Caspar Thykier – Zappar – Democratizing the Augmented Reality Experience
Finding Genius Podcast
Richard Jacobs
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 29 March 2018
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Zappar is an augmented reality (AR) platform that’s been around for seven years- before the majority of people had even heard of augmented reality. AR platforms in general have since moved into the mass market and continue to gain users.
”One of the things that’s really important to us at Zappar is this notion of democratization; part of our whole mission was…to put the tools in the hands of as many people as possible, to really explore what AR is capable of,” says Caspar Thykier, co-founder and CEO of Zappar.
From this notion emerged the ZapWorks platform, which allows users from all backgrounds and technical abilities to create their own augmented reality experience. Whether you’re a developer, the owner of a mom-and-pop shop, or an individual who's simply looking to explore the world of AR on your own terms, the ZapWorks platform can provide you with the tools to create engaging and meaningful experiences.
Among other topics, Thykier discusses an important distinction between AR and virtual reality (VR) experiences, the benefits of using AR as an educational tool, and the major impacts that AR is likely to have in the near future.
To learn more or create your own AR experience, visit the ZapWorks platform at zap.works.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Almost Here, Around the Corner of Future Technology Podcasts with Richard Jacobs. |
| 0:07.0 | Future Technologies |
| 0:08.0 | Boys to transform our lives for better or worse are the focus of this podcast. Almost here means these |
| 0:14.8 | technologies are now here and starting to be used or just around the corner for |
| 0:19.6 | Bitcoin to artificial intelligence, 3D printing, blockchain, virtual reality, and more. |
| 0:27.0 | Coming to Dallas, Texas, September 14th, 15th and 16, 2018, the blockchain and |
| 0:38.8 | a future check expo. This is going to be a gigantic conference of over 5,000 people. |
| 0:44.4 | We're going to be talking about blockchain and its applications. |
| 0:47.4 | We're going to be talking about quantum computing, |
| 0:49.6 | cyber security, artificial intelligence, and several other future technologies that are poised |
| 0:55.6 | to and actually changing our lives as we speak. |
| 0:59.4 | Here's why you should attend. |
| 1:01.1 | As you may know, early adopters are the ones that investigated and profited |
| 1:05.2 | from things like the Gold Rush in the 1800s, from the dot-com boom in the 1990s, from the internet |
| 1:11.2 | boom in 2005, from the smartphone explosion in 2007, from the real |
| 1:16.6 | estate boom that ended in 2008, and of course from the Bitcoin boom that started in 2012. Early adopters act now. They don't wait till later. |
| 1:25.4 | They go out west first and they're covered wagons. They find the biggest gold nuggets. |
| 1:30.3 | If you consider yourself an early adopter and you want to find the biggest nuggets, then you owe it to yourself to attend this upcoming conference. |
| 1:37.5 | Blockchain is going to affect how we control and store our medical data, |
| 1:41.5 | how we send money around the world, how we bank and more. |
| 1:46.0 | But artificial intelligence, quantum computing, and cyber security will play a pivotal role in |
| 1:51.0 | our lives as well. |
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