AR Show with Jason McDowall
212 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★★ - 65 ratingsThe 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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Brad Scoggin (ArborXR) on Enabling VR/AR at Scale as a Non-Tech Founder
February 15, 2022 08:02 - 1 hour - 70.1 MBBrad Scoggin is the co-founder and CEO of ArborXR, an XR device management solution for enterprises that is currently being used by more than 400 companies and educational institutions around the world. Brad and his team found companies are using consumer hardware, such as the Oculus Quest, but don’t have the right enterprise software to help them scale as they go from pilot projects to larger deployments. The problems addressed by ArborXR are an extension of the problems Brad saw as the...
Faisal Galaria (Blippar) on Overcoming the Risks of Market Timing
February 01, 2022 08:01 - 52 minutes - 48.2 MBFaisal Galaria is the CEO at Blippar, a company creating the tools to enable everyone to create compelling AR experiences. During the course of his career, Faisal has gained over 25 years of experience leading and growing teams in some of the world's most disruptive consumer technology companies including Spotify, Kayak, Skype and now Blippar. Just prior to Blippar, he was the Chief Strategy and Investments Officer at Gocompare, which he helped digitally transform and IPO on the London Stoc...
Nicole Lazzaro (XEODesign) on the Four Keys to Crafting Compelling AR & VR Experiences
January 19, 2022 20:50 - 1 hour - 90.5 MBNicole Lazzaro. Nicole is the founder and president of XEODesign. Previously she was the designer of “Tilt,” the first true iPhone-only game, but it’s her research into player emotions that has attracted big firms like EA, Sony, and Ubisoft to seek out her expertise. By tapping into “emotion profiles,” Nicole helps designers create more engaging gaming experiences that resonate with all types of players, from casual to hard-core. Nicole has been a leading expert in Player Experience Design ...
Nicole Lazzaro (XEO Design) on the Four Keys to Crafting Compelling AR & VR Experiences
January 19, 2022 20:50 - 1 hour - 90.5 MBNicole Lazzaro. Nicole is the founder and president of XEO Design. Previously she was the designer of “Tilt,” the first true iPhone-only game, but it’s her research into player emotions that has attracted big firms like EA, Sony, and Ubisoft to seek out her expertise. By tapping into “emotion profiles,” Nicole helps designers create more engaging gaming experiences that resonate with all types of players, from casual to hard-core. Nicole has been a leading expert in Player Experience Design...
2022 Kickoff: The Quest for Wearability in AR Glasses to Meet Consumer Acceptance
January 04, 2022 08:37 - 31 minutes - 29.2 MBToday I am kicking off 2022 with another annual monologue. I hope you and your family were able to have a safe and relaxing holiday despite the isolation and other challenges imposed by this latest spike in COVID. This is the fifth such annual kickoff episode, and when looking back at my notes from last year, 2021 played out pretty much as expected, with the exception of Facebook’s parent company name change to Meta Platforms…and NFTs, but that’s for a different conversation for now. Mark ...
Replay: Kirin Sinha (Illumix) on Crafting Compelling Content & Experiences for AR
December 21, 2021 08:01 - 56 minutes - 52.1 MBKirin Sinha is the co-founder and CEO of Illumix, a company building an AR-first mobile gaming platform. You may be familiar with Illumix if you’re a fan of the horror franchise, Five Nights at Freddy’s. The Illumix team has already found a lot of success with their first title, Five Nights at Freddy’s AR: Special Delivery. Prior to founding Illumix, Kirin was the founder and Executive Director of Shine for Girls, whose mission is to transform the lives of middle school girls by cultivating...
Brian Vogelsang (Qualcomm) on Drawing on Lessons of the Past to Build Today’s Headworn AR Ecosystem
December 07, 2021 08:01 - 1 hour - 56.2 MBBrian Vogelsang is the Senior Director of Product at Qualcomm focused on Snapdragon Spaces, an XR developer platform for headworn augmented reality. This AR development kit is built on open standards and meant to complement the efforts by Niantic’s Lightship and others. Brain started his career as the CTO and co-founder of a very early internet service provider startup. He then joined Qualcomm in the mid-1990s, back when it was still a young company. There he focused initially on IT Infrast...
