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Our mission is to become the leading destination to learn about the Metaverse - what it is, why it’s important, how it will impact our lives, and what opportunities it unlocks. We are pursuing this mission by producing and publishing reliable, insightful and entertaining podcast shows. Join metaverse entrepreneur and thought leader Yonatan Raz-Fridman "Yon" (founder and CEO of Supersocial) as he and his guests help make sense of the Metaverse! Intro music provided by Jeremy Marsan https://je ...
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Our archives are today's headlines. The Real Leaders Podcast provides real, fresh, and inspiring experiences from the world's most forward-thinking impact business CEOs, leadership authors, and thought leaders. Each episode will leave you with a page-full of notes on how to lead the future of work.
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A pithy take on the week's tech news, followed by interviews with industry guests. Hosted by Forbes Tech Columnist, Professor Charlie Fink, Rony Abovitz, Founder of Magic Leap, and Ted Schilowitz, Futurist at Paramount Global. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Yonatan Raz-Fridman is the Founder & CEO of Supersocial, a metaverse studio and tech company with a mission to create and empower digital communities to play, explore, socialize and meaningfully express themselves in the next era of the Internet. — Read the Magazine and Join the Community for Impact: https://r…
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Charlie, Rony and Ted welcome Yonatan Tal, CEO of Supersocial. First up is the flurry of announcements from Meta Connect, including the unveiling of their see-through AR headset, dubbed Orion, and more broad updates about AI. Rony shares intimate details of his conversation with Mark Zuckerberg at the prestigious Allen & Company invitation-only in …
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Dena Trujillo is the CEO of Crisis Text Line, a nonprofit organization that provides free, 24/7, high-quality text-based mental health support and crisis intervention. For over 20 years, Dena has operated at the intersection of nonprofit and for-profit, discovering and amplifying models that scale innovative solutions and maximize social impact. Te…
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Welcome to Into the Metaverse. In this week’s episode, Yon sits down with Stephanie Hirschmiller, a consultant, creative strategist, and content specialist in luxury and tech, to explore how the worlds of beauty, fashion, and virtual identity are converging in the metaverse. Stephanie shares insights from her work with major brands and platforms, d…
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This week our guest is Deniz Özgür, co-founder, co-CEO, Spacerunners. Space Runners is a fashion-tech platform that operates at the intersection of digital fashion, blockchain technology, and the metaverse. Deniz was named a Forbes 30 under 30 CEO last year. Spacerunners uses AI to help brands bring their products to new markets, like the Metaverse…
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Welcome to Into the Metaverse. In this week’s episode, Yon sits down with Yemel Jardi, Co-founder of Decentraland and Executive Director of the Decentraland Foundation, for an in-depth conversation about how Decentraland is shaping the future of virtual worlds. Yemel shares his journey from developing open-source Bitcoin tools to building one of th…
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Asim Bawany is the CEO of Codup, a full-service development agency that builds technology solutions customized for the specific needs of clients to help them overcome challenges and grow their bottom lines. — Read the Magazine and Join the Community for Impact: https://real-leaders.com…
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This week our guest is Joaquin Cuenca Abela, co-founder and CEO of Freepik. Rony is off for the Jewish holiday, Sukkot. Earlier in the week, he launched his new company SynthBee with $20 million dollars of VC money. Also in the news, Nvidia enters software with a high-performing open source AI model, competing with its biggest customers. Our sponso…
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David Obrand is the CEO of Salesloft, which powers durable revenue growth for the world’s most demanding companies. Salesloft’s industry-leading Revenue Orchestration Platform uses purpose-built AI to help market-facing teams prioritize and take action on what matters most, from first touch to upsell and renewal. — Read the Magazine and Join the Co…
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In today’s episode, Yon welcomes Liam Broza, Chief Technology Officer at Infinite Reality, to dive into the impressive work Infinite Reality is doing in pushing the boundaries of the web and creating immersive and social 3D experiences. During their conversation, Liam fills Yon in on how he came to be at Infinite Reality and what the companies main…
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This week the hosts are here in full force to welcome Justin Maier, co-founder and CEO of Civitai. Elon Musk of Tesla revealed of the Robotaxi and its accompanying Robobus and Optimus robots. The nobel prize in Physics went to John Hopfield and Geoff Hinton, the AI Scientist who "retired from Google" warning the NY Times about the dangers of AGI. R…
