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Dec. 18, 2024

How OVER is Building the Largest 3D Map of the World

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, ...

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Dec. 11, 2024

Running an immersive agency in the era of AI

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...

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Dec. 4, 2024

Why the Future of XR is Built on the WEB

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 …

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Nov. 27, 2024

The Free Open Source Toolkit for Emerging Musicians

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...

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Nov. 20, 2024

Real-Time 3D Asset Generation with AI

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...

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Nov. 12, 2024

How PlayCanvas Is Building the Future of 3D on the Web

You’ve just heard Will Eastcott, CEO of PlayCanvas, one of the most popular open-source 3D engines for the web. Before founding PlayCanvas, Will worked at major game studios like EA, Sony, and Activision, contributing to titl...

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Oct. 29, 2024

Learn About Spatial Sound Design with Jelmer Althuis

Jelmer Althuis is the founder of Sphere of Sound, a company dedicated to crafting cutting-edge audio solutions that redefine immersive experiences. He also serves as the Audio Director at VRelax, where he specializes in desig...

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Oct. 22, 2024

Artivive Turns Artists into Digital Storytellers

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 ...

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Oct. 15, 2024

Fluid’s Game-Changing Approach to Productivity in XR

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...

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Oct. 9, 2024

Mastering Craft and Controversy in GenAI Video

Billy Boman is a Swedish AI Artist, Creator and educator with over a decade-long career in design. He is a visual AI storyteller who has created some of the most cohesive and impressive AI generated video I have ever seen. …

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Oct. 7, 2024

This episode was created entirely with AI

This episode was created entirely using NotebookLM from Google. These were the publicly available content I used as sources: - CMA report on AI foundation Models - Competition in GenAI - EU initiative on Web 4.0 and Virtual w...

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Sept. 24, 2024

Can AI Save XR Collaboration? A Detailed Discussion with Gabe Baker

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...

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Sept. 17, 2024

Can ChatGPT code Beat Saber?

Quanetin Valenbois is an XR Developer, Teacher, Content Creator and CEO at Valem Studio. He has been working professionally in VR since 2017 he soon realized there was a lack of quality content developers people could rely on...

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Sept. 10, 2024

Experience 4D Gaussian Splats in VR: from Capture to Distribution

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...

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Sept. 5, 2024

Mixed Reality Capture: Why it Matters and How to Do It

Subscribe to XR AI Spotlight weekly newsletter 👉 https://xraispotlight.substack.com/ Dr Doom is the cofounder & CEO of LIV. He spent 11 years in tech with 7 of those consisting of founding & running LIV, the world's leading X...

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Aug. 28, 2024

How Oskar Stallberg Turns Procedural Generation into Successful Games

Oskar Stålberg is an established indie Game Developer, and a real authority when it comes to procedural content generation. He has worked on Tom Clancy's The Division and later focused on his own titles like Bad North and Tow...

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Aug. 14, 2024

HOLOGATE's Journey from VR Games to Military Training

Leif Petersen is the founder and CEO of HOLOGATE, a global leader in extended reality solutions with an interesting success story. It all started with entertainment and since its inception Hologate has expanded to hundreds of...

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Aug. 7, 2024

A Deep Dive into Tools and Workflows for AI-Generated Images

Sachin is an artist and creative tech entrepreneur. As the co-founder of AI Lemon Academy he has trained hundreds of professionals including teams at Amazon, to use AI in their daily creative workflow. From initial concepting...

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July 31, 2024

Building the Future of Branded Games on Web: Insights from Pigiama Ka…

Matteo and Paride are the co-founders of Pijama Kasama, an Amsterdam-based studio creating custom experiences and games for brands on platforms like Spatial, Roblox and Fortnite. They have been working with brands like Absolu...

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July 24, 2024

Deep Dive into Microsoft's XR and AI Strategy with Alex Karim

Alex Karim is a technology leader focusing on the convergence of the physical and digital world. As a Mixed Reality pioneer, Alex was the first person to deploy HoloLens 2 in Formula 1 at McLaren. In 2021 Alex joined Microsof...

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July 17, 2024

Frame: The Lightweight AR glasses powered by AI

Bobak Tavangar is the Co-founder of Brilliant Labs, A Singapore-based startup that launched to market Frame: lightweight AR glasses powered by AI. In a space of AI-enabled wearables that is getting ever more crowded, there is...

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July 10, 2024

From App Lab to PSVR2: An Inside Look at the Retropolis series

Asaf Geva is one of the co-founders of Peanut Button, the studio behind the Retropolis series, a VR narrative game that despite the close to zero production budget launched on the Meta store and gathered stellar feedback from...

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June 26, 2024

Porting Quest Apps to Vision Pro: Puzzling Places Case Study

Daniel Sproll is a trained cognitive scientist working with XR technologies for over a decade. He is the co-founder of realities.io a german studio producing multiple award winning VR experiences, the latest being the indie V...

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June 19, 2024

An insider look at the impact of AI on game development

Tommy Thompson works as a consultant in artificial intelligence with a primary focus on the video games industry. He is the mind behind “AI and games”, a YouTube channel with over 200K subscribers dedicated to increasing awar...

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