XR AI Spotlight

Jelmer Althuis is the founder of Sphere of Sound, a company dedicated to crafting cutting-edge audio solutions that redefine immersive experiences. He also serves as the Audio Director at VRelax, where he specializes in designing therapeutic audio landscapes that enhance mental well-being through virtual reality.  He is a true expert and through this conversation we start defining the real fundame...

Sergiu Ardelean is a serial Austrain entrepreneur. He successfully exited an Augmented Reality agency in Vienna that served prestigious clients such as Volkswagen and Audi across 42 countries. He is now leading Artivive: the Canva for augmented reality. Artivive engages a community of half million creators across 190 countries. Collaborations with world-renowned museums and galleries in Vienna, Mu...

John Dagdalen is the founder of Fluid an app that turns your VR headset into a spatial computer. Spatial computing and productivity are hot topics with various hardware and software players trying to crack the code and get the love of professionals who want to be more productive in XR. But I and the hundreds of stellar reviews on the Meta store guarantee you: Fluid is not your typical productivity...

Billy Boman is a Swedish AI Artist, Creator and educator with over a decade-long career in design. He is a visual AI storyteller who has created some of the most cohesive and impressive AI generated video I have ever seen. He worked with musicians like Fred Durst and brands like Intel & Ballantines reaching hundreds of thousands of viewers. Today we will get a pick at his workflow: How Gen AI...

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Gabe Baker is a former teacher and education researcher, who took the leap into immersive tech. He made Frame, a platform that makes it easy to communicate, collaborate, and create in 3D environments directly in the web browser, mobile and even VR headsets. The platform grew hosting hundreds of events and teams from Janssen, Microsoft, Trello and MIT. But recently he announced it is time for a rad...

Quanetin Valenbois is an XR Developer, Teacher, Content Creator and CEO at Valem Studio. He has been working professionally in VR since 2017 he soon realized there was a lack of quality content developers people could rely on. This is why he decided to create not one but two channels to inspire and educate developers to get started and master XR development… until AI came. That’s the moment he dec...

Gaussian splatting or for short G splats is the latest method to capture objects or entire complex 3D scenes using only a video. It falls under the category of Radiance Fields much like Nerfs but it's actually quite different: they are faster to train, you can achieve an unprecedented level of realism BUT have they lived up to the hype? Today we will figure it out with Georgii Vysotskii, the c...

Subscribe to XR AI Spotlight weekly newsletter 👉 https://xraispotlight.substack.com/ Dr Doom is the cofounder & CEO of LIV. He spent 11 years in tech with 7 of those consisting of founding & running LIV, the world's leading XR capture tool. If you have seen any cool MR footage in a commercial, trailer, streamer or content creator it is VERY likely that was created with LIV. They have...

Oskar Stålberg is an established indie Game Developer, and a real authority when it comes to procedural content generation. He has worked on Tom Clancy's The Division and later focused on his own titles like Bad North and Townscaper, both acclaimed successes by the gaming community. Oskar has also ported Townscaper to Meta Quest and keeps finding new and creative ways to leverage procedural ge...

Leif Petersen is the founder and CEO of HOLOGATE, a global leader in extended reality solutions with an interesting success story. It all started with entertainment and since its inception Hologate has expanded to hundreds of multi-user VR systems across 42 countries, engaging over 22 million people with major IPs like Ghostbusters and Angry Birds. More recently the team has created a specialized...

Sachin is an artist and creative tech entrepreneur. As the co-founder of AI Lemon Academy he has trained hundreds of professionals including teams at Amazon, to use AI in their daily creative workflow. From initial concepting to refined prompting to generate specific visuals he runs bootcamps for leaders & professionals in the creative industry and he is a relentless explorer of the latest and...

Matteo and Paride are the co-founders of Pijama Kasama, an Amsterdam-based studio creating custom experiences and games for brands on platforms like Spatial, Roblox and Fortnite. They have been working with brands like Absolute, BMW, NASA and they recently launched their game based on their own IP called “Kasama the Awakening” which is without a doubt one of the best-looking web-based games you ca...