Alon Grinshpoon (echo3D) on Building the AWS for 3D and Founder-Market Fit
November 23, 2021 08:01 - 52 minutes - 48.1 MBAlon 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...
Jay Wright (Campfire 3D) on Innovating Ahead of the Curve and the Future of Workplace Collaboration
November 03, 2021 07:01 - 59 minutes - 51.6 MBJay Wright is the founder and CEO of Campfire 3D, a company that is focused on holographic collaboration for design and engineering workflows. Prior to Campfire, Jay spent 10 years building Vuforia from inception to becoming the leading augmented reality platform for developing handheld and headworn applications. Vuforia is currently part of enterprise software and services company, PTC, but Jay originally created Vuforia while at Qualcomm. There he was responsible for global commercializa...
Guido Groet (Luxexcel) on Solving Prescription for Fashionable AR Smartglasses
October 19, 2021 07:01 - 1 hour - 57.5 MBGuido Groet is the Chief Strategy Officer of Luxexcel, a company that’s able to 3D print optical-quality lenses for smart eyewear. Earlier in his career, Guido worked for many years in both Europe and the USA for technology giant ASML, which is a world leader in semiconductor equipment. He’s held VP positions in Finance, Business development, M&A, and Strategy development. He was also CFO and then CEO of a venture-back company in disruptive high tech manufacturing technologies. Now at Lu...
Paul Powers (Physna) Teaching Computers to Understand 3D and Innovating at the Speed of Imagination
October 05, 2021 07:01 - 1 hour - 59.7 MBPaul Powers, the founder and CEO of Physna. You may have caught Physna in the news recently because they’ve raised $76M over the last year, including $56M earlier this summer from Tiger Global, Sequoia and others. Paul and his team have created a new way to search and compare 3D models in a way that is faster and more effective than what’s come before. This ability to recognize and understand physical objects, combined with Thangs, their online database of 3D models, creates the potential ...
Susan Cummings (Tiny Rebel) on AR-First Storytelling and City-Scale Games with Wallace and Gromit
September 21, 2021 07:01 - 57 minutes - 52.6 MBSusan 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 ...
Kris Kolo (VRARA) on Mapping, Positioning, and Insights from the VR/AR Association
September 07, 2021 07:01 - 53 minutes - 49.3 MBKris Kolo is the Global Executive Director of the VR/AR Association, an international organization designed to foster growth, knowledge, and connections between its members. Previously, Kris was an executive at Verizon and Toys R Us, applying AR technology to business needs. At Toys R Us, Kris was working on digital in-store initiatives and shopping solutions, piloting the AR solution from Metaio (acquired by Apple). At Verizon, Kris was responsible for Media, Entertainment, and Location-Ba...
Replay: Cory Grenier (Geenee) on Getting Heard at Vergence Labs, Snap Spectacles, and now Geenee
August 24, 2021 07:01 - 1 hour - 69.6 MBCory Grenier is the CEO of Geenee, a company on a mission to make the physical world around us easily recognizable to computers using mobile, browser-based technology. They combine image and video recognition, WebAR, and creative services to deliver unique value to brands. Cory started his career at Lenovo in Beijing, becoming a global product marketing manager. He returned to the US in 2013 to join Vergence Labs, an innovative startup building AR glasses. Vergence was acquired by Snap to f...
Replay: Steve Sinclair (Mojo Vision) on AR Contact Lenses and Lessons from Handspring, Palm, & Apple’s iPhone
August 10, 2021 07:01 - 1 hour - 72.9 MBSteve Sinclair is the SVP of product at Mojo Vision, a company enabling invisible computing with their AR contact lenses. Steve has an amazing background in the product development and product marketing of personal computing technologies throughout the smartphone revolution. He worked at Handspring, Palm, Apple’s iPhone team, which he joined in 2007, as well as at HP and the Motorola division at Google, which was then sold to Lenovo. He brings 20 plus years of insight to Mojo Vision, which...
