Explore XR

Tess McKinney

david@gigxr.com (David King Lassman) — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 21:17:11 +0000

In this episode ot ExploreXR, David chats to Tess McKinney. Tess is widely known in the Healthcare sector, particularly for her visionary leadership in evangelizing immersive technologies to drive outcomes for both medical professionals and patients alike.

Dr Caitlin Yeager

david@gigxr.com (David King Lassman) — Thu, 25 Jul 2024 20:09:34 +0000

In this episode of ExploreXR, David is joined by Dr. Caitlin Yeager. Dr Yeager currently serves as Director of the Health Resource and Simulation Centre at the Breen School of Nursing and Health Professions at Ursuline College. She has over 18 years of experience as a nurse with a specialty in Neonatal Intensive Care Nursing and has over 10 years of experience as a nurse educator.

Dr Stephen Ojo

david@gigxr.com (David King Lassman) — Mon, 13 May 2024 22:08:17 +0000

In this episode of ExploreXR, Davod is joined by Dr. Stephen Olufunso Ojo is a Specialty Doctor in Emergency Medicine at Queens Medical Centre, Nottingham University Hospitals, UK.

Jeremy Nelson

david@gigxr.com (David King Lassman) — Wed, 29 Nov 2023 00:17:44 +0000

Leading the next generation of transformative technologies is rooted in solving pain points for different audiences. In this episode of ExploreXR, Jeremy Nelson talks about how he has created (and continues to create) initiatives from the ground up to become successful, impactful, and sustainable technologies that change the world.

Sarah-Anne Birdsell

david@gigxr.com (David King Lassman) — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 23:34:34 +0000

On this episode of ExploreXR, David is joined by Sarah-Anne from Meta. As part of the Global Executive Engagement team, Sarah is focused on bringing Meta’s vision for the metaverse to external c-level executives and their organizations. She leads immersive executive briefings and engagements that inspire executives with the information they need to lead.

Dr. David Pearlstone

david@gigxr.com (David King Lassman) — Tue, 3 Oct 2023 23:51:53 +0000

In this episode of ExploreXR, David is joined by Dr. David Pearlstone, founder and CEO of Dicom Director. Following a long and distinguished career in academic medicine, Dr Pearlstone received an MBA from the Leadership program at the Yale University School of Management and pivoted his career to become an entrepreneur. DICOM Director is the next generation of medical imaging, offering an augmented reality system for viewing MRIs and CT scans in 3D.

Dr Asher Marks - Kimberly Hieftje

david@gigxr.com (David King Lassman, GigXR) — Wed, 20 Sep 2023 23:10:53 +0000

In the latest episode of ExploreXR, David is joined by Dr Asher Marks and Kimberly Hieftje, PhD from Yale University. Asher is a Yale Medicine hematologist and oncologist and director of Pediatric Neuro-Oncology. He is also the director of the adolescent and young adult (AYA) cancer program for Yale New Haven Children’s Hospital. He is also an assistant professor of pediatrics at Yale School of Medicine and is working on clinical trials to help find new treatments for tumors in adolescents and young adults. Kimberly is an assistant professor of Pediatrics at the Yale School of Medicine and co-founder/co-director of XR Pediatrics (xrpeds.org) at Yale and the new Yale Center for Immersive Technologies in Pediatrics. Dr. Hieftje is also the editor-in chief of the Games for Health Journal, and has focused on the use of immersive technology in clinical applications and behavior change videogame interventions targeting youth.

Randall Rode

david@gigxr.com (David King Lassman, GigXR) — Fri, 28 Apr 2023 20:34:38 +0000

Randy is a member of Yale University’s Information Technology Services team, focusing on XR, VR, and AR technologies for innovative research and teaching. He works with faculty across various fields, builds partnerships with industry leaders, and creates campus learning communities.

Pablo Olmos

david@gigxr.com (David King Lassman) — Thu, 6 Apr 2023 00:01:07 +0000

In this edition of ExploreXR, David is joined by Pablo Olmos, CEO and Co-Founder of ANIMA RES.

