Shawn Adamek, Chief Strategy Officer at Umbra 3D joins us to talk about Umbra's 3D solutions that make it possible to display any 3D content in real time on any piece of hardware. Their software is licensed by some of the largest gaming, architecture, and 3D scanning companies. We discuss the AR Cloud, occlusion culling and overall how Umbra 3D is helping make possible some of the most sophisticated 3D experiences possible across virtually any device. Connect with Umbra 3D at https://umbra3d.com...
Apr 12, 2018•37 min
On this episode, we are joined by Hollywood-based VR studio Light Sail VR , with Matthew Celia, Co-Founder & Creative Director and Robert Watts Co-Founder and Executive Producer. They join us to speak on a new narrative design they created specifically for interactive VR games and film, bringing the "choose your own" adventure platform in all its complexities to VR. We discuss the details of their debut horror, “Speak of the Devil, a live-action interactive experience with game and film elem...
Apr 05, 2018•38 min
Jeremy Kidd, CEO of Banjo, joins us to discuss some fascinating projects that Banjo has delivered related to augmented reality productivity, virtual reality training, and a pediatric VR experience designed to reduce anxiety for children getting an MRI. Banjo designs and builds interactive AR, VR and 3D experiences for product design/development, marketing and training, CPG, manufacturing, engineering and healthcare. Connect with Jeremy at jeremy.kidd@banjodigital.com or https://banjodigital.com ...
Mar 30, 2018•33 min
We are joined for a second time by Nick Alcid, Co-Founder and VP of Escape to Virtual Reality, California’s first large scale location based VR gaming platform. We discuss the unique motion capture wireless system available at their studio, the company’s recent move to the L.A. Fashion District area, and their new partnership with meleap.com, and their AR headset system that includes the HADO gaming tournament, and HADO Cart games that will be available at Escape to Virtual Reality. Connect with...
Mar 15, 2018•40 min
Brad Scoggin, Co-Founder and CEO of SpringboardVR joins us again for an update on the Location-Based VR market. We discuss SpringboardVR and how they’re making it easy and more efficient for operators to launch and manage their location based VR experiences. Brad also talks about the interest they’re now seeing from entertainment, education and enterprise. We also have some fun talking about what impact the blockbuster movie, Ready Player One , might have on the industry. You can connect with Br...
Mar 08, 2018•45 min
Travis Cloyd, VR Director, VR Producer, and CEO of Observe Media discusses his experience as being the VR producer for Hannibal Pictures’ feature film Speed Kills starring John Travolta. Travis talks about the details of shooting cinematic VR, both the challenges, and some of the mind-blowing VR cuts they were able to achieve in Puerto Rico, leveraging drones, 360 cameras, speedboats on the ocean, and capturing in VR, one of the great actors of our time, John Travolta. We also discuss the presen...
Mar 07, 2018•53 min
Harold Hayes Jr. is an award-winning Hollywood VR writer/creator who has done work with Disney, Warner Brothers, Universal, and 20th Century Fox. As the creator of the VR experiences for The Greatest Showman (with a second experience soon to release), IT , Annabelle and The Conjuring , Hayes is helping to forge the future of entertainment. We focus our discussion on the entertainment industry’s lack of diversity, and the opportunities that come from adding diversity into the culture of entertain...
Mar 01, 2018•41 min
We are joined by Dr. Sana Farid, Co-Founder of Munfarid Consulting which is located in Dubai to discuss the significant and growing impact VR is having on healthcare and education, and the VR ecosystem in the Middle East. Dr. Sana Farid has been featured as one of the top 100 Bahraini notable women who transformed Bahrain, and the Ultimate list of 101+ Women leading VR/AR, Ambassador for Women of Wearable in Bahrain, KSA, and UAE. Munfarid is a Learning & Development consultancy firm, focusi...
Feb 22, 2018•41 min
Joining us on this episode of the Everything VR & AR Podcast are Nino Sapina, the Co-Founder and CEO of Realcast and Craig Vezina, who is the Co-Founder and CBO (Chief Business Officer) at Realcast. Realcast offers interactive AR experiences on Hololens and Apple’s AR kit and we discuss their unique approach of leveraging Nino’s experience as a game designer and executive, along with Craig’s experience in education, to build educational mixed reality and augmented reality showcases. We also ...
Feb 15, 2018•40 min
We are joined by Ray Kallmeyer, CEO of CreateAR. CreateAR is a leading Augmented Reality design and development firm and is a part of the Microsoft Mixed Reality Partner Program. We talk about CreateAR’s work with Mercedes Benz in Japan and their strategy for refining mixed reality user interface design. We also talk about the current landscape for recruiting talent to build, design and develop new AR, VR, and MR applications and how app developers and game developers are converging more than ev...
