This Week in XR Podcast Charlie Fink Productions

Our guest is XR consultant and thought leader, Amy Peck, CEO of EndeavorXR, but first, it's Ted's birthday, and yes, we sing (sorry). After a brief celebration, we talked about Elon's monumental $6B raise for xAI, and Google's new partnership with Magic Leap, renewing a love affair that began in 2014, when Google made a whopping $500M bet on the nascent company. As Amy joins us, Rony gives us an insider look at Magic Leap's early days. Amy's focus on enterprise applications of XR, wearables and AI, led us to a state of the industry conversation, and some thoughts about the upcoming Augmented World Expo June 18 - 20 in Long Beach, CA.
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This week our guest is Jon Vlassopulos, CEO of Napster, which is now a streaming platform with 170 M + tracks. In the news Scarjo v. OpenAI, data-tagging Scale AI snared another Billion dollar round, Series F, at a 13B valuation. Suno, the text-to-music generator, raised $125 M. A dying man is trying to clone himself in AI. Jon brings a wealth of experience in the music business, where he started as a DJ turned-Bertelsmann. 
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This week Ted and Charlie celebrate episode 195 without Rony. Our guest is Matthew Celia, of Lightsail VR, who produced Eli Roth's "Faceless Lady," which is now on Meta Quest TV for those with VR headsets. It's the first stereoscopic piece of it's six-episode series. In the news, Google IO drops its Sora competitor, Veo, and using Google Maps to "paint the world with data." Open AI has made a big step in humanizing chatbots, giving them expressive voices, and reducing latency, creating an experience much like the movie "Her." Matthew walks us through the super-widescreen 180 production, the lessons they took from Cinemascope, and how they found the crazy castle location in Ireland that was their primary location. 
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Charlie and Rony give the show a go without Ted, who's traveling. Very busy news week with lots of M&A activity. We talked about CoStar Group's $1.6B acquisition of 3D scanner Matterport, Lamini AI's $25M raise for secure Enterprise AI, Neurable also raised money, Gen AI company Freepik acquired hit AI upscaler Magninfic, which is also a Spanish company. There was also news about Roblox (not good), Sandbox LBVR (very good), and behind-the-scenes with Sora director Paul Trillo, on how he created a commercial music video using OpenAI's new tool. Our guest Marta Marciszewicz walks us through how AI animation company Anything World brings characters to life instantly for the games industry. Want your player character attacked by an army of spiders? They've got you covered. 
Links to socials:
- the webpage: anything.world
- the linktree with all the links: https://linktr.ee/AnythingWorld
- X: https://twitter.com/_AnythingWorld
- Discord: https://discord.gg/N64U9RfwsJ (here we have a bot that anyone can use to try out Animate Anything and see how it works in practice for free)
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/anything-world/
- instagram: https://www.instagram.com/_anythingworld/
- twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/anythingworld (where we have lives every week)
- TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@_anythingworld
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCe4m3YtFC_Q5OhC-I5dvAzQ
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Anything.World.Worldwide/
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This week the hosts discuss the new lawsuits against OpenAI. After six months of hype, sentiment about the Humane AI Pin, and The Apple Vision Pro, has become increasingly negative. This week, the press went after the darling of CES 2024, the Rabbit R1, with reviews that called it "unreviewable." This week our guests are Jennifer Tuft and Cassandra Rosenthal, Co-CEOs and founders of Kaleidoco, whose critically acclaimed 3D AR show, Particle Ink, is now in residence at the Luxor in Las Vegas.
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We rescheduled Friday morning's recording for Monday night in order to bring you one of our most impressive guests ever, Yat Siu, Chairman of Animoca Brands, which has investments in Sandbox, Cool Cats, Yuga Labs, nearly two hundred other Metaverse, web3 and blockchain based companies. We do hit the news briefly before bringing in our guest. This week Perplexity AI search engine raised $63M, Meta made their Android-based spatial OS open-source, and sales concerns for the Apple Vision Pro. 
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