This Week in XR Podcast

Nov 08 2024 219 ep. 39 mins 38
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A pithy take on the week's tech news, followed by interviews with industry guests. Hosted by Forbes Tech Columnist, Professor Charlie Fink, Rony Abovitz, Founder of Magic Leap, and Ted Schilowitz, Futurist at Paramount Global.  
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This Week In XR November 8th, 2024 ft. Alex Marsharov, Founder and CEO, Higgsfield AI

Nov 08 2024 54 mins  
In this week's pod the hosts discussed big tech's investment in Trump, Australia's move to regulate social media, and Google's accidental preview of Jarvis, which will be the Android answer to AI Siri, and may even launch sooner. They also highlighted a company called Mawari, which is working on tokenizing streaming XR content,

This Week In XR November 1st, 2024 ft. Shara Senderoff, Co-Founder, Futureverse

Nov 02 2024 49 mins  
This week the hosts are in full force. Rony talks about his AI startup, Synthbee. It's earnings week, so we got a look at just how much money tech companies are making and their projected investments in AI. OpenAI's ChatGPT search is coming for Google. Inbrain Neuroelectronics raised $50M, and Spot AI raised $31M to turn those janky security cameras into AI

This Week In XR October 25th, 2024 ft. Deniz Özgür, co-founder, co-CEO, Spacerunners

Oct 28 2024 44 mins  
This week our guest is Deniz Özgür, co-founder, co-CEO, Spacerunners. Space Runners is a fashion-tech platform that operates at the intersection of digital fashion, blockchain technology, and the metaverse. Deniz was named a Forbes 30 under 30 CEO last year. Spacerunners uses AI to help brands bring their products to new markets, like the Metaverse. Rony is off for the Jewish hol

This Week In XR October 17th, 2024 ft. Joaquin Cuenca Abela, Co-Founder and CEO, Freepik

Oct 18 2024 47 mins  
This week our guest is Joaquin Cuenca Abela, co-founder and CEO of Freepik. Rony is off for the Jewish holiday, Sukkot. Earlier in the week, he launched his new company SynthBee with $20 million dollars of VC money. Also in the news, Nvidia enters software with a high-performing open source AI model, competing with its biggest customers. Our sponsor Zappar now has got a d

This Week In XR October 10th, 2024 ft. Justin Maier, Co-Founder and CEO, Civitai

Oct 12 2024 47 mins  
This week the hosts are here in full force to welcome Justin Maier, co-founder and CEO of Civitai. Elon Musk of Tesla revealed of the Robotaxi and its accompanying Robobus and Optimus robots. The nobel prize in Physics went to John Hopfield and Geoff Hinton, the AI Scientist who "retired from Google" warning the

This Week In XR October 4th, 2024 ft. Anthony Batt and Neville Spiteri, Co-Founders, Wevr

Oct 04 2024 49 mins  
Ted and Charlie welcome Antony Batt, Neville Spiteri, co-founders of Wevr, creators of "The Blu," one of the first experiences created for the HTC Vive in 2016. Rony is off for the holiday (Happy New Year to those who celebrate). In the news, Future Trash, an LA creative studio, scores $5M to make experiences for Fortnite. Runware AI Raises $3M for super fast AI imag

This Week In XR September 27th, 2024 ft. Yonatan Raz-Fridman, CEO Supersocial

Oct 04 2024 46 mins  
Charlie, Rony and Ted welcome Yonatan Tal, CEO of Supersocial. First up is the flurry of announcements from Meta Connect, including the unveiling of their see-through AR headset, dubbed Orion, and more broad updates about AI. Rony shares intimate details of his conversation with Mark Zuckerberg at the prestigious Allen & Company invitation-only in Sun Valley. Yonatan Tal shares

This Week In XR September 20th, 2024 ft. John Attanassio and Luisa Huang, Co-founders of Toonstar

Sep 22 2024 50 mins  
Ted and Charlie are Rony-less but happily dive into a busy newsweek, which featured new headsets from Snap and HTC, a $230 M raise for World Labs, which is focused on generating 3D AI, for worlds and assets. Also in the news Palmer Lucky to the rescue, and a Neuralink breakthrough. John Attanassio and Luisa Huang, co-founders of Toonstar, join us to share their nine year journey to

This Week In XR September 13th, 2024 ft. Zhen Feng, head of international, Roblox

Sep 19 2024 49 mins  
This week all three hosts are back in force with a great guest, Zhen Feng, Head of International for Roblox. Rony and Ted talk about a new hush-hush optics technology for XR which they believe is coming to headsets soon. It's a slow news week, but we did talk about iOs 18, Apple Intelligence (or lack thereof), and Google Shopping's virtual try-on. Zhen Fengs shares her unique journ

This Week In XR September 6th, 2024 ft. Liam Broza, CTO Infinite Reality

Sep 08 2024 48 mins  
This week it's Ted's turn to be too busy, but Charlie and Rony are in fine form, welcoming Liam Broza, CTO of Infinite Reality. In the news, funding for AI startups big and small, including Magic AI, Story Protocol, Miris, and Gen-AI animation app, Viggle. Liam explains how Infinite Reality is turning the browser into a metaverse streaming platform. Thank you to our