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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Nikolai Suvorov (Spectar) on AR vs Plum Bob and String – The Future of Construction
April 28, 2020 07:02 - 1 hour - 64.8 MBNikolai Suvorov is the CEO at Spectar, a company who uses augmented reality to connect construction design documentation to the job site with the goal of accelerating construction timelines while reducing costs. Nikolai spent 10 years at Hilti, a big, international construction technology company where he served as a VP of Sales in Russia, and a country General Manager in Ukraine, before returning to the US to be a sales leader. He then was VP of Sales at ToughBuilt before helping to creat...
Joe Millward (TAFE NSW) on Safety First! Applying VR and AR to Education & Training at Scale
April 14, 2020 07:01 - 59 minutes - 54.7 MBJoe Millward is the Innovation Manager at TAFE New South Wales, the leading provider of vocational education and training in Australia. Each year, more than 500,000 students enroll into its nationally recognized courses and training. Earlier in his career, Joe spent 5 yrs at Autodesk managing the Commercial & Education business for the Media & Entertainment division. Joe went on to co-found a wearable technology company, and spent several years as a consultant focused on digital strategy. ...
Avi Bar-Zeev (RealityPrime - fmr AAPL, AMZ, MSFT) on AR Glasses Great Potential for Benefit and Abuse (Part 2)
March 31, 2020 22:50 - 1 hour - 59.3 MBAvi Bar-Zeev has been a pioneer, architect and advisor in spatial computing for nearly 30 years, both behind the scenes at the world’s largest tech companies, and in the industry at large. In early 2010, he helped found and invent the HoloLens at Microsoft, developing the first prototypes, demos, patents, plans and UX concepts. At Bing, he built the first prototypes for developer-facing aspects of AR, which we now call the "AR cloud." At Amazon, he helped launch PrimeAir and worked on the E...
Avi Bar-Zeev (RealityPrime) on Prototyping the Future at Microsoft, Amazon, Apple, and Beyond (Part 1)
March 24, 2020 07:01 - 1 hour - 58.4 MBAvi Bar-Zeev has been a pioneer, architect and advisor in spatial computing for nearly 30 years, both behind the scenes at the world’s largest tech companies, and in the industry at large. In early 2010, he helped found and invent the HoloLens at Microsoft, developing the first prototypes, demos, patents, plans and UX concepts. At Bing, he built the first prototypes for developer-facing aspects of AR, which we now call the "AR cloud." At Amazon, he helped launch PrimeAir and worked on the E...
Caspar Thykier (Zappar) on Turning Static Products & Packaging into Dynamic Media Channels
March 17, 2020 07:01 - 1 hour - 57.4 MBCaspar Thykier is the co-founder and CEO of Zappar, an AR platform and creative studio on a mission to democratize AR & MR. Caspar and the Zappar team have been vanguards in the AR industry for the last decade. Prior to founding Zappar, Caspar spent 15 years as an account director and managing director of major advertising agencies, including one where he was a founding partner. More recently he was the chief operating officer at Freuds, a public relations and communications agency. In th...
Chi Xu (Nreal) on the Conception, Competitors, and Clear Potential of the Nreal Light
March 10, 2020 07:01 - 56 minutes - 52.5 MBChi Xu is the founder and CEO of Nreal, a company devoted to making consumer-facing mixed reality wearables available to all. After earning a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Chi spent time at both Nvidia and Magic Leap before leaving to join another startup. From there, he conceived and founded Nreal. Since its founding in 2017, Nreal has been aggressively iterating on their hardware and software, and received a lot of press and awards, including “Best Start-up” at CES and “Bes...
Ashley Crowder (VNTANA) on Creating the Digital Twins of Consumer Products
March 03, 2020 08:01 - 36 minutes - 33.7 MBAshley Crowder is the CEO and co-founder of VNTANA, a company focused on interactive hologram technologies and 3D asset conversion for AR, VR, and e-commerce. After earning a BS in Industrial System Engineering and MS in Engineering Management from USC, Ashley started her career in industrial engineering with a job as an oil refinery planner for BP. From there, she started VNTANA, which has gone on to work with Adidas, Under Armor, Nike, NBC, Viacom, and many others. In this conversation,...
