XR Connections - Extended Reality - XR | AR | VR | MR
Liam O'Malley
XR Connections covers Extended Reality (XR - AR - VR - MR), providing a weekly guide to items of interest in the worlds of Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, and Mixed Reality. Hosted by Liam James O'Malley of Mars and Mercury - XR Strategy and Intelligence
- 27 minutes 52 secondsReal World Results of Enterprise VR Training's with Lorne Fade of VR Vision
Lorne Fade of VR Vision discusses, VR for Enterprise Training, the Merits and Drawbacks of 360 Video and Measuring the ROI of VR Training Applications
VR Vision Clients:
Oculus Avangrid Renewables Case Study
Connect:
Lorne Fade, Co-Founder & COO at VR Vision
Roni Cerga, CEO at VR Vision | CRO at Reality Well
Antony Vitillo (Skarred Ghost), AR/VR developer, entrepreneur, consultant, blogger; Ghost Howls Blog
VRM, Virtual Reality Marketing
RIN, Reality Innovators Network for Metaverse, VR, AR & XR (Virtual, Augmented & Extended Reality)
Ori Inbar, Founder at Super Ventures and AWE
Thom Buchanan, Contact CI Chief of Product (see Episode 14)
Events:
TechLearn 2022 Conference September 20-22, Austin TX
HackMIT 2022 (MIT Hackathon) October 01-02, Cambridge MA
DevLearn Conference and Expo October October 26-28, Las Vegas NV
Tech:
Meta Quest Pro/Project Cambria - ‘Meta Quest Pro: everything we know so far’ - Tom’s Guide
20 September 2022, 4:07 pm - 38 minutes 50 secondsEp. 22 - Getting Started for Business in the Metaverse with Deborah Worrell of Virtual Reality Marketing
Deborah Worrell discusses how to get started in the Metaverse from a business perspective. We discuss the hardware and software needs, where to start, how to plan for a business presence in the Metaverse, and what exactly a VR experience is.
Goldman Sachs Metaverse/Crypto
8 April 2022, 4:16 pm - 26 minutes 26 secondsEpisode 21 with Edwin Rivera of CG1 Solutions and the Miami VRARA on XR Training and Healthcare
EPISODE 021 SHOW NOTES:
Edwin Rivera of CG1 Solutions discusses challenges and opportunities in developing and deploying XR training content for Healthcare, the importance of being platform agnostic, how he was inspired to enter the AR space, and the emergence of the Miami area as a tech innovation center.
28 February 2022, 8:04 pm - 40 minutes 26 secondsXR Connections Ep.20 - Deborah Worrell of Virtual Reality Marketing and the Reality Innovators Network
Deborah Worrell of Virtual Reality Marketing recommends VR collaboration and networking platforms, and discusses the Reality Innovators Network, Digital Twins and IoT, NFTs and virtual goods, and the best sources for keeping up with all things Metaverse.
Deborah Worrell
Virtual Reality Marketing
Reality Innovators Network
AltSpace
Oculus
Roblox
Fortnite
Spatial
Glue
Pico Neo 3
Internet of Things
Digital Twins
Internet of Industrial Things
Decentraland
Virtual Fashion and Collectibles
Inside Newsletters
ARTillery
Mike Boland
Shelly Palmer
Mathew Olson/Reality Check
Benedict Evans
VRARA
Charlie Fink
AWE
Ted Schilowitz/This Week in XR
The Metaverse, Why It Matters, How’s It Going to Revolutionize Everything - Matthew Ball
Gabriel Rene - The Spatial Web
17 February 2022, 6:04 pm - 31 minutes 48 secondsNo. 19. Former Disney Imagineer Brian Collins on Transforming Education with XR
Episode No. 19. features former Disney Imagineer Brian Collins of The Brainstorm Institute and Magic Bytes on transforming education with XR, VR platforms AltspaceVR and Engage, and advice and insight on presenting in VR.
FB The Mouse and the Imagineer
Haunted Mansion Pepper’s Ghost Effect
Dr. Martin Rayala - Enso Education Institute
Acknowledgements:
Call Recording: Zoom
Podcasting: Anchor
Editing: Logic Pro X
Music: "Are You There" by DR. MARS
17 July 2020, 1:03 pm - 34 minutes 48 secondsNo. 18. VictoryXR's Steve Grubbs on building a Virtual Reality Classroom Environment and Developing a Standards-Based VR Curriculum
Steve Grubbs, founder and CEO of VictoryXR, discusses building a Virtual Reality Classroom Environment, engaging a team to develop and present a Standards-Based VR Curriculum, choosing the ENGAGE platform as VictoryXR's virtual campus, how hardware development is accelerating adoption of VR education, and some of his favorite educational VR experiences.
