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AR Show with Jason McDowall

212 episodes - English - Latest episode: 10 days ago - ★★★★★ - 65 ratings

The AR Show dives deep into the emerging world of Augmented Reality with a focus on the underlying technologies and uses of Smartglasses, and the people behind them. I talk with entrepreneurs, executives, investors and early adopters to extract insights that will both inform and inspire you. In each episode, I explore the approaches, challenges, and progress behind the products and companies. I also extract the lessons learned and insightful advice from each guest. Equal parts technology, product, entrepreneurship, and personal growth, the AR Show follows a journey of discovery through revealing interviews.

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Alex Westner (Xander) on How Caption Glasses are Changing Lives for People with Hearing Loss

March 19, 2024 07:26 - 1 hour - 79 MB

Alex Westner is the CEO and co-founder of Xander, a company at the forefront of using augmented reality (AR) technology to create innovative solutions for individuals with hearing loss. Xander's product, live captioning AR smart glasses, allows users to engage in conversations with real-time transcriptions displayed directly in their field of vision. This approach positions Xander to directly address the challenges faced by those with hearing impairments in everyday communication. Before em...

Zac Duff (JigSpace) on Embodied Cognition and Leveraging AI + Spatial Computing to Transform Communication

February 27, 2024 08:01 - 1 hour - 76.1 MB

Zac Duff is the co-founder and CEO of JigSpace, a company focused on making it simple to create and share 3D instructions for anything, or, as their tag line suggests, making the hard to explain hard to forget. If you’ve watched the introduction of the Apple Vision Pro, or seen the demos or device itself, then you’ve had a glimpse of JigSpace when you saw the beautifully rendered Formula F1 car with the animation of the airflow around the wings and body. Zac’s story starts in Tasmania, whe...

Nils Pihl (Auki Labs) on Augmented Reality as Spatially Enhanced Communication

February 07, 2024 00:52 - 1 hour - 93.2 MB

Nils Pihl returns as our guest for a second time on the podcast. He is the CEO and founder of Auki Labs, a company dedicated to revolutionizing augmented reality positioning. Auki’s technology uses peer-to-peer communication to establish a distributed spatial computing protocol. In this episode, we revisit some of the themes from the first episode, such as the concept of language as the oldest form of augmented reality and Auki's role in enhancing communication through augmented reality po...

Michael Hoffman (IQXR) on Solving the Hard Problems for Enterprises

January 16, 2024 08:01 - 1 hour - 79.6 MB

Michael Hoffman, or “Hoff” as most know him, is the co-founder and CEO at IQXR, a company solving the hardest problems facing global-scale, enterprise XR deployments, and doing so with an open source approach. Previously Michael spent nearly a decade working with the Microsoft Hololens team. He was a Principal Engineering Lead at Microsoft for a couple of years, left to be the founding partner of Object theTheory, where he and his team worked with enterprises to leverage AR and VR technolog...

Yi Xu (OPPO) on OPPO's Role in the Coming Age of AR Smartglasses

December 22, 2023 05:52 - 1 hour - 58 MB

Yi Xu is the director of XR Technology at OPPO, a leading Android smartphone company that's innovating in AR with their Air Glass product line. Prior to OPPO, Yi received a PhD in computer science, specializing in computer vision. He utilized these skills as computer scientist and engineer at GE Global Research and CapsoVision, working on a number of projects revolving around 3D computer vision. He then worked as a technical leader at JD. com, shaping the roadmap for their mobile augmented ...

Bobak Tavangar (Brilliant Labs) on the Power of Combining Open Source AR Hardware and Multimodal AI

December 05, 2023 08:01 - 1 hour - 60.9 MB

Bobak Tavangar is the co-founder and CEO of Brilliant Labs, a company creating an open-source AR glasses hardware platform and pairing that with powerful generative AI models to help you engage with the real world. Bobak studied at George Washington and Georgetown universities before completing a graduate degree at Cambridge University. Bobak is a serial entrepreneur with a core theme running through his entrepreneurial experiences: how to create better ways for people to find and utilize ...

