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The AI/XR Podcast.The AI/XR Podcast June 11th, 2025. AWE *LIVE* 245th episode*Warning* Bad sound quality - apologies!In this special live edition of the AI/XR Podcast from Augmented World Expo (AWE) 2025, hosts Charlie Fink and Ted Schilowitz are joined by returning guests from Zappar, co-founders Connell Gauld (CTO) and Casper Thykier (CEO) and Auki Labs' CEO Nils Phil, to explore how AI and spatial computing are merging in real-world environments. The conversation spotlights Zapper’s Mattercraft platform and its use of “accessible QR codes” to enable spatial navigation and real-time AR experiences without downloading an app. Nils introduces the idea of “collaborative machine perception” as a necessary condition for robo...2025-06-1342 min
Zero to Start Podcast: VR development for beginnersGet Spatial with the XR Guild @ AWE USA 2025 Augmented World Expo, June 10th - 12th Long Beach Convention CenterXR pioneer Avi Bar-Zeev has been at the forefront of Spatial Computing for over 30 years: from launching Disney’s groundbreaking Aladdin VR ride in the early 90s and crafting Second Life’s 3D worlds to co-founding Keyhole (Google Earth) mirror-earth spatial browser, co-inventing the Hololens AR headset in 2010 and leading the Experience Prototyping team for Apple's Vision Pro and more from 2016-19. Bar-Zeev's so ubiquitous he's been affectionately called the Forrest Gump of XR. On today's show, Bar-Zeev returns to the podcast and illuminates his journey through immersive tech from those early days to his latest...2025-06-0950 min
Zero to Start Podcast: VR development for beginnersWe're getting spacial at AWE! The 2025 Augmented World Expo returns to the Long Beach Convention Center, June 10th -12thOn today's show we're spotlighting our AWE day one itinerary. Elevate your conference vibe with our AWE playlist !Heading to AWE USA 2025 next week? Road to VR readers can still get an exclusive 20% discount on tickets: https://geni.us/7ijTS - BEN LANGJUNE 10 ITINERARY HIGHLIGHTS09:00 AM - 09:25 AM AWE USA 2025 Welcome Keynote - XR Is Going Mainstream! - Ori Inbar - AWE & Super Ventures09:30 AM - 09:55 AM Accelerating...2025-06-0818 min
Zero to Start Podcast: VR development for beginnersMeaningfulXR panel: Creating platforms and apps to better people's lives led by Carsten Becker, Faculty, Media Design and Extended Reality at USC Iovine & Young AcademyHow can we create XR experiences with purpose and why does it matter? Last week's MeaningfulXR conference at UC Davis and in VRChat brought together a dynamic XR community from across the globe to explore the answers and featured some of the latest academic research using XR across disciplines including education, psychology, design, AI, health and wellness, tracking data and more. On this special episode, I’m sharing the audio recording of our MeaningfulXR panel, Creating platforms and apps to better people's lives Led by Carsten Becker, Faculty, Media Design and Exten...2025-06-021h 04
Zero to Start Podcast: VR development for beginnersThe MeaningfulXR Conference at U.C. Davis May 22nd - 23rd and The Neely Purpose-Driven XR LibraryToday’s bite-sized episode is a quick shout out to the Meaningful XR conference happening Thursday May 22nd and Friday May 23rd at the UC Davis International Center and virtually in VRChat.On Friday at 12:30pm I’ll be joining the panel, Creating platforms and apps to better people's lives Led by Carsten Becker Faculty, Media Design and Extended Reality at USC Iovine & Young Academy Featuring Guljaha Shaik Neely Fellow 2024-25 and recent MBA graduate from the USC Marshall School of BusinessAnd fr...2025-05-2207 min
Au Delà Des LignesZeev Jabotinsky, avec l’ancien ambassadeur à Rome et à Paris et ancien conseiller du premier ministre Itshak Shamir, Avi PaznerAU DELA DES LIGNES, AUX SOURCES DE LA SOCIETE ISRAELIENNE
Nouvelle émission de Michaël Darmon Tous les premiers dimanche du mois, ce programme explore l’histoire du mouvement sioniste et la société israélienne d’hier et d’aujourd’hui.
Émission consacrée à Zeev Jabotinsky, écrivain et un journaliste talentueux, orateur exceptionnel, enfant terrible du sionisme russe.
