Founder Episodes

Akin Bilgic is one of the founders of BRINK XR - creators of BRINK Traveler, a top-rated virtual travel experience featuring fully immersive photorealistic 3D environments from around the world. It is without a doubt one of the best looking experiences on the Quest right now and recently implemented an AI that allows the traveler to ask any questions regarding the virtual locations showing the power of blending immersive with artificial intelligence Join this conversation to learn: What it tak...

Tomas Sluka worked as a research engineer at CERN on the development of electronic nano-devices. During his scientific career, he co-authored over 50 scientific papers, 10 patent applications and Is now the CEO and co-founder of CREAL, a Swiss startup that developed and brought to market a transformative type of display made for Augmented reality that solves the problem of eye comfort and simulates how the human eye focuses on near and far objects bringing a level of immersion that was literally...

Andrew R McHugh is the founder and CEO of Wist, an app for stepping inside your memories on mobile and in XR. Previously at Samsung, he was Team Lead and Senior Designer at the XR Design Group. Andrew contributed to the LGBTQ+ Museum and his work has been featured in Vice, This Week In Startups, and the Wall Street Journal. By listening to this episode you will learn: What are spatial memories and how to capture them without a Vision Pro How AI can close the gap in memory capture ...

Stefan Marx and Anne-Sophie Panzer are the cofounders of Zaubar, an AI-powered platform to augment reality at every location. Over the past years Zaubar has worked with renowned brands such as Cocal cola, Siemens, Meissen, Borussia Dortmund, and several Cultural and historical sites where they deployed treasure hunts and gamified AR experiences adding a digital layer to any location. Recently they announced a partnership with Deutshe Telekom to bring AR across Europe during the 2024 European Foo...

Adam B. Levine is an asymmetrical thinker, drawn by disruptive technologies starting with blockchain and more recently venturing into AI. He is Chief innovation Officer at Blockade Labs a gen Ai tool that allows anybody to create skyboxes, 3D environments from pure text and is poised to change the way we build digital worlds. Join us for this conversation to learn: His approach when building a Gen AI tool The role of open source and Tech Giants in the Gen AI race How Ai is disrup...

Tejas Kulkarni holds a PhD in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence at MIT. He has worked on large AI systems at Google deep Mind and he is now CEO of Common Sense Machine, An AI platform that turns images, video or sketches into game-engine-ready 3D assets. By listening to this episode you will learn: What are AI hallucinations What is the best modality to obtain 3D models generated by AI How 3D generative AI models are going to evolve and specialize How the future of 3D ...

Tony Bevilacqua is the Founder and CEO of Cognitive3D, a spatial #analytics platform that allows XR teams to collect spatial data understand user behaviors in #3d space, measure the user level of presence and build better and more immersive XR experiences. Listen to this episode to learn: The missing link between retention metrics and understanding user behaviors How to use data to improve app performance How to use the XR privacy framework to inform participants about the #data the ap...

🔔 Subscribe to Meshy using the code "XRAI20" to get 20% off 😉 Ethan Hu holds a PhD in Computer graphics and AI from MIT, is a serial founder in Silicon Valley and CEO at Meshy. This AI-powered tool allows you to create 3D models solely from text or even texture them in under a minute. Meshy ranked 2nd among nearly 100 products launched on Product Hunt and Has recently announced an integration with Snap AR lens studio Join this episode to learn about: - The three parameters that make for a great ...

Rohil loves design, dreaming of new ideas, and making them a reality. He is the founder and CEO of Nimo Planet: a new device designed with the vision to create the world's best productivity computer that fits in the pocket and enables anyone to work from anywhere. Currently, his hands are all on Nimo Glass Design, Building Nimo OS, Business. Join in to learn: - How affordable wearable AR is going to enhance human productivity - What it takes for a founder to build a hardware startup…. Twice - Ho...

Antony Vitillo, also known as the Skarredghost, is a CTO with 2 lives. At night he has built XR apps since 2014 like HitMotion Reloaded (who implemented MR already in 2019) and most recently the social app VRROOM. During the day he writes a popular blog, speaks at conferences and has grown a huge audience in the XR space. In this episode you will learn: - What it takes to build a successful social platform - How to recruit top artists - The lessons learned as a CTO of an XR startu...