Kirin Sinha (Illumix) on Creating Digital Infrastructure for Real-World Venues

November 21, 2023 08:01 - 1 hour - 65.2 MB

Kirin Sinha is the co-founder and CEO of Illumix, a company building the digital infrastructure for real world venues. You may be familiar with Illumix if you’re a fan of the horror franchise, Five Nights at Freddy’s, and the mobile game, Five Nights at Freddy’s AR: Special Delivery. While the game found a tremendous amount of success, the company has shifted its focus to enterprise customers and raised $18M in Series A financing in early 2023. Prior to founding Illumix, Kirin was the fou...

Evan Rose (Rose Digital) on Adding Value and the Challenges of Leading a Fast Growing Company

November 07, 2023 08:01 - 1 hour - 64.5 MB

Evan Rose is the founder and president of Rose Digital, a company specializing in using augmented reality to help brands engage and delight their customers. Beyond that, Rose Digital serves as an innovation partner for its clients. On the side, Evan is the founder of AR Post, one of the leading news sources for AR and VR. He’s also the co-founder and board president of The Steve Fund, which is the nation’s first organization focused on supporting the mental health and emotional well-being ...

Ross Finman (Augmodo) on Customer Discovery and Leveraging AI + AR (Part 2)

October 17, 2023 07:01 - 56 minutes - 52.6 MB

Ross Finman is the CEO of Augmodo, a company utilizing AI and AR to revolutionize grocery store experiences and economics starting with the personal shoppers who fulfill online grocery purchases. Previously Ross spent 4 ½ years at Niantic. There he founded the AR mapping and Visual Positioning System (VPS) effort before becoming the AR Strategy Lead and then the general manager for the AR Headset group. He joined Niantic through the acquisition of his first startup, Escher Reality, which ...

Ross Finman (Augmodo) on the Approach to Selling 1 Million Headsets (Part 1)

October 03, 2023 07:01 - 52 minutes - 48.5 MB

Ross Finman is the CEO of Augmodo, a company utilizing AI and AR to revolutionize grocery store experiences and economics starting with the personal shoppers who fulfill online grocery purchases. Previously Ross spent 4 ½ years at Niantic. There he founded the AR mapping and Visual Positioning System (VPS) effort before becoming the AR Strategy Lead and then the general manager for the AR Headset group. He joined Niantic through the acquisition of his first startup, Escher Reality, which ...

Replay: Maryam Sabour (Niantic) on Active, Outdoor AR Gaming

September 19, 2023 07:01 - 56 minutes - 52.5 MB

Replay of an interview originally published in April 2023: Maryam Sabour is the General Manager and Head of Business for the AR Headsets group at Niantic, where the goal is to enable everyday adventures and real-life social interaction through location-based augmented reality. Maryam studied law and business at university, going on to earn a Juris Doctorate at McGill University. Early in her career, she was drawn to entrepreneurship, having founded an e-commerce company and a legal clinic ...

Replay: Matt Miesnieks, Dennis Crowley, John Gaeta (LivingCities) on Laying the Foundation for the Future of Social Expression (Part 2)

September 05, 2023 07:01 - 1 hour - 67.2 MB

Replay of an interview originally published in September 2022: Today’s conversation is a continuation of my discussion with Matt Miesnieks about LivingCities. Joining us for part 2 are co-founders John Gaeta and Dennis Crowley. John won an Oscar for his visual effects work on The Matrix movies, and after many additional creative and visual effects projects, including Speed Racer, he went on to co-found ILMxLAB as part of Lucusfilm. He then served as the SVP of Creative Strategy at Magic Le...

Replay: Matt Miesnieks (LivingCities) on Reflecting Our Reality to Inspire Social Engagement in the Metaverse (Part 1)

August 22, 2023 07:01 - 43 minutes - 39.7 MB

Replay of an interview originally published in September 2022: Matt Miesnieks is currently the CEO and co-founder of LivingCities, a company reimagining social engagement in the era of the Metaverse. Many of you know Matt as a serial entrepreneur and former investor focused on Augmented Reality. Matt was previously the CEO and co-founder of 6D.ai, a company that built tools to help mobile phones understand the real world and enable compelling AR experiences. Niantic acquired 6D in 2020. Ma...

Yacine Achiakh (Wisear) on the Promise and Imperative for Neural Interfaces

August 08, 2023 07:01 - 1 hour - 57.7 MB

acine Achiakh is the co-founder and CEO of Wisear, a company creating neural interface devices for AR glasses and other wearables. They are packing their technology into normal-looking earphones and working to deliver the capabilities of the mouse and keyboard, hands free. Earlier in his career, Yacine studied mathematics and business before joining Criteo, a fast-growing tech unicorn in France. There he led AI-driven products focused on advertising technology. It was also there he met hi...

