Best Charlie Fink Podcasts (2024)

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EP.96: The Evolution of XR, AI, and the Metaverse with Charlie Fink 46:11

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Welcome to Into the Metaverse, in this week’s episode, Yon welcomes Charlie Fink to the podcast. Charlie writes the weekly Forbes column "This Week in XR" and co-hosts its companion podcast. He is the author of the critically acclaimed AR-enabled books Charlie Fink’s Metaverse (2017), and Convergence, How The World Will Be Painted With Data (2019).…

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This Week In XR July 26th, 2024 ft. Dr. Cody Rall, Founder of Techforpsych and neuroscientist 45:45

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This week our guest is neuroscientist Dr. Cody Rall. Rony's working his super-secret day job (an AI startup). Top of the news is OpenAI's Search GPT, which is now a close beta (you can sign up); AI start-up Cohere valued at $5.5 B in their latest round. There are more than 20 AI unicorns - startups valued at more than $1B. Elon Musk has a supercomp…

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This Week In XR July 19th, 2024 ft. Sarah Nagy, founder and CEO of Seek AI 47:14

3h ago47:14

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Charlie and Rony go Tedless this week with Sarah Nagy, founder and CEO of Seek AI, which brings AI to datasets that can be queried with natural language processing and other AI applications. This week's news includes funding for 3D company Jigspace, whose demos are bundled with Apple Vision Pro and tablets. Artificial Agency raised $16M for AI NPCs…

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This Week In XR July 12th, 2024 ft. Chandra Devam, CEO Aris MD 48:23

18h ago48:23

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Another big news week finds AMD snapping up Silo AI for $655M. Captions lip dub co raises $60M. Odyssey AI out of stealth with hi-res gen-AI. Infinite Reality Raises $350M, Acquires LandVault in stock deal. Apple is launching the Iphone 16 with AI this fall, but Siri won't be out until Spring 2025. Samsung includes Bixby in its new launch. Our gues…

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EP.95: Matthew Ball & The Future of the Metaverse (Part 1) 45:38

1M ago45:38

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Welcome to Into the Metaverse. In today’s episode, Yon welcomes Matthew Ball to the podcast. Ball is eponymous for his writings on the evolution of the media landscape and the metaverse and his book, The Metaverse: Building the Spatial Internet. A second edition of the book will be released later this year. Yon and Matthew had an excellent, wide-ra…

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This Week In XR June 20th, 2024 ft. Tony Parisi, AWE XR Hall of Fame Inductee, author, executive, entrepreneur 58:50

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This week the news was all about AI, music labels sue AI music generators Suno and Udio. Etched raises $120M to make AI Chips. Emergence AI scores $97.2M to make AI agents for white-collar work. We share our hot takes on Augmented World Expo, which wrapped last week. Tony, a true XR OG and an old friend, joined Rony in the AWE Hall of Fame last wee…

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This Week In XR June 20th, 2024 Episode 200, live from AWE 54:58

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This 200th episode of "This Week in XR" is recorded with a live audience on AWE's Expo Stage on June 20, 2024. This is the 15th edition of the largest XR conference and expo in the world. We invited five guests who have never been on our show, AWE Program director Sonya Haskins, developer and blogger, Tony Vitillo, Cosmo Scharf, founder of VRLA, an…

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This Week In XR June 14th, 2024 ft. Jeri Ellsworth, CEO and Co-Founder of Tilt Five 55:58

1M ago55:58

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This week is show #199. Our guest is Jeri Ellsworth, CEO and Co-Founder of Tilt Five. Next week we'll record show #200 in front of a live audience at AWE in Long Beach, CA. This week we review Apple AI (Apple Intelligence), their cross-platform AI implementation. Also in the news, Mistral raises $600 M to compete with OpenAI, Google, Meta, and Anth…

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This Week In XR June 10th, 2024 ft. Ori Inbar, Exec Dir and co-founder, AWE 45:35

1M ago45:35

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Ted and Charlie welcome Ori Inbar, who is celebrating AWE's 15th anniversary by moving the June 18 - 20 show from Silicon Valley to Long Beach. In the news, big raises for Pika Labs ($80M) and Twelve Labs ($50M) that can understand video. Wevr, maker of the seminal VR experience The Blu, raises $3.5M. The CEO of Sony Pictures says he is "all in" on…

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This Week In XR May 31st, 2024 ft. Amy Peck, CEO EndeavorXR 46:19

