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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Paul Boris (Vuzix) on Smartglasses that Don’t Scare the Children (Part 2)
April 12, 2018 07:06 - 51 minutes - 47.7 MBPaul Boris is the COO of Vuzix, a leading supplier of Smartglasses and Augmented Reality solutions for the consumer and enterprise markets. On the consumer side, Vuzix recently debuted the Blade smartglasses to rave reviews at CES. It’s got the best form factor of any pair of smartglasses you can buy when it goes on sales later this year. On the enterprise side, they partner with leading software and solution integrators to solve problems around warehouse logistics, manufacturing, remote exp...
Paul Boris (Vuzix) on the Factory of the Future: Robots vs Augmented Humans (Part 1)
April 10, 2018 07:03 - 1 hour - 59.2 MBPaul Boris is the COO of Vuzix, a leading supplier of Smartglasses and Augmented Reality solutions for the consumer and enterprise markets. On the consumer side, Vuzix recently debuted the Blade smartglasses to rave reviews at CES. It’s got the best form factor of any pair of smartglasses you can buy when it goes on sales later this year. On the enterprise side, they partner with leading software and solution integrators to solve problems around warehouse logistics, manufacturing, remote exp...
Charlie Neagoy (Librestream) on the Tidal Wave of Talent Loss in the Trades and Surviving a Market Crash
April 03, 2018 07:01 - 1 hour - 99.5 MBCharlie Neagoy is the VP of Business Development at Librestream, a company focused on bringing the eyes and ears of remote experts into the field for rapid response to problems. They are coming at AR from a different angle than many. While they are focused on the remote expert use case, they are not dependent on AR to do it. Adding AR to the mix makes the offering better when it improves the quality or efficiency of the information shared. Prior to Librestream, Charlie was VP of Partner Sal...
Matt Stern (Mira) on Affordable, Hands-free AR for Everyone and Truly Immersive VR
March 27, 2018 07:01 - 1 hour - 75 MBMatt is the co-founder and COO of Mira, the mobile augmented reality company that makes premium AR experiences available to anyone. Matt started Mira while still an undergraduate at the University of Southern California with three classmates. While he’s still early in his career, Mira isn’t his first foray into immersive technology. He spent years working in VR as a Project Manager for Sony Pictures VR and CreateVR, where he helped build one of the first experiences for PlayStation VR, ‘The ...
Karl Guttag (KGOnTech) on the Misplaced Expectations of Magic Leap and the Challenge of Consumer-Grade Smartglasses (Part 3)
March 15, 2018 07:55 - 1 hour - 73.8 MBThis is the third and final part of my conversation with Karl Guttag. Karl writes a popular technology blog at kguttag.com where he dissects optics and display systems, including the efforts of Magic Leap. (For more on Karl’s background, the history of early computing, and a deep dive in microdisplay technology, check out the previous two episodes.) In this conversation, Karl talks about how hard it is to create compact, Ray-Ban-inspired smartglasses, especially at an affordable price. K...
Karl Guttag (KGOnTech) on MicroDisplay Technologies and the Hype of Holograms (Part 2)
March 15, 2018 07:52 - 1 hour - 87.8 MBKarl Guttag writes a popular technology blog at kguttag.com where he dissects optics and display systems, including the efforts of Magic Leap. In this, the second of three parts of our conversation, Karl and I get into the details and tradeoffs of display technologies used in smartglasses. (For more on Karl, check out the previous episode.) This episode is almost a masterclass in microdisplays. In several years, you’re not going to care about the nitty gritty details of microdisplays. But ...
Karl Guttag (KGOnTech) on Pixar, Patents, Pico Projectors, and The Early Days of Computers (Part 1)
March 06, 2018 19:47 - 1 hour - 91.9 MBKarl Guttag writes a popular technology blog at kguttag.com where he dissects optics and display systems, including the efforts of Magic Leap. He has 40 years of experience in graphics and image processors, digital signal processing, memory architecture, micro display devices, and micro display systems including Heads Up Displays and Near Eye Display, which are used for augmented reality and virtual reality. He has 150 patents to his name related to these technologies and many billions...
Joel Vasquez (DAQRI) on The Future of Work and Play
March 05, 2018 19:07 - 1 hour - 71.3 MBJoel Vasquez was a co-founder at DAQRI and continues to be a pioneer in the field of Augmented Reality. At DAQRI, Joel delivered hundreds of campaigns for brands such as Chevy, Pepsi, Ford, Blizzard, Target, Crayola, and many more. He has served as a multimedia Creative & Art Director, in Corporate Development, and as AR/VR/IoT Evangelist. He was also involved in the product design for the Daqri Smart Helmet, and the Daqri Smart Glasses. In this conversation, Joel describes the early day...
Lea Kozin on Marketing in AR/VR and Building Your Network
March 05, 2018 00:43 - 1 hour - 63.5 MBLea Kozin is a champion of applying leading-edge marketing strategies across media and entertainment, and she is a leading immersive media consultant, evangelist and connector. Lea has a passion for the intersection of brand activations and emerging technology, and a diverse marketing background spanning 15 years in technology, entertainment and action sports. Lea and I talk about marketing in general and brand activation in particular. We discuss what’s working and not working in marke...
Yiwen Rong (Usens) on Gesture Recognition and the Amazon Six Pager
March 04, 2018 00:05 - 1 hour - 99.8 MBYiwen Rong is the Vice-President Product at Usens, which is a company that creates 3D Human-Computer Interaction solutions for augmented and virtual reality. They are one of the first companies to provide inside-out 3D hand tracking as well as 6DOF head position tracking for both mobile and tethered AR/VR systems. (DOF stands for degrees of freedom, and it’s explained in more detail during the episode.) Yiwen earned his Ph.D from Stanford in Electrical Engineering, and went on to work fo...
Rika Nakazawa (Atheer) on An Aging Workforce
March 03, 2018 04:56 - 1 hour - 96.2 MBRika Nakazawa is the Vice-President of Strategy and Partnerships at Atheer, which is a software company focused on industrial enterprise, with a mission to connect today’s physical and digital workspaces through smartglasses. Rika and I talk about Atheer’s initial decision to build their own hardware as a means of bringing their vision to life, and their evolution towards their original and core mission: the underlying software platform and the user experience. Rika describes how Ath...
AR Show Introduction & Smartglasses Overview
March 02, 2018 00:00 - 30 minutes - 28.6 MBSmartglasses are head-worn computers with see-through displays that overlay digital information on the real world. They 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 we are still a long ways from seeing our neighbors and friends wearing them. I...