No. 12 with Covalent's Thomas Jackson on the MIT XR Reality Hack - a podcast by Liam OMalley

from 2020-02-10T20:59:23

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Episode 012 presents an overview of leading-edge XR tech and hardware as seen at MIT Reality Hack 2020  in an interview with Thomas Jackson, founder of XR design and development firm Covalent Reality. A volunteer at this year's MIT XR Hackathon, Jackson discusses the Human Bionic Display of the Varjo VR headset, the open source AR platform Project North Star, his favorite Hackathon projects and who he follows to keep up with XR developments.




MIT Reality Hack 2020


Thomas Jackson


Covalent


MIT Hackathon VR Tech:


Oculus Rift


Oculus Quest


Vive Pro


HP Reverb


Varjo 


MIT Hackathon AR Tech:


MagicLeap


HoloLens


Project North Star


nReal Light


MIT Hackathon Projects


GhostbustXR 


VSiBL


Ryan Kopinsky


Thomas Jackson's Follow Recommendations:


John Carmack, AI researcher, Consulting CTO Oculus VR


Michael Abrash, Chief Scientist, Oculus


Timmy Ghiurau, Volvo


Jacob Cedulf, Volvo


MIT Hackathon Team


Eswar Anandapadmanaban


Sarah Pillai


Scott Greenwald


Maria Rice


See Also:​


MIT Reality Hack Projects Site


MIT Reality Hack Outro Video



Acknowledgements:


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Podcasting: Anchor


Recording: Logic Pro X

Music: "Are You There" by DR. MARS


Hosted and Produced by Liam James O'Malley at Mars & Mercury



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