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Ted and Charlie welcome Antony Batt, Neville Spiteri, co-founders of Wevr, creators of "The Blu," one of the first experiences created for the HTC Vive in 2016. Rony is off for the holiday (Happy New Year to those who celebrate). In the news, Future Trash, an LA creative studio, scores $5M to make experiences for Fortnite. Runware AI Raises $3M for…
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Andy Alsop is the President & CEO of The Receptionist, a versatile, effective and easy-to-use Visitor Management system. In this episode, Andy inspires leaders to shift to Employee Supremacy, a philosophy that prioritizes employees before customers. — Read the Magazine and Join the Community for Impact: https://…
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Welcome to the 100th episode of Into the Metaverse! In today’s episode, Yon welcomes Matthew Ball back to the podcast to continue their discussion on the future of the metaverse and the convergence of so many new technologies. During their conversation Yon and Matthew dive into four of the major themes and categories that Matthew wanted to update w…
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Eytan Wiener is the CEO of Getida, the global leader in Amazon FBA auditing and reimbursement solutions for sellers and consumer brands. — Read the Magazine and Join the Community for Impact: https://real-leaders.com Apply for the The 2025 Real Leaders Impact Awards: …
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Welcome to Into the Metaverse, in this week’s episode, Yon welcomes back the Godmother of the Metaverse, Cathy Hackl, to continue their conversation of the metaverse, this time with a focus on the race to capture the AI and VR hardware markets, touching on recent events and announcements from Apple, Meta, Snap, and Roblox. Cathy Hackl is a globally…
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This Week In XR September 20th, 2024 ft. John Attanassio and Luisa Huang, Co-founders of Toonstar
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Ted and Charlie are Rony-less but happily dive into a busy newsweek, which featured new headsets from Snap and HTC, a $230 M raise for World Labs, which is focused on generating 3D AI, for worlds and assets. Also in the news Palmer Lucky to the rescue, and a Neuralink breakthrough. John Attanassio and Luisa Huang, co-founders of Toonstar, join us t…
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This week all three hosts are back in force with a great guest, Zhen Feng, Head of International for Roblox. Rony and Ted talk about a new hush-hush optics technology for XR which they believe is coming to headsets soon. It's a slow news week, but we did talk about iOs 18, Apple Intelligence (or lack thereof), and Google Shopping's virtual try-on. …
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Brad Black is the Founder and Co-CEO of EO Products, a certified B-Corporation based in Marin County, CA who has been making plant-based skincare products with a higher purpose in mind: to make personal care products that care for the whole person and the planet. — Read the Magazine and Join the Community for Impact: …
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Michael Walsh is the Co-Founder & CEO of Cariloop, which helps families manage their loved ones' care needs by connecting them to an employer-sponsored caregiver support platform. — Read the Magazine and Join the Community for Impact: https://real-leaders.com Apply for the The 2…
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This week it's Ted's turn to be too busy, but Charlie and Rony are in fine form, welcoming Liam Broza, CTO of Infinite Reality. In the news, funding for AI startups big and small, including Magic AI, Story Protocol, Miris, and Gen-AI animation app, Viggle. Liam explains how Infinite Reality is turning the browser into a metaverse streaming platform…
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Travis Howerton is the Co-Founder & CEO of RegScale, compliance and cybersecurity experts who are sharpened in highly regulated industries from nuclear energy to the military to financial services. RegScale overcomes speed, timeliness, and cost effectiveness limitations in legacy GRC by bridging security, risk, and compliance through our Continuous…
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Welcome to Into the Metaverse, in this week’s episode, Yon welcomes the Godmother of the Metaverse, Cathy Hackl, to the podcast to discuss the convergence point of many new technologies and how they are shaping the metaverse in the near term future. Cathy Hackl is a globally recognized tech & gaming executive, futurist, and speaker focused on spati…
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Fredrik Thomassen is the CEO & Founder of Superside, the leading AI-powered creative service that delivers fast, scalable, world-class design and creative solutions to over 450 globally-renowned companies such as Amazon, Meta, Salesforce and Shopify. — Read the Magazine and Join the Community for Impact: https://r…