Edward Tang (Avegant) on How Our Eyes & Brains Deceive Us and Making Displays to Match
February 25, 2020 08:01 - 1 hour - 86.2 MBEdward Tang is the co-founder and CEO of Avegant, a company building next-generation display technologies for augmented reality experiences. Prior to Avegant, Ed spent nearly 15 years working in microfabrication and MEMs technologies, including 5 years focused on applying MEMs to brain-control interfaces. (MEMs stands for micro-electromechanical system, which is basically a teeny tiny machine that has both mechanical and electronic components.) The startup Avegant has been around for sever...
Chen-Ping Yu (Phiar) on the Future of AR Navigation and Experience at YC
February 18, 2020 08:01 - 1 hour - 67.5 MBChen-Ping Yu is the Founder and CEO at Phiar, an early-stage startup seeking to revolutionize how people navigate and experience the world, through cutting-edge computer vision AI technology. Phiar is creating an augmented reality navigation platform for driving, to enhance driving safety, facilitate more intuitive wayfinding, and connect drivers with their surrounding environments. Prior to Phiar, Chen-Ping was on a path to become a professor focused on computer vision. After getting his ...
Phil Greenhalgh (WaveOptics) on the Art and Science of Designing Waveguide Optics for Wearable Displays
February 11, 2020 08:01 - 1 hour - 73.5 MBPhil Greenhalgh is the Chief Technical Officer at WaveOptics, a leading designer and manufacturer of diffractive waveguide optics. This is a key optical component many in this industry believe can deliver the sort of form factor that can enable the mass adoption of AR smartglasses. After more than a decade as a professor of Electronic Engineering, Phil shifted his focus to the commercial world. He’s co-founded two technology companies, one of which was acquired by DAQRI for its expertise in...
Greg Werkheiser (ARtGlass) on Telling the Stories of History with AR Smartglasses
February 04, 2020 08:01 - 1 hour - 66.9 MBGreg Werkheiser is the founder and CEO at ARtGlass, a company providing wearable augmented reality experiences to museums as well as historic and cultural sites. Greg is a serial entrepreneur, a cultural heritage and civil rights attorney, and a recognized leadership educator, with a particular emphasis on civic leadership. After two decades of setting the standard in these areas at The University of Virginia, George Mason University, and Cultural Heritage Partners, Greg turned his attenti...
Greg Castle (Anorak Ventures) on Investing in Oculus and Filtering VC Advice
January 28, 2020 08:01 - 1 hour - 67.6 MBGreg Castle is the managing partner at Anorak Ventures, an early stage venture capital firm focused on virtual & augmented reality, computer vision, robotics, autonomous vehicles, and IoT. Earlier in his career, Greg was a restaurant entrepreneur before turning to technology as corporate marketer with a focus on gaming and 3D development tools. He found his way to angel investing with a passion for helping specialized teams working on disruptive technologies. At this point, Greg has worked...
Replay: Timoni West (Unity) on Building the Future of Human-Computer Interaction
January 21, 2020 08:01 - 1 hour - 62.4 MBA major hurdle for AR Smartglasses is the system's ability to understand user intent. Timoni West, the Director of XR Research at Unity, joined the podcast in 2019 to share her perspective on tackling the future of human-computer interaction. Here's the episode in its entirety. ——— Timoni West is the Director of XR Research at Unity, where she leads a team of cross-disciplinary artists and engineers exploring new interfaces for human-computer interaction. And these days, that focus is on s...
Replay: Hugo Swart (Qualcomm) on Qualcomm’s Plan to Accelerate VR & AR Growth
January 14, 2020 08:02 - 1 hour - 83.2 MBEfficient computing is critical for AR smartglasses, and Qualcomm recently announced another update to their chipsets dedicated to AR & VR. Earlier in 2019, Hugo Swart, Head of XR at Qualcomm, joined the podcast to share a look at Qualcomm's strategy. Here's the episode in its entirety. ——— Hugo Swart is a senior director of product management and serves as the Head of XR for Qualcomm Technologies. He is responsible for overseeing all of the AR & VR-related business, including product pla...