Dr. James Kinross

david@gigxr.com (David King Lassman) — Thu, 9 Mar 2023 17:12:54 +0000

Dr David Rhew

david@gigxr.com (David King Lassman) — Thu, 5 Jan 2023 20:14:52 +0000

0:24 - Dr. Rhew shares his background, from designing video games to research and practicing medicine.
3:24 - Why Microsoft has a Chief Medical Officer!
5:27 - Microsoft technology's pertinence and impact during the COVID pandemic
9:13 - The impact of HoloLens and XR on healthcare!
14:40 - AI and XR working together in healthcare
16:20 - Big Tech coming together to collaborate in healthcare technology
18:38 - Building business models in healthcare technology
21:27 - Dr. Rhew’s opinion on the Metaverse using his healthcare lens
26:05 - Where does extended reality go in the future?

Rita Arrigo

david@gigxr.com (David King Lassman) — Fri, 9 Dec 2022 21:16:37 +0000

In this episode of ExploreXR, David is joined by Rita Arrigo, a passionate believer in the ways AI, XR and emerging technology can reinvent our future As a digital strategist, Rita is able to communicate complex technical ideas across the “IT divide” to non-geek stakeholders.

Dr Neil Ralph

david@gigxr.com (David King Lassman) — Thu, 10 Nov 2022 20:52:43 +0000

In this edition of ExploreXR, David is joined by Dr Neil Ralph, the Head of Technology Enhanced Learning at Health Education England (HEE TEL). Dr Ralph leads a national function within the NHS that aims to maximise the impact of learning technologies and simulation-based education in how the health and care workforce is trained and educated. The team supports access to learning technologies through its capacity to develop and deliver learning at scale via its national digital learning services; elearning for healthcare, Digital Learning Solutions and the Learning Hub, and is committed to expanding and enhancing the adoption of XR and other immersive technologies. Neil is also a practicing clinical psychologist and academic lecturer.

Walter Greenleaf PhD

david@gigxr.com (David King Lassman) — Fri, 21 Oct 2022 23:14:26 +0000

In this episode of ExploreXR, David is joined by Walter Greenleaf PhD. Walter is a neuroscientist and a medical technology developer working at Stanford University. With over three decades of research and product development experience, Walter is considered a leading authority in digital medicine and medical virtual reality technology. He is a Visiting Scholar at Stanford University’s Virtual Human Interaction Lab and the Director of Technology Strategy at the University of Colorado National Mental Health Innovation Center. He serves on the Science Advisory Board for healthcare companies such as Abbott, Biogen, United Health Group, Penumbra, and Interaxon. He also is a neuroscience and technology advisor to early-stage medical product companies and venture capital investment groups.

Luke DeVore

david@gigxr.com (David King Lassman) — Tue, 13 Sep 2022 22:07:12 +0000

In this episode of ExploreXR, David is joined by Luke DeVore, a Senior Manager, Strategy and Partnerships for Unity Technologies Government and Aerospace Division. Luke and his team is focused on working with Unity’s creator network to capture, solution, propose, and deliver custom Unity-based innovations across the Federal and DoD markets. He began his career in technology while serving as a US Marine, using virtual reality and gaming to train operational forces. Since then, Luke has worked in business development with a specific emphasis on research and development and advanced prototyping leveraging emerging technologies ranging from physiological sensors and wearables to XR.

Dr Taylor Kantor

david@gigxr.com (David King Lassman) — Fri, 26 Aug 2022 18:41:22 +0000

In this episode of Explore XR, David is joined by Dr Taylor Kantor, a Cardiac/Thoracic Surgery Resident at the University of Michigan. Taylor also serves as the Center for Surgical Innovation Fellow, and has an interest in enhancing healthcare education through innovation. Taylor collaborates with Industry Partners to advance the frontier of medical innovation and training. He specializes in extended Reality (XR) development applications focused on scenario and procedural training as well as diagnostic imaging for procedural planning and efficiency, and talks enthusiastically to David about the benefits of teaching medical students using immersive technologies and, in particular, Mixed Reality.

