E851 Ubiquity6 Anjney Midha: multiplayer AR for real world, $37.5m raise to become browser of spaces
发布时间 2018-08-31 21:07:30 来源
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Ubiquity6 Co-founder & CEO Anjney Midha on creating multiplayer AR for the real world, raising $37.5m from top SV investors to play with parallel universes, become the browser of spaces & define the future of shared mixed reality
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Show Notes:
00:59 - Jason sets the AR stage and introduces Ubiquity6 CEO and Co-Founder Anjney Midha. Anjney explains his company’s mission: to bring people together in persistent, shared AR experiences.
06:21 - Anjney says games are often consumers’ first experience with new tech, and AR will ultimately deliver in ways we can’t anticipate. Along the way, there will be interesting and useful milestones. Ultimately, it promises to bring science fiction to life. He and Jason discuss the possibility of AR contact lenses.
12:07 - Jason thanks sponsor and cloud infrastructure provider Digital Ocean. Visit do.co/twist for $100 credit.
15:28 - Anjney shows a video of Ubiquity6’s public beta at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Many users simultaneously co-built a Minecraft-style structure with blocks, and also inserted selfies. Bystanders were able to view the structure take form via their phones.
17:00 - The pair discusses AR on phones versus wired glasses and standalone glasses, the hardware components required for AR, and how phones mimic the sensors of the human body. They also talk about how precise measurements and positioning of virtually all objects will become the new normal.
25:57 - Jason thanks sponsor LinkedIn. Visit linkedin.com/twist for a $50 credit toward your first job listing.
28:12 - Jason asks Anjney about his time at KPCB. Anjney talks about the seed fund he started there, KPCB Edge, where he focused on AR, VR, and computer vision. Anjney talks about his very early interest in the blockchain and crypto.
31:59 - Anjney says there are people working on good blockchain use cases for censorship resistance under oppressive regimes, more. The conversation shifts to freedom of speech in the US and how that impacts public expression in AR.
36:49 - Anjney says the spacial internet is coming. We are just getting started and people have no idea how massive this will be. He says Ubiquity6 will serve as a browser for the spatial internet.
39:55 - Jason talks about annotation layers on the web and asks about managing similar layers in AR, with countless people annotating the same things. Anjney says it’s handled with social graphs and selective display.
41:22 - Jason asks about the branding for Ubiquity6’s browser. Anjney says it will be announced soon. The company is working to process the waitlist as quickly as possible. The launch date is undisclosed but there will be a demo at TechCrunch Disrupt next week.
42:03: Jason asks what career or job will be most impacted by AR. Anjney says creatives will use AR to develop games, create location-based guides, more. There will be a new category of people publishing things that don’t yet exist. He says this work will be monetized in the same ways as it has been in MMOs and other similar communities. Jason asks what jobs or products AR will kill and Anjney says signage: billboards and such are a legacy industry. Jason imagines an ad-blocker/replacer for the real world.
48:40 - Jason mentions AR in the context of technical assistance, for example, surgury instruction/guidance. The pair agrees it’s already happened in the enterprise. They talk about Apple, Google, Microsoft, Magic Leap, and the transition from proof-of-concept to a useful, appealing product. And ultimately, to a nearly imperceivable ambient AR.
54:38 - Jason asks about the downsides: Anjney says the gaming world has already invested a lot to deal with harassment, trolling, etc. He also notes that those problems, to some extent, are rooted in connectivity without intimacy. With AR, our digital interactions get more natural and closer to how we interact in the real world. They also discuss the idea of real-world avatars, and how freeing that could be.
58:33 - Jason closes the show by revealing something he loves and something he hates. He loves his Google Pixelbook. He hates people looking for meetings with investors when they haven’t built anything
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