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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Peter Rojas (Betaworks Ventures) on the Origins of Gizmodo and Engadget (Part 1)
April 02, 2019 07:03 - 57 minutes - 53.4 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...
Tony Parisi (Unity) on How Smartglasses Will Evolve and Unity’s Expanding Embrace
March 26, 2019 07:02 - 1 hour - 63.3 MBTony Parisi is a pioneer of virtual reality, a serial entrepreneur and an angel investor. He is the co-creator of 3D graphics standards, including VRML, X3D and glTF, the new file format standard for 3D web and mobile applications. Tony is also the author of O’Reilly Media’s books on Virtual Reality and WebGL: Learning Virtual Reality (2015), Programming 3D Applications in HTML5 and WebGL (2014), and WebGL Up and Running (2012). Tony has become one of the leading spokespeople for the immers...
Stephanie Llamas (SuperData) on Looking at the Numbers in AR & VR
March 19, 2019 07:03 - 1 hour - 63.1 MBStephanie Llamas is the VP of Research & Strategy, and the Head of XR at SuperData Research. Stephanie’s background is in market research as well as product and brand strategy. She’s spent more than 10 years in the digital media, gaming and VR/AR/MR industries, and earned an M.A. in Media, Culture and Communication from NYU. You may have seen Stephanie presenting her team’s findings on stage at CES, AWE, SXSW, VRX, or another industry conference. Timing is everything. In this conversation...
Nick Dangerfield (Planeta) on David Bowie Is - The AR Exhibition
March 12, 2019 07:02 - 1 hour - 61.7 MBNick Dangerfield and his team at Planeta created the “David Bowie Is” mobile AR app experience. This app recreates the museum exhibition by the same name, which drew more than 2 million visitors before completing its global tour in Brooklyn last year. The “David Bowie Is” mobile AR experience is another milestone on Nick’s journey as a creator. Through this project and others, Nick makes products, digital and otherwise, in the fields of photography and music. He worked with Hideki Ohmori o...
Allison Wood (Camera IQ) on the Journey from Explicit to Implicit Computing
March 05, 2019 08:05 - 1 hour - 64.1 MBAllison Wood is the Co-founder and CEO of Camera IQ, which is the world's first augmented reality platform for camera marketing. They unite the camera ecosystem to enable brands create and deliver captivating AR experiences at scale. After getting a bachelors in Sociology, Allison pursued a masters in fine arts focused on both interior design and digital interactive arts, and served as an assistant professor at the Pratt Institute. Allison thrives at the intersection between design, archit...
Terry Schussler (Deutsche Telekom) on the Importance of 5G and Edge Compute to AR
February 26, 2019 08:03 - 1 hour - 81.8 MBTerry Schusler is the Director of Immersive Technology within the 5G group at Deutsche Telekom. There he drives the research and creation of immersive AR and VR products that can take advantage of the coming age of 5G and edge compute. Terry joined Deutsche Telekom as the lead AR/VR developer and architect. Previously he spent more than two decades as a CTO or VP of Product across a number of companies focused on mobile, entertainment, education, and mixed reality technologies. He’s also a ...
Ryan Fink (Streem) on Bringing Remote Expertise to Your Home with AR
February 19, 2019 08:03 - 53 minutes - 49.6 MBRyan Fink is a serial entrepreneur and the co-founder and CEO of Streem, a company on a mission to make the world's expertise more accessible. Ryan lept straight from college into starting his first Augmented Reality company, called Ghost Runner. The goal was to use AR to gamify exercise. From that experience came new insights, new technology and a new company to focus on machine learning and computer vision. ONtheGO (or OTG as Ryan refers to it in the interview) created a new user interfac...
Tom Impallomeni (Tribe XR) on Teaching You to DJ and Other Creative Skills
February 12, 2019 08:02 - 1 hour - 81.9 MBTom Impallomeni is the Co-founder and CEO at Tribe XR, a platform for learning, creating, and sharing real-world creative skills in VR, AR, and beyond. Tribe’s first goal is to train you to be a world-class DJ. Prior to Tribe, Tom was the CEO of a VR startup focused on live sporting events where he built up the product, the team, and partnerships with major sporting leagues, brands, and VR hardware manufacturers. Tom was also the co-founder and COO of SuperAwesome, the largest kids’ digita...