Award-Winning VR Frog Dissection
ChalkBites VR Corporate Training
Anne Frank House in Virtual Reality
23 June 2020, 12:13 am - 25 minutes 20 secondsNo. 17 Rene Pinnell on Cannes XR 2020, The VR Museum of Other Realities, Grants for XR Artists, and the Kaleidoscope Creator Community.
In Episode No. 17 Rene Pinnell of Kaleidoscope VR discusses Cannes XR 2020, The VR Museum of Other Realities, and how he and his wife have built Kaleidoscope and a community-funded grant model that helps artists migrate into the new medium of XR.
Elie Levasseur - XR program Leader - Cannes XR / Le Marché du Film & Head of NewImages XR Market
VEER Premium VR Experiences
VHRAM! - Virtual Reality in Hamburg Virtual Festival 2020
BattleScar Immersive Film
Acknowledgements:
Call Recording: Skype
Podcasting: Anchor
Recording: Logic Pro X
Music: "Are You There" by DR. MARS
19 June 2020, 1:54 am - 25 minutes 45 secondsNo. 16 XR Rapid Prototyping with Preview Lab's Bernard Francois
EPISODE 016 SHOW NOTES:
Featuring an interview with Bernard Francois, founder of Preview Labs, who discusses the unique challenges and benefits of rapid prototyping for XR, his company’s VR and AR projects for the National Institutes for Health and Yale University, and his experience presenting and networking at the online AWE 2020 Conference in May 2020.
Oculus DK1 Retrospective from Road to VR
National Institutes of Health
Yale University - Play for Real Lab - Invite Only VR Vaping Prevention Game
Physics in Games and VR Simulations Presentation by Bernard Francois at NYU
Game Developers Conference - August 4-6 2020 (Online)
Boston Virtual Reality Meetup
Acknowledgements:
Call Recording: Skype
Podcasting: Anchor
Recording: Logic Pro X
Music: "Are You There" by DR. MARS
9 June 2020, 8:48 pm - 47 minutes 2 secondsNo. 15 Virtual Reality and Education with Kai Liang of MEL Science
EPISODE 015 SHOW NOTES:
Featuring an interview with Kai Liang of MEL Science and Smart Stone Technology. Kai discusses how he got his start in Virtual Reality for Education, the role quality content plays in the adoption of VR for K-12 use, subjects that VR excels at, and his recommendations of VR education content providers.
Bernard Frischer (Virtual Rome)
Acknowledgements:
Call Recording: Zoom
Podcasting: Anchor
Recording: Logic Pro X
Music: "Are You There" by DR. MARS
28 May 2020, 3:32 pm - 29 minutes 30 secondsNo. 14 Participating in the MIT XR Reality Hack with Tom Buchanan, Co-Founder of haptic glove maker Contact CI.
EPISODE 014 SHOW NOTES:
Episode 14 of XR Connections features an interview with Tom Buchanan, Co-Founder and Chief of Product for the haptic glove maker Contact CI. Tom discusses his experience as a participant of the XR-focused MIT Reality Hack, his team's award-winning immersive Impact Journalism project, Rising Tide, haptic technology, the Varjo XR-1 Mixed Reality Headset, Contact CI's Maestro gloves and recent advancements in hand-tracking.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Discord Voice and Text Chat App
Rising Tide MIT Reality Hack Project
Rising Tide Team Members:
Liam Broza LifeScope Lab, Carlos Calva, Clair Chuff, Grace Ma
Contact CI / Maestro Haptic Glove
Cincy Inno / American Inno Network
Ultraleap, Leap Motion Tracking and Haptics
Acknowledgements:
Call Recording: Skype
Podcasting: Anchor
Recording: Logic Pro X
Music: "Are You There" by DR. MARS
Hosted and Produced by Liam James O'Malley at Mars & Mercury
10 March 2020, 6:11 pm - 25 minutes 30 secondsNo. 13 with Terry Proto on Virtual Reality Marketing and Ubereal Agency
Episode 13 features an interview with Terry Proto, Co-Founder and CEO of Virtual Reality Marketing and Ubereal Agency. Terry is both helping brands find trustworthy XR development partners and helping XR creators find more clients and recurring business. We discuss Virtual Reality Marketing’s searchable database of over 2500 XR creators, the importance of XR case studies, the challenges of beginning an XR project, who Terry follows to keep up on XR developments, XR events of interest, and promising new advances in AR glasses.
Virtual Reality Marketing Searchable Database of XR Creators
Ubereal Partner Rikard Berglin
Alan Smithson XR for Business Podcast
Julie Smithson XR for Learning Podcast
Acknowledgements:
Call Recording: Skype
Podcasting: Anchor
Recording: Logic Pro X
Music: "Are You There" by DR. MARS
Hosted and Produced by Liam James O'Malley at Mars & Mercury
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