XR AI Spotlight

Jussi Kemppainen, has over 24 years of experience as game designer, director, 3D and VFX artist and has embarked on a journey to create a full game with the help of AI: Echos of Somewhere, now available as a demo on the project website and coming soon to steam. From environments to characters he has been sharing his workflows and journey publicly triggering excitement and skepticism on the future of AI-assited game development. Stay with us to learn: How he approaches the discovery of new generative AI tools His recommendation for game developers on how to integrate AI into their workflows His unconventional theory on how AI will impact small game developers versus big studios *** OUR SPONSOR Visit ⁠Meshy.ai⁠ and use the code "XRAI20" to get 20% discount on your subscription *** CONNECT WITH JUSSI ⁠💼 ⁠⁠⁠Linkedin⁠⁠⁠⁠ 🐤⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠X (Twitter)⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠🔗 ⁠⁠⁠Website⁠   *** CONNECT WITH ME 🐤⁠⁠⁠⁠X (Twitter)⁠⁠⁠⁠ 💼 ⁠⁠⁠⁠Linkedin⁠⁠⁠⁠: 🔗⁠⁠⁠⁠Link-in Bio⁠⁠⁠⁠   *** PAST EPISODES 🎙️ ⁠⁠Show Website⁠⁠ 🟢 ⁠⁠⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠⁠⁠ 🍎⁠⁠⁠⁠Apple Podcast⁠

Andrew R McHugh is the founder and CEO of Wist, an app for stepping inside your memories on mobile and in XR. Previously at Samsung, he was Team Lead and Senior Designer at the XR Design Group. Andrew contributed to the LGBTQ+ Museum and his work has been featured in Vice, This Week In Startups, and the Wall Street Journal. By listening to this episode you will learn: What are spatial memories and how to capture them without a Vision Pro How AI can close the gap in memory capture What drove Andrew to leave Samsung and pursue his passion for capturing spatial memories *** OUR SPONSOR Visit Meshy.ai and use the code "XRAI20" to get 20% discount on your subscription *** CONNECT WITH ANDREW ⁠💼 ⁠⁠Linkedin⁠⁠⁠ ⁠🐤⁠⁠X (Twitter)⁠⁠⁠ ⁠🔗 ⁠⁠WistLabs   *** CONNECT WITH ME 🐤⁠⁠⁠X (Twitter)⁠⁠⁠ 💼 ⁠⁠⁠Linkedin⁠⁠⁠: 🔗⁠⁠⁠Link-in Bio⁠⁠⁠   *** PAST EPISODES 🎙️ ⁠Show Website⁠ 🟢 ⁠⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠⁠ 🍎⁠⁠⁠Apple Podcast⁠

Anne-Sophie Panzer, cofounder of Zaubar, blends history and storytelling for AR castle reconstructions and location games. Stefan Marx, cofounder and product lead, builds AI-powered tools for gamified street, museum, and event AR. They discuss place-based AR projects, app-clip vs WebAR tradeoffs, safety and onboarding in transit, generative AI for scalable AR content, and a Euro 2024 rollout with Deutsche Telekom.

Adam B. Levine, Chief Innovation Officer at Blockade Labs and generative AI product leader, builds tools that turn text into 360° skyboxes and 3D environments. He discusses why environments were the first focus. He explains cascading AI pipelines from skyboxes to playable prototypes. He covers open source trade-offs, mesh completion for walkable worlds, and upcoming edit and 2D-to-3D features.

Suza Vos is a digital fashion pioneer. During the beginning of her career at the Fabricant she had the chance to work with renowned brands like  Off White, Adidas, Puma, Star Atlas and Ubisoft. She has now become an independent digital fashion artist, shown her work at Amsterdam Fashion Week and MET AMS and is now actively exploring how XR and AI can improve and disrupt the fashion industry and her design process. Listen to this episode to learn: Meaningful ways in which digital fashion can contribute to sustainability What it took to create the first-ever holographic fashion show How Democratization might not always be a good thing Her professional advice for creatives growing their own practice *** CONNECT WITH SUZA 💼 ⁠Linkedin⁠ 🔗 ⁠Website   *** CONNECT WITH ME 🐤⁠X (Twitter)⁠ 💼 ⁠Linkedin⁠ 🔗⁠Link-in Bio⁠   *** PAST EPISODES 🟢 ⁠YouTube⁠ 🍎⁠Apple Podcast