Santiago Carvajal (Bose) on Audio Augmented Reality
February 05, 2019 08:01 - 1 hour - 58.2 MBSantiago Carvajal is the director of consumer electronics research, strategy, and vision, and a 24-year veteran of Bose. In that time, he’s been involved in the engineering and business side of product development for a number of award-winning and beloved products. He started in 1995 as part of a small team dedicated to making the Wave Radio successful. Later he took over leadership of the team and developed the Wave Music System, along with other home theater products. He was also the produ...
Jameson Detweiler (Fantasmo) on Creating the Digital Twin to Power our Augmented and Autonomous Future
January 29, 2019 08:01 - 1 hour - 103 MBJameson Detweiler is a serial entrepreneur and the co-founder and CEO of Fantasmo, a company creating a digital twin for our physical world - both indoors and out. This 3D map will be decentralized, open source, and enable camera-based positioning. Prior to Fantasmo, Jameson co-founded 3 startups. Most recently he was the co-founder and CEO of LaunchRock, a company that helped startups create a web presence and build anticipation for their pre-launch products. The company was acquired by Fu...
Ray Kallmeyer (Enklu) on Bringing Art to Life and the Hierarchy of Responsibility
January 22, 2019 08:02 - 1 hour - 69.1 MBRay Kallmeyer is the Co-founder and CEO at Enklu, a tool for transforming museums and galleries into real life video games, which can be shared with friends and family. Ray spent the early part of his career in the video game industry, including time at Sony, Fireforge, and KIXEYE. Most recently, he was a studio executive for NCSOFT. Ray believes technology exists to empower us as storytellers to transform our world. In this conversation, Ray and I discuss a new type of storytelling exper...
Martina Welkhoff (WXR Fund) on Gender Diverse Teams Outperforming All-Male Founding Teams by 63%
January 15, 2019 08:05 - 1 hour - 71.4 MBMartina Welkhoff is the Founding Partner at WXR Fund, which invests in immersive technology startups that are committed to equal gender representation. Martina is also a former co-founder and CEO of Zealyst, which used data and games to build strong employee relationships and provide insight into company culture. The company was later acquired. Martina went on to found ConveneVR, which is focused on bringing people together in VR. At the same time, she has been committed to increasing dive...
2019 Kickoff: Some Reflections and Predictions
January 08, 2019 08:02 - 13 minutes - 12.8 MBSmartglasses will transform how we discover, make decisions, and interact with the people, objects, and information around us. Once they have been fully realized, smartglasses will enable each and every person to be more creative and productive, and to achieve greater enlightenment and accomplishment. But progress was slow in 2018, and we are still a long ways from seeing our neighbors and friends wearing them. In this 2019 Kickoff episode, I look back at progress in 2018 and share a few th...
Replay: Karl Guttag (KGOnTech) on MicroDisplay Technologies and the Hype of Holograms (Part 2)
December 27, 2018 08:02 - 1 hour - 88.5 MBHappy Holidays! This is the last episode of 2018, and a replay of the most popular episode during the year. Karl Guttag writes a popular technology blog at kguttag.com, which reflects his 40 years of experience in Graphics and Image Processors, Digital Signal Processing, and the types of micro display systems are used for augmented and virtual reality. He’s got 150 patents to his name related to these technologies and many billions of dollars of revenue attributed to his inventions. Since t...
Replay: Ted Schilowitz (Paramount) on the Magic Leap One and the Potential of AR (Part 1)
December 18, 2018 08:03 - 1 hour - 57.6 MBPreamble: This episode is another highlight and one of the most popular from the year. What follows is part 1 of my interview with Ted Schilowitz, which was recorded in early August, 2018. Ted is a futurist at Paramount Pictures and a passionate believer in the potential for smartglasses, including Magic Leap’s efforts. Magic Leap publicly launched shortly after we recorded this interview, but Ted’s comments about the device are still relevant today. ---- Ted Schilowitz is a Futurist at P...