2020 Kickoff: Progress to Date and the Long Road Ahead
January 07, 2020 08:01 - 24 minutes - 23.1 MBMajor companies are investing billions of dollars per YEAR into making consumer-grade, high-utility AR Smartglasses a reality, but progress is slow. There’s no Moore’s law in displays, optics, or batteries. These underlying technologies still remain a big hurdle in developing AR Smartglasses good enough for mass adoption. Additional hurdles remain around the system’s understanding of your intent and the world around you, as well as the social acceptance of these devices. In this 2020 Kicko...
Ross Finman (Niantic) on Pokemon GO as Outlier or Indicator & Foundation for Bigger Success to Come
December 17, 2019 08:02 - 49 minutes - 45.9 MBRoss Finman is the AR Strategy Lead at Niantic, the company behind Pokemon GO and Harry Potter Wizards Unite. You may have noticed the press over the last few months that Niantic is making a heavy push to support and expand the AR ecosystem through the development of their Real World Platform (planet-scale, augmented reality platform for current and future generations of AR hardware), as well as the establishment of their Niantic Creator Program and Beyond Reality Fund. Plus they recently a...
Jason Yim (Trigger) on Finding the Fun in AR After a Decade of Making Experiences
December 10, 2019 08:01 - 1 hour - 59.7 MBJason Yim is the CEO and executive creative director at Trigger, a company that invents mixed reality experiences for both consumer and enterprise use for the world’s top brands, including Disney, NBA, Sony Pictures, Adidas, and many others. Jason and his team at Trigger have been working in AR for more than a decade and are often pushing the boundaries of what’s possible. Together they have logged 175,000 hours of development time. For these reasons and others, Jason was listed in Next Re...
Jeri Ellsworth (Tilt Five) on Resiliency and the Path to Compelling AR Smartglasses (Part 2)
December 03, 2019 08:01 - 1 hour - 70.3 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...
Jeri Ellsworth (Tilt Five) on the Compulsion to Create and Innovate from Race Cars to Spatial Computing (Part 1)
November 26, 2019 08:02 - 57 minutes - 52.6 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...
Kelly Peng & Garrow Geer (Kura) on Breaking From the Past to Build the Smartglasses of the Future
November 19, 2019 08:01 - 1 hour - 86.3 MBKelly Peng and Garrow Geer of Kura Tech. Garrow is the COO, and Kelly is the founder and CEO. Kelly has a background dotted with many innovative projects, including building brain-computer interfaces, integrated circuit design, and a new type of engine for flying cars. Together with the team at Kura, they are building a new kind of optics and display module that will enable smartglasses to achieve a groundbreaking set of specs: 150° field of view, 95% transparency - meaning the outside wor...
Kelly Ping & Garrow Geer (Kura) on Breaking From the Past to Build the Smartglasses of the Future
November 19, 2019 08:01 - 1 hour - 86.3 MBKelly Peng and Garrow Geer of Kura Tech. Garrow is the COO, and Kelly is the founder and CEO. Kelly has a background dotted with many innovative projects, including building brain-computer interfaces, integrated circuit design, and a new type of engine for flying cars. Together with the team at Kura, they are building a new kind of optics and display module that will enable smartglasses to achieve a groundbreaking set of specs: 150° field of view, 95% transparency - meaning the outside wor...
Nick Cherukuri (ThirdEye Gen) on Building Smartglasses Enterprises Will Embrace
November 12, 2019 08:02 - 1 hour - 63.2 MBNick Cherukuri is the CEO and founder of ThirdEye Gen, a maker of see-through, AR smartglasses for enterprise. Similar to the Hololens approach, ThirdEye Gen is making an all-in-one device that sits on your head with no tethered compute pack, but they’ve got a significantly smaller form factor. While attending the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School, Nick started an AR/VR club that quickly grew to several hundred participants. Straight out of college, and using a combination of his pa...
