XR AI Spotlight

Jasmine, known online as Atom Bomb Body, is a VR content creator, educator, and founder of VR Content Lab. She is part of the Meta Quest Creator program and has worked with the Gorilla Tag team on social media strategy and content. In this episode she unpacks the generational split happening in VR gaming right now: why titles like Gorilla Tag are thriving with a younger audience while older players see nothing but studio closures and layoffs. She walks through the full toolkit for VR content cap

Zihao Zhang is a Columbia architecture graduate who turned a passion for reality capture and cultural tourism into Orbitur, an AI-powered virtual tour platform built on Gaussian splatting. In this episode, he walks through the journey from his first MIT Reality Hack to 10 hackathons later, with wins at XRCC and selection for the AWE Builders program shaping what Orbitur is today. Subscribe to XR AI Spotlight weekly newsletter 👉 https://xraispotlight.substack.com/ *** CONNECT WITH OUR GUEST ⁠💼 ⁠⁠

Victor Perez is XR Sales Engineer at Autodesk, specializing in spatial computing, immersive experiences, and technical sales. In this episode he breaks down Autodesk's latest moves at the intersection of XR and AI, including Gaussian Splatting support in VRED (PLY and LCC formats), and the new streaming solution that connects high-end RTX workstations to the Apple Vision Pro via NVIDIA CloudXR with foveated streaming. Victor explains how automotive, fashion, and product design companies run week

Dany Bittel is a Swiss digital artist and developer who pivoted his focus towards 3D scanning and Gaussian Splatting. In this episode, he walks through his remarkable workflow for creating photorealistic Gaussian splats of macro subjects, starting with live insects collected from his garden. He explains the full process, covers his software stack and the role of lighting in getting clean results. The conversation also explores the broader potential of Gaussian splatting for creative applications

Martin Piala, CEO and co-founder of Blurry, joins the show to break down what it actually takes to host, share, and scale Gaussian Splatting models on the web. With a background in building professional 3D infrastructure, Martin covers the practical decisions creators and studios face today: which file format to use and why raw PLY beats compressed versions for long-term flexibility, what splat counts push devices into trouble (hint: above 2.5 million), and how Blurry handles a 43 million splat,

Stijn is an #XR software engineer spending his days pushing the limits of what #AR glasses, WebXR, and generative AI can do together. He is one of the most prolific experimenters in the XR developer community, constantly sharing prototypes across Snap Spectacles, Meta Ray-Ban, Apple Vision Pro, and WebXR. In this episode, Stijn breaks down how he builds faster using AI-first workflows, he walks us through a real healthcare project based #GaussianSplatting on #VisionPro and why the glasses momen