David Fattal (Leia) on the Magic of Lightfields

July 25, 2023 07:01 - 1 hour - 64 MB

David Fattal is the founder and CTO of Leia, a company dedicated to revolutionizing visual experiences through light field display technologies. Lightfield displays are able to create 3D images without glasses. You might remember Leia for its work on the LumePad tablets and the Hydrogen One Smartphone from Red. David is a quantum physicist who got his Ph.D. from Stanford with a focus on Quantum Computing and Quantum Communications. His research experience led him to HP Labs, which was at th...

Sophia Dominguez (Snap) on the Importance of Product Focus (Part 2)

July 11, 2023 07:01 - 44 minutes - 41.5 MB

Sophia Dominguez is the Director of AR Platform Partnerships and Ecosystem at Snap, where she’s been the last three years. Previously, she started the widely followed “All Things VR” newsletter and joined Rothenberg Ventures as an Entrepreneur in Residence before co-founding her first company, SVRF. There she created the first API and SDKs for searching and rendering 3D face filters. They powered over 280M AR experiences, and Sophia successfully sold the company to Poplar before joining Sna...

Sophia Dominguez (Snap) on How Technology Impacts Human Interaction (Part 1)

June 27, 2023 07:01 - 1 hour - 57 MB

Sophia Dominguez is the Director of AR Platform Partnerships and Ecosystem at Snap, where she’s been the last three years. Previously, she started the widely followed “All Things VR” newsletter and joined Rothenberg Ventures as an Entrepreneur in Residence before co-founding her first company, SVRF. There she created the first API and SDKs for searching and rendering 3D face filters. They powered over 280M AR experiences, and Sophia successfully sold the company to Poplar before joining Sna...

Jeri Ellsworth (Tilt Five) on Mentorship (Part 2)

June 13, 2023 07:01 - 1 hour - 56.9 MB

Jeri Ellsworth is the co-founder and CEO of Tilt Five, a company that has created AR glasses that bring tabletop, multiplayer games to life. Prior to Tilt Five, Jeri was the founder of CastAR, which was also making an augmented reality hardware and software platform, and one that had raised $15 million in venture funding before shutting down in 2017. Previously Jeri was a race car driver, computer shop owner, and toy industry veteran. She was also recruited to Valve to lead the hardware R&...

Jeri Ellsworth (Tilt Five) on Perseverance and the Pursuit of Passion (Part 1)

May 30, 2023 07:01 - 1 hour - 59.6 MB

Jeri Ellsworth is the co-founder and CEO of Tilt Five, a company that has created AR glasses that bring tabletop, multiplayer games to life. Prior to Tilt Five, Jeri was the founder of CastAR, which was also making an augmented reality hardware and software platform, and one that had raised $15 million in venture funding before shutting down in 2017. Previously Jeri was a race car driver, computer shop owner, and toy industry veteran. She was also recruited to Valve to lead the hardware R&...

Karl Guttag (KGOnTech) on the Many Hurdles to µLED and Broad AR Adoption (Part 2)

May 16, 2023 07:01 - 1 hour - 92.8 MB

Karl Guttag, is an industry analyst, speaker and the author of KGOnTech, a technology blog at kguttag.com. Karl has 40 years of experience in Graphics and Image Processors, Digital Signal Processing, and memory architecture, as well as micro displays, for use in Heads Up Displays and AR glasses.  He’s received 150 patents related to these technologies and many billions of dollars of revenue attributed to those inventions. Karl spent nearly 20 years at Texas Instruments, and was named a TI ...

Karl Guttag (KGOnTech) on Apple Rumors and Four-Corner Market Opportunities (Part 1)

May 03, 2023 07:01 - 57 minutes - 52.8 MB

Karl Guttag, is an industry analyst, speaker and the author of KGOnTech, a technology blog at kguttag.com. Karl has 40 years of experience in Graphics and Image Processors, Digital Signal Processing, and memory architecture, as well as micro displays, for use in Heads Up Displays and AR glasses.  He’s received 150 patents related to these technologies and many billions of dollars of revenue attributed to those inventions. Karl spent nearly 20 years at Texas Instruments, and was named a TI ...

