Episodes

Join CLAD Summer Hackathon: https://lenslist.co/clad-summer-hackathon What is CLAD: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FP96O-wRtV4 What happens when an experienced AR developer asks an AI coding agent to build a practical Spectacles Lens, without writing a single line of code? Today we talk with Max Tsymbal, winner of week one of Snap’s CLAD Hackathon, about Packspace, a spatial packing assistant that helps users organise what to bring on a trip through Spectacles. Max explains how he used CLAD f...

In this episode, Jack Morrow, CEO of Animotive, explores how their immersive platform revolutionizes content creation in XR and AI. Discover how Animotive's real-time collaboration, AI-driven motion capture, and virtual staging are transforming industries from entertainment to education. Subscribe to XR AI Spotlight weekly newsletter 👉 https://xraispotlight.substack.com/ *** CONNECT WITH OUR GUEST ⁠💼 ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Linkedin⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠🔗 ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Website⁠⁠⁠ *** CONNECT WITH ME 🐤⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠X (Twitter)⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠ 💼 ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Li...

Jasmine, known online as Atom Bomb Body, is a VR content creator, educator, and founder of VR Content Lab. She is part of the Meta Quest Creator program and has worked with the Gorilla Tag team on social media strategy and content. In this episode she unpacks the generational split happening in VR gaming right now: why titles like Gorilla Tag are thriving with a younger audience while older players see nothing but studio closures and layoffs. She walks through the full toolkit for VR content cap...

Zihao Zhang is a Columbia architecture graduate who turned a passion for reality capture and cultural tourism into Orbitur, an AI-powered virtual tour platform built on Gaussian splatting. In this episode, he walks through the journey from his first MIT Reality Hack to 10 hackathons later, with wins at XRCC and selection for the AWE Builders program shaping what Orbitur is today. Subscribe to XR AI Spotlight weekly newsletter 👉 https://xraispotlight.substack.com/ *** CONNECT WITH OUR GUEST ⁠💼 ⁠⁠...

Victor Perez is XR Sales Engineer at Autodesk, specializing in spatial computing, immersive experiences, and technical sales. In this episode he breaks down Autodesk's latest moves at the intersection of XR and AI, including Gaussian Splatting support in VRED (PLY and LCC formats), and the new streaming solution that connects high-end RTX workstations to the Apple Vision Pro via NVIDIA CloudXR with foveated streaming. Victor explains how automotive, fashion, and product design companies run week...

Dany Bittel is a Swiss digital artist and developer who pivoted his focus towards 3D scanning and Gaussian Splatting. In this episode, he walks through his remarkable workflow for creating photorealistic Gaussian splats of macro subjects, starting with live insects collected from his garden. He explains the full process, covers his software stack and the role of lighting in getting clean results. The conversation also explores the broader potential of Gaussian splatting for creative applications...

Martin Piala, CEO and co-founder of Blurry, joins the show to break down what it actually takes to host, share, and scale Gaussian Splatting models on the web. With a background in building professional 3D infrastructure, Martin covers the practical decisions creators and studios face today: which file format to use and why raw PLY beats compressed versions for long-term flexibility, what splat counts push devices into trouble (hint: above 2.5 million), and how Blurry handles a 43 million splat,...

Stijn is an #XR software engineer spending his days pushing the limits of what #AR glasses, WebXR, and generative AI can do together. He is one of the most prolific experimenters in the XR developer community, constantly sharing prototypes across Snap Spectacles, Meta Ray-Ban, Apple Vision Pro, and WebXR. In this episode, Stijn breaks down how he builds faster using AI-first workflows, he walks us through a real healthcare project based #GaussianSplatting on #VisionPro and why the glasses momen...

Oscar Falmer, Wearable Developer Advocate at Meta joins the show to break down what it actually takes to build for the Meta Ray-Ban AI Glasses. With the display glasses SDK released recently, Oscar walks through the two development paths: the Device Access Toolkit for mobile app extensions with heavy AI processing, and the new lightweight web apps optimised for the display. He explains why AI-first developers and non-technical builders are better positioned than VR developers, how the monocular ...

Mike Golembewski is an interactive designer, researcher, and writer running MWG Design & Research, an independent consultancy focused on immersive media, artistic practice, and emerging technology. In this episode, Mike breaks down the structural challenges facing cultural XR, the category of immersive work that functions more like theatre or documentary than gaming. We cover why festival-premiered XR experiences rarely survive beyond their premiere, why platform stores like Meta and Steam are f...

Andrey Shelomentsev is the co-founder of Splatica, a London-based physical AI infrastructure startup building consumer-grade 3D reality capture pipelines. In this episode, we get into the real trade-offs between capture tools, how Splatica's one-click cloud pipeline turns a casual walk-around with an Insta360 into a navigable 3D Gaussian Splat scene overnight and what we need to turn photorealistic Gaussian Splats into a synthetic training ground for robots. Subscribe to XR AI Spotlight weekly n...

In this episode, Ruben Frosali, founder of TRIDOT and Head of Cinematics at JADU AR, unpacks how he builds interactive Gaussian Splat experiences across Unity, AI generation tools, and mobile AR. Drawing on two decades of work across film, music videos, volumetric capture, shaders, and real time graphics, Ruben explains how 3DGS can be used in production workflows. He also shares how tools like World Labs and Sharp change the speed and flexibility of 3D world creation, where web workflows may ou...

