Parhaat Jason McDowall Podcastit (2024)

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Sophia Dominguez (Snap) on Spectacles 5 + My Firsthand Impressions 43:06

2M ago43:06

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Driving from the flats of Beverly Hills up into the hills themselves feels like I’m entering into a different world. Here the picturesque, tree-line streets filled with beautiful homes give way to narrow, winding roads that snake their way to the tops of hillsides. In these hills, each home looks like an architectural marvel, delicately perched at …

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AWE 2024 Panel Discussion: Current State and Future Direction of AR Glasses 56:00

4M ago56:00

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I moderated a panel at the recent AWE conference that took place a couple of weeks ago in Long Beach, California. The panel featured Karl Guttag from KGOnTech, Adi Robertson from the Verve, Jeri Ellsworth from Tilt Five, and Ed Tang from Avegant. The session was titled: Current State and Future Direction of AR Glasses and the session description re…

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Paul Travers (Vuzix) on Enhancing Real-World Engagement with Smartglasses 1:09:25

6M ago1:09:25

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Paul Travers is the Founder and CEO of Vuzix, a pioneer in wearable computing, augmented reality, waveguide optics, and display engines. Prior to Vuzix, Paul was an engineer at Eastman Kodak, innovating the future of digital cameras. He went on to become a serial entrepreneur, having started multiple hardware technology companies, including in soun…

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L.Michelle Salvant (LMichelleMedia) on Transforming Mental Health Through Camera Glasses 1:13:07

6M ago1:13:07

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L.Michelle Salvant has been wearing smart glasses daily for years, harnessing their potential to enhance personal therapy, healing, and self-discovery. Her engagement with wearable technology began as a Google Glass Explorer, which sparked her interest in documenting and reflecting on life’s moments through what she developed as “Immersive Journali…

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Alex Westner (Xander) on How Caption Glasses are Changing Lives for People with Hearing Loss 1:25:43

8M ago1:25:43

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Alex Westner is the CEO and co-founder of Xander, a company at the forefront of using augmented reality (AR) technology to create innovative solutions for individuals with hearing loss. Xander's product, live captioning AR smart glasses, allows users to engage in conversations with real-time transcriptions displayed directly in their field of visio…

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Zac Duff (JigSpace) on Embodied Cognition and Leveraging AI + Spatial Computing to Transform Communication 1:22:34

9M ago1:22:34

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Zac Duff is the co-founder and CEO of JigSpace, a company focused on making it simple to create and share 3D instructions for anything, or, as their tag line suggests, making the hard to explain hard to forget. If you’ve watched the introduction of the Apple Vision Pro, or seen the demos or device itself, then you’ve had a glimpse of JigSpace when …

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Nils Pihl (Auki Labs) on Augmented Reality as Spatially Enhanced Communication 1:41:13

9M ago1:41:13

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Nils Pihl returns as our guest for a second time on the podcast. He is the CEO and founder of Auki Labs, a company dedicated to revolutionizing augmented reality positioning. Auki’s technology uses peer-to-peer communication to establish a distributed spatial computing protocol. In this episode, we revisit some of the themes from the first episode,…

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Michael Hoffman (IQXR) on Solving the Hard Problems for Enterprises 1:26:26

10M ago1:26:26

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Michael Hoffman, or “Hoff” as most know him, is the co-founder and CEO at IQXR, a company solving the hardest problems facing global-scale, enterprise XR deployments, and doing so with an open source approach. Previously Michael spent nearly a decade working with the Microsoft Hololens team. He was a Principal Engineering Lead at Microsoft for a co…

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Yi Xu (OPPO) on OPPO's Role in the Coming Age of AR Smartglasses 1:02:50

11M ago1:02:50

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Yi Xu is the director of XR Technology at OPPO, a leading Android smartphone company that's innovating in AR with their Air Glass product line. Prior to OPPO, Yi received a PhD in computer science, specializing in computer vision. He utilized these skills as computer scientist and engineer at GE Global Research and CapsoVision, working on a number …

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Bobak Tavangar (Brilliant Labs) on the Power of Combining Open Source AR Hardware and Multimodal AI 1:05:56

12M ago1:05:56

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Bobak Tavangar is the co-founder and CEO of Brilliant Labs, a company creating an open-source AR glasses hardware platform and pairing that with powerful generative AI models to help you engage with the real world. Bobak studied at George Washington and Georgetown universities before completing a graduate degree at Cambridge University. Bobak is a …

