With decades of awareness and passion for immersive technology, Michael Potts, CEO of M2 Studio, joins Tyler and Sophia to talk about his journey from creating real-world architecture visualization solutions to becoming a Metaverse Architect. Links: M2 Studio website LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-potts-6205a43/ Twitter: @tylerhgates @sophiamosh Visit the VR/AR Association at www.TheVRARA.com for more information about how you can get involved with this worldwide organization to ...
Jul 15, 2021•55 min
Sly Lee, Co-Founder and CEO of Emerge, shares with us his approach to the emotional perspective of touch and how he hopes to create the next paradigm of presence. Links: www.emerge.io https://www.linkedin.com/in/slylee/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/emergeio Twitter: @slyjacklee @emerge_io @tylerhgates @sophiamosh Visit the VR/AR Association at www.TheVRARA.com for more information about how you can get involved with this worldwide organization to help gain exposure and share ideas and best p...
Jul 08, 2021•52 min
This week we sat down with Alex Howland, Co-Founder and President of Virbela, to discuss how he used his drive for human connection, culture and community to create such a rich and engaging platform used by individuals and companies around the world. Links: Virbela.com LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/alex-howland-ph-d-7b60bb20/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/virbela Twitter: @VirbelaHQ @tylerhgates @sophiamosh Visit the VR/AR Association at www.TheVRARA.com for more information about how ...
Jul 01, 2021•50 min
Join Tyler and Sophia with our guest Matthieu Lorrain, Head of Creative, Google AR Partnerships, in a conversation around his dedication to digital creativity and his thoughts on building immersive experiences to improve society in our new virtually augmented world he calls “Post Reality”. Links: www.matthieulorrain.com LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthieulorrain/ Twitter: @tylerhgates @sophiamosh Visit the VR/AR Association at www.TheVRARA.com for more information about how you can g...
Jun 24, 2021•1 hr
Tyler and Sophia speak with Ada Rose Cannon, Developer Advocate for the Samsung Web Browser Samsung Internet and Co-chair of the Immersive Web Working Group at the W3C. They discuss WebXR and the exciting innovations and advancements that this technology framework is having on immersive content. Links: https://developer.samsung.com/internet LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/adarose/ Twitter: @adarosecannon @samsunginternet @tylerhgates @sophiamosh Visit the VR/AR Association at www.TheVRARA...
Jun 17, 2021•59 min
James Watson, founder of XRTech Marketing and Co-Chair, shares his expertise on the enterprise/training market and how to help the end customer understand the impact of VR/AR to help drive the industry forward. Links: Company website: www.xrtechmarketing.com https://arpost.co/2021/03/30/vr-dead-hang-on-what-about-enterprise-vr/ LinkedIn - www.linkedin.com/in/jamescwatson Twitter: @tylerhgates @sophiamosh Visit the VR/AR Association at www.TheVRARA.com for more information about how you can get i...
Jun 10, 2021•57 min
Greg Jones, Senior Business Development XR at NVIDIA joins Tyler and Sophia to discuss the power of streaming in the cloud and how NVIDIA's CloudXR will empower and enable the immersive technology industry. Links: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/design-visualization/solutions/cloud-xr/ LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/gregjones6/ https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/author/gregjones/ Twitter: @tylerhgates @sophiamosh Visit the VR/AR Association at www.TheVRARA.com for more information about how you ...
Jun 03, 2021•58 min
Cathy Hackl and John Buzzell, co-authors of the new book The Augmented Workforce: How AI, AR and 5G Will Impact Every Dollar You Make, discuss with us the process of writing the book and the incredible insights to the immersive technology industry this book provides. Links: https://www.theaugmentedworkforce.com/launch https://www.cathyhackl.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/jbuzzell/ Twitter: @buzzxr @cathyhackl @tylerhgates @sophiamosh Visit the VR/AR Association at www.TheVRARA.com for more inf...
May 27, 2021•41 min
Thaisa Yamamura, Head of Business Development at Sony, and Francois Audouy, Production Designer at HBO Max, bring us an engaging conversation about Sony’s new Spatial Reality Display and how creators can use it to magically manifest ideas into volumetric and dimensional form. Links: https://www.audouy.com/ https://electronics.sony.com/spatial-reality-display/p/elfsr1 LinkedIn: Thaisa Yamamura - Head of Business Development at SONY François Audouy - Production Designer - HBO Max Twitter: @tylerhg...
May 20, 2021•59 min
Adam Gam, Chief Marketing Officer and Vice President of Perfect Corp, talks to us about how Perfect Corp is leveraging AR and AI in the Beauty Industry to provide accurate face tracking, digital connections and experiential shopping for beauty brands and consumers. Links: https://www.linkedin.com/company/perfect-corp Article to include Beauty Tech: The Complete Guide 2021 LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamjgam/ Twitter: @tylerhgates @sophiamosh Visit the VR/AR Association at www.TheVRAR...