Replay: Jeri Ellsworth (Tilt Five) on Resiliency and the Path to Compelling AR Smartglasses
July 27, 2021 07:01 - 2 hours - 119 MBJeri Ellsworth is the co-founder and CEO of Tilt Five, a company that has created AR glasses that bring tabletop games to life. The Tilt Five system enables you to see, hear, and interact with realistic 3D holograms that entertain and educate. By the time this episode airs, they will have recently completed a Kickstarter campaign where Tilt Five raised more than $1.75 million for their initial product. Prior to Tilt Five, Jeri was the founder of CastAR, which was also making an augmented r...
Replay: Matt Miesnieks on a 6D.ai Postmortem and Startup CEO Masterclass
July 13, 2021 07:01 - 1 hour - 88.8 MBMany of you know Matt Miesnieks as a serial entrepreneur and former investor focused on Augmented Reality. Matt was most recently the CEO and co-founder of 6D.ai, a company building tools to help mobile phones understand the real world and enable compelling AR experiences. Matt started his career in a number of engineering and business roles, before shifting his focus to Augmented Reality more than 10 years ago. Matt was head of customer development at Layar, an early consumer AR company. H...
John Black and Mina Fahim (MediView) on Giving Surgeons X-Ray Vision in the Operating Room
June 29, 2021 07:01 - 1 hour - 67.8 MBJohn Black and Mina Fahim are the CEO and CTO of MediView, a company working to give health practitioners “X-ray vision” in order to simplify minimally invasive procedures, enhance clinical workflow, and improve patient outcomes using Augmented Reality. John Black, MediView’s co-founder and CEO, is a physiologist with an educational background in orthopedic sports medicine and cardiopulmonary physiology. He moved from allied health to the medical device industry early in his career. Prior t...
Mark Greget (NuEyes) on Bootstrapping an AR Hardware Startup and the Path to the Pro 3 Glasses
June 15, 2021 07:01 - 1 hour - 60.4 MBMark Greget is the founder & CEO of NuEyes, an AR hardware and software company that originally launched in 2016 to assist those with degenerative eye conditions. Recently the company has expanded its product offerings into enterprise, gaming, and entertainment with the launch of the Pro 3 and Pro 3e. Mark is a U.S. Navy veteran and an accomplished medical technology entrepreneur. Prior to NuEyes, Mark was the founder of Los Angeles Low Vision, which was recognized as a leader in the medica...
Sly Lee (Emerge) on the Importance of Touch to Immersive Presence
June 01, 2021 07:01 - 1 hour - 67.4 MBSly Lee is the co-founder & CEO of Emerge, a cross-reality presence company, building a platform that aims to enable more meaningful, engaging, and diverse interactions in XR that bring us closer to the people we care about through touch and emotion. Sly is an entrepreneur and scientist who is passionate about creating positive global impact He was named to Forbes 30 Under 30, and he is a member of Global Future Council on Virtual and Augmented Reality at the World Economic Forum. Earlier ...
Amy LaMeyer (WXR Fund) on Investment Focus and Closing the Gender Gap in Venture Funding
May 18, 2021 07:01 - 55 minutes - 51.4 MBAmy LaMeyer. Amy is the managing partner of WXR Fund, where she invests in early stage spatial computing and artificial intelligence companies with female leadership. Amy spent the first half of her career at Akamai Technologies, which helped enable the early web to scale. There she led the diligence and integration of 20 deals worth more than $1.5 billion. Now she’s fully immersed in AR and VR as an advisor and investor, and she was named one of the Top 30 people to Watch in Augmented Re...
Japjit Tulsi (Matterport) on 3D Digital Twins and Building Strong Engineering Teams
May 04, 2021 07:01 - 1 hour - 60.8 MBJapjit Tulsi is the CTO at Matterport, a company building a set of technologies to accelerate and simplify the creation of immersive 3D digital twins for real estate, project planning, hospitality, insurance, and more. Prior to Matterport, Japjit gained more than 20 years of technical leadership experience, including as CTO at Carta, a tool for investors, founders, and employees to manage their equity. He was also VP of Engineering at eBay, leading engineering for new product development, i...