Invité : Avi Pazner, ancien ambassadeur à Rome et à Paris, ancien conseiller du premier ministre Itshak Shamir.2025-02-0200 min
XR AI SpotlightHow to Design the Product and Experiences of the FutureSubscribe to XR AI Spotlight weekly newsletter 👉 https://xraispotlight.substack.com/
Avi Bar-Zeev has been at the forefront of Spatial Computing for over 30 years. He co-invented the Hololens AR headset in 2010, helped define Amazon Echo Frames in 2015, and he is going to share some of his thoughts and experience from leading the Experience Prototyping team for Apple's Vision Pro from 2016 to 2019 (Snippet 1). We discuss about:
- The mistakes he has seen companies like Apple, Microsoft and Amazon make when developing new tech (Snippet 2),
- How and why the ad business model is bound to d...2025-01-2950 min
The Shifting Privacy Left PodcastS3E13: 'Building Safe AR / VR/ MR / XR Technology" with Spatial Computing Pioneer Avi Bar Zeev (XR Guild)In this episode, I had the pleasure of talking with Avi Bar-Zeev, a true tech pioneer and the Founder and President of The XR Guild. With over three decades of experience, Avi has an impressive resume, including launching Disney's Aladdin VR ride, developing Second Life's 3D worlds, co-founding Keyhole (which became Google Earth), co-inventing Microsoft's HoloLens, and contributing to the Amazon Echo Frames. The XR Guild is a nonprofit organization that promotes ethics in extended reality (XR) through mentorship, networking, and educational resources. Throughout our conversation, we dive into privacy concerns in augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (V...2024-06-1851 min
Zero to Start Podcast: VR development for beginnersRetail Therapy: My inner child said no to a $4,500 Apple Vision ProApple Vision Pro doesn't have anything I really need, just everything I want. They're the coolest goggles on the planet. While hot takes about the price, the returns, the meaning of this moment continue to light up our news feed, I’m still integrating the 3 days I spent with The Vision Pro. Using Apple's spatial computer for the first time consumed me with intense, satisfying, emotional connections between software place and time. So after all my excitement why did I return it? The answer might surprise you. February 12th was Ze...2024-03-0111 min
Holy Health PodcastEpisode 58| A "Healthy" view of Anti Semitism with Avi AbelowSend us a textAfter a very upsetting experience with a colleague in the health field who shockingly turned out to be an anti semite, I turned to The Pulse of Israel's Avi Abelow to try and understand why. Avi tells as he likes to put it "the politically incorrect truth" I felt like getting a Torah understanding of anti semitism and defense of this land could really help put this into perspective as well. So I asked my brother Rabbi Shlomo Ben Zeev to join me for his straight from the Torah views. As h...2024-02-0159 min
Spatial RealitiesSpezial - Apple Vision Pro vorbestellen Pro und Con, und alles was ihr dazu wissen müsst
Thomas Riedel
Die Apple Vision Pro ist seit dem 19. Januar vorbestellbar. Und Menschen – selbst aus Deutschland – posten in Social Media ihre krasse Aktion Apples ersten Gesichtscomputer vorbestellt zu haben. Soweit, so erwartbar. Doch ergibt das eigentlich Sinn? Immerhin ist das Gerät in Deutschland noch gar nicht verfügbar.
Ich habe für euch alle Argumente für und gegen einen Kauf einer Apple Vision Pro – soweit ich das zu diesem Moment bewerkstelligen kann – zusammen getragen. Und gebe euch damit hoffentlich ein paar Anregungen für eure eigenen Überlegungen zur Anschaffung des Spatial Computing Headsets.
PS Ich habe no...2024-01-2212 minSpatial RealitiesE061 - Interview: Avi Bar-Zeev about Spatial Computing and its origins as far as we know it in 1992
Thomas Riedel
Avi Bar-Zeev
Welcome to 2024 and welcome to the age of Spatial Computing! At least that is what Apple wants us to believe. And they push hard and swift to proof they want to make it happen. So much, that they just announced to release the Apple Vision Pro as early as February 2nd 2024! That is indeed „Early next year“.
But that is not enough: Within their developer website they ask developers not to use the words AR, VR or MR, but only to speak about Spatial Computing.
Time to investigate what Spatial Computing actu...2024-01-111h 29
Zero to Start Podcast: VR development for beginnersSam Altman, OpenAI and the quest for ethical AGI with Avi Bar-Zeev, Founder and President Reality Prime, XR GuildIn the few days since OpenAI's board of directors removed its co-founder and CEO Sam Altman, the future of the company and what it means for the race to AGI Artificial General Intelligence is anyone’s guess. Joining me to put this fast moving saga into perspective is Avi Bar-Zeev founder and president of Reality Prime an independent consulting service providing world-class expertise in AR & VR design and engineering, since 1997.Avi Bar-Zeev has been at the forefront of Spatial Computing for over 30 years. He co-invented the Hololens AR headset in 2010, and led the Experience Prototyping tea...2023-11-2243 min
The VR ReportAvi Bar-Zeev Shares His Expertise in Designing the Apple Vision Pro, Microsoft Hololens, and Amazon Echo FramesDavid Gene Oh interviews Avi Barzev, an XR developer veteran with a 30-year career, who played pivotal roles in projects like Disney's VR ride, Google Earth (Keyhole), Microsoft HoloLens, Amazon's Echo Frames, and Apple Vision Pro. Avi shares insights into XR development and the evolution of VR/AR technologies and how this will influence the metaverse.
