Founder Episodes

Connell Gauld is the CTO and Co-Founder of Zapworks. Zapworks was funded in 2011 and is one of the world's leading XR Platforms and creative studios. Since then the team kept building and innovating launching: - An affordable...

Jack Wang is the CEO of Kiri engine a powerful 3D scanning app for Android, iOS (and web browsers!). I have experienced Kiri myself and trust me, there some key features that makes it different from anything else on the marke...

Yacine Aciakh spent over six years as a Senior AI Product Manager at Criteo, one of France's first unicorns, where he grew multiple products to $100M in annual revenue. In 2019, he co-founded Wisear with one clear goal: conne...

Jesse Schell is the CEO of Schell Games, a team of more than one hundred fifty people with an impressive success streak. Some of their greatest success include games like Among Us and the “Expect You To Die” Trilogy and toda...

Olivier Plante has over 12 years of experience as an innovator, team lead, founder, and is now the CEO of Fleksy: a white-label keyboard powering the best typing experiences in the world. I jumped into this conversation curio...

Subscribe to XR AI Spotlight weekly newsletter 👉 https://xraispotlight.substack.com/ Gordon is the co-founder of Anything World, a startup that wants to make everyone a 3D content creator using AI! One of the things that make...

Diego di Tommaso is the co-founder of OVER, an ambitious startup seeking to merge the physical and virtual world through Augmented Reality (AR). And while this vision sounds very ambitious and something we have heard before, ...

David Marak has been active in XR since the early days of Google Cardboard and the first prototypes of augmented reality. Six years ago, he co-founded the immersive studio Yord, which has since expanded worldwide and is now r...

Jonathan Hale is the CEO and CTO of the Wonderland Engine, a hyper-optimized 3D engine for 3D, VR, and AR on the web. If you've played any of the WebXR apps suggested by the Meta Quest Browser, it most likely was built using ...

Max Tiel is one of the co-founder of Thunderboom Records, a dutch studio committed to empowering musicians, professionals and organizations in the music industry that like many others creative fields has been shaken up by Gen...

Andreas Edesberg is the co-founder and CEO of Sloyd. With over 300,000 users globally, Sloyd is on a mission to make 3D asset creation accessible, quick, and easy. But are they living up to the expectations and needs of studi...

Sergiu Ardelean is a serial Austrain entrepreneur. He successfully exited an Augmented Reality agency in Vienna that served prestigious clients such as Volkswagen and Audi across 42 countries. He is now leading Artivive: the ...

John Dagdalen is the founder of Fluid an app that turns your VR headset into a spatial computer. Spatial computing and productivity are hot topics with various hardware and software players trying to crack the code and get th...

Gabe Baker is a former teacher and education researcher, who took the leap into immersive tech. He made Frame, a platform that makes it easy to communicate, collaborate, and create in 3D environments directly in the web brows...

Gaussian splatting or for short G splats is the latest method to capture objects or entire complex 3D scenes using only a video. It falls under the category of Radiance Fields much like Nerfs but it's actually quite different...