Maryam Sabour (Niantic) on Active, Outdoor AR Gaming

April 11, 2023 07:01 - 57 minutes - 52.9 MB

Maryam Sabour is the General Manager and Head of Business for the AR Headsets group at Niantic, where the goal is to enable everyday adventures and real-life social interaction through location-based augmented reality. Maryam studied law and business at university, going on to earn a Juris Doctorate at McGill University. Early in her career, she was drawn to entrepreneurship, having founded an e-commerce company and a legal clinic for startups. Maryam was drawn into the world of VR, where ...

Ohto Pentikäinen and Jamin Hu (Doublepoint) on Touch as an Essential Form of Input for AR

March 28, 2023 15:00 - 1 hour - 57.6 MB

Ohto Pentikäinen and Jamin Hu are the co-founders of Doublepoint, a company creating human-computer interaction technologies which are initially focused on detecting the moment of touching an object. Ohto is a serial entrepreneur having been a co-founder and CEO twice by the age of 20 before co-founding Doublepoint. His earliest venture was reimagining the high school learning experience by creating a platform for multidisciplinary, self-directed learning. Jamin has a passion for music and...

Stan Larroque (Lynx) on the Power and Potential of Video Passthrough

March 14, 2023 07:01 - 1 hour - 59.7 MB

Stan Larroque is the CEO and co-founder of Lynx, a company creating the first all-in-one mixed reality headset. The Lynx R1 offers a unique VR device with good video-passthrough of the real world to create mixed reality experiences. Stan was inspired by the early Oculus device, the DK2, but wanted a better connection to the real world. As he finished his university education, he embarked on the journey to establish the leading European mixed reality hardware technology company. Along the w...

David Jiang (VITURE) on the Four Factors Leading to AR Glasses Adoption

February 28, 2023 08:01 - 1 hour - 68.9 MB

David Jiang is the CEO and founder of VITURE, a company creating a smartglasses solution for video gaming and streaming content. After studying human computer interaction and industrial design at university in China, David continued his studies into human computer interaction at Harvard, where he fell in love with the Boston Celtics basketball team. David joined Google in the early years of their work on Google Glass and went on to become the Chief Designer and Head of AR for AI company, ...

Cayden Pierce (H2O Smart Glasses Community) on the Power of Contextual Search and Open Source Projects

February 14, 2023 08:01 - 1 hour - 68.2 MB

Cayden Pierce describes himself as a transhumanist hacker working to enhance our intelligence using AI, smartglasses, and eventually, neurotech. Cayden posts regularly about the current state of smartglasses and is actively developing open source smartglasses hardware and middleware solutions. To support those efforts and to facilitate insights between end users and smartglass makers, he recently started the H2O Smartglasses community. Cayden is also working on a contextual search engine ...

Ari Grobman (Lumus) on When We Will Get AR Glasses We’ll Want to Buy

January 31, 2023 08:01 - 1 hour - 55.4 MB

Ari Grobman is the CEO of Lumus, a company developing a novel optics solution for AR glasses.  Before going any further, let me provide a little perspective up front: When I consider the biggest hurdles to delivering consumer-grade AR, optics and displays are at the top of the list. The display and the combiner optics are two separate, but intimately connected, engineering challenges. Lumus sells an “optical engine” that includes a microdisplay from a third party, but their real magic is in...

Damir First (Matterless) on the Art of Storytelling and Shared AR Companions & Toys

January 17, 2023 20:01 - 1 hour - 63.2 MB

Damir First is the co-founder and CCO of Matterless, a company creating genre-defining experiences in shared augmented reality—emphasis on “shared.” Early in his career, Damir earned a Master of Arts in both Sociology and Art History before pursuing his Ph.D. in Anthropology. He has been a lecturer for a number of courses spanning design, history, architecture, and art, and he has since worked in blockchain technologies as well as a narrative designer for popular video games. While a tech...

2023 Kickoff: The Year of VR with Video Pass-through

January 03, 2023 08:01 - 25 minutes - 23.9 MB

Today I am kicking off 2023 with another annual monologue. I hope you and your family were able to have a safe and relaxing holiday, even in the face of another arctic blast and spate of viral diseases. This is the sixth such annual kickoff episode, and when looking back at my notes from last year, the big surprise from 2022 was the resounding commitment shown by Meta and others to continued investment in VR & AR technologies, despite heavy financial losses and Wall Street pressure. That co...