1M ago46:19

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Our guest is XR consultant and thought leader, Amy Peck, CEO of EndeavorXR, but first, it's Ted's birthday, and yes, we sing (sorry). After a brief celebration, we talked about Elon's monumental $6B raise for xAI, and Google's new partnership with Magic Leap, renewing a love affair that began in 2014, when Google made a whopping $500M bet on the na…

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EP.94: Yon & Matthew Talk All Things Metaverse 25:31

2M ago25:31

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Welcome back to Into the Metaverse. In this week’s episode, Yon and Matthew dive into four topics from the last week or so that we see as influential to the development of the metaverse. This weeks topics are: Nvidia’s earnings report and how the company is helping fuel the future infrastructure of the metaverse. (More on this in our recent blog po…

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This Week In XR May 24th, 2024 ft. Jon Vlassopulos, CEO of Napster 50:48

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This week our guest is Jon Vlassopulos, CEO of Napster, which is now a streaming platform with 170 M + tracks. In the news Scarjo v. OpenAI, data-tagging Scale AI snared another Billion dollar round, Series F, at a 13B valuation. Suno, the text-to-music generator, raised $125 M. A dying man is trying to clone himself in AI. Jon brings a wealth of e…

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This Week In XR May 17th, 2024 ft. Matthew Celia, Creative Director of Lightsail VR. 43:06

2M ago43:06

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This week Ted and Charlie celebrate episode 195 without Rony. Our guest is Matthew Celia, of Lightsail VR, who produced Eli Roth's "Faceless Lady," which is now on Meta Quest TV for those with VR headsets. It's the first stereoscopic piece of it's six-episode series. In the news, Google IO drops its Sora competitor, Veo, and using Google Maps to "p…

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EP.93: Matthew Talks All Things Metaverse 18:37

3M ago18:37

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Welcome back to another episode of Into the Metaverse. In this episode, Matthew breaks down four news items from the past week or so that we believe are important to the development of the metaverse including: Roblox’s earnings results and what it means for brands and IP owners - for additional reading on this topic, check out Matthew’s blog post. …

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This Week In XR May 10th, 2024 ft. Marta Marciszewicz, Head of Machine Learning, Anything World 52:58

2M ago52:58

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Charlie and Rony give the show a go without Ted, who's traveling. Very busy news week with lots of M&A activity. We talked about CoStar Group's $1.6B acquisition of 3D scanner Matterport, Lamini AI's $25M raise for secure Enterprise AI, Neurable also raised money, Gen AI company Freepik acquired hit AI upscaler Magninfic, which is also a Spanish co…

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EP.92: The Past Present and Future of Roblox 1:12:00

3M ago1:12:00

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Roblox is the closest platform to the true vision of the metaverse; a persistent, immersive, shared, 3D space that re-imagines how users can connect, communicate, play, shop, and express themselves. In a sense, Roblox can be viewed as the public beta of the metaverse. And Roblox is already emerging as the primary social platform for Gen Alpha and y…

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This Week In XR May 3rd, 2024 ft. Jennifer Tuft and Cassandra Rosenthal, Co-CEOs and Founders of Kaleidoco and Particle Ink 48:28

3M ago48:28

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This week the hosts discuss the new lawsuits against OpenAI. After six months of hype, sentiment about the Humane AI Pin, and The Apple Vision Pro, has become increasingly negative. This week, the press went after the darling of CES 2024, the Rabbit R1, with reviews that called it "unreviewable." This week our guests are Jennifer Tuft and Cassandra…

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This Week In XR April 29th, 2024 ft. Yat Siu, Chairman Animoca Brands 55:18

3M ago55:18

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We rescheduled Friday morning's recording for Monday night in order to bring you one of our most impressive guests ever, Yat Siu, Chairman of Animoca Brands, which has investments in Sandbox, Cool Cats, Yuga Labs, nearly two hundred other Metaverse, web3 and blockchain based companies. We do hit the news briefly before bringing in our guest. This w…

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This Week In XR April 19th, 2024 28:55

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The hosts are all over Meta's release of the new MetaAI with Llama 3, now integrated across all of Meta's brands, and totally free, bringing an exceptional multimodal (does images with short animation) to nearly 4 B users. That's half the planet. Adobe is upgrading its Premiere editing suite, adding Sora for B roll, in-painting (for removing or add…

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This Week In XR April 12th, 2024 ft. Connell Gauld, CTO of Zappar 49:15

3M ago49:15

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Another episode packed with AI news, in particular an investigative NY Times piece revealing the big tech companies were aware of the copyright issues around vacuuming up the Internet. We also talked about two AI-based startups, Udio, which raised $10M for AI created music, and Spines, which raised $6M for e-book publishing. Our guest is Connell Ga…

