Everything VR & AR

We are joined by Mafalda Ricca, who is the Executive Sales & Marketing Director (Tech and Tourism Sector) of GEMA (Jemma) Digital. GEMA Digital develops immersive and interactive experiences for events, brand activations and museums. Virtual reality, augmented reality, holograms, interactive installations, video-mapping and 4D rooms are examples of what our working animals produce everyday. Mafald...

Nick Busietta, Managing Director of Liminal VR is our guest for this episode. Liminal VR is working with a global network of developers, to help create short virtual reality experiences that are designed to empower people to consciously choose how they want to feel and perform. Nick goes on to explain the details of this fascinating challenge that his team is overcoming in VR of using entertainmen...

Halo Labs Co-Founder and CEO Eran Helft along with Co-Founder and CMO Dror Spindel join us on this episode of Everything VR & AR.  Halo Labs is a VR/AR prototyping, design and collaboration solution. Halo brings all aspects of VR/AR product design under one roof in order to help product and design teams with a fast and efficient way to plan, visualize and communicate VR/AR concepts. Eran and Dror...

Tyler Kem, Founder and CEO of Visionary Tax is our guest on this episode. Visionary Tax is a R&D tax credit consulting firm focused on providing valuable tax expertise to the emerging technology industries including artificial intelligence, blockchain, fintech, software development including virtual and augmented reality. Tyler talks about how R&D tax credits work, how they evolved, activities and...

We're joined today on the show by John Sallaway, CEO and Co-Founder of vSpatial. vSpatial is redefining the way we meet, and the way we work with VR meetings and offices, allowing people to work from anywhere. John talks about the unique user interface their team built, and the amazingly vast amount of usability within vSpatial whereby they'e integrated most any browser or application you can use...

This episode we talk with Siddharth Saxena, Founder & CEO of Oblix , a VR startup based in Brooklyn New York. Siddarth joins us to discuss their first product release - Go Guess - which is a multiplayer geographic guessing game for virtual reality. It's now available on Steam for Rift and coming soon on VIVE. Siddharth talks about how their team concepted and built the experience, and where the ga...

On this episode we are joined by Taylor Wilding, Head of Business Development at roOomy. RoOomy is an AR/VR home staging platform whose app allows real estate agents, potential buyers, and sellers showcase a property, without the cost of virtual staging. Users can virtually design spaces with actual pieces of furniture. Further more, they can purchase the home furnishings directly through the app....

Kalin Stoyanchev, the Project Lead at RNDR and VP of Distributed Systems and Blockchain at OTOY, is our guest this episode. Kalin does an excellent job of explaining how blockchain in general is impacting VR/AR/MR, & where RNDR fits within the ecosystem. RNDR is a decentralized rendering software. Built on a blockchain-based system, RNDR is a decentralized and open global rendering system that mak...

Ori Inbar is the Co-Founder and CEO of AWE, (Augmented World Expo) and Partner at Super Ventures. AWE is the world's largest event dedicated exclusively to the AR + VR industry. Ori talks about the beginnings of AWE 9 years ago and how it has evolved into a conference held in multiple locations throughout the world, and specifically the 9th annual AWE USA being held May 30 - June 1 in Santa Clara,...

In this second episode of a two part series, we talk with a number of companies that were at VRLA 2018. We also want to thank those of you who were able to take advantage of the special listener code to attend VRLA 2018. The companies who we talk with on this episode and information are: Quantum Capture represented by CEO and Founder Morgan Young  Website - Quantum Capture Twitter - @ QuantumCaptu...

In the first of a two part series, we talk with a number of companies that were at VRLA 2018. We also want to thank those of you who were able to take advantage of the special listener code to attend VRLA 2018. The companies who we talk with on this episode and information are: Beast Inc represented by Vivian Tan  Website - Beastpets.com Twitter - @beastpets Email to sign up for beta access - beta...

We are joined this week by John Buzzell, who is the President of, YOU ARE HERE. YOU ARE HERE is an immersive experience lab that helps agencies and brands engage customers with a strategic mix of innovation technologies for events, marketing, and training all over the world. John is also the President of the Atlanta Chapter of the VRARA, and Co-Chair of the Marketing and Advertising Committee. Con...

This week we are joined by Adam Draper, Founder & Managing Director at Boost VC. Adam is a 2x entrepreneur and a 4th generation venture capitalist. Boost VC invests in pre-seed VR and blockchain companies. Since 2012, Boost VC has invested in 200+ startups from over 30 countries. This is a fantastic discussion about how Adam and Boost VC are viewing the VR and AR ecosystem. Connect with Adam at bo...