Tipatat Chennavasin (The VR Fund) on the Latest AR Industry Landscape
November 05, 2019 08:01 - 1 hour - 77.5 MBTipatat Chennavasin is the co-founder and general partner at The Venture Reality Fund, an investment firm focused on early-stage companies building immersive, spatial, and intelligent computing for consumer and enterprise. Prior to life as a VC, Tipatat was the co-founder and CEO of mobile game startup Big Head Mode, Inc. that he sold to PlayFirst to focus on VR. He also spent many years as a creative director or design director working with cutting edge interactive technologies, including...
Hardie Tankersley (Silverdraft / Fox) on Why VR Is Not Good for Games, and Where VR Does Shine (Part 2)
October 29, 2019 07:01 - 1 hour - 57.3 MBHardie Tankersley is the VP of VR and Solutions Consulting at Silverdraft, a company that uses a unique supercomputer architecture to address the significant computational and processing needs of high-end rendering, VR, visual effects, and visualization. Honda, Audi, Tesla, GE, and Autodesk all rely on Silverdraft for product visualization in VR. Previously, Hardie spent more than 8 years at Fox Television, where he was Senior Vice President of Innovation. There he created the very first mo...
Hardie Tankersley (Silverdraft / Fox) on the Challenges of Crafting Compelling Entertainment for VR (Part 1)
October 22, 2019 07:01 - 47 minutes - 43.7 MBHardie Tankersley is the VP of VR and Solutions Consulting at Silverdraft, a company that uses a unique supercomputer architecture to address the significant computational and processing needs of high-end rendering, VR, visual effects, and visualization. Honda, Audi, Tesla, GE, and Autodesk all rely on Silverdraft for product visualization in VR. Previously, Hardie spent more than 8 years at Fox Television, where he was Senior Vice President of Innovation. There he created the very first mo...
Chandra Devam (Aris MD) on X-Ray Vision for Doctors and Engineers
October 15, 2019 07:02 - 48 minutes - 45.2 MBChandra Devam is the co-founder and CEO of Aris MD, a company incorporating conventional scanning technologies and their unique data processing and visualization software to deliver X-Ray vision within AR and VR across a number of medical and industrial use cases. Chandra is a serial entrepreneur who started her career in telecommunications, and then spent several years at Microsoft, before setting off on her own. With ArisMD, she rejoins with co-founder Scott Edgar to apply her out-of-the...
Chris Pickett (DigiLens) on Creating Waveguides to enable Eyeglass-thin Smartglasses
October 01, 2019 07:03 - 1 hour - 57.9 MBChris Pickett is the CEO of DigiLens, a company on a mission to enable the next generation of waveguide-based AR displays using their proprietary waveguide technology. Chris laid the foundation for his career by earning degrees in engineering and law. He went on to become the head of technology licensing or the CEO at 4 startups and a couple of other companies that focused on innovating and licensing technology and intellectual property around semiconductors, image sensors, optics. Most re...
Shawn Frayne (Looking Glass) on the Third Pillar of Spatial Computing: Glasses-free Holograms
September 24, 2019 07:02 - 1 hour - 61.7 MBShawn Frayne is the CEO and co-founder of Looking Glass Factory, a company dedicated to building the holographic future with a glasses-free, directly-viewable 3D display. Prior to Looking Glass, Shawn worked with conventional laser-interference holograms, and then later developed a number of new technologies in the cleantech field. For this work, he has been awarded dozens of patents around the world and the Popular Mechanics Breakthrough Award. He’s also been named as one of the ‘20 Best B...
Timoni West (Unity) on Building the Future of Human-Computer Interaction
September 17, 2019 07:02 - 1 hour - 62 MBTimoni West is the Director of XR Research at Unity, where she leads a team of cross-disciplinary artists and engineers exploring new interfaces for human-computer interaction. And these days, that focus is on spatial computing: how we will live, work, and create in a world where digital objects and the real world live side-by-side. One of her team’s first tools, EditorXR, which is a tool for editing Unity projects directly in virtual reality, won San Francisco Design Week’s first-ever Virt...
