This Week in XR Podcast

Ted and Charlie made good on their promise to record a special edition of the podcast this afternoon to finish their conversation about the multidisciplinary social musical mash-up that denizens call South-by. More about Leia 3D Lume Pad, Holokit, and meet Miroki, a helpful robot with a cartoon face. Thank you to our sponsor, Zappar!Don't forget to like, share, and follow for more! Follow us on all socials @ThisWeekInXR!

Charlie and Ted are back with tales from SXSW. In the news: Meta layoffs, Adept AI's massive round, JP Morgan Payments backed Tilia raises $22M for metaverse currency and the Apple XR launch. Our guests are Karen Palmer, producer, and director of “Consensus Gentium” a smartphone movie that won first place at SXSW for Best XR Experiences Cameron Kostopolous, whose VR experience “Body of Mine” won the special XR Jury Prize, and Roman Rappak of Miro Shot, which performed a sold out mixed reality concert in Austin.Thank you to our sponsor, Zappar!Don't forget to like, share, and follow for more! Follow us on all socials @ThisWeekInXR!

Charlie is live in Austin at SXSW and Ted soon will be. Our guest is Blake Kammerdiener, who's responsible for programming the XR Exhibition. Also up this week, RIP Altspace, Pimax Hi-Res HMD scores $30M, Live, free Rec Room music festival. Thank you to our sponsor, Zappar!Don't forget to like, share, and follow for more! Follow us on all socials @ThisWeekInXR!

This week we're talking about Mobile World Congress, Xiaomi's AR smart glasses, Meta's product roadmap, Hexa 3D and the AI driven conversion of 2D photos into 3D assets. Our guest, Qualcomm VP Hugo Swart, will be joining us from MWC in Barcelona, to talk about Qualcomm's dual compute, carrier partnerships and Snapdragon Spaces.Thank you to our sponsor, Zappar!Don't forget to like, share, and follow for more! Follow us on all socials @ThisWeekInXR!

The newsweek includes layoffs at Pico, Tencent and Meta Dance, PS2 VR reviews, Healium gets backing from Mayo Clinic. Our guest is artist, author of the bestselling book Disrupt You, and the former Vice-Chair of Deloitte Digital, Jay Samit. Link to the Kickstarter for his art book: t.ly/iqUhThank you to our sponsor, Zappar!Don't forget to like, share, and follow for more! Follow us on all socials @ThisWeekInXR!

The hosts are focused on AI this week, and in particular its application to immersive media. Bigscreen's making a VR HMD, and guest Alex Herrity, CEO of Anima, has launched a line of AI enabled virtual pets which you see and interact with in AR. Rony's full of startup advice for his developing business. Thank you to our sponsor, Zappar!Don't forget to like, share, and follow for more! Follow us on all socials @ThisWeekInXR!

This week we're talking about real Holograms, Realwear's $375M SPAC, and $50M new financing for Light Field Lab, whose CEO Jon Karafin is our guest. Mawari and Looking Glass also raised money this week. More layoffs hit the depleted mixed reality group Microsoft. Rony says he thinks XR is doing a big exhale. Karafin's Light Field Lab means Holograms, and Rony knows a lot about this topic, too. Ted is scouting new tech for the six new theme parks Paramount Global, and is planning a trip to San Jose to see LightField Holograms in the Lab, too.Thank you to our sponsor, Zappar!Don't forget to like, share, and follow for more! Follow us on all socials @ThisWeekInXR!

On this week's podcasts the hosts talk about Meta (as always), the stock buyback, and the share spike; Samsung, Qualcomm, and Google are working with Meta and Microsoft to make an AR headset; what will the Apple device really look like? Our guest is HoloLens co-inventor and head of the XR Guild, Avi Bar-Zeev, who talks with us about Apple, Assisted Reality, why AR needs AI and the ethics of XR.  Thank you to our sponsor, Zappar!Don't forget to like, share, and follow for more! Follow us on all socials @ThisWeekInXR!

Our guest is Michael Wolf, CEO of Activate, which does strategy consulting for big tech and media companies. He is the former COO of MTV. This week we're talking about tech layoffs and retrenchment, entertainment and games, story worlding, Gemba, Dreamscape, and practical victories in enterprise XR, growth (or lack thereof) for XR, What's happening with the Metaverse, the potential of AI to change everything. Thank you to our sponsor, Zappar!Don't forget to like, share, and follow for more! Follow us on all socials @ThisWeekInXR!