I've ever watched on these topics. The view numbers are disheartening.

[@ReneSchulte]

This is one of the best pieces about Spatial Computing and Mixed Reality design I've ever seen. 👏 And I've seen a lot as I'm working in this field with mobile AR for over a decade and with the HoloLens since 2015. Thanks for creating this. 🙏

[@hellboySv]

This is the only video out there which gives you a wholesome perspective on spatial computing. Any designer with an interest in creating content for spatial computing should watch this video

[@Writeshak]

Objectively, this guy should be nominated for the Nobel prize!

[@guacamole456]

This is probably on of the best video on the topic on youtube. Great production quality, and expert subject matter content. Please come back and create more videos!

[@saidasaetgar3370]

OMG, this video is one of a kind!!! Thank you so much for sharing your perspective on XR practices! So eloquent, holistic and to the point!

[@PopeyeTheVRMan]

It's funny how your points seem so obvious when explained but can be so difficult to come to yourself in practice. Thank you for sharing your insights in such an elegant manner!

[@liamllorin2360]

Hey Mike... I was sent this video by a member of my design team... so I had not context when I started the video, I just assumed you were a big name in the XR design/dev community with at least a couple hundred thousand subscribers... and then I saw I was totally mistaken!!! Keep up the great work, and soon enough your following will catch up to the quality of your content!!

[@AlexLeggo]

Great work Mike, always so clearly explained. I'll get my graduate students working on XR projects, to watch this!

[@corriedotdev]

Just started PhD is in this area. Developing a frame work for XR on how 3d representation of data can support decision making. Great inspiration and glad to have found your masters, look forward to continuing prototyping. Comparing that XR is in the gaming realm just now, just like the tech boom of the 80's.. hackers and tinkers made the tech to make games. XR is similar, will be everyday use soon enough. Great video!

[@petelaird9630]

Absolutely incredible video. The most informative video on XR I've ever seen, again incredible work. I'll be passing this video on to all our designers, thank you for this Mike.

[@evenessa]

This video is absolutely fantastic! the amount of effort put into the animations, the content, and clarity of delivery is excellent!

[@Hobby_Technology]

This is by far one of the most valuable videos I have ever seen.

[@pilararanda1749]

So glad you are back! Mike when I was a rookie your videos inspired me to become a UX designer for XR I ended up doing the David Bowie is AR exhibition with Sony Music. I’m still a rookie, so much to learn. Really grateful

[@MichaelMarkman95]

literally same here :)

[@urvashimendhe7056]

Thank you so much for this video.... You covered soo many things in a single 18 min video... And explained it in easiest way!!!! 🙏🏻👏🏻

[@chrismichaelides1961]

Excellent, thank you for sharing. The amount of information you've covered here clearly and concisely is staggering.

[@AaronHiltonSPD]

Still super relevant today! More than ever in 2024, Apple Vision Pro and ChatGPT 4o, certainly a few things in our world has changed significantly. Perhaps agency of our AI assistant can have meaningful effect on our interaction in our XR space. Even so, these principles you covered are timeless.

[@Matty0187]

Discovering someone this good is bitter sweet. Sweet because it’s amazing content. Bitter knowing I’ll never be this good.

[@xrplayground]

I don’t know how to thank you for these useful videos. I wish we could have more often but anyway I’m grateful for what you generously share with us.

[@suryalg8672]

Inspiring thoughts over the future mixture reality designs. Future is here!!!!

[@youngyoung7755]

This is video is gold for me as an ID student!!

[@austinpeete]

Amazing work! I'm diving deeper into the world of XR design and this was wayyyy more perspective than I was expecting to get out of a suggested video.

[@bleater]

Here we are living in 2020, and you're already in 3020! Nice work.

[@marcomargittai7386]

Wow, thank you so much for your video. I am genuinely impressed by the depth in information you provided. Keep it up!

[@goop_lord]

Looking forward to more content from you. This is a space I'm super passionate about, and am looking to get some interface design projects of my own going. You're an inspiration!

[@geralds808]

Retweeted your tweet about this video! So good! Thanks for sharing this so professionally and educating everyone about XR :)

[@BFoGvDo]

Your content is really good, nice explanations, a lot of ethics and ux design / psychology, congrats ! Animations are there too and are awesome ! This explain very well what you mean. Just be careful, for me, sometimes there is too much unuseful animations that took my attention and I stopped hearing what you where saying. Good job, I would like to produce that kind of content !

[@darkairieal]

God I love your videos! Keep thinking and writing your thoughts down for people to hear man! So thoughtful and useful.

[@santiagovillegas1273]

Hello Mike What a fantastic video! I find this so incredibly interesting, the number of variables to be considered and the fact we are designing an immersive experience vs something that's just sitting in front of you inside a rectangle. can you recommend some course, book, website, or any resource where I can learn more about this?