Chen Zhang and Matt Udvari (Aquifer) on Using AR Tech to Create Instant Animation for Brands & Character IP

December 13, 2022 08:01 - 1 hour - 69.9 MB

Chen Zhang and Matt Udvari are co-founders of Aquifer, a company that has developed a SaaS platform to enable creators and teams create studio-level animated video without studios. Matt is a polymath who has persistently pursued education and work experiences across computer science, music, and storytelling. His career has spanned video game design, executive creative director, CTO at a mobile SaaS startup, and filmmaker. Most recently, Matt started Part Time Evil as a story-based technolog...

David King Lassman (GigXR) on Building the Platform for Healthcare Training

November 29, 2022 08:01 - 1 hour - 74.9 MB

David King Lassman is the founder of GigXR, a global provider of immersive 3D training solutions that transform collaborative learning, with an initial focus on healthcare. David is a serial entrepreneur who grew up with a passion for music, and has since started 6 companies. His companies have spanned education technology, advertising technology, online content, and social media. He’s also raised an investment fund and operated as a VC. Now with GigXR, David is reimagining training for h...

Eric Marcellin-Dibon and Mark Prince (MicroOLED) on Developing AR Glasses for Athletes Using Innovative OLED Displays

November 08, 2022 08:01 - 1 hour - 68.9 MB

Eric Marcellin-Dibon is the Co-founder and CEO of MicroOLED, and Mark Prince is the General Manager for ENGO product line. MicroOLED is a company that develops high-performance OLED microdisplays for near-to-eye applications. Power efficiency and brightness are two areas where they excel, and the company is bringing that display technology to life through the ENGO Eyewear product line. Eric studied physics, optics, and electronics in grad school before working on visual systems for defense ...

Kyle Jackson (Talespin) on Using AI and AR/VR to Enable the Future of Education and Employment

October 25, 2022 16:19 - 1 hour - 83.7 MB

Kyle Jackson is the co-founder and CEO of Talespin, a company making immersive learning a reality for the future of work. Kyle is a serial entrepreneur who has worked at the intersection of technology and storytelling for over 20 years. After studying interactive multimedia design and then earning an BFA from the School of Cinema-Television at USC, Kyle has persistently been solving the hard problems around creating and distributing digital media at scale. About 10 years ago, Kyle was dig...

Glenn Snyder (Red 6) on AR for Training in Highly Intense and Dynamic Environments, Starting with Fighter Pilots

October 11, 2022 07:01 - 1 hour - 74.9 MB

Glenn Snyder is the co-founder and CTO of Red 6, a company that has developed an Augmented Reality solution to allow real pilots flying real aircraft to see simulated threats and other training scenarios. The AR solution works outdoors, in the bright sun and within high speed, dynamic environments. Glenn has long held a passion for aircraft, technology, and visual effects. After gaining acceptance to the Air Force Academy, he shifted course and attended Savannah College of Art and Design to...

Matt Miesnieks, Dennis Crowley, John Gaeta (LivingCities) on Laying the Foundation for the Future of Social Expression - Part 2

September 27, 2022 07:01 - 1 hour - 67.9 MB

Today’s conversation is a continuation of my discussion with Matt Miesnieks about LivingCities. Joining us for part 2 are co-founders John Gaeta and Dennis Crowley. John won an Oscar for his visual effects work on The Matrix movies, and after many additional creative and visual effects projects, including Speed Racer, he went on to co-found ILMxLAB as part of Lucusfilm. He then served as the SVP of Creative Strategy at Magic Leap before returning to work on the latest installment of The Mat...

Matt Miesnieks (LivingCities) on Reflecting Our Reality to Inspire Social Engagement in the Metaverse - Part 1

September 13, 2022 07:01 - 43 minutes - 39.9 MB

Matt Miesnieks is currently the CEO and co-founder of LivingCities, a company reimagining social engagement in the era of the Metaverse. Many of you know Matt as a serial entrepreneur and former investor focused on Augmented Reality. Matt was previously the CEO and co-founder of 6D.ai, a company that built tools to help mobile phones understand the real world and enable compelling AR experiences. Niantic acquired 6D in 2020. Matt started his career in a number of engineering and business ro...