Replay Mashup: Matt Miesnieks (6D.ai) on Thriving as an Entrepreneur and Pitching to VCs
December 11, 2018 08:03 - 58 minutes - 54.3 MBThis is a replay of my conversation with Matt Miesnieks from May 2018. We recorded a two-part interview, and what follows is a mashup, incorporating the bits that spoke to how the market might evolve, and how to thrive as an entrepreneur and pitch to VCs Matt is a serial entrepreneur, turned investor, turned entrepreneur. After more than a decade of engineering and business roles, Matt has spent the last decade focused on Augmented Reality. Matt was head of customer development at Layar - a...
Erik Murphy-Chutorian (8th Wall) on Enabling Breakout Mobile AR Apps & Photobombing With The Hoff
December 04, 2018 08:04 - 1 hour - 66 MBErik Murphy-Chutorian is the founder and CEO of 8th Wall, a company on a mission to break the wall between the digital world and the physical world by making it easier for developers to create AR experiences on more devices with less effort. 8th wall has a different focus and approach than past guests Martin Herdina from Wikitude and Matt Meisneiks from 6D.ai. Erik started 8th Wall after nearly 8 years at Google as an engineer and manager focused on computer vision, image analysis, and ima...
Andy Lowery (RealWear) on Raising $20M with Conviction and Humility, Not Modesty
November 27, 2018 08:05 - 1 hour - 60 MBAndy Lowery is the co-founder and CEO of RealWear, a knowledge transfer company helping industrial workers to learn and solve problems in the field. RealWear makes a hands-free, ruggedized, head-mounted wearable computer and complementary software; RealWear makes one of the most successful head-mounted computers sold today. Prior to RealWear, Andy was President of DAQRI, another pioneer of AR use in the enterprise. Andy also spent more than a decade in engineering and management roles at ae...
Andy Lowery (RealWear) on the Symbiosis of Humans + AI
November 20, 2018 08:02 - 1 hour - 57.7 MBAndy Lowery is the co-founder and CEO of RealWear, a knowledge transfer company helping industrial workers to learn and solve problems in the field. RealWear makes a hands-free, ruggedized, head-mounted wearable computer and complementary software; RealWear makes one of the most successful head-mounted computers sold today. Prior to RealWear, Andy was President of DAQRI, another pioneer of AR use in the enterprise. Andy also spent more than a decade in engineering and management roles at ae...
Jason Sagstetter (Google Glass Power User) on Living with Glass
November 13, 2018 08:08 - 1 hour - 73.2 MBJason Sagstetter is unlike any guest I’ve had on the show before. By day he works as a Senior IT Project Manager at H.B. Fuller, a manufacturer of adhesives. By night he’s a husband and father of two. Through it all, he wears his Google Glass. Every day for the last 4 and a half years, from the moment he wakes up until the moment he goes to bed, he wears a pair of smartglasses. Jason has spent his career in IT and has a deep passion for technology and exploring its impact on our lives. He...
George Berkowski (DeepAR) on Building Billion Dollar Apps
November 06, 2018 08:05 - 1 hour - 68.1 MBGeorge Berkowski is a serial entrepreneur who has built businesses in manned space flight, online dating, transportation and mobile apps. Among those is the internationally successful taxi hailing app, Hailo, where he led the product team until September 2013. These days he’s the co-founder of DeepAR, a company providing deep learning solutions for real-time video segmentation for face tracking, as well as emotion, gender, and age detection. These features allow apps and websites to add Sna...
Martin Herdina (Wikitude) on Creating the Perfect Illusion in AR
October 30, 2018 07:04 - 1 hour - 60.2 MBMartin Herdina is the CEO of Wikitude, a pioneering AR company that makes tools for software developers to create immersive Augmented Reality experiences. More than 25,000 apps have been built using the technology. The company was started 10 years ago, and Martin has been the CEO for the last 8 years. Prior to Wikitude, Martin was the CEO and co-founder of Fatfoogoo - a pioneer in in-app purchases and other e-commerce solutions for online games and virtual worlds. Fatfoogoo was acquired by ...