Feb 08, 2018•41 min
On this episode, we are joined by Charlie Rosenbury who is the Owner of Self Interactive. Self Interactive provides interactive development services ranging from websites to custom applications for startups, agencies and large corporations and the business is growing significantly in creating virtual reality & augmented reality experiences. We talk about the VR training platform that Self-Interactive has deployed with a major manufacturer and how it adapts into other verticals like healthcar...
Feb 01, 2018•36 min
We are joined by Dan White, Co-founder and CEO of Filament Games, and Brandon Pittser, Director of Marketing and Outreach at Filament Games. We discuss how Filament Games is applying their mission of creating playful experiences that improve people’s lives to game-based learning. Filament games has over 100 games they’ve produced for clients like National Geographic, The Smithsonian, McGraw Hill Education, and universities including MIT, Oklahoma State University, and the University of Wisconsin...
Jan 25, 2018•48 min
Tom Westerlin is the Creative Director at Nice Shoes, a creative design studio headquartered in New York City. Nice Shoes works with some of the biggest consumer brands in the world serving as a creative studio and color and finishing production company. On the show we talk with Tom about how brands are starting to use VR and AR for experiential marketing and also as a sales tool. We explore some fascinating case studies, the importance of 360 sound, and a look into what the future might hold as...
Jan 12, 2018•45 min
We’re joined on the show by Jacob Koo who is the chief executive officer and co-founder of VR't Ventures, a company that is focused on developing virtual reality (VR) applications that affect everyone. On the show we discuss VR't Ventures virtual reality (VR) applications that capture and archive artistic expression through the power of 360-degree immersive technology, using volumetric photogrammetry and laser scanning to bring the best of museum experiences to VR. We talk about VR't Ventures’ f...
Jan 04, 2018•40 min
On this episode we are joined by Alan Smithson, an entrepreneur and investor and currently the CEO of MetaVRse, one of North America’s leading consultancies for virtual reality and augmented reality. Alan is a globally renowned keynote speaker on the topics of VR and AR. On the show today we talk with Alan about VR and AR and how it’s impacting training, marketing, and enterprise. We discuss Magic Leap One, Apple, Google, Microsoft and Facebook and the rapidly changing ecosystem. Connect with Al...
Dec 21, 2017•27 min
David Trainor, Founder and Principal of Sentireal joins us this week on the Everything VR & AR Podcast. Sentireal specializes in developing apps that deliver personalized education and training experiences using VR/AR. David discusses how VR/AR content itself is generated using machine learning and artificial intelligence technology so that each user automatically gets a tailored experience. Sentireal serves many industries including medical and healthcare education and training and other ot...
Dec 07, 2017•39 min
Pleased to be joined by Jim Malcom, the General Manager of Humaneyes Technologies in North America. This is a fascinating discussion on the current and future state of VR and 360 video. We talk hardware, software, distribution, monetization opportunities and the recent Vuze VR Camera being on the International Space Station in partnership with National Geographic and much more. Have a listen and let us know what you think about this episode by sending us an email to podcast@thevrara.com . Connec...
Nov 30, 2017•53 min
Martin Herdina, CEO of Wikitude joins us on the show to discuss how Wikitude created an augmented reality engine that empowers thousands of developers globally with iOS, Android & Smart Glasses apps to deliver AR, Image & Object Tracking, Instant tracking (SLAM) and Geo AR. Martin discusses the challenges it took to overcome the growth cycle of AR after starting the company in 2009 and how that perseverance has evolved into one of the largest AR developer tools today. We also discuss the...
Nov 22, 2017•34 min
We’re joined on the show by Tracey Wiedmeyer, CTO of InContext Solutions, a global leader in scalable cloud-based virtual reality solutions for retail, dedicated to optimizing the in-store shopper experience. Tracey talks about how brands and retailers are using VR to test new merchandising layouts, product packaging and shopper engagement. He also talks more about their new VR collaboration tools that allow brands and retailers to work together in real-time within a VR experience to test new le...
Nov 16, 2017•35 min
Gal Schvebish, Co-Founder and CEO of Snaappy joins us on the show to discuss how Snaappy has created an AR communication platform and social app that allows users to create and edit AR content, create AR characters, messages and videos with friends. Think of Snaappy like a “Facebook Messenger meets Snapchat”. Gal discusses the company’s mission of connecting users with a smile on their face, and how their Snaappy character is scaling globally. Reach out to Snaappy for more information at www.sna...
