Building the Open Metaverse

Dec 20 2023 53
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The metaverse is an open and immersive network for gaming, social engagement, and enterprise collaboration, enabled by a breadth of technology that includes game engines, AR wearables, real-world scans, and VR. On Building the Open Metaverse, hosts Patrick Cozzi and Marc Petit invite a broad range of technical experts to share their insights on how the community is building the metaverse together.

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Pragmatic Tech Perspectives to Cap off 2023 W/ Tim Bates

Dec 20 2023 42 mins  
Timothy Bates provides his perspectives on key 2023 technology topics based on decades of industry experience. On AI, Bates notes the industry's transition towards human-centric models tailored for specific use cases versus generalized models, citing issues with bias. He contrasts corporate, group-specific, and individual models optimized for different needs. Regarding automotive,

Designing the Future for Sustainability W/ Anne Asensio

Dec 11 2023 40 mins  
In this thought-provoking episode, acclaimed industrial designer Anne Asensio shares valuable perspectives from her pioneering career spanning automotive giants Renault and General Motors, to her current leadership role as Vice President of Design Experience at Dassault Systèmes. The discussion opens with Asensio recounting her early fascination with using design to transform peop

From Unity to the Metaverse & Building 3D Worlds W/ Aras Pranckevičius

Nov 27 2023 21 mins  
Aras Pranckevičius reminisces about his formative years at Unity, detailing the transition from a Mac-only platform to a gaming revolution with the advent of the iPhone. He critiques Unity's package management and advocates for keeping core functionality within the main codebase. Aras favors text-based programming languages, given their clarity compared to visual nodes. He delves

Building Social & Expressive Virtual Worlds W/ Yonathan Raz-Fridman of Supersocial

Nov 20 2023 46 mins  
In this episode of the "Building the Open Metaverse" podcast, guest Yonathan shares his journey to becoming a pioneer in the metaverse through platforms like Roblox. He discusses how young people today are "metaverse native," immersed in virtual worlds and using avatars to socialize. His company, Super Social, builds virtual experiences for brands on Roblox and Fortnite Creative. H

Making Accessible AI Motion Capture Animation W/ Tino Millar

Nov 13 2023 25 mins  
This episode features Tino Millar, CEO of Move AI, a company aiming to make 3D animation more accessible. Millar outlines his background, including PhD research in material science and sports injuries, which sparked his interest in digitizing human motion. He explains Move AI’s markerless mocap technology, which uses AI and computer vision to turn 2D video into 3D character anima

Web Standards for the Win W/ Ken Russell & Corentin Wallez

Nov 06 2023 36 mins  
In this episode of the Building the Open Metaverse podcast, Ken Russell and Corentin Wallez from the Google Chrome graphics team discuss using web browsers and technologies like WebGPU, WebGL, and WebAssembly to build an open and accessible metaverse. They explain how new browser capabilities like WebGPU's compute shaders and multi-threading support can enable complex 3D experience

Liz Rothman, Unpacking the AI Policy & Governance Landscape

Oct 30 2023 28 mins  
In this episode of Building the Open Metaverse, hosts Patrick Cozzi and Marc Petit discuss artificial intelligence ethics, safety, and governance with attorney Liz Rothman. Rothman provides an overview of the key issues being debated regarding responsible AI development and use. She explains that conversations are focused on three main areas - algorithmic bias and fairness, workfor

Jim Blinn, a Pioneer's View on the Evolution of Computer Graphics, from Voyager to the Open Metaverse

Oct 23 2023 38 mins  
In this episode of the Building the Open Metaverse podcast, hosts Marc Petit and Patrick Cozzi are joined by computer graphics legend Jim Blinn. Blinn recounts his pioneering work in CG, from developing bump mapping while a PhD student at University of Utah in the 1970s to producing animations for the Voyager spacecraft's flybys of Jupiter and Saturn at NASA JPL. Blinn traces his j

Bilawal Sidhu, A Mind Living At the Intersection of Bits & Atoms

Oct 16 2023 51 mins  
Bilawal Sidhu joins the podcast to discuss his background in emerging tech and experiences working at Google. Sidhu became interested in mixed realities at a young age when he saw visual effects being used to blend the physical and digital worlds in movies. This inspired him to learn 3D animation and visual effects software. Later, Sidhu studied computer science and business at USC

How Hugo Swart and Qualcomm are paving the road to XR

Oct 09 2023 31 mins  
In this episode, Hugo Swart from Qualcomm Technologies joins hosts Marc Petit and Patrick Cozzi to discuss Qualcomm's work in XR and the metaverse. Hugo shares his career journey, starting in wireless technology in the early 2000s during the transition from desktop to mobile computing. He helped develop some of the first standalone VR headsets in 2016 using Qualcomm's Snapdragon pr