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This Week In XR April 5th, 2024 ft. Maureen Fan, CEO Baobab Studios 53:12

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This Week the hosts are talking about OpenAI's Voice Engine, which can be trained on fifteen second recording, creating profound questions about privacy and security. The guest this week is Maureen Fan, co-founder and CEO of Baobab Studios, which for eight years has been creating original content for VR, the Metaverse, and traditional media. The co…

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This Week In XR March 29th, 2024 ft. Liz Hyman, President and CEO of the XR Association (XRA) 48:57

4M ago48:57

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The hosts are joined by Liz Hyman, President and Chief Executive Officer of the XR Association (XRA), the trade association promoting the dynamic growth of the XR industry. First up in the news, Amazon doubles down on Anthropic AI as it adds $2.75B to its previous $1.25B investment. OpenAI's text-to-video generator Sora goes to Hollywood, but what …

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This Week In XR SXSW Special ft. Joanna Popper, former CAA, NBC and HP executive. 1:01:56

4M ago1:01:56

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This Week in XR "Dear Tim" episode, an SXSW (South by Southwest) feature session was recorded live in Austin 3/12/24, featuring guest Joanna Popper, former CAA, NBC and HP executive. With the launch of the Meta Quest 3 in November, and the Apple Vision Pro in early February, we now have two competing approaches on spatial computing. The comparison …

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This Week In XR March 22nd, 2024 ft. Weili Dai, co-founder Marvell Technologies, Silicon Box, and MeetKai 48:32

4M ago48:32

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Ted and Charlie welcome guest Weili Dai, co-founder Marvell Technologies, Silicon Box, and MeetKai. In the news, Saudi Arabia to invest $40B in AI, Nvidia revealed its new Blackwell AI computer at its GTC Conference, which it calls "AI Woodstock." They also showed off AI for robots. The State of Unreal was the main event at the Game Developers Conf…

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This Week In XR March 15th, 2024 ft. Laura Mingail, Advisor, and Matthew Niederhauser, director, SXSW 48:42

4M ago48:42

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Charlie and Ted, having recovered from SXSW, are back in their respective man caves, while Rony is on cell, driving through Alabama. Our SXSW panel talk will be posted in three weeks but can be found right now on the SXSW site. After a brief overview of three AI funding stories, we turned our attention back to SXSW, but other topics intruded: the p…

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This Week In XR March 8th, 2024 ft. Lucas Martell, Creator of Walkabout Mini Golf on Meta Quest 31:13

5M ago31:13

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Charlie is solo at SXSW while Ted and Rony are in transit. We'll be posting our Tuesday panel on the future of XR in the age of Apple Vision Pro at the end of next week. Not a big news week. The Sora freakout continues as they drop more tests on the socials. In AI, Haiper emerges from stealth with $13.5 M to take on Runway. Jabali raised $5M to use…

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EP.91: Marketing on Roblox & Reaching Gen Z Audiences With Krystal Hauserman 41:48

5M ago41:48

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Roblox has a large, vibrant community of Gen Z users that spend on average about 2.5 hours per day on the platform. And to discuss how best to market to this audience, Yon welcomes Krystal Hauserman, a dedicated marketing executive to the podcast. Krystal was previously the CMO of 11:11 media, the company founded by Paris Hilton to transform the ce…

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This Week In XR March 1st, 2024 ft. Hugh Forrest, Co-President & Chief Programming Officer at SXSW 42:03

5M ago42:03

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Charlie and Ted are without Rony, who is driving across the country. We'll convene at SXSW in Austin to do our show live on stage with Joanna Popper in a session titled "XR in the Age of Vision Pro" on March 12th. In the news, $675M for Figure AI's humanoid robots, powered by ChatGPT, and a new text-to-video tool, Ideogram. Our guests this week are…

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EP.90: Bringing the Metaverse to the Enterprise with EY’s Edwina Fitzmaurice 36:13

5M ago36:13

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How are enterprises viewing investing in the metaverse today? Yon was delighted to welcome Edwina Fitzmaurice, the Chief Customer Success Officer at EY to the podcast. Edwina is also a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council, an adjunct associate professor at Trinity College Dublin and a board member and chair of the governance c…

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This Week In XR February 23rd, 2024 ft. Katie Conrad, Professor of English at the University of Kansas 42:42

5M ago42:42

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The hosts are in fine form as they dissect the AI boom, which will have an internet-like impact on the economy, society, and culture as the Internet, and will happen much, much faster. Nvidia's explosive earnings are a bigger news story than the US returning to the moon. That's how big it is. To discuss the complications and opportunity AI represen…

