Episode 004 of XR Connections features an interview with David Ripert of Poplar, a collaborative platform connecting AR creators with brands and institutions aimed at making the creation of AR experiences quick and affordable, and XR items of interest including Modelo's Day of the Dead out of home AR experience and the VR/AR Association's Global Summit and Everything VR and AR podcast.

Cathy Hackl, Magic Leap  @CathyHackl

Charlie Fink, XR Consultant and Author @CharlieFink

Jason McDowall, The AR Show Podcast @mcdowall

Alan Smithson of MetaVRse, XR for Business Podcast @AlanSmithson1

Everything VR and AR Podcast

Hosts:

DAVID RIPERT INTERVIEW:

Recording: Logic Pro X

Music: "Are You There?" by DR. MARS on Spotify

Episode 003 features an interview with Aidan Wolf, creator of the DoodleLens AR app and covers items of interest in XR including Google’s AR Wrapper bringing 3D models to the Web (Web AR) and the NYVR New York Virtual Reality Meetup.

Episode 002 covers items of interest in XR from the week of August 26th, 2019, including the New York Augmented Reality Meetup AWE NITE NYC, the Airbus 3D Holographic Tactical Map App, the Doodle Lens AR app, Looking Glass Factory's 3D hologram display, and an AR Scavenger Hunt featuring David "Big Papi" Ortiz. Show notes at marsandmercury.com.

Episode 001 introduces the podcast and covers items of interest in XR from the week of August 21, 2019, including Instagram AR Filters, Oculus Quest and AR, a guide to 2019's Best VR, and Lego's Hidden Side AR Experience. Show notes at marsandmercury.com.

EPISODE 001 SHOW NOTES:

INSTAGRAM USERS CAN CREATE THEIR OWN AR FILTERS

"Facebook now lets anyone make an Instagram face filter" by Dami Lee

• OCULUS QUEST AND AR

"How Facebook AR Glasses could become real, thanks to Oculus VR Tech" by Scott Stein

"Powered by AI: Oculus Insight" Facebook Blog

• 2019 VR BUYING GUIDE

Virtual Reality Buying Guide at Ars Technica by Sam Machkovech

• LEGO HIDDEN SIDE AR EXPERIENCE

"Lego Hidden Side Review: Ultimate AR Toy" by Adam Piltch at Tom's Hardware. Includes video review.

• REAL OR AR?

Dr. Helen PapaGiannis (augmentedhuman) on Instagram

Augmented Stories

• THE AR SHOW PODCAST

 Episode 40: Audio Augmented Reality Jason McDowall interviews Santiago Carvajal of Bose

• PEOPLE:

Thank you to Siu-Li  Khoe of Rhode Island Virtual Reality for my first Oculus Quest experience (aptly, Space Pirate Trainer!) at the Boston VR and AR Expo on August  22nd.

Thank you to Dan Duggan at Charles River Analytics for my second Oculus Quest experience: performing a fine motor-skill task in a demo made using their Virtuoso Software Development Kit (VSDK), a Unity-based extended reality (XR) SDK.

Thank you to Cormac O'Malley for helping build the Lego Hidden Side Graveyard Mystery kit and demoing the AR experience.

PLACES:

General Assembly, Boston 

• ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:

Podcasting: Anchor

Recording: Garageband 

Music: "Are You There?" by DR. MARS on Spotify