AR Show with Jason McDowall

Kirin Sinha is the co-founder and CEO of Illumix, a company building an AR-first mobile gaming platform. You may be familiar with Illumix if you’re a fan of the horror franchise, Five Nights at Freddy’s. The Illumix team has already found a lot of success with their first title, Five Nights at Freddy’s AR: Special Delivery. Prior to founding Illumix, Kirin was the founder and Executive Director of...

Karl Guttag, is currently most well known as a speaker and the author of KGOnTech, a technology blog at kguttag.com. Karl has 40 years of experience in Graphics and Image Processors, Digital Signal Processing, memory architecture, and micro displays, for use in Heads Up Displays and AR glasses.  He’s got 150 patents to his name related to these technologies and many billions of dollars of rev...

Karl Guttag, is currently most well known as a speaker and the author of KGOnTech, a technology blog at kguttag.com. Karl has 40 years of experience in Graphics and Image Processors, Digital Signal Processing, memory architecture, and micro displays, for use in Heads Up Displays and AR glasses. He’s got 150 patents to his name related to these technologies and many billions of dollars of revenue a...

Karl Guttag, is currently most well known as a speaker and the author of KGOnTech, a technology blog at kguttag.com. Karl has 40 years of experience in Graphics and Image Processors, Digital Signal Processing, memory architecture, and micro displays, for use in Heads Up Displays and AR glasses.  He’s got 150 patents to his name related to these technologies and many billions of dollars of rev...

Julia Brown is the co-founder and CEO of MindX, the creator of a novel brain computer interface that combines neurotechnology, augmented reality and artificial intelligence to create a "look-and-think” interface for next-generation spatial computing applications.    Prior to starting MindX, Julia co-founded EpiWatch, a digital health spin-out from Johns Hopkins that developed a seizure d...

Dr. Adam Davis is the founder and CEO of Amalgamated Vision, a maker of wearable displays optimized for use as a reference display in healthcare and enterprise.  Adam spent a career as a practicing physician focused on neruo-radiology, and regularly explored and pushed the boundaries of using 3D imagery to better understand each patient’s physiology.  Most recently, he was a clinical ass...

Hannah and Matthew Arevalo are two of the co-founders of Pinfinity, an augmented reality collectible pin platform enabling interactive experiences around our favorite brands.  Previously, Pinfinity’s CEO, Hannah Arevalo was the director of brands for several product lines at Loot Crate, a subscription box business focused on fan culture. There she worked directly with brands such as Warner Br...

This episode features Nathan Pettyjohn and Mike Lohse at Lenovo.  Nathan is the Commercial AR/VR Lead at Lenovo. He is also the founder and president of the VR/AR Association and the annual VR/AR Global Summit. Previously Nathan was also the founder and CEO of venture-backed asile411, a mobile indoor navigation and 3D product cloud platform. Mike is the Hardware Product Manager for Commercial...

Robert Scoble is a futurist, strategist and the author of four books about technology. His latest book is The Infinite Retina, co-authored with Irena Cronin, which explores the emerging era of spatial computing, including AR, VR, robotics, autonomous vehicles, and more. Robert has spent his career at the intersection of technology and media, working as a journalist, an evangelist, and a futurist,...

Today I am kicking off 2021 with another annual monologue. I hope you and your family were able to have a safe and relaxing holiday despite the isolation and other challenges imposed by COVID. This is the forth such annual kickoff episode, and when looking back at my notes from last year, 2020 played out pretty much as expected, with the glaring exception of the impact of COVID. However one thing...

Alex Hertel is the former co-founder and CEO of Xperial, and currently an inventor at Intuit where he is a director in their Futures group. Alex completed his Ph. D. in computer science at the University of Toronto and is an expert in no-code languages as well as the use of immersive technologies to make the physical world digitally interactive. After his PhD program, he co-founded Walleto, which...

Justin Barad, MD, is the CEO and founder of Osso VR, a fully immersive, and scientifically validated, surgical training platform. Prior to starting Osso VR, Justin became a board-eligible orthopedic surgeon with a Bioengineering degree from UC Berkeley, and an MD (medical doctorate) from UCLA, where he graduated first in his class. He completed his residency at UCLA and his fellowship in pediatric...