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This Week In XR February 16th, 2024 ft. Susanne Haspinger, COO of Hololight 39:28

5M ago39:28

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This week our guest is Susanne Haspinger, COO of Hololight. Rony's at an AI Medical conference. The big news is OpenAI's reveal of expanded memory for ChatGPT and the tease of the next Dall-E upgrade, a text-to-video app called Sora, which is capable of generating up to a minute of video from a single prompt. Nvidia, now the world's third largest c…

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EP.89: Yon & Matthew Break Down Roblox’s 2023 Results and the Epic x Disney Deal 25:52

6M ago25:52

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Roblox just reported a very strong set of results for 2023 and Yon and Matthew are back to break it down. We also had to dive into Epic and Disney’s new partnership. For those that missed it, Disney is investing $1.5 billion for an undisclosed equity stake in Epic. They will partner to build immersive experiences around Disney’s iconic IPs like Sta…

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This Week In XR February 9th, 2024 ft. Caleb and Shelby Ward of Curious Refuge, Cinematic AI Filmmakers 52:41

6M ago52:41

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We recorded one of our best shows this morning with Cinematic AI Filmmakers Caleb & Shelby Ward. If you have not seen their hilarious Wes Anderson Star Wars trailer you are missing a treat. Meanwhile, the week rewarded us with some big news: Disney puts up $15B for Epic to make their game and entertainment universe, Ted is in love - with his new Ap…

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This Week In XR February 2nd, 2024 ft. Tommy Palm, CEO Resolution Games 44:14

6M ago44:14

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This week the hosts are together, live and in-person *for the first time* from the glamorous Sunset Marquis in Los Angeles. It's a propitious day on top of that, of course, as today is 2-2-24, the official launch day of the Apple Vision Pro. In addition, Meta reported a record quarter, a record dividend, a stock buyback, and a successful Christmas …

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EP.88: Yon & Matthew Talk All Things Metaverse 30:32

6M ago30:32

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Welcome back to Into the Metaverse. In this week’s episode, Yon and Matthew dive into four of the most important and interesting news stories related to the metaverse. The topics we discuss today include the smash hit new video game Palworld, the latest salvo in the Apple vs. Epic saga, the launch apps for the Apple Vision Pro and Netflix’s gaming …

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This Week In XR January 26th, 2024 ft. David Weinstein, Nvidia’s Head of XR 47:53

6M ago47:53

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Ted is doing his real job for Viacom today but Rony is with us, while on a ferry in Florida, en route to a secret rendezvous. In the news: Eleven Labs raising $80M for voice cloning, $6.7M for Artisse AI photo app for models and influencers, and the new Rabbit R1 a compact, toy-like $200 handheld AI "Large Action Model" that knows you and your apps…

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EP.87: Digital Twins and the Push to Modernize the Luxury Home Goods Market with Steven Gay - CEO, Mode Maison 32:56

6M ago32:56

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To kick off our slate of fantastic guests for 2024, Matthew was delighted to chat with Steven Gay, the CEO of Mode Maison. Mode Maison is the first and only multi-brand retail platform for luxury home goods and the first and only multi-brand retail platform built entirely with digital twins. Steven and Matthew had an excellent conversation about th…

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This Week In XR January 19th, 2024 ft. Shelly Palmer, Professor at S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University 1:03:00

6M ago1:03:00

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Jason McDowall of the AR Show podcast sits in the co-host chair as Ted and Rony are traveling. They missed a great show. With Rony absent we take a deep dive into troubles at Magic Leap and how its recent raise of $590M of debt financing from its majority shareholder, Saudi Arabia, is actually bad news. If they didn't get there with the last infusi…

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EP.86: Yon and Matthew Talk All Things Metaverse 26:47

7M ago26:47

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Yon and Matthew are back to kick off 2024 discussing the most important and interesting news stories related to the Metaverse in this week’s edition of Yon & Matthew Talk All Things Metaverse. Topics covered include the recent UGC Gaming Report from Naavik, the latest news around Apple Vision Pro, continued layoffs across the industry, and Yon and …

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This Week In XR January 12th, 2024 ft. Faith Popcorn, Futurist 59:23

7M ago59:23

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Live from CES, Charlie and Ted recap the show, the Sphere experience, Xreal's newest AR glasses, the new Sony enterprise XR pass-through HMD, healthtech and, outside the show, layoffs at Unity and Google's AR hardware team. Our guest is the original futurist, author Faith Popcorn, who was at CES on behalf of holographic telepresence company, Proto.…

