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Kanav Singla and the trouble with a convincing picture
He began by putting virtual products in front of shoppers. A decade into Metadome.ai, Kanav Singla is pursuing a harder question: can the picture be trusted when the parts have to fit?
Osamah Choudhry and the long life of a side project
An NYU collaboration became Medivis, a New York company backed by investors from venture capital, basketball, and entertainment. Osamah Choudhry’s story is about what happens after an interesting idea acquires colleagues, customers, and a calendar.
Dan Lejerskar’s 7,000-Day Bet on a Smaller Simulator
He helped build virtual worlds when the computers were the size of refrigerators. A phone brought him back to the business - and to a question he has pursued for decades: how do you put an expert’s knowledge within everyone’s reach?
Paul Burke and the case of the distracted museum visitor
A trip to Rome gave the Guru Experience co-founder a reason to reconsider the phone in a visitor’s hand. His answer combined museum stories, mobile software and the unglamorous work of keeping both useful.
Burak Soylu bought a ticket to the past
A travel agency, a teenage domain purchase, and a question about vanished worlds led the RoofStacks founder from selling journeys to building digital ones.
Michael Chong and the Case of the Missing Screen
He built a business around adding things to a camera image. Now Seerslab’s co-founder is betting on AI glasses with something conspicuously absent: a display.
Lisa Hu and the business of paying attention
A Houston Lyft ride helped Lisa Hu test the idea behind Roo. After building a marketplace for flexible work, she turned to another everyday exchange: asking people how they feel.
Kevin Justice and the Other Life of a Pen
A designer’s eye, an early appetite for interactive media, and a zebra with somewhere to go. Kevin Justice’s career follows the distance between an interesting idea and a shopper who acts on it.
John Gheur Keeps Making Room for Another Idea
From Hollywood’s early web campaigns to phone-sized holograms and a gallery with Poe, John Gheur has built a career around inviting people into the work.
Wei Lyu and the computer you choose with your clothes
Before co-founding Nirva, Wei Lyu studied film, art and fashion, then helped build augmented reality products. Her next bet is a personal computer that has to earn its place in your jewelry box.
Beck Besecker and the art of seeing what comes next
Before he helped shoppers picture a room, Beck Besecker helped retailers understand a receipt. The 3D Cloud co-founder has built a career around small clues, patient experiments, and the useful habit of admitting when something needs work.
Bobak Tavangar and the Case for Thinking Smaller
An economics graduate learned how Apple builds hardware, then left to make a computer that could sit on a pair of glasses. At Brilliant Labs, Bobak Tavangar is betting that restraint and an open door to developers can take him somewhere a bigger headset cannot.
Taron Khachatryan and the distance between an idea and your hands
A cardboard viewer gave the Knoxlabs founder his opening. His longer pursuit runs through developer tools, virtual classrooms and robotics: making unfamiliar technology something people can actually use.
Darren Mann and the short distance between looking and buying
From 7-Eleven TV to augmented reality in shopping malls, Darren Mann has built media around the moment a customer decides what to do next. At ARIA, that work now includes an AI shopping assistant.
Rebecca Jonah and the business of a second look
From restructuring law to fashion and digital collectibles, Rebecca Jonah has built a career around what happens after the first transaction. At ARIA, that question now reaches into the shopping mall.
Galia Rosen Schwarz and the art of making complicated things usable
From LEGO animals to digital buildings, Galia Rosen Schwarz has worked on getting technology out of its own way. At C8 Health, the co-founder and CEO brings that same practical eye to building a company.
Kshitij Marwah and the art of bringing the future home
A camera researcher with a taste for photography returned to India to build things. The route from MIT to Tesseract ran through student workshops, stubborn prototypes and the manufacturers hiding in plain sight.
Jay Jayaram’s future began with duct tape
A View-Master, a computer screen and a missed football game helped set Jay Jayaram on a three-decade pursuit: giving people more control over what they see. At Quintar, the former Intel Sports technology chief is taking that pursuit into the physical world.
Devin Bhushan and the things a machine cannot tell you
A coffee-grinder reminder, a question on the factory floor, and a career spent making information useful. The founder of Squint is building software around the knowledge people carry in their heads.
Soulaiman Itani Has Spent a Career Moving Intelligence Off the Screen
From drones and gestural glasses to autonomous trucks, the engineer’s work keeps returning to one question: how does intelligence leave the screen and enter the physical world?
Brian Cody Is Making the Invisible Work of Payments Feel Human
The Basys executive arrived in payments by way of code, campaigns and augmented reality. His operating idea is plain: speed matters only after people agree where they are going.
John Lin Spent Decades Teaching Cameras to See. Now He Wants Machines to Know Where They Are.
Before spatial computing became a slogan, John Lin was studying the stubborn physics of camera-phone images. His second act turns that patience into compact vision systems for robots and mixed-reality glasses.
Mike Noonen Bet His Career on the Space Between Pixels
After three decades of chips, turnarounds and startup bets, Mike Noonen arrived at a peculiar frontier: making holography behave like a semiconductor business.
Madhav Lavakare Spent Eight Years Putting Conversation Back in View
A school friend’s unanswered problem sent a 16-year-old to the family projector with a screwdriver. Eight years, two gap years and a patient procession of prototypes later, AirCaps finally shipped.
Sampo Parkkinen Is Teaching Beauty Tech to Be More Helpful
The Revieve founder has spent two decades studying how people choose - first in physical stores, now through AI. His useful heresy is simple: stop selling so hard and start helping people buy.
Justin Scott Wants to Retire the Product Photo
After helping sell homes, creator culture, and policy intelligence, Justin Scott arrived at a stubborn idea: online shopping should feel less like reading a catalog and more like meeting the product.
Jeri Ellsworth Keeps Bringing the Future Back to the Table
She built race cars, taught herself chip design, survived one startup’s collapse, and returned with a stranger, more sociable idea for augmented reality: keep the people, the pizza, and the table in view.
Ratson Morad Has Spent a Career Turning Difficult Physics Into Repeatable Manufacturing
Before smartglasses, Ratson Morad worked on MRI systems, 300 mm wafer tools and solar modules. The industries changed; his practical question did not: how do you make difficult technology reliably, repeatedly and at scale?
Sankar Jayaram
Sankar (Jay) Jayaram is the co-founder and CEO of Quintar, a Santa Clara startup building augmented reality experiences for live sports. A former Washington State University engineering professor who founded the school's virtual reality lab in 1994, he co-founded VOKE with his wife Uma Jayaram, sold it to Intel in 2016, and served as CTO of Intel Sports before spinning out Quintar in 2021. Quintar became the official AR developer for the PGA Tour and shipped PGA Tour Vision for Apple Vision Pro.
Sravanth Aluru
Sravanth Aluru is the co-founder and CEO of Avataar, a generative AI company building spatial storytelling and 3D visualization tools for enterprises and e-commerce. An IIT Bombay engineer and Wharton MBA, he moved from a program manager role at Microsoft to technology investment banking on Wall Street before founding Avataar in 2014. He holds more than 10 US patents across AI, computer vision, and mobile data transmission, and has raised over $55 million from investors including Tiger Global, Peak XV (Sequoia Capital India). Under his leadership Avataar has shifted from interactive 3D product experiences toward AI-generated product video, serving customers such as HP, Victoria's Secret, Lowe's, Samsung, and Sleep Number.