How generative AI is enabling hologram assistants with Looking Glass CEO Shawn Frayne | E1753
This Week in Startups
Jason Calacanis
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🗓️ 31 May 2023
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Today’s show:
Looking Glass Co-Founder and CEO Shawn Frayne joins Jason to demo their new hologram assistant (1:03) before breaking down the unique use cases for Looking Glass’s technology and Shawn’s perspective on the pace of AI (10:24).
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Check Out Looking Glass: https://lookingglassfactory.com/
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Time stamps:
(0:00) Shawn joins Jason
(1:03) Shawn demos Looking Glass’ hologram assistant + Looking Glass’ business model
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(10:24) AI’s impact on product design and how users interact with Looking Glass’ platform
(17:57) Investing in hardware startups
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(22:10) Looking Glass’ customer base
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(32:42) Shawn’s perspective on AI
(37:18) Shawn and Jason’s first picks for holographic assistants
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| 0:00.0 | Tell me something funny about Jason. |
| 0:17.1 | This week in startups is brought to you by House of Macadamias is the next big health |
| 0:21.0 | trend. |
| 0:22.0 | Get 20% off your first purchase and a free bottle of cold-pressed macadamia oil at House |
| 0:27.6 | of Macadamias.com slash twist by using code twist 20. |
| 0:33.2 | Crowdbottix great ideas can change the world and crowdbottix is the fastest way to turn |
| 0:38.8 | those ideas into code. |
| 0:40.9 | Get a free sculpting session for your next big app idea at crowdbottix.com slash twist |
| 0:47.2 | and meow tell. |
| 0:49.8 | Traveling soon? |
| 0:51.1 | Book a local and insured sitter on meow tell the number one cat sitting app. |
| 0:56.7 | $25 on your first booking with code twist 25. |
| 1:04.3 | Hey everybody welcome back to the show today I'm joined by Sean Frane the CEO and co-founder |
| 1:10.1 | of Looking Glass he was previously on episode 902 back in February of 2019. |
| 1:16.2 | One time I back on because they're cooking something very interesting had looking |
| 1:20.0 | last Sean and welcome back what do you think thanks Jason good to be back yeah so tell |
| 1:25.6 | me what are you working on. |
| 1:27.7 | We're combining the realism of holograms with the realism of conversational AI so pretty |
| 1:35.7 | pretty hot stuff. |
| 1:37.2 | Okay well I mean the best thing to do here is to show don't tell so maybe you could do |
| 1:43.2 | a quick demo if you're not watching the video you can go to youtube.com slash this |
| 1:47.0 | weekend or if you're on Spotify you can click the video player and if you're on Apple |
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