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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XR AI Spotlight episodes:

July 17, 2024Frame: The Open Source AR glasses powered by AI
Bobak Tavangar is the Co-founder of Brilliant Labs, A Singapore-based startup that launched to market Frame: lightweight AR glasses powered by AI. In a space of AI-enabled wearables that is getting ever more crowded, there is one thing that sets Frame apart: it is completely Open source.
By listening to this episode you will learn:
What is Frame, Noah and what are some of the interesting applications the developer community is building on top of this open hardware and software platform

What is the current status of the wearable AI tech and what makes Frame stand out

Bobak’s take on how media and influencers reacted to the release of the Rabbit R1 and the Humane AI Pin

The 2 reasons why Brilliant Labs is betting its future in open-source
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July 10, 2024From App Lab to PSVR2: An Inside Look at the Retropolis series
Asaf Geva is one of the co-founders of Peanut Button, the studio behind the Retropolis series, a VR narrative game that despite the close to zero production budget launched on the Meta store and gathered stellar feedback from the community. Since then the team has grown and the studio is out with “Retropolis 2: Never Say Goodbye” now available on the Meta store AND PSVR2.
By listening to this episode you will learn:
What is the origin story of the Retropolis franchise and how the team grew and launched the second episode on PSVR2

How the Peanut Button team prioritized storytelling in their point and click style adventure game

How they used Quill as part of their design and development process

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June 26, 2024Porting Quest Apps to Vision Pro: Puzzling Places Case Study
Daniel Sproll is a trained cognitive scientist working with XR technologies for over a decade.
He is the co-founder of realities.io a german studio producing multiple award winning VR experiences, the latest being the indie VR hit Puzzling Places launched on Quest and now available also on Vision Pro.
We will dive deep into their journey when porting the app to the Apple device

An unexpected challenge they encountered when designing a 3D puzzling game

How the team cleverly used sound design to elevate the game for their users

How bringing puzzling places to Mixed reality impacted the user experience

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June 19, 2024 An insider look at the impact of AI on game development
Tommy Thompson works as a consultant in artificial intelligence with a primary focus on the video games industry. He is the mind behind “AI and games”, a YouTube channel with over 200K subscribers dedicated to increasing awareness of AI research and development within games. As a result of his academic, and professional experience he took on the role of advisor during the GDC AI summit.

By listening to this episode you will learn:
- How AI is still finding its way into game development pipelines
- The cautious approach BIG game studios are taking to GenAI
- How Small game studios can capitalize on this opportunity
- His expert prediction on how gen AI will evolve over the next 3 years
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June 12, 2024The Secret of Building Virtual Worlds for Top Brands
Michael Potts teaches XR worldbuilding at UCLA Extension, has been working with XR technology for the past 28 years and is the CEO of Polycount, An award-winning agency that for the past 24 years has been building digital worlds and immersive experiences for some of the largest companies in the world.
By listening to this episode you will learn:
How to build virtual worlds on less or more known platforms like Roblox or Fornite

How the team uses AI in their workflow

The incredible potential he sees for the Vision Pro

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June 05, 2024The Environmental Impact of AI Quantified
Alex de Vries is a PhD candidate at the VU Amsterdam School of Business and Economics and the founder of Digiconomist, a research company dedicated to exposing the unintended consequences of digital trends. His research focuses on the environmental impact of emerging technologies and has played a major role in the global discussion regarding the sustainability of blockchain technology and AI.
By listening to this episode you will learn:
The real challenges when trying to quantify the environmental impact of AI

How the training of a model has less impact than what you might think

The alarming projections for AI energy consumption over the next 2 years

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May 29, 2024The Secret of Tech Storytelling Revealed
Lucas Rizzotto is a viral innovator founder and mad scientist… and I am not exaggerating. His creations span everything from XR to AI and have been seen by hundreds of millions of people worldwide. Some of these projects include a killer Microwave powered by AI, a VR time machine to relieve your memories, a way for astronauts to communicate with children on Earth, and recently Pillow, a mixedreality app that wants you to relax in bed.
In this episode you will learn:
The secret behind the seemingly simple fishing game in his MR App Pillow
The many ways his team used AI to make the impossible possible

What led to a sudden drop in user rating and how his team solved it

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May 15, 2024 Unlocking Adaptive Mixed Reality for the Real World
Moritz Loos has a background in software engineering, worked at Mercedes Tech motion to bring XR experiences into the car and he is now the co-founder of 2Sync an SDK for mixed reality experiences that allows to automatically adapt virtual content to any physical environment… a bit like website and apps responsive design adapt to your mobile, or desktop. In this conversation, we dive into how digital and physical blend together.

By listening to this episode you will learn:
- The three different types of MR experience
- How to finally get the user to move around the physical space even when in VR
- The many applications that adaptive Mixed reality unlocks beyond gaming

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May 08, 2024 The EU AI Act: What it Means for Deep Tech Founders
Alexandra Magaard is a storyteller, strategist, policy wonk and the former Head of Tech Policy at iconomy in Berlin, a capacity builder organization for the European tech ecosystem. She advised multiple startups and scaleups - from deep tech to ad tech to travel tech - helping them navigate the increasingly complex field of tech regulations, and discover how many of the EU’s latest regulations, like the Digital Markets Act, aren’t simply new compliance burdens but opportunities for startups to enter a fairer market.
By listening to this episode you will learn:
- What is the AI act
- The implications of the AI act when it comes to Generative AI
- Ways in which the EU can keep supporting deep tech founders
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May 01, 2024The Future of VR Travel: From Photorealism to AI Guides
Akin Bilgic is one of the founders of BRINK XR - creators of BRINK Traveler, a top-rated virtual travel experience featuring fully immersive photorealistic 3D environments from around the world. It is without a doubt one of the best looking experiences on the Quest right now and recently implemented an AI that allows the traveler to ask any questions regarding the virtual locations showing the power of blending immersive with artificial intelligence
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What it takes to create highly optimized scans of environments and how that is just half of their secret to success

How Brink optimized the user experience and technical aspects of AI in their VR app…

… while keeping the implementation affordable
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