May 13, 2021•50 min
Most people take their hearing for granted, but Brendon Stead, SVP Product Development and Engineering at Sound United, talks to us about how important sound is in our daily lives and especially when used properly within immersive technology experiences. Links: Sound United's homepage LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/brendon-stead/ Twitter: @tylerhgates @sophiamosh Visit the VR/AR Association at www.TheVRARA.com for more information about how you can get involved with this worldwide organi...
May 06, 2021•58 min
Joanne-Aśka Popińska and Tom Hall from Infinite Frame Media speak to us about their powerful immersive storytelling journey and innovation in volumetric capture techniques. Their most recent project, The Choice XR, is an intimate and powerful experience that shares interactive conversations with women about their struggles and experiences with women's reproductive rights. Links: Website: https://www.infiniteframemedia.com/ Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/company/infiniteframemedia Facebook: ...
Apr 29, 2021•1 hr 9 min
Tony Bevilacqua, Founder and CEO of Cognitive 3D, discusses the power of utilizing metrics in AR/VR, the evolution of metrics in technology, and how this awareness can give users a better understanding of the holistic view of the trainees performance. Links: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tbevilacqua/ https://cognitive3d.com/ Enterprise Guide to Scaling VR Training Twitter: @tylerhgates @sophiamosh Visit the VR/AR Association at www.TheVRARA.com for more information about how you can get involved w...
Apr 22, 2021•55 min
Andrew Searle from IO Industries discusses the importance of camera technology in a direct relationship with the capabilities of volumetric capture within virtual and augmented reality. Over the past 30 years, IO industries have innovated the use of specialty sensors within cameras to empower and advance the immersive technology industry. Links: Company website: http://www.ioindustries.com/ Get to know your volumetric video camera - befores & afters Commercial Volumetric Capture stages using...
Apr 15, 2021•47 min
Dave Beck, CEO and Founder of Foundry 45, shares his insight into some of the challenges he faced in starting a VR company and how Foundry 45 helps clients connect the dots on creating effective VR training. Dave helps us understand how VR training can be used not only for upskilling and reskilling, but also to improve workforce wellness. Links: https://foundry45.com/ LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jdavidbeck/ Twitter: @tylerhgates @sophiamosh Visit the VR/AR Association at www.TheVRARA....
Apr 08, 2021•45 min
Long term collaborators and XR community builders Chris Crescitelli and Greg Katano share their journey through 3D film making, virtual reality, and the power that immersive technology brings to creating meaningful relationships. Join us in this light hearted conversation that helps us understand the importance of creating opportunities for connectivity in XR and how meeting the right people in the right circumstance can make this big city of technology feel like a small town. Links: https://dre...
Apr 01, 2021•1 hr 6 min
In our second episode with Randy Brown, VP of Virtual Heroes Division at Applied Research Associates (ARA), we pick up our conversation where we left off… 2013 and the introduction of the Oculus Rift DK1. With over 30 years working within the immersive technology space, Randy helps us understand the technological advancements to get to where we are now, the importance of the last 10 years for Virtual Reality, and some of the key elements of what’s to come.Links: https://www.virtualheroes.com Lin...
Mar 25, 2021•58 min
Randy Brown, VP of Virtual Heroes Division at Applied Research Associates (ARA), tells the story of Virtual Reality from the vantage point of the university research facilities in the late 80’s all the way to the Oculus spark in 2013 that reinvigorated the industry. Links: https://www.virtualheroes.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/randallabrown/ Twitter: @tylerhgates @sophiamosh Visit the VR/AR Association at www.TheVRARA.com for more information about how you can get involved with this...
Mar 18, 2021•1 hr 4 min
Ibrahim Jilani takes us through his journey and UL’s efforts in establishing UL8400, the first safety standards around immersive technologies. Tyler and Sophia discuss with Ibrahim what it means for immersive technology to start to come of age for consumers and how creating standards for VR and AR hardware allows manufacturers to build and scale the technology in a safe and meaningful way. Links: www.ul.com/vrar https://www.thevrara.com/safety-security Safely Operating Lithium Products – A Messa...
Mar 11, 2021•1 hr 8 min
We talk to Jason Marsh, CEO and founder of Flow Immersive. Jason explains his journey and how he saw the need to create an enterprise platform that allowed users to tell their data story using spatial content. Flow makes the content creation process easy and accessible across all computers and phones. We dive into the power of data visualization and collaboration using immersive technology. Links: Website - flowimmersive.com Quest-compatible examples: a.flow.gl Trumps Tweets: https://a.flow.gl/#...
