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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How many episodes does XR AI Spotlight have?

The podcast currently has 64 episodes available.

XR AI Spotlight episodes:

March 20, 2024Digital 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 independent digital fashion artist, shown her work at Amsterdam Fashion Week and MET AMS and is now actively exploring how XR and AI can improve and disrupt the fashion industry and her design process.
Listen to this episode to learn:
Meaningful ways in which digital fashion can contribute to sustainability

What it took to create the first-ever holographic fashion show

How Democratization might not always be a good thing

Her professional advice for creatives growing their own practice
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CONNECT WITH SUZA
💼 ⁠Linkedin⁠
🔗 ⁠Website

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CONNECT WITH ME
🐤⁠X (Twitter)⁠
💼 ⁠Linkedin⁠
🔗⁠Link-in Bio⁠

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PAST EPISODES
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48min
March 13, 2024Tools 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 field creators radiancefields.com, to follow closely the rapid evolution of this technology. He collaborated with leading companies like NVIDIA and Shutterstock and shared his expertise at prestigious events like SIGGRAPH 2023.

Listen to this episode to learn:
The differences between various types of Nerfs

How to edit and clean NeRFs and Gaussian Splatting

2 ways to view your nerfS and splats in VR

The latest exciting advancement in dynamic Nerfs

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CONNECT WITH MICHAEL
💼 Linkedin
🔗 Radiance Fields

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CONNECT WITH ME
🐤X (Twitter)
💼 Linkedin:
🔗Link-in Bio

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PAST EPISODES
🟢 YouTube
🍎Apple Podcast
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48min
March 06, 2024The 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 sketches into game-engine-ready 3D assets.
By listening to this episode you will learn:
What are AI hallucinations

What is the best modality to obtain 3D models generated by AI

How 3D generative AI models are going to evolve and specialize

How the future of 3D gen AI is going to move into world-building

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CONNECT WITH TEJAS
💼 Linkedin
🔗 Common Sense Machine

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CONNECT WITH ME
🐤X (Twitter)
💼 Linkedin:
🔗Link-in Bio

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PAST EPISODES
🟢 YouTube
🍎Apple Podcast
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45min
February 28, 2024Using 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 more immersive XR experiences.
Listen to this episode to learn:
The missing link between retention metrics and understanding user behaviors

How to use data to improve app performance

How to use the XR privacy framework to inform participants about the #data the app is recording

How you can quantify the user presence using a presence score

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CONNECT WITH TONY
💼 Linkedin
🔗 Cognitive 3D
🔒 #XR Privacy framework

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CONNECT WITH ME
🐤X (Twitter)
💼 Linkedin:
🔗Link-in Bio

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PAST EPISODES
🟢Spotify
🍎Apple Podcast
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41min
February 14, 2024The 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 talent, creativity, and ingenuity in the application of generative AI in both internal operations and client work”
It is a pleasure to have Funs here on the show and get a look at the behind-scenes of this success
By listening to this episode you will learn:
How brands can use AI right now to transform their business

The ways brand can gamify their experiences to engage and interact with young audiences

How brands are reacting to tech hype and the core differences between XR and AI

How agencies can find the right POC to show the value of AI and scale from there

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CONNECT WITH FUNS:
💼 LinkedinMedia Monks
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CONNECT WITH ME
⁠⁠⁠🐤X (Twitter)⁠⁠⁠
⁠⁠⁠💼 Linkedin⁠⁠⁠
⁠⁠⁠🔗Link-in Bio⁠⁠
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34min
February 07, 2024 Using AI as a Designer: Challenges and Best Practices for Teams
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 Service Design Doing” and he has dived into how AI can augment the design process with a focus on emerging team dynamics and how these new tools can be used during workshops and design sprints effectively.