Anil Cheriyadat (Sturfee) on Delivering the AR Cloud In Preparation for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics
September 10, 2019 07:01 - 1 hour - 63.9 MBAnil Cheriyadat is the Founder and CEO of Sturfee, a company creating a camera-based Visual Positioning System to enable city-scale AR for mobile apps and wearables. After earning a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Anil spent seven and a half years as a research scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. There he worked with various types of satellite and aerial imagery to extract meaningful insights about what was happening on the ground – all around the world. At Sturfee, he’s taking a ...
Alan Smithson (MetaVRse) on Enabling the Transformative Powers of XR
September 03, 2019 07:01 - 1 hour - 80.2 MBAlan Smithson is the CEO of MetaVRse, a company helping businesses leverage the transformative power of XR. He’s also the co-founder of XR Ignite, a community hub and virtual accelerator for startups, studios, and developers wanting to connect with enterprise customers and their large business problems. On the side, Alan is also the host of the XR for Business Podcast, where he goes behind the scenes with the leaders who are transforming yesterday’s prototypes into scalable solutions for so...
Paul Travers (Vuzix) on Making Small, Lightweight Smartglasses
August 27, 2019 07:02 - 1 hour - 58.8 MBPaul Travers is the Founder and CEO of Vuzix, a leading supplier of smartglasses and augmented reality products for both the enterprise and consumer markets. Prior to Vuzix, Paul was an engineer at Eastman Kodak, innovating the future of digital cameras. He went on to become and 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 has seen s...
Scott Montgomerie (Scope AR) on Startups, Y Combinator, and Building Spacecraft with AR
August 20, 2019 07:02 - 1 hour - 64.3 MBScott Montgomerie is the co-founder & CEO of Scope AR, the first augmented reality knowledge management company. Earlier in his career, Scott started his first job writing code at 17, and his company got acquired by Intuit. After several years there, he set off to become a serial entrepreneur. Since founding Scope AR in 2011, Scott was one of the first to get multi-billion-dollar companies to use augmented reality tools. He and his team have simplified adoption and deployment of AR across ...
Derek Belch (STRIVR) on VR Training for Quarterbacks and Walmart Clerks
August 13, 2019 07:01 - 1 hour - 56.4 MBDerek Belch is the co-founder and CEO of STRIVR, a company on a mission to elevate performance through immersive experience. Derek incubated the company with co-founder Jeremy Bailenson in Stanford’s Virtual Human Interaction Lab while pursuing his Masters in Virtual Reality and serving as a graduate assistant football coach. Using sports as his proving ground, Derek’s vision quickly expanded from the athlete to the enterprise. Derek is driven by a competitive passion for impacting perform...
Reynold Wu & Kieran Hall (Rokid) on Bringing Rokid Glass and Vision Smartglasses to Life
August 06, 2019 07:01 - 1 hour - 74.3 MBReynold Wu is the head of product management for AR at Rokid, which is a company focused on AI, robotics, and smartglasses. They announced the Rokid Glass at CES in 2018, and the Rokid Vision earlier this year. Reynold is an entrepreneur, an engineer, and a business strategist, having worked in wireless communications, enterprise cloud storage, network security, and now the intersection of AI and AR. Kieran Hall runs strategic partner development on Rokid. Previously, he spent many years a...
Mike Boland (ARtillery Intelligence) on the Motivations and Machinations of the Major Players in AR
July 30, 2019 07:01 - 1 hour - 93.5 MBMike Boland is the Founder & Chief Analyst of ARtillery Intelligence, Editor of AR Insider, Lead Analyst of Street Fight, and the President of the San Francisco chapter of the VR/AR Association. Earlier in his career, Mike was one of Silicon Valley's first tech reporters focused on the internet as a staff reporter for Forbes magazine starting in 2000. And he has been a tech industry analyst at top-tier research firms since 2005. Mike is a frequent speaker at industry conferences [such as A...
