Back around April 2020 I realized I was going to be spending a lot of time at home, and that most of my communicating with people (particularly in a work setting) was going to be via Video Conf. …

Today, Niantic announced the acquisition of 6D.ai — an exciting day for our team and the AR community overall. We are extremely proud to join Niantic after three years of taking on the most difficult computer vision software problems so that AR experiences could realistically interact with the physical and…

We’re all extremely excited to announce our cooperation with Qualcomm Technologies and Nreal, the launch of Android support (with HMDs and bit-compatible IOS interoperability), and roll out our pricing & business model. These are the first (of many!) …

At the recent 2019 CVPR conference in Long Beach, our engineering team came up with a partial list of papers that were of interest to them, and possibly to anyone poking around in the AR space. Note: Our original list of interesting papers about double this list in length, but…

Why Google’s Cloud Anchors validate the importance of AR Cloud services and why being first doesn’t mean all that much. — Since Apple’s WWDC conference this time last year, which fired the starting gun for consumer AR with the launch of ARKit, we’ve seen every big platform announce an AR strategy: Google’s ARCore; Facebook’s camera platform; Amazon Sumerian; and Microsoft continuing to build out its Mixed Reality ecosystem. We’ve also seen…

I believe values matter. I don’t believe founders should be neutral when it comes to communicating what our company stands for and what I personally stand for. As tech companies get bigger and touch more parts of our lives, this becomes more and more important. It’s never too early to…

I’m in the process of adjusting to some exciting new priorities, and will be stepping back from Super Ventures while stepping up at 6D.ai. This has been a gradual process over the last 12 months or so, but with 6D’s new funding and the rapid growth we’re seeing, we felt…

What we’re building and why it matters. Today is a great day! We are coming out of semi-stealth, and I can start sharing more about what we’re working on and more importantly, why we’re working on it. Anyone who’s been reading my blog posts over at Super Ventures will know…

The 6D.ai team continues to grow, with two new team members joining us. I’d like to welcome Jeff McConathy as 6D’s Vice President of Engineering, and Ben Benfold as a Senior Computer Vision Engineer. Jeff joins us from Trulia where he joined as employee #4 and grew with the company…