Episodes

A Deep Dive into Tools and Workflows for AI-Generated Images
Aug. 7, 2024

A Deep Dive into Tools and Workflows for AI-Generated Images

Sachin is an artist and creative tech entrepreneur. As the co-founder of AI Lemon Academy he has trained hundreds of professionals including teams at Amazon, to use AI in their daily creative workflow. From initial concepting...

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Building the Future of Branded Games on Web: Insights from Pigiama Kasama
July 31, 2024

Building the Future of Branded Games on Web: Insights from Pigiama Ka…

Matteo and Paride are the co-founders of Pijama Kasama, an Amsterdam-based studio creating custom experiences and games for brands on platforms like Spatial, Roblox and Fortnite. They have been working with brands like Absolu...

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Deep Dive into Microsoft's XR and AI Strategy with Alex Karim
July 24, 2024

Deep Dive into Microsoft's XR and AI Strategy with Alex Karim

Alex Karim is a technology leader focusing on the convergence of the physical and digital world. As a Mixed Reality pioneer, Alex was the first person to deploy HoloLens 2 in Formula 1 at McLaren. In 2021 Alex joined Microsof...

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Frame: The Lightweight AR glasses powered by AI
July 17, 2024

Frame: The Lightweight AR glasses powered by AI

Bobak Tavangar is the Co-founder of Brilliant Labs, A Singapore-based startup that launched to market Frame: lightweight AR glasses powered by AI. In a space of AI-enabled wearables that is getting ever more crowded, there is...

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From App Lab to PSVR2: An Inside Look at the Retropolis series
July 10, 2024

From App Lab to PSVR2: An Inside Look at the Retropolis series

Asaf Geva is one of the co-founders of Peanut Button, the studio behind the Retropolis series, a VR narrative game that despite the close to zero production budget launched on the Meta store and gathered stellar feedback from...

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Porting Quest Apps to Vision Pro: Puzzling Places Case Study
June 26, 2024

Porting Quest Apps to Vision Pro: Puzzling Places Case Study

Daniel Sproll is a trained cognitive scientist working with XR technologies for over a decade. He is the co-founder of realities.io a german studio producing multiple award winning VR experiences, the latest being the indie V...

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An insider look at the impact of AI on game development
June 19, 2024

An insider look at the impact of AI on game development

Tommy Thompson works as a consultant in artificial intelligence with a primary focus on the video games industry. He is the mind behind “AI and games”, a YouTube channel with over 200K subscribers dedicated to increasing awar...

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The Secret of Building Virtual Worlds for Top Brands
June 12, 2024

The Secret of Building Virtual Worlds for Top Brands

Michael Potts teaches XR worldbuilding at UCLA Extension, has been working with XR technology for the past 28 years and is the CEO of Polycount, An award-winning agency that for the past 24 years has been building digital wor...

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The Environmental Impact of AI Quantified
June 5, 2024

The Environmental Impact of AI Quantified

Alex de Vries is a PhD candidate at the VU Amsterdam School of Business and Economics and the founder of Digiconomist, a research company dedicated to exposing the unintended consequences of digital trends. His research focus...

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The Secret of Tech Storytelling Revealed
May 29, 2024

The Secret of Tech Storytelling Revealed

Subscribe to XR AI Spotlight weekly newsletter 👉 https://xraispotlight.substack.com/ Lucas Rizzotto is a viral innovator founder and mad scientist… and I am not exaggerating. His creations span everything from XR to AI and ha...

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Unlocking Adaptive Mixed Reality for the Real World
May 15, 2024

Unlocking Adaptive Mixed Reality for the Real World

Moritz Loos has a background in software engineering, worked at Mercedes Tech motion to bring XR experiences into the car and he is now the co-founder of 2Sync an SDK for mixed reality experiences that allows to automatically...

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The EU AI Act: What it Means for Deep Tech Founders
May 8, 2024

The EU AI Act: What it Means for Deep Tech Founders

Alexandra Magaard is a storyteller, strategist, policy wonk and the former Head of Tech Policy at iconomy in Berlin, a capacity builder organization for the European tech ecosystem. She advised multiple startups and scaleups ...

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The Future of VR Travel: From Photorealism to AI Guides
May 1, 2024

The Future of VR Travel: From Photorealism to AI Guides

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 t...

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Beyond the Screen: the Science of Human Vision and AR Glasses
April 24, 2024

Beyond the Screen: the Science of Human Vision and AR Glasses

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...

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The Truth of Using Gen AI for Game Development
April 16, 2024

The Truth of Using Gen AI for Game Development

Jussi Kemppainen, has over 24 years of experience as game designer, director, 3D and VFX artist and has embarked on a journey to create a full game with the help of AI: Echos of Somewhere, now available as a demo on the proje...

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How to Capture and Relive Memories in 3D (without a Vision Pro)
April 10, 2024

How to Capture and Relive Memories in 3D (without a Vision Pro)

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...

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How to Build AR Experiences for Brands on Any Street
April 3, 2024

How to Build AR Experiences for Brands on Any Street

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, Bo...

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Building Virtual Worlds with Generative AI
March 27, 2024

Building Virtual Worlds with Generative AI

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 cr...

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Digital Fashion: from Sustainability to Digital identities
March 20, 2024

Digital Fashion: from Sustainability to Digital identities

Suza Vos is a digital fashion pioneer. During the beginning of her career at the Fabricant she had the chance to work with renowned brands like Off White, Adidas, Puma, Star Atlas and Ubisoft. She has now become an independe...

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Tools and Resources to learn and master NeRFs and Gaussian splatting
March 13, 2024

Tools and Resources to learn and master NeRFs and Gaussian splatting

Michael Rubloff is a leader in neural radiance fields (also known as. NeRF), a technology that turns 2D images into photorealistic three-dimensional scenes. He established the largest independent Discord server for radiance f...

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The future of 3D GEN AI: From Assets to World-building
March 6, 2024

The future of 3D GEN AI: From Assets to World-building

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 sk...

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Using data to improve XR apps' performance, retention, and presence
Feb. 28, 2024

Using data to improve XR apps' performance, retention, and presence

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...

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The Power of AI for Brands: Strategies, Engagement, and Growth
Feb. 14, 2024

The Power of AI for Brands: Strategies, Engagement, and Growth

As Sr. director of innovation at Media Monks Funs Jacobs focuses on helping companies navigate this shift in brand building. Media Monk has been named the AI Agency of the Year by Adweek, for demonstrating “exceptional talen...

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Using AI as a Designer: Challenges and Best Practices for Design Sprints
Feb. 7, 2024

Using AI as a Designer: Challenges and Best Practices for Design Spri…

Markus Edgar Hormes is the Co-Founder of WorkPlayExperience, a German service innovation consultancy helping organizations of all sizes to tackle complex business problems. He is a co-author of the top-selling book, “This is ...

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