Asher Dahan (Wearable Devices) on a New Approach to Gesture Input for Smartglasses
October 23, 2018 07:04 - 56 minutes - 51.3 MBAsher Dahan is the CEO and co-founder of Wearable Devices, where they seek to transform how humans communicate to smart devices, such as smartwatches and smartglasses, by making the interface as natural and intuitive as normal human interaction. Prior to Wearable Devices, Asher managed teams at Intel R&D facility in Israel, where they defined the USB Type-C and Thunderbolt 3 protocols. Asher is a hardware geek and holds a BSc in Electrical Engineering. He’s also an experienced manager and ...
Caneel Joyce (Executive Coach) on Creating an Exceptional Culture (Part 2)
October 16, 2018 07:08 - 45 minutes - 42.1 MBCaneel Joyce is an executive coach to founders and CEOs of high growth companies and startups. She is also a partner at Evolution, a collective of coaches, trainers, and culture builders who helps companies like Slack, Radiology Partners, and Snap scale without losing their souls. Caneel is focused on creating better leaders and company cultures. As an executive coach, she has personally worked with individuals and teams from Slack, Snap, Amazon, Disney, and even a past guest of this podcas...
Caneel Joyce (Executive Coach) on Becoming an Exceptional Leader (Part 1)
October 09, 2018 07:07 - 1 hour - 59.5 MBCaneel Joyce is an executive coach to founders and CEOs of high growth companies and startups. She is also a partner at Evolution, a collective of coaches, trainers, and culture builders who helps companies like Slack, Radiology Partners, and Snap scale without losing their souls. Caneel is focused on creating better leaders and company cultures. As an executive coach, she has personally worked with individuals and teams from Slack, Snap, Amazon, Disney, and even a past guest of this podcas...
Dana Loberg (Leo AR) on the Entrepreneurship of Art and Visual Expression in AR
October 02, 2018 07:05 - 52 minutes - 48.4 MBDana Loberg is an artist turned serial entrepreneur. Currently she is the co-founder and CEO of Leo AR, a consumer AR app for placing digital content in the physical world, as well as capturing and sharing videos of interactions with that content. Dana is also behind the successful emoji and messaging sticker app, MojiLaLa. Previously Dana started MovieLala, which is a movie marketing and customer relationship management platform for promoting feature film releases, that went on to be acqui...
Andy Greff (PLNAR) on Where Entrepreneurs Go Wrong When Bringing Products to Market
September 25, 2018 07:03 - 1 hour - 85.8 MBAndy Greff is the CEO at PLNAR, a company that uses mobile AR to help quickly create 3D models of any room of a home, and ties it to a workflow for insurance or home remodeling. PLNAR just announced the closing of a $4M round of financing from The Venture Reality Fund, ManchesterStory, and others. Prior to PLNAR, Andy was the VP Products and General Manager at Phunware, where he brought more than a hundred mobile products to market for major brands and small companies. Before that he was a ...
Teppei Tsutsui (GFR Fund) on Investing in Passionate Users
September 18, 2018 07:06 - 53 minutes - 49.5 MBTeppei Tsutsui is the Managing Director at GFR Fund, which is a San Francisco-based venture capital fund that invests in early-stage, virtual and augmented reality startups. GFR Fund has deep ties to GREE, a Japanese mobile gaming giant, where Teppei spent many years doing corporate planning, strategic finance, and corporate investments. Teppei got to know GREE while working as an investment banker at Morgan Stanley. There he worked on one of GREE’s acquisitions. Teppei made the jump to fi...
Ted Schilowitz (Paramount) on Hollywood’s Digital Revolution (Part 2)
September 11, 2018 07:03 - 59 minutes - 54.8 MBTed Schilowitz is a Futurist at Paramount Pictures, where he explores the future of media and technology, and tries to suss out where things are headed. Prior to Paramount, Ted held a similar role at 20th Century Fox. Throughout his career, Ted has successfully moved back and forth between creating live-action content and creating better tools to make that content. For example, Ted came to Fox from RED, the digital camera company. There he was the first employee and chief product evangelist...
