Yin-Chien Yeap is an XR developer who believes in making accessible immersive experiences for everyone. As part of that mission, he and his team have decided to bring a popular genre to the WebXR: Fitness. In this conversation, we will discuss:

• How they managed to prevent motion sickness despite being an intense racing app

• How the web is more powerful than you think

• The implications of web-based content for the future of XR

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Ernest Spicer is a data scientist, game developer, and technology executive developing new immersive learning and gaming experiences in AR powered by AI, and I don’t say that lightly because Ernest and his team were the first to deploy AI on the new Snap Spectacles.

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• How as a special Olympic coach he sees AR helping neurodivergent athletes

• We talk about the future of wearable AI

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Connell Gauld is the CTO and Co-Founder of Zapworks. Zapworks was funded in 2011 and is one of the world's leading XR Platforms and creative studios. Since then the team kept building and innovating launching:

- An affordable headset unlocking untapped growth opportunities

- An editor for both designers and developers to build AR experiences directly on the web

- A technology deployed on millions of products leveraging their knowledge of computer vision

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Jack Wang is the CEO of Kiri engine a powerful 3D scanning app for Android, iOS (and web browsers!). I have experienced Kiri myself and trust me, there some key features that makes it different from anything else on the market. Today we will dive into the world of Gaussian splatting with Jack discussing:Some of the current limitations of Gaussian splatting- The benefits of Gaussian Splatting compared to photogrammetry and the verticals benefitting from it- Some of the unique features that make Kiri engine the must have scanning app for Gaussian Splatting- A new path the team has taken after making an unexpected discovery Subscribe to XR AI Spotlight weekly newsletter 👉 https://xraispotlight.substack.com/OUR SPONSORVisit ⁠⁠Meshy.ai⁠⁠ and use the code "XRAI20" to get 20% discount on your subscription ***CONNECT WITH JACK⁠💼 ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Linkedin⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ***CONNECT WITH ME🐤⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠X (Twitter)⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠💼 ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Linkedin⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠🔗⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Link-in Bio⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠  ***PAST EPISODES🎙️ ⁠⁠⁠⁠Show Website⁠⁠⁠⁠🟢 ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠🍎⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Apple Podcast

Yacine Aciakh spent over six years as a Senior AI Product Manager at Criteo, one of France's first unicorns, where he grew multiple products to $100M in annual revenue. In 2019, he co-founded Wisear with one clear goal: connecting humans and computers like never before. 

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• We start by looking into the foundation of neural interfaces

• What were some of the challenges when building neural interfaces that fit in your earbuds

• He showed me how he could select swipe and even play games completely hands free

• We talk about accuracy and how hard it is to learn for users

• Yacin shared the launch date and price that felt shockingly closer and cheaper than what I expected

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Jeri Ellsworth is an inventor, product creator, chip designer, and system-level engineer.

Her combined passion for gaming and invention has fueled the creation of many cutting-edge technologies, culminating in the creation of Tilt Five, the world’s first augmented reality gaming system. Today we will look at:

• What are the biggest outstanding challenges when designing AR glasses

• We dive into product design and learn some of the principles that shaped what Tilt 5 is today

• Real examples of how Tilt5 is expanding beyond gaming 

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Jesse Schell is the CEO of Schell Games, a team of more than one hundred fifty people with an impressive success streak. Some of their greatest success include games like Among Us and  the “Expect You To Die” Trilogy and today we will dive into:

• What was the driving design principle when creating immersive experiences that stick with users

• How Schell games got affected by the changes on the Meta Store

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Steven founded Fantail Games to create Mixed Reality games that deepen our connection with the real world, the physical environment and our friends/family. He has worked on 40+ games with clients including Disney, Universal, EA and Hasbro working across many roles including coding, design, producing and even sales. He recently released Game Night a multiplayer mixedreality experience with no UI and where your body is the controller. Steven is a true believer in co located mixed reality and in this episode we discover:

Olivier Plante has over 12 years of experience as an innovator, team lead, founder, and is now the CEO of Fleksy: a white-label keyboard powering the best typing experiences in the world. I jumped into this conversation curious and unsure of what to expect, but Olivier opened a world to me and made me realize how important and reach a challenge like typing is in 2D, in 3D in the era of AI. We discussed:

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Avi Bar-Zeev has been at the forefront of Spatial Computing for over 30 years. He co-invented the Hololens AR headset in 2010, helped define Amazon Echo Frames in 2015, and he is going to share some of his thoughts and experience from leading the Experience Prototyping team for Apple's Vision Pro from 2016 to 2019 (Snippet 1). We discuss about:

- The mistakes he has seen companies like Apple, Microsoft and Amazon make when developing new tech (Snippet 2), 

- How and why the ad business model is bound to die (snippet 3), 

- His major concerns about AI and what consumers, developers, policy makers and tech companies should do to mitigate them (nippet 4)

- What he thinks is the missing piece to make spatial computing a reality (snippet 5)

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