Fernando Rivas-Manzaneque is the CEO and co-founder of Volinga AI, a spin-off born from early research into 3D Gaussian Splatting for professional film and virtual production. In this episode, Fernando walks through what Volinga actually does: from its Unreal Engine plugin, which brings relighting, depth of field, reflections, and proxy mesh-based materials to Gaussian Splats, to the newly released Volinga Suite, a full end-to-end pipeline built on top of LightField Studio with HDR and ACES supp...

Explore the latest in 3D Generative AI tools, workflows, and industry implications with Gabriele, Stefan, and Philipp. Discover top models, segmentation techniques, Gaussian splatting, and future trends shaping 3D AI. Subscribe to XR AI Spotlight weekly newsletter 👉 https://xraispotlight.substack.com/ *** CONNECT WITH OUR GUESTS ⁠🔗 ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Stefan YouTube:⁠⁠⁠ @stefan_ai_3d ⁠🔗 ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Philipp YouTube: @PixelArtistry_ *** CONNECT WITH ME 🐤⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠X (Twitter)⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠ 💼 ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Linkedin⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ 🔗⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Link-in Bio...

In this episode, Christian Stein, co-founder and CEO of Threedy GmbH, explains why CAD data remains so difficult to use outside engineering, even inside companies like Mercedes-Benz and BMW. Spun out of the Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research, Threedy has spent years helping enterprise teams make massive industrial 3D data usable across web, tablets, and XR. He also shares where headset deployments still struggle, why tablets remain more practical in many enterprise settings, and...

In this episode, we speak with Inna Horobchuk, an architect and creative technologist exploring spatial AR through Snap Spectacles. She shares how her background in architecture informs her approach to designing digital layers in real environments, focusing on context-aware and utility-driven experiences. Inna explains why solving small, practical problems can be more impactful than building complex demos, and how constraints like field of view and battery life shape design decisions. Subscribe...

Shane Harris, founder and CEO of SideQuest and Tetiana from the popular YouTube channel Discover Tatiana join us to take a look at how VR discovery has changed from the early Quest era to today’s far more crowded market. They break down how SideQuest now works across Meta, SteamVR, sideloaded content, web, desktop, mobile, and in-headset browsing, and why aggregation, curation, reviews, and community engagement matter more than ever. The conversation also explores what developers can actually do...

Mariem Farhat, co-founder and CEO of Solaya, joins us to break down how smartphone-based 3D Gaussian Splatting can make high-fidelity product capture usable for retail and e-commerce. Drawing on her background at the intersection of business, luxury, and deep tech, Mariem explains how Solaya is building guided capture, compression, web delivery, mesh conversion, and post-processing tools around a single scan. Subscribe to XR AI Spotlight weekly newsletter 👉 https://xraispotlight.substack.com/ *...

In this episode, Mindy Lee from XGRIDS discusses the innovative PortalCam, a spatial camera that combines SLAM technology with Gaussian splatting for fast, high-quality 3D capture. The conversation explores practical workflows and adoption across industries including construction, real estate, filmmaking, robotics simulation, and XR. They also discuss pricing changes, interoperability with tools like Unreal and NVIDIA Isaac Sim, and the push toward open spatial data formats. Subscribe to XR AI S...

Dr. Ryan Moore is a pediatric cardiologist and Chief Emerging Technologies Officer at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, where he leads teams building AR, VR, robotics, and AI systems that can move from prototype to real clinical use. In this episode, Ryan breaks down how a children’s hospital ended up with an in-house Unity and Unreal “gaming lab,” and what it takes to prove value beyond a flashy demo. We dig into VR3S, their surgical planning platform that turns CT and MRI data into patient-speci...

Today’s guest is Max Van Leeuwen, he is a digital creator known for his innovative work in augmented reality and more specifically Lens Studio. We discuss Max's creative journey, the importance of storytelling in AR projects, and the technical challenges faced when developing for Spectacles. The conversation also explores hand tracking, the role of mobile devices in AR experiences, and how to get started with Lens Studio. Max shares insights on integrating AI into AR and emphasises the need for ...

In this conversation, Andy Baker, lead developer at OpenBrush, and Sutu, a renowned digital artist, discuss the evolution of OpenBrush, a powerful VR creative tool. They explore its features, the experiences of artists using it, and the collaborative workflows it enables. The discussion also covers the importance of publishing and sharing creations, the future of VR as a creative medium, and the potential for community engagement. The guests emphasise the accessibility of VR and the transformati...

James C. Kane is a Webby-winning developer and emerging tech artist pushing the boundaries of what #WebXR can do. We unpack how he builds narrative-first immersive experiences that grab attention in the first seconds, from establishing shots and pacing, to sound design, voice acting, and careful onboarding. James breaks down how he chooses between engines like Wonderland, PlayCanvas, and SparkJS and how he built and published his #GaussianSplatting based web game called “The Shadow of the Czar”....

Giorgio Ballestin is a Technical Product Manager and XR specialist at MARIN, the Netherlands’ maritime research institute, where he owns the XR development roadmap and helps shape long-term simulation and digital twin capabilities. In this episode, we unpack how MARIN’s ship handling simulators evolved from large CAVE and motion-platform bridge systems into hybrid setups that add VR for deck-level and off-bridge operations. Giorgio explains why VR adoption is slower than it looks on paper, inclu...