Kirin Sinha (Illumix) on Crafting Compelling Content & Experiences for AR
April 20, 2021 07:01 - 56 minutes - 52.3 MBKirin Sinha is the co-founder and CEO of Illumix, a company building an AR-first mobile gaming platform. You may be familiar with Illumix if you’re a fan of the horror franchise, Five Nights at Freddy’s. The Illumix team has already found a lot of success with their first title, Five Nights at Freddy’s AR: Special Delivery. Prior to founding Illumix, Kirin was the founder and Executive Director of Shine for Girls, whose mission is to transform the lives of middle school girls by cultivating...
BONUS: Karl Guttag (KGOnTech) on Apple and Their Ability to Invent New Physics (Part 3)
April 06, 2021 07:01 - 19 minutes - 18 MBKarl Guttag, is currently most well known as a 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, memory architecture, and micro displays, for use in Heads Up Displays and AR glasses. He’s got 150 patents to his name related to these technologies and many billions of dollars of revenue attributed to those inventions. Karl spent nearly 20 years at TI (that’s Texas Instruments), a...
Karl Guttag (KGOnTech) on Mapping AR Displays to Suitable Optics (Part 2)
March 30, 2021 07:01 - 1 hour - 70.9 MBKarl Guttag, is currently most well known as a 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, memory architecture, and micro displays, for use in Heads Up Displays and AR glasses. He’s got 150 patents to his name related to these technologies and many billions of dollars of revenue attributed to those inventions. Karl spent nearly 20 years at TI (that’s Texas Instruments), a...
Karl Guttag (KGOnTech) on the Attack of the Clones and Magic Leap’s Wasted Opportunity (Part 1)
March 23, 2021 07:01 - 1 hour - 97.4 MBKarl Guttag, is currently most well known as a 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, memory architecture, and micro displays, for use in Heads Up Displays and AR glasses. He’s got 150 patents to his name related to these technologies and many billions of dollars of revenue attributed to those inventions. Karl spent nearly 20 years at TI (that’s Texas Instruments), a...
Julia Brown (MindX) Shines New Light on Brain-Computer Interfaces
March 09, 2021 08:01 - 1 hour - 64.3 MBJulia Brown is the co-founder and CEO of MindX, the creator of a novel brain computer interface that combines neurotechnology, augmented reality and artificial intelligence to create a "look-and-think” interface for next-generation spatial computing applications. Prior to starting MindX, Julia co-founded EpiWatch, a digital health spin-out from Johns Hopkins that developed a seizure detection and condition management platform for wearable devices in partnership with Apple. She was ...
Adam Davis (Amalgamated Vision) on Focusing on What Matters with Wearable Displays for Healthcare and Enterprise
February 23, 2021 08:01 - 1 hour - 72.6 MBDr. Adam Davis is the founder and CEO of Amalgamated Vision, a maker of wearable displays optimized for use as a reference display in healthcare and enterprise. Adam spent a career as a practicing physician focused on neruo-radiology, and regularly explored and pushed the boundaries of using 3D imagery to better understand each patient’s physiology. Most recently, he was a clinical associate professor and the Director of the Image Processing Lab at NYU Medical Center. There he specialize...
Hannah and Matthew Arevalo (Pinfinity) on Fan Commerce and AR-enhanced Collectible Pins
February 09, 2021 08:01 - 1 hour - 79.4 MBHannah and Matthew Arevalo are two of the co-founders of Pinfinity, an augmented reality collectible pin platform enabling interactive experiences around our favorite brands. Previously, Pinfinity’s CEO, Hannah Arevalo was the director of brands for several product lines at Loot Crate, a subscription box business focused on fan culture. There she worked directly with brands such as Warner Brothers and Disney and led a P&L of $100M annually. She also helped the team garner more than a dozen...