Ted Schilowitz (Paramount) on the Magic Leap One and the Potential of AR (Part 1)
September 04, 2018 07:02 - 1 hour - 57.2 MBTed Schilowitz is a Futurist at Paramount Pictures, where he explores the future of media and technology, and tries to suss out where things are headed. Prior to Paramount, Ted held a similar role at 20th Century Fox. Throughout his career, Ted has successfully moved back and forth between creating live-action content and creating better tools to make that content. For example, Ted came to Fox from RED, the digital camera company. There he was the first employee and chief product evangelist...
Steve Raymond (8i) on Spotting the Winners and Avoiding VC Bait (Part 2)
August 28, 2018 07:04 - 1 hour - 69.7 MBSteve Raymond is the CEO of 8i, a company that enables real human holograms - the ability to create them and distribute them - for augmented, virtual and mixed reality. Prior to 8i, Steve was the founder and CEO of BigFrame, a YouTube media company that was acquired by Dreamworks Animation. Previously, Steve was the VP Product Development and Strategy for Entertainment & Digital at NBCUniversal. 8i is Steve’s 5th startup. Each of the previous four have been acquired. In addition to Dreamwo...
Steve Raymond (8i) on Volumetric Video and the Risks of Being Early to AR & VR (Part 1)
August 21, 2018 07:04 - 1 hour - 58 MBSteve Raymond is the CEO of 8i, a company that enables real human holograms - the ability to create them and distribute them - for augmented, virtual and mixed reality. Prior to 8i, Steve was the founder and CEO of BigFrame, a YouTube media company that was acquired by Dreamworks Animation. Previously, Steve was the VP Product Development and Strategy for Entertainment & Digital at NBCUniversal. 8i is Steve’s 5th startup. Each of the previous four have been acquired. In addition to Dreamwo...
John Canning (Digital Domain) on the Continuum of Occlusion in AR & VR
August 14, 2018 07:01 - 1 hour - 83.2 MBJohn Canning is an Executive Producer for VR, AR, and Interactive at Digital Domain. While their name might not be commonly known, you definitely know Digital Domain’s work - they create visual effects for feature films, including the recent Avengers Infinity War movie. They also create visuals for advertising, games, training, and immersive content, including their own original content. Prior to Digital Domain, John was the VP of Interactive Experiences for NBCUniversal, creating VR and ot...
David Nedohin (Scope AR) on Y Combinator, Curling & Enterprise AR
August 07, 2018 07:03 - 1 hour - 74.7 MBDavid Nedohin is a serial entrepreneur and the co-founder and president of Scope AR, which creates tools for delivering AR-based work instructions and real-time collaboration for both training and maintenance for industrial companies. David and his co-founders took Scope AR through Y Combinator, a highly selective startup accelerator. Concurrent with his entrepreneurial activities, David was also committed to the sport of curling, where he was part of a 3-time world championship team. In ...
Brian Wassom (Warner Norcross + Judd) on Creative Expression, Property Rights, and Video Game Violence in the AR Age
July 31, 2018 07:05 - 1 hour - 65 MBBrian Wassom is a commercial and intellectual property lawyer focused on creative expression, commercial identity and privacy. He is a partner at Warner Norcross + Judd, and he’s become a recognized thought leader in the legal issues raised by augmented reality. Brian is both an accomplished litigator at the state and federal levels, and a frequent speaker and writer. He wrote the book on AR law called Augmented Reality Law, Privacy, and Ethics. Brian is a big and early supporter of the AWE...
Ori Inbar (AWE / Super Ventures) on What Your Startup Should Be Building (Part 2)
July 24, 2018 07:07 - 1 hour - 59.8 MBOri Inbar is a serial entrepreneur and investor who often takes center stage at the Augmented World Expo. Also known as AWE, the conference is owned and run by AugmentedReality.org, where Ori is founder and CEO. AugmentedReality.org, along with the AWE conference, has the mission to educate and promote the true potential of AR. Ori is also a founder and managing partner of Super Ventures, an early-stage investment fund dedicated to AR. There he and his partners invest in startups changing t...
