Damir First (Matterless) on the Art of Storytelling and Shared AR Companions & Toys

The Guest

Damir First is the co-founder and CCO of Matterless, a company creating genre-defining experiences in shared augmented reality—emphasis on “shared.”

Early in his career, Damir earned a Master of Arts in both Sociology and Art History before pursuing his Ph.D. in Anthropology. He has been a lecturer for a number of courses spanning design, history, architecture, and art, and he has since worked in blockchain technologies as well as a narrative designer for popular video games.

While a tech entrepreneur and academic, Damir is a D&D dungeon master at heart who thinks deeply about the role of technology within our human experience.

The Conversation

In this conversation, Damir shares his perspective on how AR fits within the spectrum of key enabling technologies, namely, as the next step in human communication.

Damir goes on to share what makes their technology unique, how the approach addresses privacy, the types of experiences they are creating and why, and the power of transformative narratives.

Jason McDowallconsumer, startup, storytelling, AR Cloud