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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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Guest: Jeff Powers

Research VR: Azad Balabanian, Petr Legkov

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