Listen to this episode to learn:
1- How AI can be used in customer research
2- How to manage expectations when introducing AI as a tool
3- What are the challenges when introducing AI to your team
4- How to start exploring and scaling its usage

⁠⁠⁠💼 Linkedin⁠⁠⁠
Work Play Experience
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CONNECT WITH ME
⁠⁠🐤X (Twitter)⁠⁠
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⁠⁠🔗Link-in Bio⁠
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54min
January 31, 2024 A Future with XR and AI: from Dystopia to Reality
Keiichi Matsuda is Director of Liquid City a design practice on the bleeding edge of XR, working with the world's top technology companies to define concepts of the future. He is a designer and film-maker exploring the collision of physical and virtual, as technology transforms society, and new realities are born. His work has been widely exhibited and got viral success online. HYPER-REALITY was awarded Vimeo’s “Best Drama of 2016,”

Listen to this episode to learn:
- How a dystopian prediction almost became true
- A different approach to controlling your creative process assisted by AI
- Keiichi’s take on how AI and XR can generate value
- His surprising approach when staying up to date with AI tech

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ALL SHORT MOVIES ON YOUTUBE:
Hyper Reality
Merger
Agents

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CONNECT WITH KEIICHI:
💼 Linkedin
🐤X (Twitter)
Liquid City Studio

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CONNECT WITH ME
⁠🐤X (Twitter)⁠
⁠💼 Linkedin⁠
⁠🔗Link-in Bio
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🍿YouTube
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47min
January 25, 2024 Equity, Trust and Magic: Navigating Tradeoffs in GenAI
Daniel C. Robbins is a Principal Designer at Adobe, working on both strategy and production across 3D/AR/VR projects with a focus on generative AI. He's also helped craft integrity aspects of Horizon Worlds at Meta, advanced AR/VR projects at HTC and capped a long tenure at Microsoft by helping bring the Microsoft Envisioning Center to life.
Daniel regularly mentors and sponsors people from underrepresented groups who are entering the design field and he brings a passion for joy, equity, anti-racism, and justice through the lenses of curiosity, compassion, and contradiction.
Join this episode to learn:
- The current limitations and future opportunities in GenAI
- The approach creatives should have to improve their proficiency with gen AI tools
- The importance and implications of diversity and equity in generative AI
- How AI will enhance and complement XR experiences
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CONNECT WITH DANIEL
💼 Linkedin
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CONNECT WITH ME
🐤X (Twitter)
💼 Linkedin
🔗Link-in Bio

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46min
January 17, 2024 Turning Point Clouds, Nerfs and Gsplats into Art
Ruben Frosali aka Rubenfro is a visual effect artist and director with over 16 years of experience, specializing in volumetric captures, point clouds, and large particle-based dynamic environments. In 2018 he started focusing on immersive content producing real time art installations exhibited around Japan, Taiwan, and New Zealand as well as music videos and commercials featured in festivals and events around Europe and Asia.

Join this episode to learn:
- How his background as a developer made him the skilled technical artist he is today
- The tools and workflows to capture reality
- Why Choosing Unity over Unreal for professional VFX
- How point clouds, Nerfs and Gsplats unlock new creative opportunities

***CONNECT WITH RUBEN
⁠🐤X (Twitter)⁠
⁠💼 Linkedin⁠

***CONNECT WITH ME
⁠🐤X (Twitter)⁠
⁠💼 Linkedin⁠
⁠🔗Link-in Bio⁠

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44min
January 11, 2024 Navigating 3D Gen AI: Present Realities, Future Opportunities
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Ethan Hu holds a PhD in Computer graphics and AI from MIT, is a serial founder in Silicon Valley and CEO at Meshy. This AI-powered tool allows you to create 3D models solely from text or even texture them in under a minute. Meshy ranked 2nd among nearly 100 products launched on Product Hunt and Has recently announced an integration with Snap AR lens studio
Join this episode to learn about:
- The three parameters that make for a great 3D generative AI tool
- The importance of “control” during the creative process
- The cases in which 3D-generated models can already be used for productions
- The 2 main obstacles to getting to Midjourney level 3D Gen AI models
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CONNECT WITH GUEST
🌐 Meshy: https://www.meshy.ai/
💼 Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ethan-yuanming-hu/
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CONNECT WITH ME
🐤X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/GabRoXR
💼 Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gabriele-romagnolixr/
🔗Link-in Bio: https://beacons.ai/gabroxr
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45min

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