Highlights🕶️ Avi Bar-Zeev emphasizes the importance of theme parks in early VR/AR adoption and its role in pushing technology boundaries.🛰️ Avi reflects on the government's use of Keyhole technology for defense and intelligence purposes and the ethical considerations surrounding it.2023-11-121h 32
The Sunday ShowExtended Reality and the LawTomorrow's virtual worlds will be governed, at least at first, by today's legal and regulatory regimes. How will privacy law, torts, IP, or even criminal law apply in 'extended reality' (XR)?Drawing from the discussion at a conference hosted earlier this year at Stanford University called "Existing Law and Extended Reality," this episode asks what challenges will emerge from human behavior and interaction-- with one another and with technology-- inside XR experiences, and what choices governments and tech companies will face in addressing those challenges.This episode of The Sunday Show was produced by Tech...2023-07-0941 min
Daf Yomi for Women - HadranGittin 11 - Shabbat May 27, 7 SivanToday’s daf is sponsored by Jill and Jeff Shames. “In memory of avi mori, William Baker, Zeev Velvel ben Chana v'Reuven on his 2nd yahrzeit. Dad, still missing your loving embrace. Your memory is a blessing.” What are names that are clearly gentile names? If according to Rabbi Shimon, the issue is really whether or not the names are clearly gentile names, why isn't that stated explicitly in the Mishna? Rabbi Akiva and the rabbis disagree regarding divorce and emancipation documents signed by gentiles, not in a gentile court. Rashbag adds a further distinction. What is the roo...2023-05-2535 min
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Gidon/David Japha: In memory of Lisa Marianne Aviva bas Zeev Japha. Gidon Japh...2023-03-1042 min
The AI/XR Podcast.This Week In XR 2-3-2023 ft. Avi Bar-ZeevOn this week's podcasts the hosts talk about Meta (as always), the stock buyback, and the share spike; Samsung, Qualcomm, and Google are working with Meta and Microsoft to make an AR headset; what will the Apple device really look like? Our guest is HoloLens co-inventor and head of the XR Guild, Avi Bar-Zeev, who talks with us about Apple, Assisted Reality, why AR needs AI and the ethics of XR. Thank you to our sponsor, Zappar!Don't forget to like, share, and follow for more! Follow us on all socials @ThisWeekInXR! Hos...2023-02-0446 min
The Next Billion Seconds with Mark PesceA Brief History of the Metaverse: Game On! And on and on and on...In the early 2000s, the Metaverse blossomed into the foundation for a new generation of video games such as 'Ultima Online', and big data 'digital twins' like Google Earth. It's "Game On!" for Tony and Mark - and on and on and on and on... Featuring Raph Koster, Philip Rosedale, Ken Birdwell, Amy Jo Kim, Avi Bar-Zeev, Clay Graham and Justin Liang. For more information about this and all our other 'The Next Billion Seconds" content, please check out https://nextbillionseconds.com This podcast is sponsored by the Digital Skills Organisation. ...2022-10-1246 min
The AI/XR Podcast.TWIXR Special AWE 2022 Episode 4This week the hosts are reporting live from AWE 2022. In this special episode of TWIXR, Charlie and Ted will be interviewing the following: Shawn Frayne, CEO, Looking Glass, Ashley Crowder, CEO, Vntana, and Avi Bar Zeev, CTO, Reality Prime.Thank you to our sponsor, Virbela!Don't forget to like, share, and follow for more! Follow us on all socials @ThisWeekInXR Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2022-06-0732 min
Culture in the CraftCXC Shares | The Future 5ive x New Normal 2.0 - 2022 EditCulture In the Craft podcast. Making #createch spaces, diverse places.
It's back. The Future 5ive in the next version of the the "new normal". If you like to look-ahead to bring forward what might be possible now in art meets tech then this episode give you a taste of what should be hitting the craft of creativity very soon. Lor brings it to you as a minisode on The partly future gazing but mostly tempting you to think about how we do what we do beyond how it's always been done. The new normal enters the next...2022-01-2405 min