Alex Karim is a technology leader focusing on the convergence of the physical and digital world. As a Mixed Reality pioneer, Alex was the first person to deploy HoloLens 2 in Formula 1 at McLaren. In 2021 Alex joined Microsoft and in his current role he consults some of the world’s largest organizations supporting their AI transformations and today we will learn from him: What are the biggest barr...

Bobak Tavangar is the Co-founder of Brilliant Labs, A Singapore-based startup that launched to market Frame: lightweight AR glasses powered by AI. In a space of AI-enabled wearables that is getting ever more crowded, there is one thing that sets Frame apart: it is completely Open source. By listening to this episode you will learn: What is Frame, Noah and what are some of the interesting applicati...

Asaf Geva is one of the co-founders of Peanut Button, the studio behind the Retropolis series, a VR narrative game that despite the close to zero production budget launched on the Meta store and gathered stellar feedback from the community. Since then the team has grown and the studio is out with “Retropolis 2: Never Say Goodbye” now available on the Meta store AND PSVR2. By listening to this epis...

Daniel Sproll is a trained cognitive scientist working with XR technologies for over a decade.  He is the co-founder of realities.io a german studio producing multiple award winning VR experiences, the latest being the indie VR hit Puzzling Places launched on Quest and now available also on Vision Pro.  We will dive deep into their journey when porting the app to the Apple device An unexpected cha...

Tommy Thompson works as a consultant in artificial intelligence with a primary focus on the video games industry. He is the mind behind “AI and games”, a YouTube channel with over 200K subscribers dedicated to increasing awareness of AI research and development within games. As a result of his academic, and professional experience he took on the role of advisor during the GDC AI summit. By listeni...

Michael Potts teaches XR worldbuilding at UCLA Extension, has been working with XR technology for the past 28 years and is the CEO of Polycount, An award-winning agency that for the past 24 years has been building digital worlds and immersive experiences for some of the largest companies in the world. By listening to this episode you will learn: How to build virtual worlds on less or more known pl...

Alex de Vries is a PhD candidate at the VU Amsterdam School of Business and Economics and the founder of Digiconomist, a research company dedicated to exposing the unintended consequences of digital trends. His research focuses on the environmental impact of emerging technologies and has played a major role in the global discussion regarding the sustainability of blockchain technology and AI. By l...

Lucas Rizzotto is a viral innovator founder and mad scientist… and I am not exaggerating. His creations span everything from XR to AI and have been seen by hundreds of millions of people worldwide. Some of these projects include a killer Microwave powered by AI, a VR time machine to relieve your memories, a way for astronauts to communicate with children on Earth, and recently Pillow, a mixedreali...

Moritz Loos has a background in software engineering, worked at Mercedes Tech motion to bring XR experiences into the car and he is now the co-founder of 2Sync an SDK for mixed reality experiences that allows to automatically adapt virtual content to any physical environment… a bit like website and apps responsive design adapt to your mobile, or desktop. In this conversation, we dive into how digi...

Alexandra Magaard is a storyteller, strategist, policy wonk and the former Head of Tech Policy at iconomy in Berlin, a capacity builder organization for the European tech ecosystem. She advised multiple startups and scaleups - from deep tech to ad tech to travel tech - helping them navigate the increasingly complex field of tech regulations, and discover how many of the EU’s latest regulations, li...

Akin Bilgic is one of the founders of BRINK XR - creators of BRINK Traveler, a top-rated virtual travel experience featuring fully immersive photorealistic 3D environments from around the world. It is without a doubt one of the best looking experiences on the Quest right now and recently implemented an AI that allows the traveler to ask any questions regarding the virtual locations showing the pow...

Tomas Sluka worked as a research engineer at CERN on the development of electronic nano-devices. During his scientific career, he co-authored over 50 scientific papers, 10 patent applications and Is now the CEO and co-founder of CREAL, a Swiss startup that developed and brought to market a transformative type of display made for Augmented reality that solves the problem of eye comfort and simulate...