XR Connections Episode 012 with Covalent's Thomas Jackson on the MIT XR Reality Hack

XR Connections - Extended Reality - XR | AR | VR | MR

English - February 10, 2020 20:59 - 34 minutes - 32.3 MB - ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
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Previous Episode: No. 11 with Dan Zaitsev of the AR Creator's Community CatchAR

Next Episode: No. 13 with Terry Proto of Virtual Reality Marketing and Ubereal Agency

Episode 012 presents an overview of leading-edge XR tech and hardware as seen at MIT Reality Hack 2020 in an interview with Thomas Jackson, founder of XR design and development firm Covalent Reality. A volunteer at this year's MIT XR Hackathon, Jackson discusses the Human Bionic Display of the Varjo VR headset, the open source AR platform Project North Star, his favorite Hackathon projects and who he follows to keep up with XR developments.

MIT Reality Hack 2020

Thomas Jackson

Covalent

MIT Hackathon VR Tech:

Oculus Rift

Oculus Quest

Vive Pro

HP Reverb

Varjo

MIT Hackathon AR Tech:

MagicLeap

HoloLens

Project North Star

nReal Light

MIT Hackathon Projects

GhostbustXR

VSiBL

Ryan Kopinsky

Thomas Jackson's Follow Recommendations:

John Carmack, AI researcher, Consulting CTO Oculus VR

Michael Abrash, Chief Scientist, Oculus

Timmy Ghiurau, Volvo

Jacob Cedulf, Volvo

MIT Hackathon Team

Eswar Anandapadmanaban

Sarah Pillai

Scott Greenwald

Maria Rice