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Kirin Sinha (Illumix) on Creating Digital Infrastructure for Real-World Venues 1:10:42

12M ago1:10:42

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Kirin Sinha is the co-founder and CEO of Illumix, a company building the digital infrastructure for real world venues. You may be familiar with Illumix if you’re a fan of the horror franchise, Five Nights at Freddy’s, and the mobile game, Five Nights at Freddy’s AR: Special Delivery. While the game found a tremendous amount of success, the company …

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Evan Rose (Rose Digital) on Adding Value and the Challenges of Leading a Fast Growing Company 1:09:58

1y ago1:09:58

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Evan Rose is the founder and president of Rose Digital, a company specializing in using augmented reality to help brands engage and delight their customers. Beyond that, Rose Digital serves as an innovation partner for its clients. On the side, Evan is the founder of AR Post, one of the leading news sources for AR and VR. He’s also the co-founder a…

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Ross Finman (Augmodo) on Customer Discovery and Leveraging AI + AR (Part 2) 56:53

1y ago56:53

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Ross Finman is the CEO of Augmodo, a company utilizing AI and AR to revolutionize grocery store experiences and economics starting with the personal shoppers who fulfill online grocery purchases. Previously Ross spent 4 ½ years at Niantic. There he founded the AR mapping and Visual Positioning System (VPS) effort before becoming the AR Strategy Lea…

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Ross Finman (Augmodo) on the Approach to Selling 1 Million Headsets (Part 1) 52:30

1y ago52:30

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Ross Finman is the CEO of Augmodo, a company utilizing AI and AR to revolutionize grocery store experiences and economics starting with the personal shoppers who fulfill online grocery purchases. Previously Ross spent 4 ½ years at Niantic. There he founded the AR mapping and Visual Positioning System (VPS) effort before becoming the AR Strategy Lea…

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Replay: Maryam Sabour (Niantic) on Active, Outdoor AR Gaming 56:49

1y ago56:49

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Replay of an interview originally published in April 2023: Maryam Sabour is the General Manager and Head of Business for the AR Headsets group at Niantic, where the goal is to enable everyday adventures and real-life social interaction through location-based augmented reality. Maryam studied law and business at university, going on to earn a Juris …

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Replay: Matt Miesnieks, Dennis Crowley, John Gaeta (LivingCities) on Laying the Foundation for the Future of Social Expression (Part 2) 1:13:47

1y ago1:13:47

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Replay of an interview originally published in September 2022: Today’s conversation is a continuation of my discussion with Matt Miesnieks about LivingCities. Joining us for part 2 are co-founders John Gaeta and Dennis Crowley. John won an Oscar for his visual effects work on The Matrix movies, and after many additional creative and visual effects …

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Replay: Matt Miesnieks (LivingCities) on Reflecting Our Reality to Inspire Social Engagement in the Metaverse (Part 1) 43:07

1y ago43:07

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Replay of an interview originally published in September 2022: Matt Miesnieks is currently the CEO and co-founder of LivingCities, a company reimagining social engagement in the era of the Metaverse. Many of you know Matt as a serial entrepreneur and former investor focused on Augmented Reality. Matt was previously the CEO and co-founder of 6D.ai, …

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Yacine Achiakh (Wisear) on the Promise and Imperative for Neural Interfaces 1:02:26

1+ y ago1:02:26

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acine Achiakh is the co-founder and CEO of Wisear, a company creating neural interface devices for AR glasses and other wearables. They are packing their technology into normal-looking earphones and working to deliver the capabilities of the mouse and keyboard, hands free. Earlier in his career, Yacine studied mathematics and business before joinin…

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David Fattal (Leia) on the Magic of Lightfields 1:09:22

1+ y ago1:09:22

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David Fattal is the founder and CTO of Leia, a company dedicated to revolutionizing visual experiences through light field display technologies. Lightfield displays are able to create 3D images without glasses. You might remember Leia for its work on the LumePad tablets and the Hydrogen One Smartphone from Red. David is a quantum physicist who got …

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Sophia Dominguez (Snap) on the Importance of Product Focus (Part 2) 44:49

1+ y ago44:49

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Sophia Dominguez is the Director of AR Platform Partnerships and Ecosystem at Snap, where she’s been the last three years. Previously, she started the widely followed “All Things VR” newsletter and joined Rothenberg Ventures as an Entrepreneur in Residence before co-founding her first company, SVRF. There she created the first API and SDKs for sear…

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Sophia Dominguez (Snap) on How Technology Impacts Human Interaction (Part 1) 1:01:44

