Career Changing in your 20s

Career Changing in your 20s

This podcast is about the ups and downs of career changing in the growth-filled decade of our 20s. New episodes Monday mornings! The amount of uncertainty and job instability from recent mass layoffs as well as increasingly more career choices to choose from can cause young professionals to feel “behind” or unsure of what their true passion is or if the path that they are on is the right one for them. But in these tough environments comes a lot of opportunities, flexibility, and the potential to take our careers and our lives in any direction we want. We talk about different philosophies and mindsets around careers and professional topics, such as how to overcome a recent layoff and how to choose a job based on your own definition of “success” and “happiness” rather than based on money, external validation, and/or purported prestige. Lastly, we will focus on guest speakers to talk about their own experiences navigating career discovery in their 20s to hear a wide variety of perspectives and lessons learned. For all contact and business inquiries, please email careerchanginginyour20s@gmail.com

Episodes

  1. 10. Augmented/virtual reality (technical vs. business roles, consumer vs. B2B applications, industry dynamics, AI influences)

    06/26/2023

    10. Augmented/virtual reality (technical vs. business roles, consumer vs. B2B applications, industry dynamics, AI influences)

    Very excited to share this episode with my college friend Jake Schwartz who knows a ton about AR/VR and has worked on both the technical product development side and commercial/business side of VR companies. He talks all about what is trending in AR/VR and hot takes ranging from which xReality is going to win and how trendy AI is influencing the space right now. 5:05 - What is AR vs VR vs MR? 7:55 - What did you do in your B2C role in VR and how did that transition to B2B? Do you focus more on technical aspects of developing VR or more business / commercial? 11:30 - How did you learn how to program in Unity or Visual Studios; did you already have skills from your CS degree or have to learn completely new through some training? 14:20 - Who / what functions do you work with in a product development cycle? 18:30 - Do you like the technical / product development side more or the commercial / business development side more in the VR/AR space? 20:20 - What is your take on B2C, consumer VR/AR like Meta, Snap, Apple compared to commercial, B2B space for VR/AR penetration? Where are people focusing right now and in the future? 26:50 - Why is VR more for consumer, immersive experiences and AR for pro-consumer and commercial experiences?  31:40 - Are Meta and these companies looking into commercial / B2B spaces? Or are they building the foundation and startups will come to start fill the nuanced / specific B2B gaps? 33:40 - The most likely path to profitability when starting a company in VR/AR space is in B2B 34:40 - Meta was a vacuum for talent 35:50 - What does technology and innovation in VR/AR spaces look like recently and moving forward? 37:55 - Does AI relate to AR/VR? How popular will value-added contextual augmentation of your reality be? 42:40 - Recommendation on how to get familiar with the space? Do you need a CS background to play around in Unreal Engine?

    46 min

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This podcast is about the ups and downs of career changing in the growth-filled decade of our 20s. New episodes Monday mornings! The amount of uncertainty and job instability from recent mass layoffs as well as increasingly more career choices to choose from can cause young professionals to feel “behind” or unsure of what their true passion is or if the path that they are on is the right one for them. But in these tough environments comes a lot of opportunities, flexibility, and the potential to take our careers and our lives in any direction we want. We talk about different philosophies and mindsets around careers and professional topics, such as how to overcome a recent layoff and how to choose a job based on your own definition of “success” and “happiness” rather than based on money, external validation, and/or purported prestige. Lastly, we will focus on guest speakers to talk about their own experiences navigating career discovery in their 20s to hear a wide variety of perspectives and lessons learned. For all contact and business inquiries, please email careerchanginginyour20s@gmail.com