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Active Depth Cameras w/ Jeff Powers (Cofounder Occipital, Arcturus Industries) - 101

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Jeff Powers, Cofounder of Occipital and Arcturus Industries joins Azad to discuss active depth cameras.

Topics discussed:
  • The market for depth cameras in 2014 for consumers, developers.
  • Why they focused on mobile-first with the Structure sensor.
  • Google's Tango project not being adopted.
  • Building a developer friendly ecosystem for 3rd party companies.
  • A general Perceptual layer in software that can take any input.
  • The economies of scale with new and niche hardware.
  • Did Tesla pick the right choice with cameras vs LIDAR?
  • Building the Room View 3D with Valve
  • Interesting applications of the Index's dual cameras.
  • VR eating up AR's use cases in the short term.

recorded in July 2020. - Best of Research VR Podcast episodes -

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The Podcast behind the Science and Design of Virtual Reality and Spatial Computing.

By combining our background in Cognitive Science and VR Research, we break down important Neuroscience to extract Design principles.

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