1+ y ago1:01:44

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Sophia Dominguez is the Director of AR Platform Partnerships and Ecosystem at Snap, where she’s been the last three years. Previously, she started the widely followed “All Things VR” newsletter and joined Rothenberg Ventures as an Entrepreneur in Residence before co-founding her first company, SVRF. There she created the first API and SDKs for sear…

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Jeri Ellsworth (Tilt Five) on Mentorship (Part 2) 1:01:37

1+ y ago1:01:37

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Jeri Ellsworth is the co-founder and CEO of Tilt Five, a company that has created AR glasses that bring tabletop, multiplayer games to life. Prior to Tilt Five, Jeri was the founder of CastAR, which was also making an augmented reality hardware and software platform, and one that had raised $15 million in venture funding before shutting down in 201…

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Jeri Ellsworth (Tilt Five) on Perseverance and the Pursuit of Passion (Part 1) 1:04:35

1+ y ago1:04:35

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Jeri Ellsworth is the co-founder and CEO of Tilt Five, a company that has created AR glasses that bring tabletop, multiplayer games to life. Prior to Tilt Five, Jeri was the founder of CastAR, which was also making an augmented reality hardware and software platform, and one that had raised $15 million in venture funding before shutting down in 201…

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Karl Guttag (KGOnTech) on the Many Hurdles to µLED and Broad AR Adoption (Part 2) 1:40:53

1+ y ago1:40:53

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Karl Guttag, is an industry analyst, speaker and the author of KGOnTech, a technology blog at kguttag.com. Karl has 40 years of experience in Graphics and Image Processors, Digital Signal Processing, and memory architecture, as well as micro displays, for use in Heads Up Displays and AR glasses. He’s received 150 patents related to these technologi…

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Karl Guttag (KGOnTech) on Apple Rumors and Four-Corner Market Opportunities (Part 1) 57:07

1+ y ago57:07

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Karl Guttag, is an industry analyst, speaker and the author of KGOnTech, a technology blog at kguttag.com. Karl has 40 years of experience in Graphics and Image Processors, Digital Signal Processing, and memory architecture, as well as micro displays, for use in Heads Up Displays and AR glasses. He’s received 150 patents related to these technologi…

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Maryam Sabour (Niantic) on Active, Outdoor AR Gaming 57:18

1+ y ago57:18

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Maryam Sabour is the General Manager and Head of Business for the AR Headsets group at Niantic, where the goal is to enable everyday adventures and real-life social interaction through location-based augmented reality. Maryam studied law and business at university, going on to earn a Juris Doctorate at McGill University. Early in her career, she wa…

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Ohto Pentikäinen and Jamin Hu (Doublepoint) on Touch as an Essential Form of Input for AR 1:02:11

1+ y ago1:02:11

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Ohto Pentikäinen and Jamin Hu are the co-founders of Doublepoint, a company creating human-computer interaction technologies which are initially focused on detecting the moment of touching an object. Ohto is a serial entrepreneur having been a co-founder and CEO twice by the age of 20 before co-founding Doublepoint. His earliest venture was reimagi…

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Stan Larroque (Lynx) on the Power and Potential of Video Passthrough 1:04:42

1+ y ago1:04:42

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Stan Larroque is the CEO and co-founder of Lynx, a company creating the first all-in-one mixed reality headset. The Lynx R1 offers a unique VR device with good video-passthrough of the real world to create mixed reality experiences. Stan was inspired by the early Oculus device, the DK2, but wanted a better connection to the real world. As he finish…

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David Jiang (VITURE) on the Four Factors Leading to AR Glasses Adoption 1:14:45

1+ y ago1:14:45

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David Jiang is the CEO and founder of VITURE, a company creating a smartglasses solution for video gaming and streaming content. After studying human computer interaction and industrial design at university in China, David continued his studies into human computer interaction at Harvard, where he fell in love with the Boston Celtics basketball team…

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Cayden Pierce (H2O Smart Glasses Community) on the Power of Contextual Search and Open Source Projects 1:14:01

1+ y ago1:14:01

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Cayden Pierce describes himself as a transhumanist hacker working to enhance our intelligence using AI, smartglasses, and eventually, neurotech. Cayden posts regularly about the current state of smartglasses and is actively developing open source smartglasses hardware and middleware solutions. To support those efforts and to facilitate insights bet…

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Ari Grobman (Lumus) on When We Will Get AR Glasses We’ll Want to Buy 1:00:10

