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  • What Nobody Tells You About 3D GenAI
    Sep 24 2025

    Philip is a VFX artist at RiseFX creating visual effects for Films and TV Shows. He is growing an incredible a youtube channel called Pixel Artistry covering the latest tools and workflows in the rapidly evolving world of 3D GenAI to share his learning with a growing community of over 8000 subscribers. His content is some of the best I have found when it comes to 3D GenAI. His videos are both clear and actionable and today I sit down with him to learn:

    • How he deals with the current limitations of 3D models generated by AI

    • What are his favourite 3DGenAI models and why

    • What is the next thing you should do if you are serious about 3D GenAI.


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    42 min
  • Breaking Into XR: A Developer’s Journey from Content Creator to Meta Engineer
    Sep 17 2025

    Roberto Coviello is an engineer at Meta Reality Labs, where he builds open-source showcases and samples to help push XR development forward. He’s also known for his YouTube Channel full of in-depth XR tutorials that played a key role in his career. In this conversation we look at:

    • How he started his professional journey as a developer, turned content creator, and the path that led him to become a Software Engineer at Meta

    • We look at several SDKs provided by Meta and what he thinks is a must-have for any MR app

    • What are his thoughts on the role of AI for artists and developers

    • How he finds the right balance between employment and cultivating his dreams


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    47 min
  • How XR and AI Are Reshaping Fitness
    Sep 10 2025


    Sam Cole is the CEO and a co-founder of FitXR. He is a firm believer in the benefits of regular exercise for physical and mental health, and since the conception of VR, he turned his vision of delivering immersive fitness into a reality for hundreds of thousands of people who have rediscovered that movement can be fun thanks to FitXR. In this conversation

    • We take a deep dive into FitXR and learn how the team keeps innovating

    • He shares the lessons he learned as a founder when rapidly growing and then downsizing

    • His down-to-earth impressions on AI

    • How he sees fitness evolving on smart glasses and some of the associated risks



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    45 min
  • Rethinking the role of Designers in XR and AI
    Sep 3 2025

    Mo dedicated over 18 years to designing solutions that empower people and make a meaningful impact. This includes more than 8 years in immersive XR, spatial computing, and AI-powered products, leading in-house and remote teams across pioneering startups like ShapesXR, Gravity Sketch and FitXR, forward-thinking agencies and more recently as Senior product designer at Meta.

    • We tap into his experience when hiring designers

    • His take on the role of designers within bigger and smaller organisations

    • What was his experience when working in startups, being a freelancer and also what he loves about working in corporates

    • The role of designers when designing FOR AI products


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    53 min
  • Disney Imagineer Shares Worldbuilding Secrets
    Aug 27 2025


    Don Carson started as an illustrator, but soon his work expanded beyond the sketchbook to focus on the design of physical and virtual spaces. He worked as a Senior Show Designer, as an Imagineer, he designed entire lands for the Disney Parks and he is now Sr. Art Director at Mighty Coconut, the team behind Walkabout Minigolf, one of the most popular and loved apps on the Meta Quest. In this conversation we look at:

    • How the team has embraced the low-poly graphics to create worlds people love

    • Some of the major challenges when it comes to building worlds and telling stories

    • His secret for engaging and keeping players hooked

    • Don offers me a guided tour of Raptor's Cliff to experience firsthand some of the storytelling techniques that make Walkabout’s worlds so popular and of course, I get the chance to showcase my terrible golfing skills


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    42 min
  • AR, AI, and the New Playbook for Digital Commerce
    Aug 13 2025


    Dmytro Kornilov is an innovation marketing futurist with 15+ years of experience in the industry. He is the founder of FFFACE.ME an award-winning innovation company, and LOOOK.AI an AR and AI Mirrors company. With practical experience in AR, MR, Digital Beauty and Fashion, AI and Phygital, Dmytro has led omnichannel innovation projects for global brands like Prada, Inditex, PUIG, Ralph Lauren, D&G, Valentino, Burberry, L'Oréal, Mugler, Meta, and many more


    Nathan C Bowser (they/them): is a product strategist and founder of Awesome Future, an innovation studio that helps global technology brands break through go-to market barriers and grow great ideas faster. Nathan has spent the last decade demystifying cutting edge tech for the endterprise as a podcaster, product leader, technology writer, and speaker who has been teaching and using AR and VR in marketing since 2015.
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  • What is 4D Gaussian Splatting? From Capture to VR Streaming
    Aug 6 2025

    Lennard Wolff, holds a Master in Cinematography and he is an expert in volumetric capture technology. He is Former Senior Technical Director at Synthesia and now the CEO of AdventuryXR a London based a startup revolutionising corporate learning through photorealistic immersive experiences.

    Georgii Vysotskii the co-founder and CEO of Gracia.ai a deep tech company specializing in the visualization and distribution of Gaussian splatting even in VR.


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    56 min
  • Why Spectacles Are The Future of AR
    Aug 1 2025


    Andrew Seleznov. Head of AR Production at Arcadia. Snap's internal creative studio for branded experiences working with the Biggest brands in the world and reshaping the way user interact and angage digitally and with the world around them.

    • Some of the capabilities of Lens Studio you might not know about

    • We look at 2 of their biggest collaboration with Nike and NYX and break down the types of brands working with Arcadia and the secret to a successful collaboration

    • Dive into his experience working on Spectacles


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    49 min