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This week we're joined by Ryan Chapman, CEO of Motive, focused on business applications of VR. We start with the state of the entertainment business, where Charlie throws around wildly inaccurate numbers to make the point that the music has stopped for the television networks and cable channels like MTV, which are about to be chopped up and sold fo…
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Sean Grundy is the Co-Founder & CEO of Bevi, which is redesigning the beverage supply chain with machines that purify water and make customized drinks in seconds with a system that vastly cuts the cost and carbon footprint of beverages. — Read the Magazine and Join the Community for Impact: https://real-leaders.com…
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Derek Richardson is the CEO & Founder of Deako, a high-tech hardware startup based in Seattle, WA. Deako has invented the world's first plug-n-play light switch, giving homeowners maximum flexibility to customize their systems, at any time, in minutes. — Read the Magazine and Join the Community for Impact: https://…
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This week the three hosts are here in full force as Rony returns from vacation. Now that a federal judge ruled that Google is a monopolist, the question is what to do about it. Forbidding them from buying distribution is one thing, but now people are talking about forcing them to spin off their browser business. Speaking of Google, they've released…
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Vess Pearson is the CEO of Aptive Environmental, the fastest growing pest control service in North America with a commitment to helping protect the world's health from disease-carrying pests. — Read the Magazine and Join the Community for Impact: https://real-leaders.com Apply for t…
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Jonathan Brun is the CEO & Founder of Nimonik, which offers an integrated compliance management software for organizations to better manage their obligations across quality, environmental, safety, privacy, human resources, and other regulated areas. — Read the Magazine and Join the Community for Impact: https://real…
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Google's guilty of monopoly practices, but the result will be unclear for some time. Elon Musk continues to go bonkers while raking in trillions, nonetheless, he is suing people who don't like him, like former advertisers and others unhappy with the lack of moderation on their platform. Meta shuttered Echo Arena, and now they're shuttering the stud…
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Welcome to Into the Metaverse, in this week’s episode, Yon welcomes Marcus Holmström, Founder and CEO of The Gang, for a conversation centered around their experiences building a game studio for Roblox and the wider metaverse. Marcus discusses the inception and growth of The Gang, the success of their branded experiences like Vans and Shrek on Robl…
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Brandon Afari is the Co-Founder & CEO of FUZE Technology, a cutting-edge technology company that specializes in creating innovative IoT solutions to power connections and experiences for businesses, events, and consumers. — Read the Magazine and Join the Community for Impact: https://real-leaders.com…
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Lauren Salz is the Co-Founder & CEO of Sealed, a climate tech company on a mission to stop home energy waste by enabling contractors to install more home weatherization and electrification projects and grow their businesses. — Read the Magazine and Join the Community for Impact: https://real-leaders.com…
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This Week In XR August 2nd, 2024 ft. Kerestell Smith, Creator of Gorilla Tag, CEO Another Axiom
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This week our guest is Kerestell Smith, creator of Gorilla Tag VR and founder of Another Axiom. Rony is on a farm with no Internet. In the news Canva surprises no one with its acquisition of Gen-AI startup Leonardo.ai. Congrats to Hedra AI text-to-voice, which produces lip-synced short video; they raised $10M. Meta reported earnings Weds. Revenue i…
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Martin Rowinski is the Co-Founder & CEO of Boardsi, a modern recruiting company providing executives with Board of Advisors and Directors positions and companies with top C suite Executive talent. Through their advanced technology, human connection and private network Boardsi helps revolutionize businesses and grow careers. — Read the Magazine and …
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Jeff Spahn is the Founder & President of Leading Leaders, an executive education firm that has engineered a distinctive leadership technology for the digital age. For more than 20 years, Jeff has researched, coached and inspired top business executives and their teams through the distinctive collective leadership process of We the Leader®. — Read t…
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This Week In XR July 26th, 2024 ft. Dr. Cody Rall, Founder of Techforpsych and neuroscientist
