Technology
Jeff Powers, Cofounder of Occipital and Arcturus Industries joins Azad to discuss active depth cameras, Apple's LiDAR, and his vision of the future of consumer volumetric reconstructions. 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.