Nathan Pettyjohn & Mike Lohse (Lenovo) on the ThinkReality A3 and Providing an End-to-End Solution to Enterprise
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The Guests
This episode features Nathan Pettyjohn and Mike Lohse at Lenovo.
Nathan is the Commercial AR/VR Lead at Lenovo. He is also the founder and president of the VR/AR Association and the annual VR/AR Global Summit. Previously Nathan was also the founder and CEO of venture-backed asile411, a mobile indoor navigation and 3D product cloud platform.
Mike is the Hardware Product Manager for Commercial AR/VR at Lenovo. Previously Mike spent 9 years at ODG, which for a long time was the premier creator of AR glasses. As the VP of Advanced Products there, he was behind the impressive R7, R8, and R9 glasses.
Nathan Pettyjohn
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Mike Lohse
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Lenovo ThinkReality
The Conversation
In this conversation, Nathan, Mike, and I chat about the key use cases that Lenovo’s customers want to solve with spatial computing, and where AR or VR fit in the mix. We talk about the challenges of moving projects beyond initial pilots as well as Lenovo’s role in delivering holistic, end-to-end AR and VR solutions to companies. This includes software, services, and hardware.
We talk about Lenovo’s ThinkReality A6 headset and the lessons learned in the two years since its release. We also discuss the new ThinkReality A3. This new device tethers to a smartphone or PC to satisfy industrial or work-from-home productivity needs. We discuss how this new product fits with offerings from Microsoft and RealWear, and the device agnostic approach Lenovo is taking to meet the needs of their customers.
Links From The Episode
- Article: Osso VR raises 14 million to bring virtual reality to surgical and medical device training by Jonathan Shieber at TechCrunch
- Press Release: Lenovo Introduces the ThinkReality A3 — The Most Versatile Smart Glasses Ever Designed for the Enterprise
- Article: Lenovo’s ThinkReality A3 enterprise AR glasses enable data visualization in public by Jeremy Horowitz at VentureBeat
- Product Site: ThinkReality A3 and ThinkReality A6
- Article: ODG Announces Two New Smartglasses With Positional Tracking, Expanded Field of View by Ben Lang at Road to VR
- Episode Transcript