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1st Thoughts From SPECS AI AR Smartglasses Launch Day - Pretty Woman Notes From The Beverly Wilshire
This is a special episode of The Tech Glow Up from SPECS launch day. I'm at the Beverly Wilshire for the SPECS smart glasses media preview, sharing first thoughts on the day of the public launch — September 16th.
I want to be upfront: I haven't tried every demo. This is about 30 minutes in the glasses from media day, not the full reveal. But the thing that stood out most was something that was missing. There's no hard line bet...
This first international episode of The Tech Glow Up was recorded live in Harajuku, Japan at the offices of Mawari — a company building the streaming infrastructure for the next generation of smart glasses and immersive experiences since 2017.
Luis Oscar Ramírez is the co-founder and CEO. He started Mawari in Shibuya with a straightforward premise: if the world is three-dimensional, the internet shouldn't be flat. Nine years l...
Episode one started with a hypothesis: innovation is hard, and you shouldn't have to do it alone. 101 episodes later — recorded in under two years — that's still the most consistently true thing on this show.
This is a solo episode where I'm marking The Tech Glow Up's milestone and sharing what 100-plus conversations with founders, CEOs, and product leaders have actually taught me. The patterns are real: the innovators w...
XR is the most fragmented technology ecosystem since the early internet — and Sean Mann, CEO of RP1, thinks the industry is making the same mistake AOL did.
Get a front row seat to the conversations about AI, AR smartglasses, and the future of enterprise technology from Augmented World Expo 2026.
Everyone is building walled gardens. Devices don't talk to each other. Enterprises can't build things that will work everywhere...
Most conversations about smart glasses focus on the software, the display, or the AI. Omar Abed, CTO of InvenSense, a TDK group company, wants you to think about what's underneath all of that.
Get a front row seat to the conversations about AI, AR smartglasses, and the future of enterprise technology from Augmented World Expo 2026.
Today's smart glasses carry 10 to 20 sensors each — and by count, sensors are the most numerous c...
Get a front row seat to the conversations about AI, AR smartglasses, and the future of enterprise technology from Augmented World Expo 2026.
Michael Allen Nesmith spent 10 years as a creative director at Amazon's Brand Lab — and built something there that had nothing to do with e-commerce: an in-house interpreting agency that embedded sign language interpreters across his team and eventually scaled to Amazon's global workforce...
Get a front row seat to the conversations about AI, AR smartglasses, and the future of enterprise technology from Augmented World Expo 2026.
Poz Long is Director of Creative Technology for Sports, Media, and Entertainment at Salesforce. Their job is to help people understand complex products through experiences — not documentation or demos, but through things that move people and actually solve something.
Poz's background...
Get a front row seat to the conversations about AI, AR smartglasses, and the future of enterprise technology from Augmented World Expo 2026. Joe Darko has spent twelve years at Snap making developers feel heard, supported, and paid.
As Global Head of Developer Relations for SPECS, his team answers every email, monitors every Discord thread, and reports directly to CEO Evan Spiegel — who, Joe said, stopped him on the AWE ...
Get a front row seat to the conversations about AI, AR smartglasses, and the future of enterprise technology from Augmented World Expo 2026.
Oscar Falmer has spent eight years helping developers build for wearables — at Meta and at other companies doing interesting work in the space. As developer advocate for things like smartglasses, his job is to lower the floor for anyone who wants to build for AI smartglasses, whether they...
Get a front row seat to the conversations about AI, AR smartglasses, and the future of enterprise technology from Augmented World Expo 2026.
Neil Trevett has spent his career connecting software to silicon. As president of the Khronos Group — the organization behind OpenGL, Vulkan, OpenXR, and glTF — and president of the Metaverse Standards Forum, he works on the open interoperability standards that let developers build ...
Get a front row seat to the conversations about AI, AR smartglasses, and the future of enterprise technology from Augmented World Expo 2026.
For six or seven years, the XR industry has been selling upgrades to people who already believe. Better resolution, more compute, a sleeker strap — for the same early-adopter audience already wearing a headset. I kept waiting for someone to answer the obvious question: when does thi...
Smart glasses had a moment at Augmented World Expo 2026 — and I was there for all of it. Here's your preview of what's coming.
Sending this from a co-working spot in Japan, where I'm traveling for work and a little pleasure after AWE. I'll be honest: rather than wait to record a polished intro for every episode, I wanted to drop this quick update so you know what's heading your way before it starts hitting your feed. The conte...
Rural hospitals hold some of the most reliable receivables in finance — money owed by the US government — yet they can't borrow against them. Banks won't price the risk. So hospitals pledge buildings instead, starving themselves of capital. Joseph Riddle, Chief Commercial Officer at Capital Pulse, watched this problem up close before his company built the AI that cracks it: a model valuing any medical receivable with gr...
Most climate communication talks at people. It delivers facts, projections, timelines — and wonders why nothing changes. Facts land in the head, not the gut. Immersive media like XR, AR, VR changes that. When you're standing inside a story, it stops being abstract. You feel it. That's the conviction behind Agog, the Immersive Media Institute, and why co-founder Chip Giller believes XR is one of the most important tools the cl...
What does it take to stay committed to a vision when the technology is still developing? Russell Patton has been inside Snap working on camera glasses and AR smartglasses for over a decade.
He's a Staff Product Manager on Snap Spectacles, and we recorded this episode at Snap's Spectacles Developer Bootcamp in Santa Monica, where 50 of the world's top lens creators gathered to advance the path toward wearable AR.
Russell's throu...
Every health tech founder wants to change the system. But Warren Templeton, Managing Director at Health2047, will tell you that without financial sustainability, the mission dies on the vine. "No mission without margin" isn't a compromise — it's a precondition. In a sector where impact is measured in lives and dollars at the same time, Warren argues that founders who can't do the math on their own business model are the ones ...
We train our bodies. We track our steps, our sleep, our resting heart rate. But when it comes to mental wellness — the skills that help people regulate, process, and recover — most people never learn them until something breaks. The tools exist. Cognitive behavioral therapy has 50 years of evidence behind it. And those tools work just as well before a crisis as after. Almost nobody knows that.
Meet the HealthTech Impact Award Winners. Five innovators with five real, personal inspirations that keep them focussed and building.
Ellyn Ito co-founded InnerStill after her 15-year-old son became suicidal during the pandemic. Every avenue they tried fell short. That search led to MindVybe — a patented wearable neuromodulation device using vagus nerve stimulation and acupressure point regulation for stress, poor sl...
Most vehicle research happens in ideal conditions — short commutes, familiar routes, full battery. Katie Tucker wanted to know what happens when the conditions aren't ideal. As Global Customer Research and CX Insights Manager at General Motors, she led a study that sent 40 Blazer EVs and more than 80 drivers on cross-country road trips to find out what customers actually need when the stakes are high and the variables are rea...
Most technology implementations in healthcare fail in the same place: the moment after go-live, when clinicians are supposed to just know how to use the system. Dr. Stephanie Lahr, Chief Medical Officer at uPerform, spent years watching that happen from the inside — as a physician, as a CIO, as a CMIO — before deciding to fix it.
uPerform is a just-in-time learning platform built for health systems. When a nurse forgets ...
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