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This Week In XR January 5th, 2024 ft. Gary Shapiro, President and CEO at CES 59:23

7M ago59:23

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This week our guest is Gary Shapiro, CEO of CES, making good on the appearance that last week was handled by the CTA's futurist, Brian Comisky. In the news, more talk about copyrights as the 1924 "Steamboat Willie'' version of Mickey Mouse enters the public domain. XReal says it sold 350K pairs of its Air2 Assisted Reality smartglasses that provide…

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This Week In XR December 29th, 2023 ft. Brian Comiskey, Futurist, CES 42:32

7M ago42:32

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Today our guest is, after some confusion, Brian Comisky, Futurist for CTA (which puts on CES). We start the show on a slow holiday news week with a discussion of the NY Times suit against OpenAI, apparently following unsuccessful negotiations. CES is the largest trade show in the world, with 130,000 people already registered. Brian joins us to disc…

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This Week In XR December 22nd, 2023 ft. Sarah Hill, CEO Healium 45:00

7M ago45:00

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This week's guest, Sarah Hill, CEO of Healium (note spelling) was guest #1 on our podcast, in July 2020. We were experimenting with both the format of the show and recording the podcast in VR. It was a relatively slow news week, except Bytedance was booted off Azure Cloud's OpenAI for using it to train its own model, which is strictly verboten. Ami…

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EP.85: Into the Metaverse 2023 Recap and 2024 Preview with Matthew Kanterman - formerly Bloomberg Intelligence, Roundhill Investments and Ball Metaverse Partners 1:10:17

7M ago1:10:17

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To close out the year, Yon welcomes back to the show former co-host Matthew Kanterman to recap everything that happened in the metaverse in 2023 and to look ahead at what intrigues and excites them the most about 2024 and beyond! Long-time listeners will quickly recognize Matthew as he was here at the inception of the Into the Metaverse podcast bac…

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This Week In XR December 15th, 2023 ft. Marcus Segal, founder and CEO of ForeVR 50:03

7M ago50:03

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Epic games scored a $92M win over Google for its decidedly anti-competitive app store, but what's really going to hurt is changing the business model of its app store. The EU AI Act puts some rules around transparency and copyright, Mistal AI raises $415M, and Open AI makes a deal with publisher Axel Springer. Tesla introduced a humanoid robot, Opt…

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EP.84: The Future of Music in the Metaverse with Alvaro Velilla - SVP New Business, Universal Music Group 31:11

8M ago31:11

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This week Yon welcomes Alvaro Velilla into the metaverse to discuss the future of music in the metaverse as well as an exciting new partnership between Supersocial and Universal Music Group in bringing the game, Beat Galaxy, to life! Alvaro’s career spans over twenty years of experience driving business transformation at the intersection of Enterta…

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EP.83: Yon & Lisa Talk All Things Metaverse #14 15:35

8M ago15:35

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Yon is once again joined by Lisa Bernard to discuss the most important and interesting news stories related to the Metaverse in this week’s edition of Yon & Lisa Talk All Things Metaverse. During their conversation they discuss the early success of LEGO on Fortnite, why Yon’s new rallying cry is, “2D is dead, long live the 3D internet,” subcategori…

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This Week In XR December 8th, 2023 ft. John MacInnes, Filmmaker 49:05

8M ago49:05

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In the week's news was a flurry of AI announcements. Musk's Grok AI launches, and it has promise. A real-time connection to the Internet is valuable, even if it comes from Twitter. Meta launches Imagine, a very fast, very simple, text-to-image app, and other AI features. Google unveils a new, powerful LLM, Gemini, which will succeed Bard. Our guest…

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EP.82: Creation, Expression and Connection in an Avatar based 3D Internet with Morgan Tucker - Head of Creator, Rec Room 47:49

8M ago47:49

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This week Yon welcomes Morgan Tucker into the metaverse to talk about the role of 3D avatars to build online connections and how Rec Room is going about doing this. Morgan is the Head of Creator at Rec Room, where he works to empower creators to make incredible interactive experiences, develop community, and achieve long-term success. Prior to Rec …

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EP.81: Yon & Lisa Talk All Things Metaverse #13 19:26

8M ago19:26

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Yon is once again joined by Lisa Bernard to discuss the most important and interesting news stories related to the Metaverse in this week’s edition of Yon & Lisa Talk All Things Metaverse. During their conversation they discuss where brand advertising is at in it’s adoption of the metaverse, how generative AI is enabling the next frontier of person…

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