Nathan Pettyjohn & Mike Lohse (Lenovo) on the ThinkReality A3 and Providing an End-to-End Solution to Enterprise
January 26, 2021 08:01 - 47 minutes - 44.1 MBThis episode features Nathan Pettyjohn and Mike Lohse at Lenovo. Nathan is the Commercial AR/VR Lead at Lenovo. He is also the founder and president of the VR/AR Association and the annual VR/AR Global Summit. Previously Nathan was also the founder and CEO of venture-backed asile411, a mobile indoor navigation and 3D product cloud platform. Mike is the Hardware Product Manager for Commercial AR/VR at Lenovo. Previously Mike spent 9 years at ODG, which for a long time was the premier creat...
Robert Scoble on Remorse, Growth, and Steve Jobs's Last Device
January 12, 2021 08:01 - 1 hour - 84.8 MBRobert Scoble is a futurist, strategist and the author of four books about technology. His latest book is The Infinite Retina, co-authored with Irena Cronin, which explores the emerging era of spatial computing, including AR, VR, robotics, autonomous vehicles, and more. Robert has spent his career at the intersection of technology and media, working as a journalist, an evangelist, and a futurist, most notably at Microsoft and Rackspace. During that time, he’s interviewed more than a thousan...
2021 Kickoff: Lots of New Devices Coming, None Ready for Mass Adoption
January 05, 2021 08:01 - 29 minutes - 27.5 MBToday I am kicking off 2021 with another annual monologue. I hope you and your family were able to have a safe and relaxing holiday despite the isolation and other challenges imposed by COVID. This is the forth such annual kickoff episode, and when looking back at my notes from last year, 2020 played out pretty much as expected, with the glaring exception of the impact of COVID. However one thing COVID did not impact is the pace of progress at the bleeding edge of the technology. The indust...
Alex Hertel (Intuit) on Mixing Bits and Atoms within the World Computer
December 22, 2020 08:01 - 1 hour - 61.9 MBAlex Hertel is the former co-founder and CEO of Xperial, and currently an inventor at Intuit where he is a director in their Futures group. Alex completed his Ph.D. in computer science at the University of Toronto and is an expert in no-code languages as well as the use of immersive technologies to make the physical world digitally interactive. After his PhD program, he co-founded Walleto, which was acquired by Google and became Google Wallet. After several years at Google, he left to beco...
Justin Barad (Osso VR) on Making Surgery as Safe and Reliable as Air Travel (Part 2)
December 08, 2020 08:01 - 57 minutes - 52.7 MBJustin Barad, MD, is the CEO and founder of Osso VR, a fully immersive, and scientifically validated, surgical training platform. Prior to starting Osso VR, Justin became a board-eligible orthopedic surgeon with a Bioengineering degree from UC Berkeley, and an MD (medical doctorate) from UCLA, where he graduated first in his class. He completed his residency at UCLA and his fellowship in pediatric orthopedics at Harvard and Boston Children’s Hospital. His experiences as a medical student a...
Justin Barad (Osso VR) on Passion, Conviction, and the Pursuit of Better Medical Training & Assessment (Part 1)
December 01, 2020 08:01 - 53 minutes - 49 MBJustin Barad, MD, is the CEO and founder of Osso VR, a fully immersive, and scientifically validated, surgical training platform. Prior to starting Osso VR, Justin became a board-eligible orthopedic surgeon with a Bioengineering degree from UC Berkeley, and an MD (medical doctorate) from UCLA, where he graduated first in his class. He completed his residency at UCLA and his fellowship in pediatric orthopedics at Harvard and Boston Children’s Hospital. His experiences as a medical student a...
Charlie Fink (Author) on Inspiring the Next Generation of AR/VR Creators
November 17, 2020 08:01 - 1 hour - 60.5 MBCharlie Fink is a respected author and speaker focused on AR and VR. He has been at the bleeding edge of the intersection of entertainment and technology for more than 35 years. Charlie was a VP of Creative Development at Disney, where he created the concept for the Lion King. He was the COO at Virtual World Entertainment in the early 90s, which was the first company to bring VR experiences to retail locations across the world. Charlie was Chief Creative Officer at AOL studios, where he la...