2y ago1:00:10

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Ari Grobman is the CEO of Lumus, a company developing a novel optics solution for AR glasses. Before going any further, let me provide a little perspective up front: When I consider the biggest hurdles to delivering consumer-grade AR, optics and displays are at the top of the list. The display and the combiner optics are two separate, but intimatel…

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Damir First (Matterless) on the Art of Storytelling and Shared AR Companions & Toys 1:08:41

2y ago1:08:41

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Damir First is the co-founder and CCO of Matterless, a company creating genre-defining experiences in shared augmented reality—emphasis on “shared.” Early in his career, Damir earned a Master of Arts in both Sociology and Art History before pursuing his Ph.D. in Anthropology. He has been a lecturer for a number of courses spanning design, history, …

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2023 Kickoff: The Year of VR with Video Pass-through 25:40

2y ago25:40

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Today I am kicking off 2023 with another annual monologue. I hope you and your family were able to have a safe and relaxing holiday, even in the face of another arctic blast and spate of viral diseases. This is the sixth such annual kickoff episode, and when looking back at my notes from last year, the big surprise from 2022 was the resounding comm…

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Chen Zhang and Matt Udvari (Aquifer) on Using AR Tech to Create Instant Animation for Brands & Character IP 1:16:00

2y ago1:16:00

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Chen Zhang and Matt Udvari are co-founders of Aquifer, a company that has developed a SaaS platform to enable creators and teams create studio-level animated video without studios. Matt is a polymath who has persistently pursued education and work experiences across computer science, music, and storytelling. His career has spanned video game design…

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David King Lassman (GigXR) on Building the Platform for Healthcare Training 1:14:57

2y ago1:14:57

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David King Lassman is the founder of GigXR, a global provider of immersive 3D training solutions that transform collaborative learning, with an initial focus on healthcare. David is a serial entrepreneur who grew up with a passion for music, and has since started 6 companies. His companies have spanned education technology, advertising technology, …

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Eric Marcellin-Dibon and Mark Prince (MicroOLED) on Developing AR Glasses for Athletes Using Innovative OLED Displays 1:14:57

2y ago1:14:57

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Eric Marcellin-Dibon is the Co-founder and CEO of MicroOLED, and Mark Prince is the General Manager for ENGO product line. MicroOLED is a company that develops high-performance OLED microdisplays for near-to-eye applications. Power efficiency and brightness are two areas where they excel, and the company is bringing that display technology to life …

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Kyle Jackson (Talespin) on Using AI and AR/VR to Enable the Future of Education and Employment 1:31:08

2y ago1:31:08

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Kyle Jackson is the co-founder and CEO of Talespin, a company making immersive learning a reality for the future of work. Kyle is a serial entrepreneur who has worked at the intersection of technology and storytelling for over 20 years. After studying interactive multimedia design and then earning an BFA from the School of Cinema-Television at USC,…

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Glenn Snyder (Red 6) on AR for Training in Highly Intense and Dynamic Environments, Starting with Fighter Pilots 1:21:29

2y ago1:21:29

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Glenn Snyder is the co-founder and CTO of Red 6, a company that has developed an Augmented Reality solution to allow real pilots flying real aircraft to see simulated threats and other training scenarios. The AR solution works outdoors, in the bright sun and within high speed, dynamic environments. Glenn has long held a passion for aircraft, techno…

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Matt Miesnieks, Dennis Crowley, John Gaeta (LivingCities) on Laying the Foundation for the Future of Social Expression - Part 2 1:13:47

2y ago1:13:47

1:13:47

Today’s conversation is a continuation of my discussion with Matt Miesnieks about LivingCities. Joining us for part 2 are co-founders John Gaeta and Dennis Crowley. John won an Oscar for his visual effects work on The Matrix movies, and after many additional creative and visual effects projects, including Speed Racer, he went on to co-found ILMxLAB…

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Matt Miesnieks (LivingCities) on Reflecting Our Reality to Inspire Social Engagement in the Metaverse - Part 1 43:07

2y ago43:07

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Matt Miesnieks is currently the CEO and co-founder of LivingCities, a company reimagining social engagement in the era of the Metaverse. Many of you know Matt as a serial entrepreneur and former investor focused on Augmented Reality. Matt was previously the CEO and co-founder of 6D.ai, a company that built tools to help mobile phones understand the…

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Mike Wiemer (Mojo Vision) on Making AR Contact Lenses a Reality 1:03:43

