John Black and Mina Fahim are the CEO and CTO of MediView, a company working to give health practitioners “X-ray vision” in order to simplify minimally invasive procedures, enhance clinical workflow, and improve patient outcomes using Augmented Reality.John Black, MediView’s co-founder and CEO, is a physiologist with an educational background in orthopedic sports medicine and cardiopulmonary physiology. He moved from allied health to the medical device industry early in his career. Prior to MediView, John was leading a sales organization as the Regional Vice President at Orthofix, a global medical device company.Mina Fahim, MediView’s President and CTO, studied biomedical engineering and technology management as part of his career in medical device innovation. Prior to MediView, Mina spent 4 ½ years at Medtronic as a Principal Research Development Engineer. In this conversation, John and Mina discuss the unique challenges and opportunities for using AR during surgery. Mina notes that surgeons understand and act on human anatomy in 3D, but use 2D visualization and plan procedures. MediView is able to combine pre-operative 3D images (MRI, CAT) with real-time imaging during the surgery (ultrasound). He notes this approach is even more important in minimally invasive surgery where doctors can’t directly see the treatment area.We go on to discuss the benefits and lessons learned from their partnership with the Cleveland Clinic and how they see the landscape of immersive technology in the operating room.You can find all of the show notes at thearshow.com.

Mark Greget is the founder & CEO of NuEyes, an AR hardware and software company that originally launched in 2016 to assist those with degenerative eye conditions. Recently the company has expanded its product offerings into enterprise, gaming, and entertainment with the launch of the Pro 3 and Pro 3e.Mark is a U.S. Navy veteran and an accomplished medical technology entrepreneur. Prior to NuEyes, Mark was the founder of Los Angeles Low Vision, which was recognized as a leader in the medical industry and became the number two distribution company for visual assistive technology in the country responsible for millions in revenue. In this conversation, Mark describes how the company got its start by changing the lives of the visually impaired using custom software, glasses from the now defunct ODG, and the patient's ability to learn how to see again through the glasses.We go on to talk about the demise of AR glasses maker ODG, and the resulting struggles and opportunities for Mark and the team at NuEyes. Now they are tackling healthcare, enterprise and entertainment with a pair of new wearable displays. He also describes how he’s built an AR hardware and software company on a shoestring budget and the challenges of raising money as a hardware tech company.You can find all of the show notes at thearshow.com.

Sly Lee is the co-founder & CEO of Emerge, a cross-reality presence company, building a platform that aims to enable more meaningful, engaging, and diverse interactions in XR that bring us closer to the people we care about through touch and emotion.Sly is an entrepreneur and scientist who is passionate about creating positive global impact He was named to Forbes 30 Under 30, and he is a member of Global Future Council on Virtual and Augmented Reality at the World Economic Forum.Earlier in his career, Sly was the founder of The Hydrous, an organization that assembled an international consortium to create and share 3D maps of underwater coral reefs.In this conversation, we explore the concept of human connection in the age of the metaverse, and why the sense of touch has an important part to play.Sly goes on to describe the product he’s creating, how it differs from haptic controllers, and the feedback he’s getting from early users. We explore how touch is incorporated into social interaction within our inner circles, and what the trends and differences are internationally.You can find all of the show notes at thearshow.com.

Amy LaMeyer. Amy is the managing partner of WXR Fund, where she invests in early stage spatial computing and artificial intelligence companies with female leadership. Amy spent the first half of her career at Akamai Technologies, which helped enable the early web to scale. There she led the diligence and integration of 20 deals worth more than $1.5 billion.Now she’s fully immersed in AR and VR as an advisor and investor, and she was named one of the Top 30 people to Watch in Augmented Reality by Next Reality. Amy is also a lover of music and the author of the “Sound and AR” chapter in the book Convergence: How the World Will Be Painted With Data by Charlie Fink. In this conversation, Amy shares her observations on demographics and trends after attending the recent YC demo day and other events, and she makes the case for and challenges facing female founded companies. We talk about market trends, the venture fund, and she profiles the areas in which she’s most excited. She goes on to describe some of the founder traits she wants to see, including being an expert in the area where the startup is attempting to disrupt.You can find all of the show notes at thearshow.com.

Japjit Tulsi is the CTO at Matterport, a company building a set of technologies to accelerate and simplify the creation of immersive 3D digital twins for real estate, project planning, hospitality, insurance, and more.Prior to Matterport, Japjit gained more than 20 years of technical leadership experience, including as CTO at Carta, a tool for investors, founders, and employees to manage their equity. He was also VP of Engineering at eBay, leading engineering for new product development, including their AI-powered shopping assistant.Earlier in his career, he helped build products at Google, including Google Analytics and YouTubes’ innovative content platform. He also held numerous senior leadership positions at Microsoft, along with entrepreneurial pursuits at StumbleUpon.Japjit also serves as a board member at Grassroots Ecology, an environmental education and action nonprofit.In this conversation, we get into the technology at Matterport and how Japjit and his team are leveraging machine learning to deliver greater insights with less data, essentially enabling you to “teleport” into a space.But their vision is to do more than capture physical spaces. Matterport's Cortex AI and deep learning algorithms leverages the data to bring an unparalleled index of millions of spaces and new insights into the operational efficiency of buildings around the world.We talk about the company, the technology, and the roadmap. And Japjit shares some great advice for building and maintaining strong engineering teams.You can find all of the show notes at thearshow.com.