Michael Rubloff is a leader in neural radiance fields (also known as. NeRF), a technology that turns 2D images into photorealistic three-dimensional scenes. He established the largest independent Discord server for radiance field creators radiancefields.com, to follow closely the rapid evolution of this technology.  He collaborated with leading companies like NVIDIA and Shutterstock and shared his expertise at prestigious events like SIGGRAPH 2023. Listen to this episode to learn: The differences between various types of Nerfs How to edit and clean NeRFs and Gaussian Splatting 2 ways to view your nerfS and splats in VR The latest exciting advancement in dynamic Nerfs *** CONNECT WITH MICHAEL 💼 Linkedin 🔗 Radiance Fields *** CONNECT WITH ME 🐤X (Twitter) 💼 Linkedin: 🔗Link-in Bio *** PAST EPISODES 🟢 YouTube 🍎Apple Podcast

Tejas Kulkarni holds a PhD in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence at MIT. He has worked on large AI systems at Google deep Mind and he is now CEO of Common Sense Machine, An AI platform that turns images, video or sketches into game-engine-ready 3D assets. By listening to this episode you will learn: What are AI hallucinations  What is the best modality to obtain 3D models generated by AI How 3D generative AI models are going to evolve and specialize How the future of 3D gen AI is going to move into world-building *** CONNECT WITH TEJAS 💼 Linkedin 🔗 Common Sense Machine *** CONNECT WITH ME 🐤X (Twitter) 💼 Linkedin: 🔗Link-in Bio *** PAST EPISODES 🟢 YouTube 🍎Apple Podcast

Tony Bevilacqua is the Founder and CEO of Cognitive3D, a spatial #analytics platform that allows XR teams to collect spatial data understand user behaviors in #3d space, measure the user level of presence and build better and more immersive XR experiences. Listen to this episode to learn: The missing link between retention metrics and understanding user behaviors How to use data to improve app performance How to use the XR privacy framework to inform participants about the #data the app is recording How you can quantify the user presence using a presence score   *** CONNECT WITH TONY 💼 Linkedin 🔗 Cognitive 3D 🔒 #XR Privacy framework   *** CONNECT WITH ME 🐤X (Twitter) 💼 Linkedin: 🔗Link-in Bio   *** PAST EPISODES 🟢Spotify 🍎Apple Podcast

As Sr. director of innovation at Media Monks Funs Jacobs focuses on helping companies navigate this shift in brand building. Media Monk has been named the AI Agency of the Year by Adweek, for demonstrating  “exceptional talent, creativity, and ingenuity in the application of generative AI in both internal operations and client work” It is a pleasure to have Funs here on the show and get a look at the behind-scenes of this success By listening to this episode you will learn: How brands can use AI right now to transform their business The ways brand can gamify their experiences to engage and interact with young audiences How brands are reacting to tech hype and the core differences between XR and AI How agencies can find the right POC to show the value of AI and scale from there *** CONNECT WITH FUNS: 💼 LinkedinMedia Monks *** CONNECT WITH ME ⁠⁠⁠🐤X (Twitter)⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠💼 Linkedin⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠🔗Link-in Bio⁠⁠ *** WATCH ALL EPISODES ON YOUTUBE 🍿⁠⁠YouTube

Markus Edgar Hormes is the Co-Founder of WorkPlayExperience, a German service innovation consultancy helping organizations of all sizes to tackle complex business problems. He is a co-author of the top-selling book, “This is Service Design Doing” and he has dived into how AI can augment the design process with a focus on emerging team dynamics and how these new tools can be used during workshops and design sprints effectively. Listen to this episode to learn: 1- How AI can be used in customer research 2- How to manage expectations when introducing AI as a tool 3- What are the challenges when introducing AI to your team  4- How to start exploring and scaling its usage ⁠⁠⁠💼 Linkedin⁠⁠⁠ Work Play Experience *** CONNECT WITH ME ⁠⁠🐤X (Twitter)⁠⁠ ⁠⁠💼 Linkedin⁠⁠ ⁠⁠🔗Link-in Bio⁠ *** WATCH ALL EPISODES ON YOUTUBE 🍿⁠YouTube