2y ago1:03:43

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Mike Wiemer is the CTO and co-founder of Mojo Vision, a company enabling invisible computing with their AR contact lenses. Mike is a brilliant and accomplished technologist who is unafraid of tackling hard problems…and he and his team have solved many on their way to successfully demonstrating their wearable contact lens—working inside somebody’s e…

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Dave Haynes (FOV Ventures) on the Early Days of Digital Music and the Importance of Market Timing in Emerging Tech 1:06:37

2y ago1:06:37

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Dave Haynes is a founding partner at FOV Ventures, an investment firm backing the founders who are building the Metaverse. FOV Ventures is a new fund with a focus on European-based startups at the pre-seed and seed stage. Dave previously led HTC’s $100 million Vive X fund in EMEA and was part of the investment team at Seedcamp (Fund III). Prior to …

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Jon Rodriguez Cefalu (Preamble) on the Future of AR, AI, Sentient Robots, and Human Manipulation 58:25

2+ y ago58:25

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Jonathan Rodriguez Cefalu is the co-founder and CEO of Preamble, a company on a mission to provide ethical guardrails for AI systems by creating an AI-as-a-Service with a focus on ethics and safety. Jon earned a BS in Computer Science from Stanford University, where he discovered a passion for the coming age of VR and AR technologies. He went on to…

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Neil Sarkar (AdHawk Microsystems) on Tracking the Eyes Without Cameras and Creating a Fitness Tracker for the Brain 58:25

2+ y ago58:25

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Neil Sarkar is the CEO and co-founder of AdHawk Microsystems, a company creating the first camera-free eye tracking solution that offers unprecedented speed, data quality and power efficiency. Prior to AdHawk, Neil was a co-founder at ICSPI, which develops scanning probe instruments on a CMOS-MEMS technology platform. They are commercializing the w…

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Replay: Alon Grinshpoon (echo3D) on Building the AWS for 3D and Founder-Market Fit 52:23

2+ y ago52:23

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Alon Grinshpoon is the Co-founder and CEO of echo3D, a 3D-ready cloud platform that helps manage & deliver 3D, AR, and VR content to apps & devices everywhere. echo3D recently closed a $4M round of funding to feed continued growth after seeing a tremendous amount of momentum over the past year. Alon started his career in the Isrealli Intelligence S…

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Replay: Susan Cummings (Tiny Rebel) on AR-First Storytelling and City-Scale Games with Wallace and Gromit 57:17

2+ y ago57:17

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Susan Cummings is the Managing Director of Tiny Rebel Games and a founder of Fictioneers. Susan and her team were awarded a major UK grant for Augmented Reality storytelling, which led to "Wallace & Gromit: The Big Fix Up." This effort was followed by the release this summer of "Wallace & Gromit: Fix Up the City", an ambitious city-scale AR game th…

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Paul Travers (Vuzix) on Prioritizing Wearability Over Immersion 1:10:32

2+ y ago1:10:32

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Paul Travers is the Founder and CEO of Vuzix, a leading supplier of Smart Glasses and Augmented Reality technologies and products for the consumer and enterprise markets. Prior to Vuzix, Paul was an engineer at Eastman Kodak, innovating the future of digital cameras. He went on to become a serial entrepreneur, having started multiple hardware techn…

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Nils Pihl (Auki Labs) on Augmented Reality as an Extension of Human Language 1:12:57

2+ y ago1:12:57

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Nils Pihl is the CEO and co-founder of Auki Labs, a company solving the limitations of GPS to accurately position virtual content, particularly for shared experiences. Nils and the team at Auki are building advanced, peer-to-peer positioning protocols and AR cloud infrastructure to enable a new era of spatial computing. Nils is also the CEO of Matt…

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Tomas Sluka (CREAL) on the Power of Light Field Displays for AR Glasses 1:31:09

2+ y ago1:31:09

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Tomas Sluka is the CEO and co-founder of CREAL, a Swiss technology startup that developed and commercializes a radically new type of display that brings natural focal depth to a truly 3D visual experience within Augmented Reality. The inspiration for CREAL originated with the first commercial VR and AR headsets back in 2014. Like many others, Tomas…

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Kai Ströder (tooz) on Making Smarter Glasses with Novel Optics 1:18:23

2+ y ago1:18:23

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Kai Ströder is the co-founder and CEO of tooz, a company on a mission to develop cost-effective smartglasses for consumers. Early in his career, Kai was a research fellow at the University of Stuttgart, where he also earned a Ph.D. in Strategic Management. Over the next decade, he worked across various groups at Carl Zeiss, the world’s leading, hig…

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