Mike Wiemer (Mojo Vision) on Making AR Contact Lenses a Reality

August 30, 2022 07:01 - 1 hour - 58.7 MB

Mike Wiemer is the CTO and co-founder of Mojo Vision, a company enabling invisible computing with their AR contact lenses. Mike is a brilliant and accomplished technologist who is unafraid of tackling hard problems…and he and his team have solved many on their way to successfully demonstrating their wearable contact lens—working inside somebody’s eye—earlier this summer. Prior to Mojo Vision, Mike was the co-founder and President of SolarJunction, a company that developed innovative, multi-...

Dave Haynes (FOV Ventures) on the Early Days of Digital Music and the Importance of Market Timing in Emerging Tech

August 16, 2022 07:01 - 1 hour - 61.3 MB

Dave Haynes is a founding partner at FOV Ventures, an investment firm backing the founders who are building the Metaverse. FOV Ventures is a new fund with a focus on European-based startups at the pre-seed and seed stage. Dave previously led HTC’s $100 million Vive X fund in EMEA and was part of the investment team at Seedcamp (Fund III). Prior to investing, Dave founded two startups in the music industry and was part of the founding team of SoundCloud. In this conversation, Dave talks abo...

Jon Rodriguez Cefalu (Preamble) on the Future of AR, AI, Sentient Robots, and Human Manipulation

August 02, 2022 07:01 - 58 minutes - 81.4 MB

Jonathan Rodriguez Cefalu is the co-founder and CEO of Preamble, a company on a mission to provide ethical guardrails for AI systems by creating an AI-as-a-Service with a focus on ethics and safety.  Jon earned a BS in Computer Science from Stanford University, where he discovered a passion for the coming age of VR and AR technologies. He went on to co-found Vergence Labs, which had ambitious plans to create the AR glasses of the future.  Evan Spiegel shared that vision and brought Vergenc...

Neil Sarkar (AdHawk Microsystems) on Tracking the Eyes Without Cameras and Creating a Fitness Tracker for the Brain

July 19, 2022 07:01 - 58 minutes - 53.9 MB

Neil Sarkar is the CEO and co-founder of AdHawk Microsystems, a company creating the first camera-free eye tracking solution that offers unprecedented speed, data quality and power efficiency. Prior to AdHawk, Neil was a co-founder at ICSPI, which develops scanning probe instruments on a CMOS-MEMS technology platform. They are commercializing the world's first Single-Chip Atomic Force Microscope. Previously Neil attended the University of Waterloo, where he earned a Bachelors, Masters, and...

Replay: Alon Grinshpoon (echo3D) on Building the AWS for 3D and Founder-Market Fit

July 05, 2022 07:01 - 52 minutes - 48.3 MB

Alon Grinshpoon is the Co-founder and CEO of echo3D, a 3D-ready cloud platform that helps manage & deliver 3D, AR, and VR content to apps & devices everywhere. echo3D recently closed a $4M round of funding to feed continued growth after seeing a tremendous amount of momentum over the past year. Alon started his career in the Isrealli Intelligence Service, working on encryption and cloud technologies. After earning a B.S. in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from Tel Aviv Universit...

Replay: Susan Cummings (Tiny Rebel) on AR-First Storytelling and City-Scale Games with Wallace and Gromit

June 21, 2022 07:01 - 57 minutes - 52.8 MB

Susan Cummings is the Managing Director of Tiny Rebel Games and a founder of Fictioneers. Susan and her team were awarded a major UK grant for Augmented Reality storytelling, which led to "Wallace & Gromit: The Big Fix Up." This effort was followed by the release this summer of "Wallace & Gromit: Fix Up the City", an ambitious city-scale AR game that takes place in San Francisco, Bristol, and Cardiff. Including her work at Tiny Rebel, Susan has spent more than 20 years in game development ...

Paul Travers (Vuzix) on Prioritizing Wearability Over Immersion

June 07, 2022 14:58 - 1 hour - 64.9 MB

Paul Travers is the Founder and CEO of Vuzix, a leading supplier of Smart Glasses and Augmented Reality technologies and products for the consumer and enterprise markets. Prior to Vuzix, Paul was an engineer at Eastman Kodak, innovating the future of digital cameras. He went on to become a serial entrepreneur, having started multiple hardware technology companies, including in sound cards for PCs and USB connectivity products. Vuzix was formed more than 20 years ago, and through it, Paul ...

