Dave Beck, CEO and Founder of Foundry 45, shares his insight into some of the challenges he faced in starting a VR company and how Foundry 45 helps clients connect the dots on creating effective VR training. Dave helps us understand how VR training can be used not only for upskilling and reskilling, but also to improve workforce wellness.
Links:
https://foundry45.com/
LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jdavidbeck/
Twitter: @tylerhgates @sophiamosh
Long term collaborators and XR community builders Chris Crescitelli and Greg Katano share their journey through 3D film making, virtual reality, and the power that immersive technology brings to creating meaningful relationships. Join us in this light hearted conversation that helps us understand the importance of creating opportunities for connectivity in XR and how meeting the right people in the right circumstance can make this big city of technology feel like a small town.
In our second episode with Randy Brown, VP of Virtual Heroes Division at Applied Research Associates (ARA), we pick up our conversation where we left off… 2013 and the introduction of the Oculus Rift DK1. With over 30 years working within the immersive technology space, Randy helps us understand the technological advancements to get to where we are now, the importance of the last 10 years for Virtual Reality, and some of the key elements of what’s to come.
Ibrahim Jilani takes us through his journey and UL’s efforts in establishing UL8400, the first safety standards around immersive technologies. Tyler and Sophia discuss with Ibrahim what it means for immersive technology to start to come of age for consumers and how creating standards for VR and AR hardware allows manufacturers to build and scale the technology in a safe and meaningful way.
We talk to Jason Marsh, CEO and founder of Flow Immersive. Jason explains his journey and how he saw the need to create an enterprise platform that allowed users to tell their data story using spatial content. Flow makes the content creation process easy and accessible across all computers and phones. We dive into the power of data visualization and collaboration using immersive technology.
VRgineers CEO and Co-Founder, Marek Polcak (inventor of the XTAL Head Mounted Display), gives us a behind the scenes look at what’s required to invent game changing hardware capabilities within the immersive technology space. From establishing successful use cases, filtering out critiques, and meeting demanding requirements from top clients, this conversation is a must listen for anyone looking at how to make an impact with virtual reality.
What does the next generation of digital media look like? Kim Adams and Maxwell Planck of Adventure Lab take us through a delightful conversation through their experiences at Pixar and Oculus/Facebook and how that brought them front and center to the mainstage of creating a platform that supports immersive theater at scale.
Links:
https://www.adventurelab.fun/
Twitter: @adventurelabrat @maxwellplanck @tylerhgates @sophiamosh
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