AR Show with Jason McDowall

Jason McDowall: Investor | Advocate | Entrepreneur•www.thearshow.com

The AR Show dives deep into the emerging world of Augmented Reality with a focus on the underlying technologies and uses of Smartglasses, and the people behind them. I talk with entrepreneurs, executives, investors and early adopters to extract insights that will both inform and inspire you. In each episode, I explore the approaches, challenges, and progress behind the products and companies. I also extract the lessons learned and insightful advice from each guest. Equal parts technology, product, entrepreneurship, and personal growth, the AR Show follows a journey of discovery through revealing interviews.

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Cory Grenier (Geenee) on Getting Heard at Vergence Labs, Snap Spectacles, and now Geenee

Cory Grenier is the CEO of Geenee, a company on a mission to make the physical world around us easily recognizable to computers using mobile, browser-based technology. They combine image and video recognition, WebAR, and creative services to deliver unique value to brands. Cory started his career at Lenovo in Beijing, becoming a global product marketing manager. He returned to the US in 2013 to join Vergence Labs, an innovative startup building AR glasses. Vergence was acquired by Snap to form t...

Oct 20, 2020•1 hr 16 min•Ep. 124

Matt Miesnieks on a 6D.ai Postmortem and Startup CEO Masterclass

Many of you know Matt Miesnieks as a serial entrepreneur and former investor focused on Augmented Reality. Matt was most recently the CEO and co-founder of 6D.ai, a company building tools to help mobile phones understand the real world and enable compelling AR experiences. Matt started his career in a number of engineering and business roles, before shifting his focus to Augmented Reality more than 10 years ago. Matt was head of customer development at Layar, an early consumer AR company. He fou...

Oct 06, 2020•1 hr 37 min•Ep. 123

Angelo Stracquatanio (Apprentice.io) on AR-Enabled Collaboration for Life Sciences

Angelo Stracquatanio is the co-founder and CEO of Apprentence.io, a software platform to help life sciences teams bring critical drugs to market faster and with higher reliability. Leveraging AR glasses is a key component of the solution. Angelo was a competitive swimmer in college and studied finance, winning the New York Society of Security Analysts Annual Investment Research Challenge competition. After starting his career in finance, Angelo shifted to mobile software development at the begin...

Sep 22, 2020•1 hr 24 min•Ep. 122

Remi Del Mar (Epson) on Zen and the Art of Fit, Form, and Function for AR Glasses

Remi Del Mar is the senior product manager responsible for Epson’s visual displays and Moverio AR glasses. Remi has been at Epson for almost 5 years. Previously she worked at BitTorrent and spent nearly 8 years at Logitech working on a number of different products, including on an early exploration in AR. She brings a deep passion for the art of product management, of delivering a product that consumers truly love. In this conversation, Remi explores some of the key use cases she’s seeing for th...

Sep 08, 2020•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 121

Pat Antaki (seeBOOST) on Becoming an Olympian at 42 and Giving Sight to the Visually Impaired

Pat Antaki is the founder and CEO of seeBOOST, a company creating a prescription glasses solution for people with vision impairment. The device incorporates an optimized, video pass-through AR system over one eye of the glasses. Pat is a former MIT grad with a long history in microelectronics design and engineering, including spending several years working with industry expert, Karl Guttag. These days Pat is committed to improving the quality of life for millions of people with vision impairment...

Aug 25, 2020•1 hr 16 min•Ep. 120

Christina Heller (Metastage) on Capturing the Humanity of a Live Performance for AR & VR

Christina Heller is the CEO of Metastage, an XR studio that brings live performances into digital worlds through volumetric capture and complementary tools. The resulting 3D content can be experienced in augmented reality using mobile phones or high-end AR headsets, or using 3D displays. Metastage uses the Microsoft Mixed Reality Capture system and is located in Los Angeles. Prior to leading Metastage, Christina was the CEO of VR Playhouse, an immersive content company based in Los Angeles. She ...

Aug 11, 2020•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 119

Steve Sinclair (Mojo Vision) on AR Contact Lenses and Lessons from Handspring, Palm, & Apple’s iPhone

Steve Sinclair is the SVP of product at Mojo Vision, a company enabling invisible computing with their AR contact lenses. Steve has an amazing background in the product development and product marketing of personal computing technologies throughout the smartphone revolution. He worked at Handspring, Palm, Apple’s iPhone team, which he joined in 2007, as well as at HP and the Motorola division at Google, which was then sold to Lenovo. He brings 20 plus years of insight to Mojo Vision, which imagi...

Jul 28, 2020•1 hr 20 min•Ep. 118

David Gull (Outer Realm) on Helping the 40% of Home Buyers and Renters Who Regret their Decision

David Gull is the Founder and CEO of Outer Realm, a company within the Real Estate industry leading the shift from 2D screens to immersive Virtual and Augmented Reality for better decision making. The tool helps people visualize properties undergoing transformation. David has both an architectural design and technology background, and he believes that creating experiences that engage both gut-level intuition as well as concrete factual presentation are key to gaining trust, and ultimately stakeh...

Jul 14, 2020•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 117

Dominic Collins (Darabase) on Placing AR Content & Ads on the Physical World with Permission

Dominic Collins is the co-founder and CEO of Darabase, a platform to manage and monetize AR permissions on the physical world. Prior to Darabase, Dominic was the general manager of international for Jaunt, which was a content capture technology company and studio focused on VR and later AR. He has also been the CEO or Director of Digital across a number of telecom companies, including Sky, Orange Digital, and T-Mobile, as well as the Chief Marketing Officer of financial services company, Legal &...

Jun 30, 2020•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 116

SXSW Spanning Realities With Music (Panel: Amy LaMeyer, Tony Parisi, Rebecca Barkin, Eric Wagliardo)

Today’s conversation is a recreation of a South-by-Southwest Panel that didn’t happen this year because the conference was canceled. My guests are so passionate about their topic, we got the panel together to share with you here. This conversation was recorded the same week that SXSW was scheduled to happen in March. Here’s a bit from the show guide: From Childish Gambino’s augmented reality dancing to Marshmello’s Fortnite concert in virtual reality to the mixed reality experience of Tonandi, i...

Jun 16, 2020•1 hr 24 min•Ep. 115

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