#1590: AWE Past & Present Series: Ori Inbar on the Founding of Augmented World Expo to Cultivate the XR Community

Here's my interview with Ori Inbar, co-founder at Super Ventures and Augmented World Expo, that was conducted on Friday, June 2, 2023 at Augmented World Expo in Santa Clara, CA. See more context in the rough transcript below. This AWE Past and Present series represents 41 interviews and 24.5 hours of coverage from AWE 2025 as well as past enterprise XR conferences gatherings from 2018-2025 and should hopefully give a good overview of some of the current trends and discussions happening within the industry. #1590: AWE Past and Present: Ori Inbar on the Founding of Augmented World Expo to Cultivate the XR Community (2023) #1591: Sonya Haskins' Journey to Head of Programming at Augmented World Expo (2023) #1592: Highlights of AWE 2025 from Head of Programming Sonya Haskins (2025) #1593: From Military to Enterprise VR Training with Mass Virtual on Spatial Learning (2025) #1594: Part 1: Rylan Pozniak-Daniels' Journey into XR Development (2019) #1595: Part 2: Rylan Pozniak-Daniels' Journey into XR Development (2025) #1596: Engage XR's Virtual Concert as Experiential Advertising for their Immersive Learning Platform (2023) #1597: Educator Vasilisa Glauser on Using VR for Twice Exceptional Students (2025) #1598: Part 1: Immersive Data Visualization with BadVR's Suzanne Borders (2018) #1599: Part 2: Immersive Data Visualization with BadVR's Suzanne Borders (2021) #1600: Part 1: Jason Marsh on Telling Data Stories with Flow Immersive (2018) #1601: Part 2: Jason Marsh on Telling Data Stories with Flow Immersive (2019) #1602: Part 3: Jason Marsh on Telling Data Stories with Flow Immersive (2025) #1603: Spatial Analytics with Cognitive3D's Tony Bevilacqua (2023) #1604: Investing in Female Founders with WXR Fund's Amy LaMeyer + Immersive Music Highlights (2019) #1605: Rapid Prototyping in VR with ShapesXR + 2021 Launch with CEO Inga Petryaevskaya (2021) #1606: Weekly Meetups in VR with XR Women Founder Karen Alexander (2025) #1607: 2023 XR Women Innovation Award Winner Deirdre V. Lyons on Immersive Theater (2025) #1608: AWE Hall of Famer Brenda Laurel on "Computers as Theater" Book, Ethics, and VR for Ecological Thinking (2019) #1609: Framework for Personalized, Responsive XR Stories with Narrative Futurist Joshua Rubin (2025) #1610: Scouting XR & AI Infrastructure Trends with Nokia's Leslie Shannon (2025) #1611: Socratic Debate on Future of AI & XR from AWE Panel (2025) #1612: AWE Hall of Famer Gregory Panos' Journey into VR: Identity, Body Capture, and Virtual Immortalization (2025) #1613: VR Content Creator Matteo311 on the State of VR Gaming (2025) #1614: Story Behind "Escape Artist" 2024 Polys WebXR Awards Winner (2024) #1615: Viverse's WebXR Plublishing Strategy with James C. Kane & "In Tirol" Game (2025) #1616: Founding Story of Two Bit Circus Micro-Amusement Park with Brent Bushnell & Eric Gradman (2018) #1617: Dream Park: Using MR in Public Spaces to Create Downloadable Theme Parks with Brent Bushnell & Aidan Wolf (2025) #1618: Producing Live Sports for Cosm's Immersive Dome with Ryan Cole (2025) #1619: Deploying Snap Spectacles in Verse Immersive AR LBE with Enklu's Ray Kallmeyer (2025) #1620: Snap's Head of Hardware Scott Myers on Spectacles Announcements & Ecosystem Update (2025) #1621: Karl Guttag's Technical Deep-Dive and Analysis of Consumer XR Displays and LCoS (2023) #1622: Qualcomm's 2023 AWE Announcements for Snapdragon Spaces Ecosystem (2023) #1623: Qualcomm's 2025 AWE Announcements and Android XR Partnerships with Ziad Asghar (2025) #1624: Tom Emrich's State of AR in 2018 (2018) #1625: Tom Emrich's "The Next Dimension" Book on AR for Marketing & Business Growth (2018) #1626: New Spatial Entities OpenXR Extension to Scan, Detect, & Track Planes with Khronos Group President Neil Trevett (2025) #1627: Part 1: Caitlin Krause on Bringing Mindfulness Practices into VR (2019)