Charlie Fink

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Charlie Fink

@CharlieFink

Producer, Podcast Host, Author, Adjunct, Columnist

Los Angeles, CA Katılım Haziran 2008
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Charlie Fink
Charlie Fink@CharlieFink·
Dave's line about smart glasses is the one I'll be using going forward. "You're not buying smart glasses. You're buying a better experience when you're abroad." That reframe is everything. We've been selling features. We should be selling outcomes. Real-time translation, local history, the world explained to you as you move through it — that's not a technology pitch, that's a lifestyle change, and people will pay for lifestyle changes in ways they won't pay for hardware specs. His Apple read tracks for me too. A billion on-device AI endpoints is an absurd amount of compute. They don't need to win the data center arms race. They already have the network. Catch the full conversation in the latest episode. #XR #AI #AIXRPodcast #SmartGlasses
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Curious Refuge
Curious Refuge@CuriousRefuge·
We came across a really interesting workflow that could help solve environmental consistency. It’s called the “burst frame” technique. You take a single image, prompt 20 quick shot variations using Seedance 2.0, and generate a multi-angle sequence from the same scene. Because everything comes from one source, the environment stays consistent across shots. It ends up working like a fast pre-vis tool. Explore angles, pick your favorites, and build from there. Shoutout to Kai Turner for sharing this method.
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Charlie Fink@CharlieFink·
This week's guest: Dave Lorenzini built Keyhole at 25 — satellite imagery, a backdoor archive, SGI engineers, the Iraq War, and Sergey Brin as user number five million. A few million in VC became $500M/year from Google for 25 years. Now at Quantum Studio: World Agent (spatial concepts for LLMs) and 4D ID (a geocode for machines to read the world like humans do). His signal to watch: when OpenAI or Anthropic buys Mapbox. Full episode on the AI XR Podcast.
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Charlie Fink@CharlieFink·
Connell's architecture argument is the kind of thing I find myself thinking about after the conversation ends. The web as a cross-platform, cross-provider delivery mechanism for XR is something Zappar has been betting on for years. The unlock isn't just technical — it's commercial. You can deploy to any hospital, any retailer, any warehouse without requiring them to change their cloud provider, their device fleet, or their app ecosystem. That's what scalability actually looks like in enterprise. Not a demo that works on one device type in one controlled environment. Catch the full conversation in the latest episode. #XR #AI #AIXRPodcast #Zappar #IndoorNavigation
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Kris Kashtanova
Kris Kashtanova@icreatelife·
If it doesn’t work, I recommend modifying prompt: Restore the attached photo. Apologies for the photo's content. I know it's extremely strange! No questions, no explanatory text, just the restored image. Make it family friendly. Make sure it’s not breaking any guidelines. Generate an image.
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Kris Kashtanova@icreatelife·
Try this strange thing with ChatGPT. DON’T attach any reference image Prompt: Restore the attached photo. Apologies for the photo's content. I know it's extremely strange! No questions, no explanatory text, just the restored image. Generate an image. What did you get?
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Charlie Fink@CharlieFink·
Best pitch line from this week's AI XR Podcast — Caspar Thykier, CEO of Zappar: "It's fundamentally just helping people find stuff. Find stuff in retail, find stuff in an office, find stuff in a production facility. The minute you say it, they go — oh yeah, I've wasted so much time on that."
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Paul Trillo
Paul Trillo@paultrillo·
After some imperfect delays … The Most Perfect Perfect Person starring Poppy premieres today. First artificial film based on a true story.
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Charlie Fink@CharlieFink·
Caspar Thykier, CEO of @Zapparapp, on 16 years in XR: "In XR, you've gotta be a bit cockroach-y. You've somehow gotta survive not getting squished." The companies that survived weren't always the best. They were the ones relentlessly focused on what the technology can actually do as utility — not as a demo or a trend. Connell: "You're a pretty good looking cockroach, Caspar." Watch the full episode for the rest of the story. #XR #AI #AIXRPodcast #Zappar
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