[@truevr9992]

Thank you for the video. I perused your references in 2015; thank you for the updated list. Your work is tremendously influential.

[@GabrielDalposso]

I really missed your videos (moments before you release it I was thinking “I don’t want to unsubscribe because I may need his videos in the future”, well, glad I didn’t)

[@louisekorsgaard]

So informative and beautifully produced. Thank you!

[@neill4801]

Fantastic! Absolutely wonderful. If you are in this business you must see this video. Thank you for sharing!

[@Skarredghost]

Fantastic video! Lots of information and images that make it so easy to follow!

[@jamesboyce7467]

Why dont you jave more views? This production is so profesional. You have my subscription.

[@KCW2645]

Thank you, Mike. Excellent job!

[@niraj807]

wow...awesome video...Provide lots of information about the subject of XR.

[@declanbooth434]

Incredible video, take a bow my friend

[@reutin]

Wow, Mike. That is an amazing video. Have you ever considered creating a tool for XR design? I think environments such as Figma, Unity, Blender have no right tools to be that perfect tool that Sketch (and then Figma) became since product designers used Photoshop :)

[@blah8934]

Superb! Well crafted video. Thank you for the knowledge!

[@XRelabs]

thank you well thought and wisely chosen methods and words, thank you a ton , your experience is priceless, hats up.

[@DjornNorthfield]

Really appreciate your work Mike! Keep it up!

[@nicolocarpignoli7175]

That's great content. Well explained, only important and meaningful informations. I can't wait for other videos like this one. Thank you.

[@Caragain]

Mann what a video. Enjoying education so much

[@sarayounes6631]

Exceptional Video! 20-minutes ago I had zero knowledge about XR design practice. I would love to hear your take on XR for Social interactions, What kind of research materials should I go through to understand it better, what are the current trends, or current technologies that can be used to create one. Is there a successful prototype today for e.g People meeting with friends virtually and have a beer together/ a social hub application?

[@MikeAlger]

KZbin comment response Heh heh, ho boy is there. There’s several social VR apps and, yes, I see people regularly using them as a way to drink (or smoke) with each other. No designated driver, just take the headset off when you’re done and you’re already home. The reason for the chuckle is the visual quality can be lackluster and there’s an array of subcultures that congregate in VR for one reason or another but many of them are niche and potentially surprising if you’re not expecting it. Unfortunately, like the internet, academia hasn’t really been able to keep up with the plethora of bizarre emergent behaviors. I’ve seen lots of high school kids just trying to figure out how to be social and succeeding/failing, digital artists sharing imaginative worlds and avatars, trolls using anonymity to be abusive, deaf folks using it as a way to connect and sign but also write words in the air, furries and transgender people feeling more comfortable wearing their representative avatars, dancers with full body tracking doing sessions together, and a statistically significant number of guys who would traditionally identify as heterosexual developing intimate relationships with each other because their avatars are both anime girls. Like the rest of digital culture, it’s super anthropologically interesting but you also run into the personal “that’s enough internet for today” threshold. Some currently active social VR apps include VR Chat, Rec Room, AltSpace, and Facebook Horizon. Other social experiences that are more content-focused are Museum of Other Realities, Big Screen, The Under Presents, and The Wave. Check them out and let me know if you want me to show you around.

[@traviswinn]

Did you do this on your own or with a team? Super cool, congratulations for your depth of knowledge. You will have 300,000 views in no time...

[@MikeAlger]

It’s just me.

[@traviswinn]

@@MikeAlger Awesome! Wow, that's rare. Where do you work? For yourself or a big company and you do this in your spare time, this must have taken a while to do!

[@MikeAlger]

Yeah, it took several months mostly on evenings and weekends, but I took some vacation days to work on it, too. Right now I work... 🤔 well... 👈👆👇👉 here! at KZbin.

[@realsammyt]

Great work here! Clear and concise with purpose.

[@RobJagnow]

Great to see you posting videos again!

[@leospektor1]

Impressive work, Mike!

[@notkrispy7763]

I'm anxious. Currently I'm Working my but off to learn and better my abilities as a Graphic Designer. But at the same time I fully believe that the future of content consumption is going to be in XR, wether that's Ar, vr, Mr, so forth and so on. I want learn to design for these platforms. Where can I go though to learn how to design for these platforms when the systems of design haven't even been created. like as far as I know, there is no figma for the Oculus quest app yet. am I being silly?

[@MikeAlger]

When I started getting into VR design around 2014 I was worried about being too late to the party and missing the boat. You may feel that way now as another hype wave of "metaverse" passes. But it's become pretty clear to me that there have been plenty of these waves, there were several before I got involved, and the stuff that still needs to be done will take more than a career's worth of time. Regarding how to learn, right now you'll be fine to start with Figma, Unity, and maybe Blender. Every time you don't know something, Google it. That's what we all do.

