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Don Stein is a prominent figure in the fields of venture capital and technology, particularly known for his work in AR and VR. Currently, he serves as the CEO of The Spatial Collective, a community focused on supporting AR/VR startups and fostering innovation in the industry. In this episode, we had the pleasure of having Samantha Creswick, Chief of Staff at VividQ, Yanira Moquel and Evanna Roman from Immerrock, and Steven Labrum from Misfitmovies.

Additional links:

https://x.com/donversationz

https://www.linkedin.com/in/donstein/

https://www.vividq.com

https://immerrock.com

https://misfitmovies.com

https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevenlabrum/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/samantha-creswick/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/yaniramoguel/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/eugenioromanmota/

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Arian Ghashghai is the founder of Earthling VC (backed by Marc Andreessen, Chris Dixon, Andrew Chen, Adam Draper), a venture capital fund investing in pre-seed companies supercharging the next paradigm shift in digital technology. Before entering venture fund business, he was a senior machine learning engineer at Meta Reality Labs working on spatial AI, and an operator-angel investor.

Additional links:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/arian-ghashghai-73ba4681/

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Irena Cronin serves as CEO of Infinite Retina. Prior to this, Irena was CEO of Transformation Group which advised decision makers on business strategies related to Spatial Computing (AR/VR), Artificial Intelligence, Facial Recognition, Robotics, Autonomous Vehicles, and related disruptive technologies. Irena was also the President and CEO of Spout Reality, an augmented and virtual reality consulting company which provided strategy and research for both AR/VR Companies and Fortune 500 companies who were investing in AR/VR. Additionally, Irena worked several years as an equity research analyst and has extensive experience at valuating both public and private companies.

Additional Links:

https://x.com/irenacronin

https://www.linkedin.com/in/irenacronin/

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In this episode, I chat with Jeri Ellsworth, the brilliant CEO of Tilt Five, to explore the future of augmented reality (AR). From her early days tinkering with the Commodore 64 to leading one of the most innovative AR companies today, Jeri shares her incredible journey and the vision behind Tilt Five.

Additional Links:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeri_Ellsworth

https://x.com/tiltfive

https://x.com/jeriellsworth

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeriellsworth

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Bobak Tavangar is a co-founder and CEO at Brilliant Labs where he works alongside a small but mighty team of hackers, engineers, and designers who are building an open-source platform for embodied AI. A graduate of Cambridge University, Bobak is a life-long technologist having founded several companies in computer vision and graph search before joining Apple as a program lead.

https://brilliant.xyz

https://twitter.com/btavangar

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Yanpei Cao is the Head of Research and a founding team member of Tripo (https://www.tripo3d.ai/). Previously, he was a principal researcher at Tencent ARC Lab (https://arc.tencent.com/en/index) and Tencent AI Lab (https://ai.tencent.com/ailab/en/index), where he led research in 3D digitization, generation, and immersive content creation. Before joining Tencent, Yanpei worked as a senior research engineer at Y-tech, Kuaishou Technology (https://www.kuaishou.com/en), and served as the CTO of Owlii (https://pitchbook.com/profiles/company/171393-49), which was acquired by Kuaishou.

He received his PhD from the Graphics and Geometric Computing Group at Tsinghua University (https://cg.cs.tsinghua.edu.cn/), where he was advised by Prof. Shi-Min Hu. He also spent a semester as a visiting PhD student at the Computer Graphics Group at RWTH Aachen University (https://www.graphics.rwth-aachen.de/), advised by Prof. Leif Kobbelt. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Tsinghua University.

About Tripo:

On the research front, the team actively contributes to the academic community, presenting at top-tier conferences like SIGGRAPH, CVPR, and ICLR. Tripo is particularly proud of its contributions to open-source projects, such as TripoSR (https://github.com/VAST-AI-Research/TripoSR), a fast and feed-forward image-to-3D model developed in collaboration with Stability AI.

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Sean is a co-founder of Zephr.xyz Inc. Previously he was an Engineering Manager at Snap working on mapping and visual positioning systems (VPS). Before Snap he was the CEO of Pixel8earth, a crowdsourced VPS system for AR. Prior to Pixel8earth he was the Head of Technical Product Management at Maxar helping build GBDX and next generation machine learning tools for satellite imagery. Subsequently he was a founder of Timbr.io – a platform for enabling algorithm reusability and more accessible data science – acquired by Maxar in 2016. Before starting Timbr.io he was a founder of GeoIQ – a collaborative data and analytics company. GeoIQ was acquired by ESRI where Sean worked as a director of strategy. Sean has also previously worked in academia, serving as a research professor at George Mason University. Sean received his PhD from George Mason University as the Provost’s High Potential Research Candidate, Fisher Prize winner and an INFORMS Dissertation Prize recipient.

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In this episode of the AllThingsXR podcast, we have a conversation with Nikolaus West, CEO of Rerun. Niko spent most of his career as a computer vision and machine learning engineer building products that run in the real world. As the co-founder and CEO of Rerun, he’s focused on the visualization and data infrastructure for multimodal data that’s needed to make fields like XR and Robotics move much faster.

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Join us on the next episode of “All Things XR” as we delve into the cutting-edge world of brain-machine interfaces with AJ, the CEO and Lead Hardware Engineer of Neurosity, a seed-stage startup revolutionizing neuroscience and technology. With a background in both neuroscience and computer engineering, AJ will share insights into how his company is bridging the gap between the human mind and machines. From the engineering challenges to the ethical implications, this episode will be a deep dive into what the future holds for human-computer interaction. Don’t miss it!

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Jonathan Stephens is the chief evangelist and developer advocate at EveryPoint. Beginning his career as a GIS analyst, Jonathan pivoted into computer vision and image processing technology as a solutions consultant focusing on solving inventory management and logistics problems for bulk material producers. In his current role at EveryPoint, Jonathan’s main focuses are in market discovery, research, and growing customer awareness through technical education.

Over the past year, Jonathan has become a leader in NeRF technology. He published the official Instant NeRF guide for NVIDIA and periodically shares advanced tips for creators wanting to get more out of the technology.

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