Nathan Nasseri, Founder of RE in VR, is our guest to discuss how VR is changing the new construction real-estate market by adding cost efficiencies and accelerating the sales process. RE in VR provides an all-in-one solution to real-estate developers, construction companies, and architects to deliver an all-in-one virtual replica of their entire building both inside and out. Their system provides...

Cosmo Scharf, Co-founder of VRLA and Co-Founder Mindshow, is our guest this week. This years VRLA is taking place May 4-5 2018 at the LA Convention Center and is one of THE conferences you must attend this year. Cosmo talks about the inspiration for VRLA several years ago, and some of the philosophical questions and opportunities we should all be considering as we leverage the next generation of i...

Shawn Adamek, Chief Strategy Officer at Umbra 3D joins us to talk about  Umbra's 3D solutions that make it possible to display any 3D content in real time on any piece of hardware. Their software is licensed by some of the largest gaming, architecture, and 3D scanning companies. We discuss the AR Cloud, occlusion culling and overall how Umbra 3D is helping make possible some of the most sophistica...

On this episode, we are joined by Hollywood-based VR studio Light Sail VR , with Matthew Celia, Co-Founder & Creative Director and Robert Watts Co-Founder and Executive Producer. They join us to speak on a new narrative design they created specifically for interactive VR games and film, bringing the "choose your own" adventure platform in all its complexities to VR. We discuss the details of their...

Jeremy Kidd, CEO of Banjo, joins us to discuss some fascinating projects that Banjo has delivered related to augmented reality productivity, virtual reality training, and a pediatric VR experience designed to reduce anxiety for children getting an MRI. Banjo designs and builds interactive AR, VR and 3D experiences for product design/development, marketing and training, CPG, manufacturing, engineer...

We are joined for a second time by Nick Alcid, Co-Founder and VP of Escape to Virtual Reality, California's first large scale location based VR gaming platform. We discuss the unique motion capture wireless system available at their studio, the company's recent move to the L.A. Fashion District area, and their new partnership with meleap.com, and their AR headset system that includes the HADO gami...

Brad Scoggin, Co-Founder and CEO of SpringboardVR joins us again for an update on the Location-Based VR market. We discuss SpringboardVR and how they're making it easy and more efficient for operators to launch and manage their location based VR experiences.   Brad also talks about the interest they're now seeing from entertainment, education and enterprise. We also have some fun talking about wha...

Travis Cloyd, VR Director, VR Producer, and CEO of Observe Media discusses his experience as being the VR producer for Hannibal Pictures' feature film Speed Kills starring John Travolta. Travis talks about the details of shooting cinematic VR, both the challenges, and some of the mind-blowing VR cuts they were able to achieve in Puerto Rico, leveraging drones, 360 cameras, speedboats on the ocean,...

Harold Hayes Jr. is an award-winning Hollywood VR writer/creator who has done work with Disney, Warner Brothers, Universal, and 20th Century Fox. As the creator of the VR experiences for The Greatest Showman (with a second experience soon to release), IT , Annabelle and The Conjuring , Hayes is helping to forge the future of entertainment. We focus our discussion on the entertainment industry's la...

We are joined by Dr. Sana Farid, Co-Founder of Munfarid Consulting which is located in Dubai to discuss the significant and growing impact VR is having on healthcare and education, and the VR ecosystem in the Middle East. Dr. Sana Farid has been featured as one of the top 100 Bahraini notable women who transformed Bahrain, and the Ultimate list of 101+ Women leading VR/AR, Ambassador for Women of...

Joining us on this episode of the Everything VR & AR Podcast are Nino Sapina, the Co-Founder and CEO of Realcast and Craig Vezina, who is the Co-Founder and CBO (Chief Business Officer) at Realcast. Realcast offers interactive AR experiences on Hololens and Apple's AR kit and we discuss their unique approach of leveraging Nino's experience as a game designer and executive, along with Craig's exper...

We are joined by Ray Kallmeyer, CEO of CreateAR. CreateAR is a leading Augmented Reality design and development firm and is a part of the Microsoft Mixed Reality Partner Program. We talk about CreateAR's work with Mercedes Benz in Japan and their strategy for refining mixed reality user interface design. We also talk about the current landscape for recruiting talent to build, design and develop ne...