[@format6]

Amazing video! So concise, dense and spot on. Thank you so much for this.

[@avgust4697]

what the quality, thank you for such an great and contentfull video

[@jou-anchen7840]

This is such an amazing video! Feel very inspired to get into this field :) Thank you so much!

[@Gman2777]

You are like Yoda for designers

[@RajkumarDarbar]

excellent video! as usual great work, Mike. thank you so much!

[@syednouman7053]

Thank you so much for this vlueable informations on experience and world around us.

[@dhananjaymukerji5201]

Awesome video and smooth animations!

[@AndresLopez-zj2ki]

Thanks Mike for sharing your knowledge!

[@JerryIsdale]

Really well done video. Gonna share in a few places

[@boxy3087]

your content is gold

[@theasadrakib]

Thanks for the amazing explanation!

[@Corey4Prezz]

I have questions about the reflective car dashboard tech. Why is that tech not more mainstream in other areas?

[@hammedarowosegbe5708]

This is just mind-blowing!

[@Schmockbubi]

Amazing! I feel like a professor now

[@Pflanze]

Good video on an interesting topic. I was however a little distracted by you constantly switching between looking to the left (to read your talking points, I assume?) and then back to the right to look at the camera again. Mostly because you turn most of your body while switching between the two. Took me a bit out of the moment. Would've been better if your talking points had been slightly beneath your camera, I think.

[@PopeyeTheVRMan]

he should make use of that "interview angle" for people who are filmed talking to another person at a 3/4s view. It may even add an air of legitimacy to his points (not that he needs it)

[@krishsaxena6323]

Great presentation, Mike! Can anyone tell me what software goes into producing something like this? Including the animations in some scenes. Thanks!

[@MikeAlger]

The 2D motion graphics are done in After Effects and the 3D is done with Cinema 4D, rendered with Octane to make it look a little nicer. Those plus the footage were edited together with Premiere.

[@krishsaxena6323]

@@MikeAlger Thank you! Keep up the great work!

[@emanules]

Hey Mike, you've been studying the field for a good while now and know a lot on the subject. What is your opinion on us being in a simulation?

[@dawneubanks543]

Dude!!! You’re impressive!

[@marcogalloro]

Mike, can you link the source for the animation at 16:25? Excellent work.

[@MikeAlger]

I made it with Cinema 4D, so there’s not really a separate original source per se, but I did put any publicly available assets I used in the references.

[@yuyuanwang4785]

Great insights and really helpful! Thanks for making this

[@irenearifin6333]

This is so informative, thank you for this video!

[@herbschilling2215]

Really impressive talk! I learned so much.

[@olgatsyba8951]

I would like to find some best practices around showing XR design in 2D - how I can present interaction, controls in a simple 2d format? Are there any examples of how I can show gesture interaction? thanks!

[@roxychaney5908]

Is there a citation for looking up for info on weather and time (11:16)? And is that interaction something you've tried or tested?

[@MikeAlger]

No, it’s just me pontificating about our instinctive spatial relationships with abstract concepts

[@BritishConcept]

Fantastic video, Mike.

[@JuanSanchez-rb4qu]

Ngl I was expecting more demos As for diversity the skin tone problem (which I have as I'm not white) is more up to the engineers than the designers

[@greenonion4378]

Great video Mike, thanks for sharing!

[@BenEncounters]

You really deserve more views!

[@mschrimmer631]

no plz this gem is meant to be secret from the public.. let them waste their time watching amber heard and johnny depp's trial.

[@BenEncounters]

@@mschrimmer631 😂😂😂

[@maximjago6544]

Phenomenal - thank you.

[@gibeomlee1997]

Amazing video, keep it up!

[@jcameron447]

That was amazing all around! Thank you!

[@mrpeterbogdanov]

Great presentation.

[@ShawnGui]

beautifully crafted, cheers!

[@tajinderjsingh826]

Just awesome ../// loved it ////useful

[@jacquesdltr1520]

Wow such a great vid, thanks

[@milanwulf]

Super helpful!

[@surajmandal777]

I just watched his 3 videos and feel like i m a Phd in Human Computer Interaction.

[@MikeAlger]

It’s in the mail.

[@ErickSntM]

Your work is reference!

[@safatjamil6866]

Loved it!

[@TheBpedroza]

Great work! 👍🏼

Amazing content!

[@LaboratoriodeInteractividad]

Awesome thanks for share

[@laurentang4248]

I like your video!

[@RameshVishwakarmaDesigner]

Wow!

[@radhikakohale]

WoW!!!!!

[@iamsunilchahal]

what i learned in 1 year at school

[@lilytang3920]

😍👍