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

Snap released the 5th generation of the Spectacles glasses, and Sophia provides the context. She talks through the big picture of how the glasses fit into Snap's vision, notable improvements, and their goals for the device. BONUS: This episode includes my firsthand perspective wearing the glasses during a preview demo experience.

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Paul Travers (Vuzix) on Enhancing Real-World Engagement with Smartglasses

Paul returns to the show to discuss some breakthroughs in optics and display engines, which enable highly wearable smartglasses. We also discuss Vuzix’s new OEM strategy, where they are looking to partner and supply the major players in the space. Paul closes with advice for entrepreneurs.

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

Zac is the co-founder and CEO of JigSpace, a company focused on making it simple to create and share 3D instructions for anything. Zac starts his story in Tasmania, off the coast of the mainland of Australia. We talk about his early passion for 3D development, the formation of JigSpace, and the amazing journey he and his team have been on since.

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Nils Pihl (Auki Labs) on Augmented Reality as Spatially Enhanced Communication

Nils is a behavioral engineer who studied Meme Theory. We discuss meme theory as integral to evolving human communication and our relationship with future AI. We also talk about Auki’s peer-to-peer positioning protocols and applications to enhance communication with spatial context.

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

Bobak and his team are creating an open source AR hardware platform and pairing it with powerful, privacy compliant, and multimodal AI. We discuss his perspective, his core philosophy, what his team has built, and where they are going. Plus, Bobak shares some dating advice he received from Stephen Hawking.

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Kirin Sinha (Illumix) on Creating Digital Infrastructure for Real-World Venues

Kirin describes the evolution of the company as they went through the Disney Accelerator in 2021 to shift their focus to providing the digital infrastructure for real-world venues. Kirin shares her wisdom about fundraising, understanding customers, and building confidence.

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

Ross and his team are using AI and AR to revolutionize grocery store experiences and economics starting with the personal shoppers who fulfill online grocery purchases. In Part 2, Ross describes his focus at Augmodo, the importance and approach to customer discovery, and how AI & AR work together to form a solution.

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

Ross and his team are using AI and AR to revolutionize grocery store experiences and economics starting with the personal shoppers who fulfill online grocery purchases. In Part 1, we discuss Ross’s perspective on the AR market opportunity and lessons learned from his first startup, Escher Reality.

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

As the GM and Head of Business for the AR Headsets group at Niantic, Maryam discusses the rationale and approach to enabling the hardware for everyday adventures and real-life social interaction through location-based augmented reality. We get into Maryam’s background in law, her work with early stage startups, and Niantic’s progress and vision for their AR hardware efforts.

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

Co-founders John Gaeta and Dennis Crowley join Matt for a deeper dive into LivingCities. They share their perspective on blending the virtual and real world and discuss the hard problems they are excited to solve. They also provide some hints at new forms of social expression in a 3D spatial environment.

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

Matt shares the evolution of his perspective on AR and creating successful startups after 6d.ai’s sale to Niantic. He talks about the foundational observations and ingredients for creating something special with LivingCities, including finding a unique approach to tying the real world to the virtual.

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David Fattal (Leia) on the Magic of Lightfields

David is a Quantum Physicist by training and now leading a company revolutionizing visual experiences through light field display technologies. We get into David’s background in quantum physics and how that led to the formation of Leia. We discuss what a light field display is, why it’s useful, and how the company is bringing its vision to life.

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