Kirin Sinha is the co-founder and CEO of Illumix, a company building an AR-first mobile gaming platform. You may be familiar with Illumix if you’re a fan of the horror franchise, Five Nights at Freddy’s. The Illumix team has already found a lot of success with their first title, Five Nights at Freddy’s AR: Special Delivery.Prior to founding Illumix, Kirin was the founder and Executive Director of Shine for Girls, whose mission is to transform the lives of middle school girls by cultivating a passion for mathematics through a program that incorporates both math and dance. Kirin has a BS in Theoretical Math and Computer Science from MIT as well as three Masters degrees spanning mathematics, machine learning, and business from Cambridge, The London School of Economics, and Stanford.In this conversation, Kirin shares how she thinks about creating compelling stories and gameplay for mobile devices where AR is a central component.We go to talk about how the Five Nights at Freddy’s franchise is a great fit for AR, and also why the Illumix team needed to go beyond AR Kit, AR Core, and Unity in order to deliver their vision for a compelling AR-first mobile experience.Kirin talks about her broader ambitions and also has some amazing advice for building and maintaining self-confidence.You can find all of the show notes at thearshow.com.

Karl Guttag, is currently most well known as a speaker and the author of KGOnTech, a technology blog at kguttag.com.Karl has 40 years of experience in Graphics and Image Processors, Digital Signal Processing, memory architecture, and micro displays, for use in Heads Up Displays and AR glasses. He’s got 150 patents to his name related to these technologies and many billions of dollars of revenue attributed to those inventions. Karl spent nearly 20 years at TI (that’s Texas Instruments), and was named a TI Fellow - the youngest in the company’s history. In the 20 years since, he’s been a CTO at three micro display system startups, in two of which he was also a co-founder.And these days he’s also the Chief Science Officer at Ravn, a company developing a hardware and software platform to deliver mission-critical intelligence to military and first responders when they need it most.Today’s episode is a postscript to the previous two episodes. After I concluded my interview with Karl, we started talking about Apple and their rumored pursuits of VR and AR devices.You can find all of the show notes at thearshow.com.

Karl Guttag, is currently most well known as a speaker and the author of KGOnTech, a technology blog at kguttag.com.Karl has 40 years of experience in Graphics and Image Processors, Digital Signal Processing, memory architecture, and micro displays, for use in Heads Up Displays and AR glasses. He’s got 150 patents to his name related to these technologies and many billions of dollars of revenue attributed to those inventions. Karl spent nearly 20 years at TI (that’s Texas Instruments), and was named a TI Fellow - the youngest in the company’s history. In the 20 years since, he’s been a CTO at three micro display system startups, in two of which he was also a co-founder.And these days he’s also the Chief Science Officer at Ravn, a company developing a hardware and software platform to deliver mission-critical intelligence to military and first responders when they need it most.In this second part of my conversation with Karl, we talk about matching display technologies to the right combiner optics technologies. Karl talks about which of those technologies he thinks have the best chance of being successful. He also discusses the importance of matching what the devices can do well to the user and the use case, and we get into some of those use cases across consumer, enterprise, and military.On this last one, Karl goes deeper into the hard tradeoffs in delivering something of essential value to the military and other first responders in the field.You can find all of the show notes at thearshow.com.

Karl Guttag, is currently most well known as a speaker and the author of KGOnTech, a technology blog at kguttag.com.Karl has 40 years of experience in Graphics and Image Processors, Digital Signal Processing, memory architecture, and micro displays, for use in Heads Up Displays and AR glasses. He’s got 150 patents to his name related to these technologies and many billions of dollars of revenue attributed to those inventions. Karl spent nearly 20 years at TI (that’s Texas Instruments), and was named a TI Fellow - the youngest in the company’s history. In the 20 years since, he’s been a CTO at three micro display system startups, in two of which he was also a co-founder.And these days he’s also the Chief Science Officer at Ravn, a company developing a hardware and software platform to deliver mission-critical intelligence to military and first responders when they need it most.Like my first interview  with Karl several years ago, this was a long and wide ranging conversation that I split into multiple parts. In this first part, we touch on cloning - both of microprocessors and AR devices. We also talk about why see-through AR is 10x harder than VR, the importance of field of view in AR vs VR, the poor visual quality of the Hololens 2, the challenges of diffractive waveguides and laser scanning displays, Magic Leap’s wasted opportunity, and more. Some of it gets technical, but Karl does a good job of making it accessible. If you’ve ever wondered what it’s like to sit down and have a drink with Karl, it’s something like this. You can find all of the show notes at thearshow.com.

Julia Brown is the co-founder and CEO of MindX, the creator of a novel brain computer interface that combines neurotechnology, augmented reality and artificial intelligence to create a "look-and-think” interface for next-generation spatial computing applications.  Prior to starting MindX, Julia co-founded EpiWatch, a digital health spin-out from Johns Hopkins that developed a seizure detection and condition management platform for wearable devices in partnership with Apple.  She was also a founding member of the Johns Hopkins Medicine Technology Innovation Center, where she oversaw a team of engineers and entrepreneurs to create 25+ novel digital solutions that improve patient care, many of which were spun out into independent startup companies. Julia has an academic background in computational biology, engineering, and human-centered design.In this conversation we get into the potential of brain computer interfaces and their contribution to private, personal computing when wearing AR glasses. Julia goes on to describe alternative approaches for brain computer interfaces, including those using EMG and EEG. And of course we dig into what Julia and her team are creating at MindX, which utilizes what they call Holographic Near Infrared Spectroscopy. We talk through where they are in bringing their product to market and what will be possible in the coming years. Julia also touches on lessons learned in working with academic research labs when bringing cutting edge innovation to market.You can find all of the show notes at thearshow.com.