Mar 04, 2021•48 min
VRgineers CEO and Co-Founder, Marek Polcak (inventor of the XTAL Head Mounted Display), gives us a behind the scenes look at what’s required to invent game changing hardware capabilities within the immersive technology space. From establishing successful use cases, filtering out critiques, and meeting demanding requirements from top clients, this conversation is a must listen for anyone looking at how to make an impact with virtual reality. Links: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marek-polc...
Feb 25, 2021•46 min
What does the next generation of digital media look like? Kim Adams and Maxwell Planck of Adventure Lab take us through a delightful conversation through their experiences at Pixar and Oculus/Facebook and how that brought them front and center to the mainstage of creating a platform that supports immersive theater at scale. Links: https://www.adventurelab.fun/ LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/adventure-lab/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/kim-adams123/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/maxwellpla...
Feb 18, 2021•56 min
Join us for an in-depth look into the policy world of immersive technology with Ellysse Dick, Policy Analyst for the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF). Ellysse talks with us about some of the challenges, solutions and the stories behind how policy is shaping technology and how in return… technology is shaping policy. Links: https://itif.org/publications/2020/12/14/how-address-privacy-questions-raised-expansion-augmented-reality-public https://itif.org/person/ellysse-dick Li...
Feb 11, 2021•50 min
We are excited to welcome Jeremy Dalton, Author and Head of XR at PwC, to discuss with us his new book, Reality Check: How Immersive Technologies Can Transform Your Business. This conversation takes us through the story of what is XR, why it is valuable in business and what are some of the common misconceptions about XR. Links: http://www.pwc.co.uk/vr https://www.pwc.co.uk/XRInIndustry https://realitycheckxr.com/ https://www.pwc.com/SeeingIsBelieving https://www.pwc.com/us/vlearning LinkedIn - h...
Feb 04, 2021•56 min
Tyler Gates and Sophia Moshasha once again sit down with Cynthia Maller, Head of CGI at Walmart and Art.com, to discuss how the brain delights in novelty and how realism may not, in fact, be the ultimate goal in immersive technology. Links: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cynthiamaller/ Twitter: @tylerhgates @sophiamosh Visit the VR/AR Association at www.TheVRARA.com for more information about how you can get involved with this worldwide organization to help gain exposure and share ideas a...
Jan 28, 2021•55 min
Mark Sussman, retired Captain in the U.S. Army, medical practitioner in surgical critical care and CEO/Founder of Aardvark AI talks with Tyler and Sophia about how Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, and Artificial Intelligence allows medicine to take the next step into more effective and efficient healthcare. Links: LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-sussman-688166140/ Twitter: @tylerhgates @sophiamosh Visit the VR/AR Association at www.TheVRARA.com for more information about how you c...
Jan 21, 2021•1 hr 6 min
Cynthia Maller, Head of CGI for Walmart and Art.com takes us through an honest and experienced story about the importance of solidifying the operational structure required for successful scaling of immersive technology within a large corporation. Links: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cynthiamaller/ Twitter: @tylerhgates @sophiamosh Visit the VR/AR Association at www.TheVRARA.com for more information about how you can get involved with this worldwide organization to help gain exposure and ...
Jan 14, 2021•58 min
Join us as Paul Travers, President/CEO and Matt Margolis, Head of Business Development of Vuzix share their story and how they are navigating their company’s A-Z journey through spatial computing and wearable technology. Vuzix has been paving the way for AR and VR companies for over two decades and is at a pivotal point in providing the best of the best products to market in 2021. Links: LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/paul-travers-534b336/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/margolismatt24/ Twitte...
Jan 07, 2021•59 min
In this episode, our hosts, Tyler Gates and Sophia Moshasha, sit down for the “2020 Year in Review” edition of the podcast. It has been an exciting year of conversations with some of the best in the industry. We’ve highlighted some key takeaways from some of our favorite episodes. At the Everything VR/AR Podcast, our goal is to give a voice to the technologies. We are so grateful for our loyal listeners and guests! Here’s to an exciting 2021, filled with endless opportunities for collaboration, ...
Dec 31, 2020•47 min
Today we are speaking with Saai Sundar from Sify eLearning. As Tech Expert and Practice Head for Sify’s Center of Excellence, Saai has been with the company since 2006 and has been part of Sify’s AR and VR progression since the beginning. In this conversation, we get an incredible introduction to the type of thought process and experience needed to make a real impact in immersive technology. Links: LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/saai-sundar-h-386726b/ Twitter: @saai_sundar @tylerhgates @...
Dec 24, 2020•43 min
