Talking Metaverse: Recent Episodes
Immersal AR
Conversations with professionals, advocates and fans of AR/VR/XR and other emerging technologies involved in the building of the metaverse.
In this episode, our guest is Emma Kirjavainen who is a luxury marketing specialist, joins us from glamourous south of France.
We talk about luxury in the Metaverse, self expression online, and how NFT's are changing what ownership means in Web3. Also we look forward to immersive technologies changing education for the better.
In this episode, Paul Burrows and Matthew Bester from Leica Geosystems discuss the power of autonomous laser scanning giving humans the ability to manipulate environments like never before.
Some of the questions we ponder on in this episode: What is "reality capture" and why is it useful? How do laser scanning technologies enable collecting and processing data? What are the industrial and business benefits of running simulations and what are some corporate and consumer use cases?
In this episode, our guest is Sami Luukkonen, Managing Director of Telco+ at Singtel Group NCS. We discuss Metaverse adoption in Asia, and monetization opportunities.https://www.ncs.co/en-sg/about-us/leadership/sami-luukkonen/
Here in episode 16, our guest is Jussi Salonen from the Helsinki XR Center.Since 2019 Helsinki XR Center has been the home of Extended Reality in Finland - as an incubator for talent, a cultural hub for artists, entrepreneurs, engineers, scientists, students and enthusiasts in the field of virtual and augmented reality.
Here in episode 15, Nathan C Bower, CMO of AWE chats to Tan at AWE 2022 EU event in Lisbon, Portugal.Nathan shares some very personal experiences on how AR has changed his life.He also talks about what excites him about the some of the current innovators in the field.=================
EPISODE 14.
Immersal was attending GITEX 2022 in Dubai and Tan caught up with Ali Hantal who is the Founder of XR Masters and Governing Board Member at Open AR Cloud.===================
In this episode of Talking Metaverse, we are joined by Terry xR. Shussler from Deutsche Telekom.As you can see he is very passionate about technology and one of the more knowledgable speakers on the development of the Metaverse.We discuss:
- Terry's role at Deutsche Telekom- Defining the difference between metaverses and The Metaverse- Building the technology and optimizing the network experience- Foundations and interoperability- Importance of clear language and terminology- From mobile phones to lightweight-all-day-wearables- Next level AI & scene recognition- Improving communication or dystopia
Immersal is a Finnish company whose technology enables the building of immersive AR environments that can transform how people work, play, shop, and interact with the world around them.In this episode Mikko, Antti, and Matias share Immersal's mission and why it excites them.
In this episode, Igor Glubochansky joins us to discuss the role of telcos in the building the Metaverse, and in particular, how AT&T is planning to enable to experiences with 5G.
Luca Lupatteli joins us from Zug, Switzerland to talk about exploring value and opportunities in the Metaverse and Web 3.0!
Luca makes an important note that beyond the initial excitement and novelty factor, the Metaverse needs to be a utility and provide something useful in terms of work, education, building, creating etc.
In this episode of TALKING METAVERSE, our guest is Genya Smagin who is the Senior Manager in Metaverse Investment and Partnerships at SK Telecom. Genya joins us from Seoul, South Korea - a place that he feels could be the capital of the Metaverse!
Jump to 17:00 to hear Genya talk about the line between 'real' and 'metaverse.'
Dr. Kelvin Cheng from Rakuten joins us from Tokyo, Japan, to talk about creating a novel sports watching experience in stadiums by making use of state of the art technology that takes advantage of 5G.
Conversation with Julian Gorman, Head of Asia Pacific at GSMA.
We start off by discussing interest and momentum across the Telco industry, opportunity and potential for Telcos, regulation in the Metaverse and monetizing the connectivity. And as usual we end with a little bit of philosophising about the far future.
Leslie Shannon is Head of Ecosystem and Trend Scouting at Nokia, and also one of the most passionate proponents of the Metaverse.
Here we discuss the technologies and infrastructure that's required to build the Metaverse and also what we need to guard against in order to make sure everyone benefits.
Also available on YouTube: https://youtu.be/u6yhIQxxfdc
5G, Cloud & Telecommunications Expert Kanesh Govindasamy shares his thoughts on use cases and potential opportunities in the Metaverse for mobile network operators today.
We learn that we are still learning what the Metaverse is as makers as well as users.
One thing we do know is that it is NOT Facebook's new name!
It's certainly surprising when somebody like Matt who has had a long and successful career in AR, says he's given up on AR!
Here he talks about:
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why he's given up on AR
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what he learned from having his last company 6D.ai acquired by Niantic Inc.
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and what's next (new metaverse company!)
Frans Tihveräinen has bene augmenting reality since getting his mind blown by a random album cover that jumped out of an ipad screen in 2012.
He is the co-founder and CEO of FlyAR.
https://flyar.fi/
In this episode of TALKING METAVERSE, Joh Orengo shares his story of setting up Spatial8 - a modern business hub of European emerging technology companies related to Extended Reality, spatial computing, and the metaverse designed to better educate the market, improve business, and facilitate innovation.
Recorded at the Immersal office in Helsinki, Finland.
Hosted by Tan Lay.
https://www.spatial8.com/about