E046 - Ori Inbar, Founder of AWE and Super Ventures about the rise of Augmented Reality, Spatial Computing and his "Finally"-reaction at Apples Vision Pro announcement

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October. INTERVIEW "Learning about the history of XR is very
important." Ori Inbar answers, as I ask where his journey as XR
Professional started. As listeners know, I always love to look back
into the development of an industry. Especially when the industry
is complicated, expensive and needs so much endurance to fulfill
its promises as the XR industry does. Ori continues with an insight
which explains why the history lesson is important: "The folks
jumping into this industry in the last few years can learn a lot
from what happened there. And based on that knowledge and
understanding they can prepare better for the future and accelerate
the development of this whole industry." Ori is not just spouting a
hollow phrase here. Before he made his hands dirty in the very
beginnings of the XR industry, Ori learned about what the research
community had already done in the past decades in Augmented Reality
and went to events like Ismar, the International Symposium on Mixed
and Augmented Reality. When Apple started the age of mobile
computing with launching the iPhone, Ori co-founded Ogmento with
industry veterans. First access to the camera API was not possible
and AR only worked on jail-breaked devices. Ogmento and many more
pleed Apple to open up the API which later was done. That was the
start of a whole new AR app industry, which Ori brought together on
the first edition of Augmented World Expo, AWE in 2012. Learn more
about the enlightening history of the XR industry in this episode
and what Ori has to say about the Metaverse-hype and what the
announcement of Apples Vision Pro means for the future of the
industry! https://spatialrealities.de/