Nils Pihl (Auki Labs) on Augmented Reality as an Extension of Human Language

May 24, 2022 07:01 - 1 hour - 67.1 MB

Nils Pihl is the CEO and co-founder of Auki Labs, a company solving the limitations of GPS to accurately position virtual content, particularly for shared experiences. Nils and the team at Auki are building advanced, peer-to-peer positioning protocols and AR cloud infrastructure to enable a new era of spatial computing. Nils is also the CEO of Matterless Studios, a venture-backed startup creating AI companions and pets made for the augmented reality metaverse. Prior to founding Auki Labs, ...

Tomas Sluka (CREAL) on the Power of Light Field Displays for AR Glasses

May 10, 2022 07:01 - 1 hour - 83.7 MB

Tomas Sluka is the CEO and co-founder of CREAL, a Swiss technology startup that developed and commercializes a radically new type of display that brings natural focal depth to a truly 3D visual experience within Augmented Reality. The inspiration for CREAL originated with the first commercial VR and AR headsets back in 2014. Like many others, Tomas suffered from very strong eye-strain and lack of immersion. He realized that the problem came from nonexistent focal depth in the 3D imagery. S...

Kai Ströder (tooz) on Making Smarter Glasses with Novel Optics

April 26, 2022 07:01 - 1 hour - 72.1 MB

Kai Ströder is the co-founder and CEO of tooz, a company on a mission to develop cost-effective smartglasses for consumers. Early in his career, Kai was a research fellow at the University of Stuttgart, where he also earned a Ph.D. in Strategic Management. Over the next decade, he worked across various groups at Carl Zeiss, the world’s leading, high-end optics company. Among other projects, Kai has been responsible for activities in the field of augmented reality and data glasses. In 2018,...

Andrew Hart (Dent Reality) on Connecting the Digital Layer to the Physical World at Scale

April 12, 2022 07:01 - 1 hour - 88.4 MB

Andrew Hart is the co-founder and CEO of Dent Reality, a company building the digital layer for the physical world. Andrew and his team have solved key technology problems across indoor mapping and accurate indoor location at scale. And they’ve created a user interface centered around people, not AR gimmicks. Andrew is a CEO by day and pioneering developer by night. Prior to Dent Reality, Andrew pioneered the location-based AR space, building the most popular open-source project for Apple'...

Dana Chermesh (inCitu) on Visualizing and Engaging in the Future of Our Cities

March 29, 2022 07:01 - 1 hour - 57.4 MB

Dana Chermesh is the founder and CEO of inCitu, an Augmented-Reality-powered civic engagement app that democratizes city planning. Dana is an architect from Tel-Aviv, Israel, and an alumna of NYU Masters program in Urban Data Science (2018). During her career as an architect, she specialized in urban renewal and developed a passion for leveraging technology, data and innovation to form smarter, more resilient, and more just cities and city processes. In 2019 Dana co-founded *inCitu*, to ...

Jon Gray and So-Hee Woo (Encore) on Elevating and Democratizing Musical Performance

March 15, 2022 07:01 - 1 hour - 79.5 MB

Jon Gray is the co-founder and CEO, and So-Hee Woo is the Head of XR at Encore, a company building a live-streaming, interactive, AR-infused music performance app. Jon is an entrepreneur and software engineer, who prior to Encore, was the founder and CEO of Cask, a big data analytics platform, which was acquired by Google in 2018. Before that, he was a software engineer at Facebook where he worked on Messages and several other large-scale data platforms. Prior to Facebook, Jonathan founded...

David Bonelli (Pulsar) on Building AR Hardware that Actually Works

March 01, 2022 08:01 - 1 hour - 69.3 MB

David Bonelli is the founder and CEO of Pulsar, a company of mechanical and optical experts dedicated to solving the hard problems of AR hardware. David is a U.S. Army veteran who went on to spend several years at the once-venerable Osterhout Design Group (ODG). After creating cutting-edge AR glasses at ODG, he also spent time at Rokid and KFS Industries. Across these companies he designed, managed, and brought to manufacture a range of products spanning optical engineering and augmented r...