XR AI Spotlight

By Gabriele Romagnoli

XR AI Spotlight gives the stage to founders and makers at the intersection between XR and AI. You will learn what happens when technology and creativity collide, how AI apps and XR tools are built and... more

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October 09, 2024From Designer to Video Producer Using Gen-AI
Billy Boman is a Swedish AI Artist, Creator and educator with over a decade-long career in design. He is a visual AI storyteller who has created some of the most cohesive and impressive AI generated video I have ever seen. He worked with musicians like Fred Durst and brands like Intel & Ballantines reaching hundreds of thousands of viewers. Today we will get a pick at his workflow:
How Gen AI video is opening up new opportunities for creatives
His fluid approach when creating with AI
How he managed to tap into the open-source goodness even owning a Mac
How he deals with the negative reactions towards AI and his videos

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October 07, 2024 This episode was created entirely with AI
This episode was created entirely using NotebookLM from Google.

These were the publicly available content I used as sources:
- CMA report on AI foundation Models
- Competition in GenAI
- EU initiative on Web 4.0 and Virtual worlds
- DW Youtube Documentary

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September 24, 2024Can AI Save XR Collaboration? A Detailed Discussion with Gabe Baker
Gabe Baker is a former teacher and education researcher, who took the leap into immersive tech. He made Frame, a platform that makes it easy to communicate, collaborate, and create in 3D environments directly in the web browser, mobile and even VR headsets. The platform grew hosting hundreds of events and teams from Janssen, Microsoft, Trello and MIT. But recently he announced it is time for a radical change: Frame is evolving for the new AI era. In this interview, Gabe shared with me his honest feelings and tough learnings from the perspective of a real founder and gave down-to-earth answers to some very tricky questions:
With Mozilla Hubs, Altspace and Glue shutting down is there still a need for XR meeting and collaboration apps like Frame?
How is Apple and VisionPro approaching the web space?
How are big organizations using these 3D collaborative spaces

What is the vision of AI supporting collaboration and productivity in 3D spaces
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September 17, 2024Can ChatGPT code Beat Saber?
Quanetin Valenbois is an XR Developer, Teacher, Content Creator and CEO at Valem Studio. He has been working professionally in VR since 2017 he soon realized there was a lack of quality content developers people could rely on. This is why he decided to create not one but two channels to inspire and educate developers to get started and master XR development… until AI came. That’s the moment he decided to answer a question many devs are asking right now: Can AI take over my job?
Today we will learn:
Surprising ways in which AI was capable of correcting its own mistake
What kind of knowledge do you need to follow AI’s instructions
Why, Despite the tremendous similarity of the final product with game, it is better for you as a developer to learn as a human
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September 10, 2024Experience 4D Gaussian Splats in VR: from Capture to Distribution
Gaussian splatting or for short G splats is the latest method to capture objects or entire complex 3D scenes using only a video. It falls under the category of Radiance Fields much like Nerfs but it's actually quite different: they are faster to train, you can achieve an unprecedented level of realism BUT have they lived up to the hype?
Today we will figure it out with Georgii Vysotskii, the co-founder and CEO of Gracia.ai a deep tech company specializing in the visualization of Gaussian splatting and redefining the way moments are captured and experienced…. Even in VR.
We will talk about
The story of Gracia and how they brought Splats to VR

A type of Gaussian splat you might not have heard about

The usecase unlocked by Gaussian splatting’s fast rendering speed

How they are tackling a key challenge when it comes to distribution
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September 05, 2024 Mixed Reality Capture: Why it Matters and How to Do It
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Dr Doom is the cofounder & CEO of LIV. He spent 11 years in tech with 7 of those consisting of founding & running LIV, the world's leading XR capture tool. If you have seen any cool MR footage in a commercial, trailer, streamer or content creator it is VERY likely that was created with LIV. They have recently become the official partner with Meta to bring robust and fully-featured #mixedreality Capture and virtual camera support to #metaquest and today we will discuss:

- The tools that will soon be available to developers and creators to capture #XR gameplay
- Why even bother with creating #mr content for your game or app
- What are interesting usecases for MR capture beyond gaming and social media content creation
- What the partnership with Meta means for developers and creators and how the team managed what could have been a much less desirable outcome

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August 28, 2024 How Oskar Stallberg Turns Procedural Generation into Successful Games
Oskar Stålberg is an established indie Game Developer, and a real authority when it comes to procedural content generation. He has worked on Tom Clancy's The Division and later focused on his own titles like Bad North and Townscaper, both acclaimed successes by the gaming community. Oskar has also ported Townscaper to Meta Quest and keeps finding new and creative ways to leverage procedural generation for innovative and unconventional game ideas.
Join this episode to learn:
-How he found the balance between art style and gameplay for some of his most successful games
-The role of the wave function collapse algorithm and how he took procedural generation to a new artistic level
-The reason why he has been building in public and how he gathered an audience of over 100K followers on X
-How he reimagined Townscaper for standalone VR
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August 14, 2024HOLOGATE's Journey from VR Games to Military Training
Leif Petersen is the founder and CEO of HOLOGATE, a global leader in extended reality solutions with an interesting success story. It all started with entertainment and since its inception Hologate has expanded to hundreds of multi-user VR systems across 42 countries, engaging over 22 million people with major IPs like Ghostbusters and Angry Birds. More recently the team has created a specialized section dedicated to training and simulation and they managed to deploy training with the German Army and the Swiss Police special forces. It doesn’t happen often to be this successful on both fronts and today you will learn:
How they designed and optimized every aspect of their location-based experiences

How stripping a game to its simplest form was just the key for fun

What type of games turned out to be the most popular

What it took to pivot to training and simulations designed for governmental organizations like the German Army and Swiss Police Special Forces
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August 07, 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 to refined prompting to generate specific visuals he runs bootcamps for leaders & professionals in the creative industry and he is a relentless explorer of the latest and greatest tools and workflows.
We will dive deep into the world of AI-generated images and will cover:
- The best AI image generator for various usecases
- Sachin’s obsession with consistency and how he decided to take this matter into his own hands
- How Gen AI images are used in real production
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July 31, 2024Building the Future of Branded Games on Web: Insights from Pigiama Kasama
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 Absolute, BMW, NASA and they recently launched their game based on their own IP called “Kasama the Awakening” which is without a doubt one of the best-looking web-based games you can try right now. We will dive into their journey and how they captured the learnings to create and launch this unique experience including:
Strategies to promote your web-based game
Some tips on how to make sure even the more ambitious games run smoothly on web and mobile platforms
The differences when building branded games on Fortnite, Roblox and Spatial including the monetization options for creators and even their analytic infrastructure
Why and how brands should rethink their approach to building and populating these 3D worlds

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