Angela Robert (Conquer Experience) on Adapting to Healthcare Training Needs During COVID
November 03, 2020 08:01 - 57 minutes - 52.9 MBAngela Robert is the Co-founder and CEO of Conquer Experience, a company using VR to dramatically improve training for operating room nurses. After earning a degree in math and computer science, Angela started her career as a software engineer before joining Electronic Arts where she contributed to more than 20 games. She became the development director of the initial and sequel release of the popular Skate franchise. After several years of building and leading teams at EA, she set off to ...
Cory Grenier (Geenee) on Getting Heard at Vergence Labs, Snap Spectacles, and now Geenee
October 20, 2020 07:01 - 1 hour - 69.9 MBCory Grenier is the CEO of Geenee, a company on a mission to make the physical world around us easily recognizable to computers using mobile, browser-based technology. They combine image and video recognition, WebAR, and creative services to deliver unique value to brands. Cory started his career at Lenovo in Beijing, becoming a global product marketing manager. He returned to the US in 2013 to join Vergence Labs, an innovative startup building AR glasses. Vergence was acquired by Snap to f...
Matt Miesnieks on a 6D.ai Postmortem and Startup CEO Masterclass
October 06, 2020 07:02 - 1 hour - 89.2 MBMany of you know Matt Miesnieks as a serial entrepreneur and former investor focused on Augmented Reality. Matt was most recently the CEO and co-founder of 6D.ai, a company building tools to help mobile phones understand the real world and enable compelling AR experiences. Matt started his career in a number of engineering and business roles, before shifting his focus to Augmented Reality more than 10 years ago. Matt was head of customer development at Layar, an early consumer AR company. H...
Angelo Stracquatanio (Apprentice.io) on AR-Enabled Collaboration for Life Sciences
September 22, 2020 07:01 - 1 hour - 77.2 MBAngelo Stracquatanio is the co-founder and CEO of Apprentence.io, a software platform to help life sciences teams bring critical drugs to market faster and with higher reliability. Leveraging AR glasses is a key component of the solution. Angelo was a competitive swimmer in college and studied finance, winning the New York Society of Security Analysts Annual Investment Research Challenge competition. After starting his career in finance, Angelo shifted to mobile software development at the...
Remi Del Mar (Epson) on Zen and the Art of Fit, Form, and Function for AR Glasses
September 08, 2020 07:01 - 1 hour - 61 MBRemi Del Mar is the senior product manager responsible for Epson’s visual displays and Moverio AR glasses. Remi has been at Epson for almost 5 years. Previously she worked at BitTorrent and spent nearly 8 years at Logitech working on a number of different products, including on an early exploration in AR. She brings a deep passion for the art of product management, of delivering a product that consumers truly love. In this conversation, Remi explores some of the key use cases she’s seeing...
Pat Antaki (seeBOOST) on Becoming an Olympian at 42 and Giving Sight to the Visually Impaired
August 25, 2020 07:01 - 1 hour - 69.7 MBPat Antaki is the founder and CEO of seeBOOST, a company creating a prescription glasses solution for people with vision impairment. The device incorporates an optimized, video pass-through AR system over one eye of the glasses. Pat is a former MIT grad with a long history in microelectronics design and engineering, including spending several years working with industry expert, Karl Guttag. These days Pat is committed to improving the quality of life for millions of people with vision impa...
Christina Heller (Metastage) on Capturing the Humanity of a Live Performance for AR & VR
August 11, 2020 07:02 - 1 hour - 64.4 MBChristina Heller is the CEO of Metastage, an XR studio that brings live performances into digital worlds through volumetric capture and complementary tools. The resulting 3D content can be experienced in augmented reality using mobile phones or high-end AR headsets, or using 3D displays. Metastage uses the Microsoft Mixed Reality Capture system and is located in Los Angeles. Prior to leading Metastage, Christina was the CEO of VR Playhouse, an immersive content company based in Los Angeles...