Ori Inbar (AWE / Super Ventures) on the Major Trends in AR and Who Will Win the AR Cloud (Part 1)
July 17, 2018 07:13 - 52 minutes - 48.3 MBOri Inbar is a serial entrepreneur and investor who often takes center stage at the Augmented World Expo. Also known as AWE, the conference is owned and run by AugmentedReality.org, where Ori is founder and CEO. AugmentedReality.org, along with the AWE conference, has the mission to educate and promote the true potential of AR. Ori is also a founder and managing partner of Super Ventures, an early-stage investment fund dedicated to AR. There he and his partners invest in startups changing t...
Clemens Kirner (Insider Navigation) on Navigating the Enterprise AR Needs of VW and Others
July 10, 2018 07:09 - 59 minutes - 55.2 MBClemens Kirner spent a decade working in AR as the founder and CEO of a digital agency, innovation.rocks, where he and his team built immersive experiences for enterprises. He took the insights he gathered there and created a product company called Insider Navigation, which provides precise indoor positioning, navigation, and data visualization for factories, warehouses, and other venues. Insider Navigation is based in Vienna, Austria. Volkswagen is an early pilot customer using the solutio...
Hrish Lotlikar (The Rogue Initiative) on the Future of Immersive Entertainment, Social AR, and Blockchain
July 03, 2018 07:09 - 1 hour - 81.3 MBHrish Lotlikar is a prolific entrepreneur and a co-founder of two current startups in the world of AR and VR. In AR, he’s pushing the boundaries of social networking at SuperWorld, which is a platform to create, share and discover augmented reality worlds He’s also setting the standard in high-quality VR entertainment with his partners at The Rogue Initiative, where they work with Hollywood talent such as Michael Bay, to create cinematic interactive virtual reality. In this conversation, ...
Charlie Fink (Metaverse) on a World Painted with Data and Running Through the Tape (Part 2)
June 26, 2018 05:06 - 56 minutes - 52.1 MBCharlie Fink has spent 35 years at the bleeding edge of the intersection between entertainment and technology. He was a VP of Creative Development at Disney, where he created the concept for the Lion King. He went on to be 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 - what we call today, location-based VR. Charlie was later Chief Creative Officer at AOL studios during their rise to dominanc...
Charlie Fink (Metaverse) on the Harsh Economic Realities of Location-based VR and Hurdles to VR in Every Home (Part 1)
June 19, 2018 07:11 - 48 minutes - 44.3 MBCharlie Fink has spent 35 years at the bleeding edge of the intersection between entertainment and technology. He was a VP of Creative Development at Disney, where he created the concept for the Lion King. He went on to be 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 - what we call today, location-based VR. Charlie was later Chief Creative Officer at AOL studios during their rise to dominanc...
Kevin Farnham (Mirra) on the Barrier to Creating AR/VR Experiences and the Challenge of UX Design
June 12, 2018 07:04 - 1 hour - 79.7 MBKevin Farnham is an experience designer and design executive as well as a serial entrepreneur. In 1998, Kevin started Method, which became the leading design agency focused on brand, product, and service design. There he worked with Apple, Microsoft, Google, Adobe, Nike, and many others. Over the course of his career, Kevin solved design challenges through each of the waves of personal computing: from the PC to the web to mobile. Now he’s focused on Augmented Reality. His current startup i...
Matt Miesnieks (6D.ai) on Thriving as an Entrepreneur and Pitching to VCs (Part 2)
June 05, 2018 07:06 - 1 hour - 62.8 MBMatt Miesnieks is a serial entrepreneur, turned investor, turned entrepreneur. After more than a decade of engineering and business roles, Matt has spent the last decade focused on Augmented Reality. Matt was head of customer development at Layar, an early consumer AR company. He founded Dekko, the first mobile mixed reality platform for iOS. Matt worked at Samsung as a director of product development in AR & VR. And he was a founding partner at Super Ventures, an early stage investor in AR ...