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This week our guest is neuroscientist Dr. Cody Rall. Rony's working his super-secret day job (an AI startup). Top of the news is OpenAI's Search GPT, which is now a close beta (you can sign up); AI start-up Cohere valued at $5.5 B in their latest round. There are more than 20 AI unicorns - startups valued at more than $1B. Elon Musk has a supercomp…
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Conrad Oakey is the CEO of NovaTech Automation, which produces the easiest to use and best supported automation products and solutions for electric utilities. NovaTech's mission to accelerate the evolution and decarbonization of the power grid is reflected in their intentional commitment to Net-Zero operations by 2050. — Read the Magazine and Join …
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Scarlett Nolen is the President of Truly Nolen of America, one of the largest family-owned pest control companies in the United States with over 80 branch offices in Arizona, California, Florida, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, and Utah. — Read the Magazine and Join the Community for Impact: https://real-leaders.com…
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Welcome to Into the Metaverse, in this week’s episode, Yon welcomes Charlie Fink to the podcast. Charlie writes the weekly Forbes column "This Week in XR" and co-hosts its companion podcast. He is the author of the critically acclaimed AR-enabled books Charlie Fink’s Metaverse (2017), and Convergence, How The World Will Be Painted With Data (2019).…
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Charlie and Rony go Tedless this week with Sarah Nagy, founder and CEO of Seek AI, which brings AI to datasets that can be queried with natural language processing and other AI applications. This week's news includes funding for 3D company Jigspace, whose demos are bundled with Apple Vision Pro and tablets. Artificial Agency raised $16M for AI NPCs…
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Another big news week finds AMD snapping up Silo AI for $655M. Captions lip dub co raises $60M. Odyssey AI out of stealth with hi-res gen-AI. Infinite Reality Raises $350M, Acquires LandVault in stock deal. Apple is launching the Iphone 16 with AI this fall, but Siri won't be out until Spring 2025. Samsung includes Bixby in its new launch. Our gues…
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Candice Ammori is the Founder & CEO of Climate Vine, a new membership community that curates group of experts with diverse backgrounds, ranging from policy, investment, corporate, non-profit, entrepreneurship, and tech & science. — Read the Magazine and Join the Community for Impact: https://real-leaders.com…
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Sachin Chaudhry is the Founder & CEO of TrustCircle, a brain healthcare startup that utilizes AI-driven Social-Emotional Learning programs to improve emotional resilience & well-being for all. Organizations, cities, counties, and states can leverage TrustCircle's data-driven model to identify high-risk population segments/areas and take proactive a…
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Welcome to Into the Metaverse. In today’s episode, Yon welcomes Matthew Ball to the podcast. Ball is eponymous for his writings on the evolution of the media landscape and the metaverse and his book, The Metaverse: Building the Spatial Internet. A second edition of the book will be released later this year. Yon and Matthew had an excellent, wide-ra…
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This Week In XR June 20th, 2024 ft. Tony Parisi, AWE XR Hall of Fame Inductee, author, executive, entrepreneur
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This week the news was all about AI, music labels sue AI music generators Suno and Udio. Etched raises $120M to make AI Chips. Emergence AI scores $97.2M to make AI agents for white-collar work. We share our hot takes on Augmented World Expo, which wrapped last week. Tony, a true XR OG and an old friend, joined Rony in the AWE Hall of Fame last wee…
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Seth Forman is the CEO of Socialsuite, a sustainability and impact technology company helping companies and non-profits share their impact with the world offering simple and affordable solutions including end to end materiality software. Over 100 public and private companies leverage Socialsuite tools and services today helping them get started and…
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Joshua Berry is the author of Dare to Be Naive: How to Find Your True Self in a Noisy World and is also the Co-Founder & CEO of Econic, an innovation, transformation, and strategy consulting group that helps enterprises discover their meaning of growth and cultivate the space to achieve it. Through the process of building innovation labs and progra…
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This 200th episode of "This Week in XR" is recorded with a live audience on AWE's Expo Stage on June 20, 2024. This is the 15th edition of the largest XR conference and expo in the world. We invited five guests who have never been on our show, AWE Program director Sonya Haskins, developer and blogger, Tony Vitillo, Cosmo Scharf, founder of VRLA, an…
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