Ross Finman (Niantic) on the One AR Platform to Rule Them All
July 23, 2019 07:01 - 1 hour - 66.7 MBRoss Finman is the AR Strategy Lead at Niantic, the company behind Pokemon Go and Harry Potter Wizards Unite. Niantic is building a state-of-the-art, planet-scale augmented reality platform for current and future generations of AR hardware. Ross joined Niantic through the acquisition of his AR technology company, Escher Reality. He started Escher Reality while pursuing his PhD in Robotics at MIT. On the whole, Ross describes himself as an entrepreneur with over a decade of experience at th...
The State of the AR Cloud with Jan-Erik Vinje, Christine Perey, Jason Fox, and Colin Steinmann (Open AR Cloud Association)
July 16, 2019 07:01 - 1 hour - 94.3 MBToday’s conversation is with a quartet of key contributors to the Open AR Cloud initiative. - Jan-Erik Vinje is the Managing Director and Co-founder of the Open AR Cloud, and spends his days as the Senior AR-Architect and lead developer at Norkart. - Christine Perey is the Governing Board Member for the Open AR Cloud as well as the Founder and Board member of the AR for Enterprise Alliance. - Jason Fox is a Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft and key contributor to the Open AR Cloud. -...
Vinay Narayan (HTC Vive) on Making an Impact on the Community
July 09, 2019 07:02 - 1 hour - 76.2 MBVinay Narayan is the Vice President of Product Management and Operations for HTC Vive. There he oversees a portfolio of products for HTC including XR, Mobile, 5G communications and other emerging technologies. Vinay is also very active in the XR community including as a keynote speaker as well as a board member and advisor for various VR and AR companies. He loves talking about product and go-to-market strategy and is more interested in the problems to be solved than the technology used to ...
Amy Peck (EndeavorVR) on Enterprises’ Slow Adoption of AR and the Promise in Education
June 25, 2019 07:01 - 1 hour - 74.1 MBAmy Peck is the founder & CEO of EndeavorVR, a strategy & consulting firm focused on Augmented and Virtual Reality. There she serves as the essential guide to connect companies and educational institutions to the right resources, partners, and approach to be successful with these new technologies. In addition, Amy is the co-chair of the Enterprise Committee at the VRAR Association, and a contributing author to Charlie Fink’s recent book, Convergence. [frequent keynote speaker, panelist, and...
Tony Rogers (VAai) on the Shortcomings of the Hololens 2 Display & Optics
June 18, 2019 07:01 - 1 hour - 90.8 MBTony Rogers is a former Air Force Special Ops veteran and currently the Founder & CEO of VAai, where he’s doing strategic consulting and R&D work around augmented reality. After a career as an electronics warfare specialist and a second career in battery backup systems, Tony turned his attention and considerable technical capabilities to all things augmented reality. In addition to providing strategic consulting to Fortune 500 companies, you will find Tony creating and sharing video explai...
Hugo Swart (Qualcomm) on Qualcomm’s Plan to Accelerate VR & AR Growth
June 11, 2019 07:03 - 1 hour - 83.2 MBHugo Swart is a senior director of product management and serves as the Head of XR for Qualcomm Technologies. He is responsible for overseeing all of the AR & VR-related business, including product planning, roadmap, strategy, partnerships, and customer development. He’s helped to spearhead standalone VR devices - those that aren’t attached to a PC - by creating the industry’s first reference design in 2016 at Qualcomm. He’s really built Qualcomm’s XR business from ground-up. He joined the ...
Paul Reynolds (Torch 3D) on Making AR Simple to Create and the Early Days at Magic Leap
June 04, 2019 07:01 - 1 hour - 94.6 MBPaul Reynolds is the co-founder and CEO of Torch, a tool for designing and prototyping Augmented Reality experiences. After a career in game development, working on projects for EA, Atari, Apple, and many others, Paul joined Magic Leap prior to their first outside round of funding. There he spent a few years leading the effort to create software development tools and resources for content developers. Paul helped to lay the groundwork for the Magic Leap SDK, and got a good look at the future...
