Everything VR & AR

Hosts Tyler Gates and Sophia Moshasha caught up with Jesus Serrano at Microsoft's Build 2019 conference as he discusses how immersive technology will change the landscape for sports and fan engagement experiences. Jesus has been with Microsoft for a number of years now and is currently the Sports Business Development & WW Sports Community Lead.   Visit the VR/AR Association at www. TheVRARA.com  f...

Adam Molnar, Co-Founder of Neurable, joins us to take a deep dive on the potential of cognitive behavior driven virtual and augmented reality. Connect with Adam and Neurable: Web Twitter - @neurable

Amanda Pool, who is the Executive Producer and Founder of Imagine Events is our guest on this episode of the VR/AR Podcast. Amanda joins Tyler and Sophia to discuss the value of immersive technology activations for sponsored events.   Visit Imagine Events online at: Web Twitter - @imagine_events

John Burwell, who is the Global Head of Simulation and Training of Varjo, joins Tyler and Sophia to discuss the ground-breaking new HMD for professional VR.   Connect with Varjo online at: Web - Varjo.com Twitter - @varjodotcom Instagram - @varjodotcom    

James Crabb, who is the Marketing & Business Development Director at Wargaming recently was interviewed by VRARA member David Ripert who is the CEO & Co-Founder of Poplar.   Learn more about James, David and their respective companies below: Host: David Ripert, CEO & Co-Founder of  Poplar  (member of the VRARA) Personal  LinkedIn Personal  Twitter Persona  Insta Poplar  LinkedIn Poplar  Twitter Po...

Tithi Tewari, Managing Director & Founder of SmartVizX is our guest this episode. SmartVizX is transforming the design experience for the building industry, and has developed a product called Trezi, that aims to become the leading immersive design collaboration platform for the building industry that brings together all stakeholders in the design project — from architect/designer to engineering se...

On this episode we are joined by Lou Pushelberg, the Founder of Circuit Stream. Circuit Stream is unique in its two-pronged approach: education for individuals to develop their VR/AR programming skills and dive into this exciting industry; and app development for businesses. Circuit Stream has built a VR training app for Vantage Airport Group, AR mineralization visualization software for Minerva I...

Michael Neely, Lead Instructor for the VR/AR Design & Development program at Vancouver Film School which is launching in Spring 2019, is our guest on this episode. The VR/AR Design & Development program is built to cater to all aspects of VR and AR visualization beyond just film. Michael talks about the philosophy of the program and how VFS is leveraging its strong award-winning film school to be...

Dr. Danny Goel joins us on this episode of the Everything VR & AR Podcast. Dr. Goel is the Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer at Precision OS and is a Consultant, Shoulder Surgeon and Clinical Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia Department of Orthopedic Surgery. We discuss how Precision OS is using virtual reality to deliver unparalleled VR experiences for surgical simulati...

Erik Murphy-Chutorian is the founder and CEO of 8th Wall, which is building a cross-platform solution for developers to build augmented reality applications on all mobile devices. Erik has deep expertise in computer vision, imaging infrastructure, data analysis and full-stack/mobile product development. Prior to founding 8th Wall, he worked at both Facebook and Google as an engineering manager and...

Our guest is Erika Barraza, Founder/CEO of Emerging Visual Realities, Inc., which is a decentralized marketplace for Digital Publishers and creators to sell, syndicate, and manage content teams and digital rights of virtual and augmented reality content. We talk in depth about how EVRealities is creating a new ecosystem for creators, and why they're initially focused on the news and journalism ind...

Tyler Gates, who is the Principal of Brightline Interactive & President of the VRARA DC Chapter, talked with Cory Key and Gina Scarpulla of Discovery Communications at a past event held by the VRARA DC Chapter.   Connect with Tyler Gates at https://www.linkedin.com/in/gatestyler/ Connect with Cory Key, VP Digital, Discovery Communications at https://www.linkedin.com/in/corykey/ Connect with Gina S...

Alexander Goldman and Jeremy Kirshbaum (co-founders) of SixerVR, a research and prototyping outfit are our guests this week. They have been building worldscale VR experiences (50m+ x 50m+ play area) for the Vive Focus outdoors, most of which are designed to be played on soccer fields. On this episode we are talking about worldscale VR, its unique affordances, and whether 'location-based experience...