Steve Sinclair (Mojo Vision) on AR Contact Lenses and Lessons from Handspring, Palm, & Apple’s iPhone
July 28, 2020 07:01 - 1 hour - 73.2 MBSteve Sinclair is the SVP of product at Mojo Vision, a company enabling invisible computing with their AR contact lenses. Steve has an amazing background in the product development and product marketing of personal computing technologies throughout the smartphone revolution. He worked at Handspring, Palm, Apple’s iPhone team, which he joined in 2007, as well as at HP and the Motorola division at Google, which was then sold to Lenovo. He brings 20 plus years of insight to Mojo Vision, which...
David Gull (Outer Realm) on Helping the 40% of Home Buyers and Renters Who Regret their Decision
July 14, 2020 07:01 - 1 hour - 63.2 MBDavid Gull is the Founder and CEO of Outer Realm, a company within the Real Estate industry leading the shift from 2D screens to immersive Virtual and Augmented Reality for better decision making. The tool helps people visualize properties undergoing transformation. David has both an architectural design and technology background, and he believes that creating experiences that engage both gut-level intuition as well as concrete factual presentation are key to gaining trust, and ultimately s...
Dominic Collins (Darabase) on Placing AR Content & Ads on the Physical World with Permission
June 30, 2020 07:02 - 1 hour - 63 MBDominic Collins is the co-founder and CEO of Darabase, a platform to manage and monetize AR permissions on the physical world. Prior to Darabase, Dominic was the general manager of international for Jaunt, which was a content capture technology company and studio focused on VR and later AR. He has also been the CEO or Director of Digital across a number of telecom companies, including Sky, Orange Digital, and T-Mobile, as well as the Chief Marketing Officer of financial services company, Le...
SXSW Spanning Realities With Music (Panel: Amy LaMeyer, Tony Parisi, Rebecca Barkin, Eric Wagliardo)
June 16, 2020 07:01 - 1 hour - 77.4 MBToday’s conversation is a recreation of a South-by-Southwest Panel that didn’t happen this year because the conference was canceled. My guests are so passionate about their topic, we got the panel together to share with you here. This conversation was recorded the same week that SXSW was scheduled to happen in March. Here’s a bit from the show guide: From Childish Gambino’s augmented reality dancing to Marshmello’s Fortnite concert in virtual reality to the mixed reality experience of Tonan...
Stefan Alexander (North) on Applying the Lessons of Focals v1 to v2 and the Argument for Laser Scanning Displays (Part 2)
June 02, 2020 07:01 - 51 minutes - 47.7 MBStefan Alexander is the VP of Advanced R&D at North, a company taking a human-centric approach to creating AR smartglass hardware and experiences that are both useful and respectful. After earning a Masters of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Stefan spent more than a decade working with OLED display technology at IGNIS Innovation. From there he joined North to build and lead the team that developed the technology behind Focals 1.0 and the forthcoming 2.0 hardware. My conver...
Stefan Alexander (North) on Taking a Human-Centric Approach to Designing Focals (Part 1)
May 25, 2020 07:03 - 54 minutes - 50 MBStefan Alexander is the VP of Advanced R&D at North, a company taking a human-centric approach to creating AR smartglass hardware and experiences that are both useful and respectful. After earning a Masters of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Stefan spent more than a decade working with OLED display technology at IGNIS Innovation. From there he joined North to build and lead the team that developed the technology behind Focals 1.0 and the forthcoming 2.0 hardware. My conver...
Carrie Shaw (Embodied Labs) on the Denial, Anger, and Fear of Growing Old
May 12, 2020 07:01 - 1 hour - 65.3 MBCarrie Shaw is the CEO and co-founder of Embodied Labs, a company changing the way professional and family caregivers view — and care for — older adults through the use of immersive experiences. After graduating from UNC Chapel Hill with a B.S. in Public Health, Carrie spent 2 years working as a Health Education Peace Corps volunteer in the Dominican Republic where she fell in love with the way visual communication tools have the unique potential to cross cultural, language, and education b...