Kent Bye (Voices of VR) on the Ultimate Potential of VR (Part 2)
May 21, 2019 07:02 - 1 hour - 74.9 MBKent Bye is the creator and host of the Voices of VR podcast. He’s recorded more than a thousand interviews featuring the pioneering artists, storytellers, and technologists driving the resurgence of virtual & augmented reality. Kent is a philosopher, oral historian, and experiential journalist helping to define the patterns of immersive storytelling, experiential design, and the ultimate potential of XR. He’s speaking about the ethical & moral dilemmas of mixed reality at the 2019 AWE con...
Kent Bye (Voices of VR) on Truth, Reality, and the Human Experience (Part 1)
May 14, 2019 07:02 - 1 hour - 74.3 MBKent Bye is the creator and host of the Voices of VR podcast. He’s recorded more than a thousand interviews featuring the pioneering artists, storytellers, and technologists driving the resurgence of virtual & augmented reality. Kent is a philosopher, oral historian, and experiential journalist helping to define the patterns of immersive storytelling, experiential design, and the ultimate potential of XR. He’s speaking about the ethical & moral dilemmas of mixed reality at the 2019 AWE con...
Tom Emrich (Super Ventures / AWE) on Perceptual Computing and Human Evolution
May 07, 2019 07:01 - 1 hour - 84.1 MBTom Emrich is sometimes called the “man from the future”, and is recognized as one of the world’s leading thought leaders and influencers in AR, VR and wearable technology. Tom brings over a decade-long track record of running tech teams and providing strategic direction in emerging technologies for powerhouse brands such as Nestlé, Best Buy and MTV. In 2013, Tom founded We Are Wearables, which he grew to be the largest wearable tech community of its kind prior to its acquisition by Augmen...
Jacob Loewenstein (Spatial) on Why Collaborating Through Smartglasses Is Better Than In Person
April 30, 2019 07:03 - 1 hour - 78.2 MBJacob Loewenstein is the VP of Business Development and Strategy at Spatial, a company on a mission to empower people to be more connected, creative, and productive through Spatial’s AR-first collaboration tool. Prior to Spatial, Jacob work on AR/VR business development and product strategy at Samsung Next, which focuses on innovation around software and services for Samsung. He received his MBA at MIT Sloan, where he co-founded VR/AR@MIT group as well as the Reality, Virtually Hackathon....
Michael Hoffman (Object Theory) on More Use Cases for Smartglasses and Overcoming Current Limitations (Part 2)
April 23, 2019 07:01 - 1 hour - 55.7 MBMichael Hoffman is the founding partner at Object Theory, where he and his team work with enterprises to leverage AR and VR technologies, often in combination with IoT and AI/Machine Learning. Prior to Object Theory, Michael was a Principal Engineering Lead at Microsoft on the Hololens team, where he developed a number of enterprise applications. Earlier in his career, Michael worked in software engineering roles at Google, Nike, and several startups. If you remember from part 1, his expos...
Michael Hoffman (Object Theory) on 18 Use Cases Where Smartglasses Are Profoundly Better (Part 1)
April 16, 2019 07:01 - 56 minutes - 52 MBMichael Hoffman is the founding partner at Object Theory, where he and his team work with enterprises to leverage AR and VR technologies, often in combination with IoT and AI/Machine Learning. Prior to Object Theory, Michael was a Principal Engineering Lead at Microsoft on the Hololens team, where he developed a number of enterprise applications. Earlier in his career, Michael worked in software engineering roles at Google, Nike, and several startups. His exposure at Microsoft, at Object T...
Peter Rojas (Betaworks Ventures) on the Fall and Rise of AR & VR (Part 2)
April 09, 2019 07:03 - 55 minutes - 51.6 MBPeter Rojas was the co-founder of a few very popular technology blogs, including Gizmodo, Engadget, and Joystiq. The latter two were part of Weblogs, Inc., which was acquired by AOL in 2005. He later co-founded the consumer electronics social networking site, gdgt, which AOL also acquired in 2013. Post-acquisition, Peter stayed for a couple of years as the VP of Strategy and director of AOL's experimental products group. Now Peter is a partner at Betaworks, a startup studio and seed stage v...