Michael Conelly, President & Creative Director of Blackthorn Media with is an Academy and Emmy award-winning team of content creators, Paula Fairfield, an accomplished sound designer. We discuss their latest project, Caliban Below, an immersive VR experience set in 1680 in Northern Italy where you, Caliban, have to learn why you've been trapped in a dream. Caliban Below is available now on Steam....

We are joined by Oliver Noteware Co-Founder & CEO and Alice Formwalt, Co-founder & CPO Street Smarts VR, which provides immersive virtual reality simulations for reality-based training of law enforcement and public safety personnel. Their mission is to improve policing outcomes and officer safety. Streeet Smarts VR recently won a $25,000 business grant from Bob Evans Farms (and a one-on-one mentor...

We are joined by Tim Nakonechniy, CMO at Live Animations, who is talking with us from Kiev, Ukraine. Live Animations is an international IT company specializing in the development of innovative products with augmented reality (AR) for children. Live Animations has released 4 world-famous children's books with Little Hippo: "Little Red Riding Hood", "Three Little Pigs", "Velvet Rabbit", "Masha and...

Our guest is Sam Watts, Director of Immersive Technologies at Make Real. Make Real, develops immersive digital products for learning and change. This includes virtual reality, augmented reality and serious games for global customers. In previous leadership roles, Sam has delivered and supported dozens of digital products at Zynga, NCsoft, Kerb and Epic. Clients have included BBC, EDF Energy, Sky a...

James Giglio, Founder & CEO, of MVP Interactive is our guest. MVP Interactive enhances brand experiences through custom-built experiential technology such as virtual reality, augmented reality, gesture, facial morphing, social media platforms  and mobile applications. James has been working with Coca-Cola (among other major brands) over the past few years to create in-venue and out-of-venue experi...

On this episode we are joined by Mark Milstein, Founder & Managing Director at Microstock Solutions & Creator of VRmeta. VRmeta allows you to effectively meta-tag your immersive media content to ensure that it's searchable and monetizable via search. Mark has a fascinating story of how he built Microstock Solutions, and how it lead to the new services of VRmeta, a service that seems applicable to...

Dan Burgar, Vancouver Chapter President of the VR/AR Association, and notably, the Vancouver chapter is one of the largest and fastest growing chapters globally. Dan is also a writer for VRScout, one of the world's leading immersive media companies, reaching over 250 million people. Dan is also a contributing writer for the Daily Hive and he travels the world speaking at industry conferences regar...

Kris Kolo, the Global Executive Director of the VR/AR Association, makes a return appearance to the podcast. Kris talks about industry insights he's seeing at a global level, the upcoming VR/AR Global Summit related to speakers, topics and experiences you can expect, and it goes into detail about the VRARA industry committees, white papers, and ecosystem reports being generated by these associatio...

Alan Smithson, CEO of MetaVRse joins us to talk about MetaVRse and their vCommerce (Virtual & Augmented Reality for Retail and eCommerce). MetaVRse is also building the XR Learning Centre and was recently accepted to the Museum of the Future Accelerator in Dubai. Alan is a LinkedIn VR/AR thought leader with millions of views of his articles and videos. We also talk about his upcoming keynotes at t...

On this episode we talk with Mfon Akpan Assistant Professor of Business at National Louis University in Chicago, Illinois. Mfon discusses the powerful opportunities that we have to apply VR in education. Mfon was originally inspired by the game Second Life, and began thinking about how VR could be applied in a game-like setting to teach auditing and accounting practices in an applied environment....

Anne-Marie Enns, Executive Producer of the VR/AR Global Summit, shares with us the inside scoop on what to expect at the Global Summit conference, taking place in Vancouver on September 21-22 2018 at the PARQ Hotel & Casino. We talk about speakers, topics, workshops, the startup pitchfest, business speed dating, after-parties and more. This is a fun discussion on the excitement around VR/AR, Vanco...

We are joined by Reekita Shah Alias Gala who is the Founder of Virtual Marketing Revolution (VMR), which is an organization that hosts events in Virtual Reality for the Marketing Industry and also co-founder of Virtual marketing Revolution and founder of VRARE. We have a fascinating discussion about how here team is building a VR conference platform, and how they're taking consideration of the soc...