Alex Howland, Co-Founder and President of Virbela

This week we sat down with Alex Howland, Co-Founder and President of Virbela, to discuss how he used his drive for human connection, culture and community to create such a rich and engaging platform used by individuals and companies around the world. 

Links:

• Virbela.com

• LinkedIn

  • https://www.linkedin.com/in/alex-howland-ph-d-7b60bb20/

  • https://www.linkedin.com/company/virbela

• Twitter: @VirbelaHQ @tylerhgates @sophiamosh 

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Matthieu Lorrain, Head of Creative, Google AR Partnerships

Join Tyler and Sophia with our guest Matthieu Lorrain, Head of Creative, Google AR Partnerships, in a conversation around his dedication to digital creativity and his thoughts on building immersive experiences to improve society in our new virtually augmented world he calls “Post Reality”. 
Links:

• www.matthieulorrain.com

• LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthieulorrain/

• Twitter:  @tylerhgates @sophiamosh 

Visit the VR/AR Association at www.TheVRARA.com for more information about how you can get involved with this worldwide organization to help gain exposure and share ideas and best practices with other experts in the industry.

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Ada Rose Cannon of Samsung and the W3C

Tyler and Sophia speak with Ada Rose Cannon, Developer Advocate for the Samsung Web Browser Samsung Internet and Co-chair of the Immersive Web Working Group at the W3C.  They discuss WebXR and the exciting innovations and advancements that this technology framework is having on immersive content.

Links:

• https://developer.samsung.com/internet

• LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/adarose/

• Twitter: @adarosecannon @samsunginternet @tylerhgates @sophiamosh 

Visit the VR/AR Association at www.TheVRARA.com for more information about how you can get involved with this worldwide organization to help gain exposure and share ideas and best practices with other experts in the industry.

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James Watson founder of XRTech Marketing

James Watson, founder of XRTech Marketing and Co-Chair, shares his expertise on the enterprise/training market and how to help the end customer understand the impact of VR/AR to help drive the industry forward. 

Links:

• Company website: www.xrtechmarketing.com

• https://arpost.co/2021/03/30/vr-dead-hang-on-what-about-enterprise-vr/

• LinkedIn - www.linkedin.com/in/jamescwatson

• Twitter: @tylerhgates @sophiamosh 

Visit the VR/AR Association at www.TheVRARA.com for more information about how you can get involved with this worldwide organization to help gain exposure and share ideas and best practices with other experts in the industry.

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Greg Jones of NVIDIA

Greg Jones, Senior Business Development XR at NVIDIA joins Tyler and Sophia to discuss the power of streaming in the cloud and how NVIDIA's CloudXR will empower and enable the immersive technology industry.

Links:

• https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/design-visualization/solutions/cloud-xr/

• LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/gregjones6/

• https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/author/gregjones/

• Twitter: @tylerhgates @sophiamosh 

Visit the VR/AR Association at www.TheVRARA.com for more information about how you can get involved with this worldwide organization to help gain exposure and share ideas and best practices with other experts in the industry.

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The Augmented Workforce

Cathy Hackl and John Buzzell, co-authors of the new book The Augmented Workforce: How AI,  AR and 5G Will Impact Every Dollar You Make, discuss with us the process of writing the book and the incredible insights to the immersive technology industry this book provides.

Links:

• https://www.theaugmentedworkforce.com/launch

• https://www.cathyhackl.com/

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/jbuzzell/

• Twitter: @buzzxr @cathyhackl @tylerhgates @sophiamosh 

Visit the VR/AR Association at www.TheVRARA.com for more information about how you can get involved with this worldwide organization to help gain exposure and share ideas and best practices with other experts in the industry.

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Thaisa Yamamura of Sony and Francois Audouy of HBO Max

Thaisa Yamamura, Head of Business Development at Sony, and Francois Audouy, Production Designer at HBO Max, bring us an engaging conversation about Sony’s new Spatial Reality Display and how creators can use it to magically manifest ideas into volumetric and dimensional form. 

Links:

• https://www.audouy.com/

• https://electronics.sony.com/spatial-reality-display/p/elfsr1

• LinkedIn:

  • Thaisa Yamamura - Head of Business Development at SONY

  • François Audouy - Production Designer - HBO Max

• Twitter: @tylerhgates @sophiamosh @audouy 

Visit the VR/AR Association at www.TheVRARA.com for more information about how you can get involved with this worldwide organization to help gain exposure and share ideas and best practices with other experts in the industry.

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Adam Gam of Perfect Corp

Adam Gam, Chief Marketing Officer and Vice President of Perfect Corp, talks to us about how Perfect Corp is leveraging AR and AI in the Beauty Industry to provide accurate face tracking, digital connections and experiential shopping for beauty brands and consumers.

Links:

• https://www.linkedin.com/company/perfect-corp

• Article to include Beauty Tech: The Complete Guide 2021

• LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamjgam/

• Twitter: @tylerhgates @sophiamosh

Visit the VR/AR Association at www.TheVRARA.com for more information about how you can get involved with this worldwide organization to help gain exposure and share ideas and best practices with other experts in the industry.

Subscribe to the podcast wherever podcasts are found or listen to past interviews at www.TheVRARA.com/podcast