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Ryan Brown Is Building a Computer You Can Talk To
After years building devices for virtual worlds, the former Oculus and Meta engineer is helping Sesame put a conversational computer into everyday life. The voice came first. The glasses are still to come.
Ford Davidson
Ford Davidson is the co-founder and CEO of Enzzo, a Seattle AI company spun out of Pioneer Square Labs that helps hardware teams move from idea to investment-ready in half the time. A 20-plus-year product veteran, he built new-category devices and services at Microsoft, HTC, Amazon (Alexa), and Meta, sold his phone-backup startup Dashwire to HTC in 2011, and now wants to do for physical products what generative AI did for words and images.
Bernard Yee
Bernard 'Bernie' Yee is the CEO and co-founder of Windup Minds, a Seattle-based independent VR/MR studio building 'Stay: Forever Home,' a mixed-reality virtual pet named Ember. A games-industry lifer who started as a journalist and trained as a lawyer, Yee has produced or shaped some of the most influential titles in gaming - Plants vs. Zombies 2 and Peggle 2 at PopCap, Destiny at Bungie, Rock Band at Harmonix, EverQuest at Sony Online - before spending nearly a decade at Oculus/Meta Reality Labs producing landmark VR experiences like Dreamdeck, Toybox, First Contact and First Steps. His thesis: XR is uniquely capable of making a digital creature feel real, and a game can make you feel loved.