Jeremy Kidd of Banjo

Jeremy Kidd, CEO of Banjo, joins us to discuss some fascinating projects that Banjo has delivered related to augmented reality productivity, virtual reality training, and a pediatric VR experience designed to reduce anxiety for children getting an MRI.

Banjo designs and builds interactie AR, VR and 3D experiences for product design/development, marketing and training, CPG, manufacturing, engineering and healthcare.

Connect with Jeremy at jeremy.kidd@banjodigital.com or https://banjodigital.com

Travis Cloyd of Observe Media

Travis Cloyd, VR Director, VR Producer, and CEO of Observe Media joins us to discuss his experience of being the VR producer for Hannibal Pictures’ upcoming feature film Speed Kills starring John Travolta.  Travis talks about the details of shooting cinematic VR, both the challenges, and some of the mind-blowing VR cuts they were able to achieve in Puerto Rico, leveraging drones, 360 cameras, speedboats on the ocean, and capturing in VR, one of the great actors of our time, John Travolta. We also discuss the present state of the VR film industry and what the future may hold for full-feature VR films.

Connect with Travis at www.http://observemedia.com/ or email him at Travis@observemedia.com.

Nick Alcid of Escape to Virtual Reality returns

We are joined for a second time by Nick Alcid, Co-Founder and VP of Escape to Virtual Reality, California’s first large scale location based VR gaming platform. We discuss the unique motion capture wireless system available at their studio, the company’s recent move to the L.A. Fashion District area, and their new partnership with meleap.com, and their AR headset system that includes the HADO gaming tournament, and HADO Cart games that will be available at Escape to Virtual Reality.

Connect with Escape to Virtual Reality at www.escapetovirtualreality.com, on Instagram at @escape2vr or email Nick at nick@escape2vr.com. The studio is located at: 1046 South Main Street, Los Angeles, California 90015.

Brad Scoggin of SpringboardVR returns

Brad Scoggin, Co-Founder and CEO of SpringboardVR joins us again for an update on the Location-Based VR market. We discuss SpringboardVR and how they’re making it easy and more efficient for operators to launch and manage their location based VR experiences.

Brad also talks about the interest they’re now seeing from entertainment, education and enterprise. We also have some fun talking about what impact the blockbuster movie, Ready Player One, might have on the industry.

You can connect with Brad at brad@springboardvr.com

Harold Hayes Jr. of SunnyBoy Entertainment

We focus our discussion with Harold Hayes Jr. of SunnyBoy Entertainment on the entertainment industry’s lack of diversity, and the opportunities that come from adding diversity into the culture of entertainment media companies. This is a fascinating discussion where we also talk about how augmented reality and mixed reality are starting to emerge in the entertainment industry, and the importance of web-VR.

Harold Hayes Jr. is an award-winning Hollywood VR writer/creator who has done work with Disney, Warner Brothers, Universal, and 20th Century Fox.

As the creator of the VR experiences for The Greatest Showman (with a second experience soon to release), IT, Annabelle and The Conjuring, Hayes is helping to forge the future of entertainment.

Reach out to SunnyBoy Entertainment via email at contact@sunnyboyentertainment.com or on the web at www.sunnyboyentertainment.com.

Dr. Sana Farid of Munfarid

We are joined by Dr. Sana Farid, Co-Founder of Munfarid Consulting which is located in Dubai to discuss the significant and growing impact VR is having on healthcare and education, and the VR ecosystem in the Middle East.

Dr. Sana Farid has been featured as one of the top 100 Bahraini notable women who transformed Bahrain, and the Ultimate list of 101+ Women leading VR/AR, Ambassador for Women of Wearable in Bahrain, KSA, and UAE. 

Munfarid is a Learning & Development consultancy firm, focusing on Technology Aided Solutions, mainly eLearning, mLearning, Game Based Learning, and Virtual Reality based Education. Munfarid has also been listed as one of the foremost Virtual Reality companies based in the Middle East.

Connect with Dr. Sana Farid online at https://www.munfarid.org/ , by email at sfk@munfarid.org or Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drsanafarid .

Nino Sapina and Craig Vezina of Realcast

Joining us on this episode of the Everything VR & AR Podcast are Nino Sapina, the Co-Founder and CEO of Realcast and Craig Vezina, who is the Co-Founder and CBO (Chief Business Officer) at Realcast.

Realcast offers interactive AR experiences on Hololens and Apple’s AR kit and we discuss their unique approach of leveraging Nino’s experience as a game designer and executive, along with Craig’s experience in education, to build educational mixed reality and augmented reality showcases.

We also discuss the growing XR ecosystem in Paris, France where Realcast is headquartered and where they think the XR industry is headed in the next 5 years related to education and entertainment.

Connect with Realcast at contact@realcast.io or at www.realcast.io.

Ray Kallmeyer of CreateAR

We are joined by Ray Kallmeyer, CEO of CreateAR. CreateAR is a leading Augmented Reality design and development firm and is a part of the Microsoft Mixed Reality Partner Program. We talk about CreateAR’s work with Mercedes Benz in Japan and their strategy for refining mixed reality user interface design.

We also talk about the current landscape for recruiting talent to build, design and develop new AR, VR, and MR applications and how app developers and game developers are converging more than ever in this ecosystem.  

Connect with Ray by visiting www.createAR.co.