The newsweek includes layoffs at Pico, Tencent and Meta Dance, PS2 VR reviews, Healium gets backing from Mayo Clinic. Our guest is artist, author of the bestselling book Disrupt You, and the former Vice-Chair of Deloitte Digital, Jay Samit. Link to the Kickstarter for his art book: t.ly/iqUh

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The hosts are focused on AI this week, and in particular its application to immersive media. Bigscreen's making a VR HMD, and guest Alex Herrity, CEO of Anima, has launched a line of AI enabled virtual pets which you see and interact with in AR. Rony's full of startup advice for his developing business. 

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This week we're talking about real Holograms, Realwear's $375M SPAC, and $50M new financing for Light Field Lab, whose CEO Jon Karafin is our guest. Mawari and Looking Glass also raised money this week. More layoffs hit the depleted mixed reality group Microsoft. Rony says he thinks XR is doing a big exhale. Karafin's Light Field Lab means Holograms, and Rony knows a lot about this topic, too. Ted is scouting new tech for the six new theme parks Paramount Global, and is planning a trip to San Jose to see LightField Holograms in the Lab, too.

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On this week's podcasts the hosts talk about Meta (as always), the stock buyback, and the share spike; Samsung, Qualcomm, and Google are working with Meta and Microsoft to make an AR headset; what will the Apple device really look like? Our guest is HoloLens co-inventor and head of the XR Guild, Avi Bar-Zeev, who talks with us about Apple, Assisted Reality, why AR needs AI and the ethics of XR.  

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Our guest is Michael Wolf, CEO of Activate, which does strategy consulting for big tech and media companies. He is the former COO of MTV. This week we're talking about tech layoffs and retrenchment, entertainment and games, story worlding, Gemba, Dreamscape, and practical victories in enterprise XR, growth (or lack thereof) for XR, What's happening with the Metaverse, the potential of AI to change everything. 

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This week in XR news Apple, Microsoft, pull back from spatial computing. Not so fast, says guest Dan Robinson, CEO of Red 6, which has built AR enabled combat and other training sims into real aircraft. 

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This week the hosts are joined by Jeri Ellsworth, Founder, and CEO, of Tilt 5.

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Charlie and Ted recap CES from Las Vegas. They review the show in general and XR in specific. HTC introduced the Vive XR Elite stand-alone. Assisted Reality finally delivers. There were more, better haptics, dramatic advances in waveguide optics, and 3D without glasses.

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Charlie interviews Alvin Graylin, China President (HTC), and Author, Neil Stephenson (Lamina1) about their work on Vive Metaverse (Viveverse)! CES 2023.

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Our guest today is Dean Takahashi, the dean of XR and Metaverse writers. He joins the hosts to talk about the biggest stories of 2022, including crypto reckoning, AI, Meta, John Carmak, HTC, Sony, and the tech recession. Next year, says Rony Abovitz, will be the year of AI. "You ain't seen nothing yet," predicts the Magic Leap founder. 

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