Matt Miesnieks (6D.ai) on the AR Cloud and the Value of Company Values (Part 1)
May 29, 2018 07:09 - 58 minutes - 54.2 MBMatt Miesnieks is a serial entrepreneur, turned investor, turned entrepreneur. After more than a decade of engineering and business roles, Matt has spent the last decade focused on Augmented Reality. Matt was head of customer development at Layar, an early consumer AR company. He founded Dekko, the first mobile mixed reality platform for iOS. Matt worked at Samsung as a director of product development in AR & VR. And he was a founding partner at Super Ventures, an early stage investor in AR ...
Damien Christian D’Amico and Melody Misiaszek (Vaylian) on Storytelling in VR & AR and the Power of a DIY Attitude
May 22, 2018 07:08 - 1 hour - 73.1 MBDamien Christian D’Amico and Melody Misiaszek are the two co-founders of Vaylian Studios, an immersive media studio focused on branded storytelling. Damien is a hands-on creative storyteller who believes AR and VR offer tremendous opportunities to tell engaging stories. Prior to Vaylian, Damien has been an editor, Visual Effects artist, a writer, and commercial director. He has complete projects for brands including MTV, Ford, Nintendo, Sony, Paramount Pictures. Melody spent the early part...
Paul Wehner (MarbleAR) on AR Transforming Live Music Performance and the Data Behind Meditation
May 15, 2018 07:06 - 1 hour - 85.7 MBPaul Wehner is the co-founder of MarbleAR, a company using AR to reimagine live music performance - both for the performer and the audience. Paul is an MIT grad, a relentless innovator, and a serial entrepreneur. In 2017, Paul walked away with two hackathon wins. The first was at SXSW in the music category for the concept underlying MarbleAR. The second was the grand prize at the MIT Media Lab’s Reality Virtually Hackathon for a training aid for public speaking called Speakeasy VR. One of ...
Josephine Munis (Candy Lab AR) on Location-based AR that’s better than Pokemon Go
May 08, 2018 07:04 - 1 hour - 74.8 MBJosephine Munis is the CEO of Candy Lab AR. The team at Candy Lab has created a software toolset called AR Fuse to enable developers to more easily make location-based Augmented Reality experiences. It provides a cross-platform (iOS and Android) solution for games, retail, and enterprise apps - soon to include cryptocurrency integration. Josephine is also the president of the Los Angeles Chapter of the VR AR Association, which is an industry association that focuses on building community, t...
Barry Sandrew (Legend3D Founder / Magnify World) on the Failures of VR, Potential of AR, and Living in the Matrix (Part 2)
May 01, 2018 07:03 - 50 minutes - 46.5 MBBarry Sandrew is a neuroscientist turned visual effects innovator and entrepreneur. He invented a process for colorizing black & white films, and another for converting 2D movies into 3D. As a result, Barry has touched a remarkable number of classic and modern films and TV shows - everything from It’s a Wonderful Life to Top Gun to Transformers - through the work of the companies he founded, which include Legend Films and Legend 3D. Currently Barry is involved in several AR initiatives as a...
Barry Sandrew (Legend3D Founder / Magnify World) on the Controversy of Colorizing the Classics from the Golden Age of Hollywood (Part 1)
April 26, 2018 07:03 - 57 minutes - 52.6 MBBarry Sandrew is a neuroscientist turned visual effects innovator and entrepreneur. He invented a process for colorizing black & white films, and another for converting 2D movies into 3D. As a result, Barry has touched a remarkable number of classic and modern films and TV shows - everything from It’s a Wonderful Life to Top Gun to Transformers - through the work of the companies he founded, which include Legend Films and Legend 3D. Currently Barry is involved in several AR initiatives as a...
Ari Grobman (Lumus) on Estimating the Smartglasses Market and Cutting-Edge Combiner Optics
April 17, 2018 07:21 - 1 hour - 80.1 MBAri Grobman is the CEO of Lumus, an optics company offering a unique approach to directing the light from the display system into our eyes and combining it with light from the real world. You may remember from my conversation with Karl Guttag that combiner optics are one of the most critical enabling technologies for widespread adoption of smartglasses, and Lumus is a company to watch. Lumus calls their product an optical engine, and it provides an unmatched combination of see-through perfo...