XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Unity Technologies just went public. If you're living in, let's say, Toronto and you're pitching somebody in San Francisco and you make VR, how do you put their head in there and make sure they're in there? And Unity's, I think started. They work on Oculus Quest, they work on the Magic Leap. Alex: Huge news.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Unity Technologies just went public. If you're living in, let's say, Toronto and you're pitching somebody in San Francisco and you make VR, how do you put their head in there and make sure they're in there? And Unity's, I think started. They work on Oculus Quest, they work on the Magic Leap. Alex: Huge news.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

In April, we opened the doors to the first Upload Collective in San Francisco, a hub for VR and AR startups, development, co-working, education, meetups and even live broadcasting. With over 40 member companies in San Francisco, The Upload Collective has quickly grown both in size and in scope. December 2015.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 10, 2020

I was flying from Toronto to San Francisco, and I just happened to sit beside a guy who we started talking about AR and I pulled out the North Glasses. And if you have a Bose AR-enabled device, you can download that for either the Google Play store or the Apple App Store. Thanks for having me. I’m super excited.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 10, 2020

I was flying from Toronto to San Francisco, and I just happened to sit beside a guy who we started talking about AR and I pulled out the North Glasses. And if you have a Bose AR-enabled device, you can download that for either the Google Play store or the Apple App Store. Thanks for having me. I’m super excited.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 10, 2020

I was flying from Toronto to San Francisco, and I just happened to sit beside a guy who we started talking about AR and I pulled out the North Glasses. And if you have a Bose AR-enabled device, you can download that for either the Google Play store or the Apple App Store. Thanks for having me. I'm super excited.

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VRScout

JULY 17, 2016

Now it looks like the 600-person company, based in an old Motorola factory in Fort Lauderdale (yes that’s in Florida, guys – not a neighborhood in San Francisco), is finally breaking their vow of silence. Unity Technologies, developer of the massively popular Unity cross-platform game engine, raised $181M in their Series C round.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Series A round led by Atomico, along with Speedinvest, Y Combinator (of which the company is an alumnus), Dawn Capital, and notable individuals such as the founder of Unity and the former VP of engineering at Netflix and YouTube. Bitmovin announced a $10.3M REAL-TIME FACES: PINSCREEN’S STEALTH $1.8M. Sliver TV has raised $6.2M

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 25, 2022

I can’t guarantee that these predictions will come out to be true (I always joke about the fact that I miss many of the predictions about Meta/Oculus), but I think they will be worth reading anyway to understand what can be the trends to look for in this new year. Me wearing my branded Oculus Quest 2. So… let’s start!

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 19, 2019

and San Francisco that have been home to over 150 VR and AI startups. This is not the world where it woke up to virtual/augmented reality when Facebook bought Oculus for 3-billion dollars. And the Oculus at launch started what I call the third wave of VR. Alan: Yeah. I mean, there's definitely a few to reference.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 22, 2020

Anne: Yeah, it’s really– Alan: Stack of phones charging while you’re swapping it out, whereas if you’re using something like an Oculus Go, you’ve got to take the whole machine away. One day Apple will come out and say a new feature. So we have our own app on the Oculus store. Anne: Yeah, they are.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 22, 2020

Anne: Yeah, it’s really– Alan: Stack of phones charging while you’re swapping it out, whereas if you’re using something like an Oculus Go, you’ve got to take the whole machine away. One day Apple will come out and say a new feature. So we have our own app on the Oculus store. Anne: Yeah, they are.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 22, 2020

Alan: Stack of phones charging while you're swapping it out, whereas if you're using something like an Oculus Go, you've got to take the whole machine away. One day Apple will come out and say a new feature. So we have our own app on the Oculus store. And doing activations so we can import any Unity scene.

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