Justin Barad, MD, is the CEO and founder of Osso VR, a fully immersive, and scientifically validated, surgical training platform. Prior to starting Osso VR, Justin became a board-eligible orthopedic surgeon with a Bioengineering degree from UC Berkeley, and an MD (medical doctorate) from UCLA, where he graduated first in his class. He completed his residency at UCLA and his fellowship in pediatric...

Charlie Fink is a respected author and speaker focused on AR and VR. He has been at the bleeding edge of the intersection of entertainment and technology for more than 35 years.  Charlie was a VP of Creative Development at Disney, where he created the concept for the Lion King. He was the COO at Virtual World Entertainment in the early 90s, which was the first company to bring VR experiences...

Angela Robert is the Co-founder and CEO of Conquer Experience, a company using VR to dramatically improve training for operating room nurses. After earning a degree in math and computer science, Angela started her career as a software engineer before joining Electronic Arts where she contributed to more than 20 games. She became the development director of the initial and sequel release of the pop...

Cory Grenier is the CEO of Geenee, a company on a mission to make the physical world around us easily recognizable to computers using mobile, browser-based technology. They combine image and video recognition, WebAR, and creative services to deliver unique value to brands. Cory started his career at Lenovo in Beijing, becoming a global product marketing manager. He returned to the US in 2013 to jo...

Many of you know Matt Miesnieks as a serial entrepreneur and former investor focused on Augmented Reality. Matt was most recently the CEO and co-founder of 6D.ai, a company building tools to help mobile phones understand the real world and enable compelling AR experiences. Matt started his career in a number of engineering and business roles, before shifting his focus to Augmented Reality more tha...

Angelo Stracquatanio is the co-founder and CEO of Apprentence.io, a software platform to help life sciences teams bring critical drugs to market faster and with higher reliability. Leveraging AR glasses is a key component of the solution. Angelo was a competitive swimmer in college and studied finance, winning the New York Society of Security Analysts Annual Investment Research Challenge competiti...

Remi Del Mar is the senior product manager responsible for Epson’s visual displays and Moverio AR glasses. Remi has been at Epson for almost 5 years. Previously she worked at BitTorrent and spent nearly 8 years at Logitech working on a number of different products, including on an early exploration in AR. She brings a deep passion for the art of product management, of delivering a product that con...

Pat Antaki is the founder and CEO of seeBOOST, a company creating a prescription glasses solution for people with vision impairment. The device incorporates an optimized, video pass-through AR system over one eye of the glasses. Pat is a former MIT grad with a long history in microelectronics design and engineering, including spending several years working with industry expert, Karl Guttag. These...

Christina Heller is the CEO of Metastage, an XR studio that brings live performances into digital worlds through volumetric capture and complementary tools. The resulting 3D content can be experienced in augmented reality using mobile phones or high-end AR headsets, or using 3D displays. Metastage uses the Microsoft Mixed Reality Capture system and is located in Los Angeles. Prior to leading Metas...

Steve Sinclair is the SVP of product at Mojo Vision, a company enabling invisible computing with their AR contact lenses. Steve has an amazing background in the product development and product marketing of personal computing technologies throughout the smartphone revolution. He worked at Handspring, Palm, Apple’s iPhone team, which he joined in 2007, as well as at HP and the Motorola division at G...

David Gull is the Founder and CEO of Outer Realm, a company within the Real Estate industry leading the shift from 2D screens to immersive Virtual and Augmented Reality for better decision making. The tool helps people visualize properties undergoing transformation. David has both an architectural design and technology background, and he believes that creating experiences that engage both gut-leve...

Dominic Collins is the co-founder and CEO of Darabase, a platform to manage and monetize AR permissions on the physical world. Prior to Darabase, Dominic was the general manager of international for Jaunt, which was a content capture technology company and studio focused on VR and later AR. He has also been the CEO or Director of Digital across a number of telecom companies, including Sky, Orange...

Today’s conversation is a recreation of a South-by-Southwest Panel that didn’t happen this year because the conference was canceled. My guests are so passionate about their topic, we got the panel together to share with you here. This conversation was recorded the same week that SXSW was scheduled to happen in March. Here’s a bit from the show guide: From Childish Gambino’s augmented reality danci...