Nov 02, 2017•28 min
Today on the show we are joined by Brad Scoggin, Co-Founder and CEO of SpringboardVR . Brad talks about his company’s rapid growth over the last 12 months, and offers incredible insights on the location-based VR marketplace. SpringboardVR has created a system for launching and managing VR Arcades, and licenses that system to other arcades all over the world. You can connect with Brad at brad@springboardvr.com . Have a listen and let us know what you think about this episode by sending us an emai...
Oct 26, 2017•33 min
This week we revisit an interview with Karl Guttag from December 2016 in which we talk about Magic Leap and patents. Due to this weeks Magic Leap news regarding a recent deal with Madefire and comic book immersion we thought it might interest you. Have a listen and let us know what you think about this episode by sending us an email to podcast@thevrara.com . Full shownotes can be found at http://thevrara.com/podcast-posts/karlguttag2...
Oct 12, 2017•1 hr 10 min
On this episode we are joined by Amy Peck who is the founder of EndeavorVR, a leading global VR/AR strategy & consulting firm, co-founder of BoundlessXR, a simulation & training platform, and is also Head of Enterprise Strategy at UploadVR. Amy speaks regularly on Enterprise VR and has long been an AR/VR evangelist. She holds several advisory roles and is Co-chair of the VRARA Enterprise Committee. Amy launched the Enterprise division at Leap Motion before starting her own company. Her o...
Oct 05, 2017•37 min
Jesse Schell , CEO of Schell Games and a professor at Carnegie Mellon University’s Entertainment Technology Center joins us on the show today. Schell Games is a full-service game design and development company headquartered in Pittsburg. Schell Games is one of the largest independent game studios in the US, with clients that include Disney, The Fred Rogers Company, Oculus, Seaworld Entertainment, PBS Kids, and more. Jesse talks about their latest VR game called “I Expect you to Die” that recentl...
Sep 28, 2017•35 min
Today we’re joined on the show by Shel Israel, a Partner at the Transformation Group and we are discussing Augmented Reality and the Future of Work. Shel co-founded TG in early 2017 by Shel and Robert Scoble, where they’re dedicated to helping big brands develop and implement Mixed Reality (MR) strategies. Shel discusses the applications of AR and AI related to consumer facing businesses like retail, real-estate, and travel. We dive into industrial and enterprise industries, AR advertising and m...
Sep 21, 2017•56 min
Ryan Peterson , CEO of Finger Food talks about the work his company is doing for clients by applying Artificial Intelligence and IOT to the major platforms of mixed reality, augmented reality and virtual reality. Ryan talks about pivoting his company early-on with Co-Founder and CTO, Trent Shumay, from originally being a video gaming company, to now being a software and hardware development firm for big enterprises and growing the company to over 100 employees with no VC funding. Ryan also discu...
Sep 14, 2017•29 min
Caspar Thykier , Co-Founder and CEO of Zappar explores Zappar’s mission of democratizing AR, VR and MR, creating tools for thousands of developers to create content and deploy quickly and easily. Caspar discusses the impact of Apple’s ARKit, Google’s ARCore, QRCodes, ZapCodes, ZapWorks and more. Have a listen and let us know what you think about this episode by sending us an email to podcast@thevrara.com . Full shownotes can be found at http://thevrara.com/podcast-posts/casparthykier...
Sep 07, 2017•40 min
Avery Bedows, CEO of Altar joins us to discuss thinking in 3D. We discuss how his company is creating a platform to think and present in VR and AR, applying insights from the Method of Loci and cognitive science research . Avery discusses Altar’s early release on Steam for VR and how they’re porting the experience to AR using the Apple ARKit and Google’s recently announced ARCore. Have a listen and let us know what you think about this episode by sending us an email to podcast@thevrara.com . Ful...
Aug 31, 2017•32 min
Adina Shanholtz, Technology Evangelist from Microsoft discusses VR/MR, immersive media, HoloLens and more. You can follow Adina on Twitter at @feytechnologist . Have a listen and let us know what you think about this episode by sending us an email to podcast@thevrara.com . Full show notes at: http://thevrara.com/podcast-posts/adinashanholtz...
Aug 24, 2017•27 min
Mike Boland, Founder and Chief Analyst at ARtillry discusses what Apple's ARKit means for all of us, and how developers, content creators, and brands should be looking to leverage it. We discuss the scale of ARKit being launched in iOS 11, the top industries that will be effected, monetization and potential new ad formats in AR, and the new AR ecosystem being created by Apple, Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Snap. Full show notes can be found at: http://thevrara.com/podcast-posts/mikeboland...
Aug 17, 2017•43 min
