Mind Blowing Interviews With Emerging Tech Pioneers

A collection of our favorite mind-blowing interviews with world-leading emerging technology pioneers.

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Alan Smithson CEO of MetaVRse, a company helping businesses leverage the transformative power of XR. He's also the co-founder of XR Ignite, a community hub and virtual accelerator for startups, studios, and developers wanting to connect with enterprise customers and their large business problems.

In this episode, Alan Smithson joins us LIVE for a game of “Would You Rather?” and “Hot or Not” After, we will be talking about XR for business, AWE, and his latest project, XR Ignite Community Hub & Hyper-Accelerator

Joel Breton President Sixense Studios, has produced and launched more than thirty top-selling video games across twenty-five commercial platforms in his career. His first role as a game producer was for GT interactive, where he produced several key franchises, including Doom, Duke Nukem, Total Annihilation, Unreal, and the first version of the Unreal engine. He then worked for Bethesda Softworks, where he launched top-selling games Sea Dogs, Burnout, and Pirates of the Caribbean. Joel is currently VP of Global VR Content for HTC VIVE. He is actively working with development studios around the world to ensure a vibrant content portfolio across all categories of VR content including games, education, video, music, social, health, and entertainment.

In this episode, we'll be talking with our special guest President of Sixense Studios Joel Breton about the future of job training. We discuss how Sixense Enterprises Inc. is pioneering immersive and precise experiences.

In this episode, we'll be talking with our special guest Dimitri Mikhalchuk Co-Founder & Chief Revenue Officer of Teslasuit to discuss the future of full-body haptics, biometrics, and motion capture.

Christopher Lafayette is a Silicon Valley National & International speaker. Founder of XR platforms, Flotilla, HoloPractice, and the Immersive Directory. He's creating a series of immersive medical incubator platforms, building fully equipped immersive Holodecks and creating emergent technology applications and hardware.

In this episode, we'll be talking with our special guest Christopher Lafayette, to discuss the importance of making sure communities and industries outside of tech have a voice in emerging technologies.

Dalia Lasaite co-founder and CEO of CGTrader, the world’s largest source for licensable stock and custom 3D models, CGTrader operates the self-service CGTrader Marketplace which features more than 1,000,000 3D models and a managed community of close to two million users, including highly-skilled 3D designers and the CGTrader Enterprise 3D Modeling platform which allows enterprise customers and online retailers to transform their 2D product images into photorealistic 3D models. Before she co-founded CGTrader in 2015, Lasaite gained experience as a founder and managing director. She founded a popular ridesharing service in Vilnius, Lithuania, and worked in New York developing software solutions for enterprise social media analysis.

In this episode, we'll be talking with our special guest Dalia Lasaite co-founder and CEO of CGTrader, to discuss the launch of their brand new enterprise solution ARsenal, and how Augmented Reality is revolutionizing retail.

Simon Che de Boer is a virtual reality content creator, renowned photogrammetrist, and founder of realityvirtual.co - a visual effects technology company streamlining real-world encapsulation - allowing them to deliver a true sense of ‘being there’. His work has received international recognition for the level of quality and is commonly cited as the gold standard for photo-realistic digital-twin experiences. Forbes, NVIDIA, Autodesk and Epic Games have all featured the work of realityvirtual.co to demonstrate the potential of this new immersive medium. 

Simon’s real-world digitization of sites of cultural significance span the globe - from King Tutankhamun and Nefertari’s Tomb in Egypt to local experiences for indigenous Māori in New Zealand, and other heritage projects such as New Zealand Parliament and the Treaty of Waitangi. Most recently Simon has been working on bleeding-edge AI to streamline deep learning techniques and set the stage for a visual effects automation revolution. These tools will aid in the digitization of vast sites across the globe - a means to back up our planet.

In this episode, we'll be talking with our special guest Simon Che de Boer, world's leading expert in photogrammetry and 3D scanning techniques to discuss the future of capturing memories, early beginnings of starting a band in New Zealand, recalling the experience of his home burning down and recreating it in Virtual Reality, his early ventures into home automation design and photogrammetry, capturing the sacred tombs in Egypt and more.

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