Gil Perry: From Special Forces to the Metaverse

Today’s guest is Gil Perry, Co-Founder and CEO of D-ID the technology company behind the viral MyHeritage clips where old photos have been brought to life.

A former Commander in the Special Forces unit of the Israeli Defence Forces, Gil and his army friends and co-founders started D-ID to work on protecting images and videos from facial recognition software but not long after and when Covid came, they pivoted their startup to focus on creating a suite of what they call Creative Reality tools that use their deep learning algorithms, image processing and neural networks to create high quality videos from still images. If you haven’t tried it yet, head to the MyHeritage site and give it a go - I can only describe the experience as magical.

I have long-been interested in how we can preserve the memory of our loved ones so Gil and I talk about this, as well as holograms, deepfakes, how and why the company pivoted, what lesson Gil took from the special forces to entrepreneurship and, of course, D-ID’s incredible work – from bringing history to life, right through to the metaverse.

Enjoy!

Gil on LinkedIn / D-ID website / Twitter 

Danielle Twitter / Instagram / Newsletter

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Mentioned in the episode:

MyHeritage Deep Nostalgia

Hologram of Robert Kardashian (gift from Kanye West to Kim Kardashian)

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