Ruby Woodward

david@gigxr.com (David King Lassman) — Tue, 5 Jul 2022 18:49:19 +0000

In this episode of ExploreXR, David is joined by Ruby Woodward a first year PhD student working at Cambridge University (Faculty of Education) and Cambridge University Hospitals (CUH). Ruby has a background in medicine and made the transition to academia in 2020, having worked clinically as a doctor prior to this. Her PhD is focussed upon exploring the use of simulation within the context of medical education, with a particular focus upon the adoption of augmented reality (AR) within simulation-based learning. She talks with David about the focus of her PhD, the first part of which is examining how outcomes are assessed in simulation-based research, and the efficacy of AR-based simulation compared with traditional teaching methods.

Anne Lord Bailey, PharmD, BCPS

david@gigxr.com (Anne Lord Bailey, David King Lassman) — Fri, 13 May 2022 17:41:51 +0000

With over 170 medical centers in the United States, the Department of Veteran Affairs is the largest integrated healthcare system in the country. In this episode of ExploreXR, David is joined by Anne Lord Bailey, Director of Clinical Tech Innovation who is at the forefront of some of the most cutting-edge initiatives driving healthcare training and patient care. Anne reveals insights into the VA, how it functions, how it thinks about immersive technologies today and in the future, and how the impact the VA is making is benefiting not only Veterans but people all over the world.

Sean Graglia

david@gigxr.com (David King Lassman) — Thu, 7 Apr 2022 22:56:01 +0000

In this episode of ExploreXR, David is joined by Sean Graglia who leads a Mixed Reality in his native Canada. Sean helps customers realize value from solutions that blend physical and digital worlds powered by Azure, HoloLens, and mixed reality apps. Joining Microsoft 17 years ago, Sean has held multiple marketing roles in product, segment, and operations. Prior to Microsoft, Sean spent 10 years in IT leadership roles in Retail and Manufacturing.

Dr Jane Frost

david@gigxr.com (Dr Jane Frost, David Kind Lassman) — Mon, 28 Mar 2022 16:30:19 +0000

In this episode of ExploreXR, David is joined by Dr Jane Frost, Associate Professor of Nursing at the University of Canberra in Australia. Jane is passionate about the scholarship of teaching and learning, curriculum development, interprofessional education and collaborative practice, and innovative approaches to teaching, simulation. And technology enhanced learning. Jane’s research explores simulation, empathy and clinical reasoning with a focus on patient centered care. She has been a keen advocate of Mixed Reality, which she believes helps drive learning outcomes in healthcare training.

Richard Price

david@gigxr.com (Richard Price, David Kind Lassman) — Fri, 18 Feb 2022 01:55:26 +0000

Today, David is joined by Richard Price from Health Education England. Richard passionately believes that education has the power to transform lives and, in his current role as global education technology lead at the National Health Service (NHS), supporting the WHO, he gets to do just that. The NHS is one of the world’s largest employers and Richard ensures that technology plays a pivotal role in keeping its staff up to date with the latest and greatest in innovation, sharing that expertise with the global health community through organizations such as the WHO. He is a big fan of extended Reality and, in this episode of Explore XR, talks about how Health Education England is making a big investment in Mixed Reality.

Dr. Patricia C. Ramos, MD

david@gigxr.com (David King Lassman, Dr Patricia Ramos) — Wed, 2 Feb 2022 18:25:34 +0000

In this edition of ExploreXR, David is joined by Dr. Patricia C. Ramos from Northwest Permanente.

Lance Baily

david@gigxr.com (David King Lassman, Lance Baily) — Tue, 11 Jan 2022 02:08:08 +0000

In this episode of Explore XR, David is joined by the founder of HealthySimulation.com, Lance Baily. Lance has been at the forefront of healthcare simulation for well over a decade, serving as the Director of the Clinical Simulation Center of Las Vegas from 2009-2012. In 2010 he founded Healthy Simulation, the world's leading online resource website dedicated to supporting the healthcare simulation industry, attracting over 35,000 simulation readers a month across the globe.

Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Thu, 6 Jan 2022 15:06:15 +0000

In this episode, David is joined by two esteemed guests who are at the vanguard of healthcare simulation in one of the most prestigious institutions globally. Dr Arun Gupta was appointed the role of Director of Postgraduate Education in July 2011. He is a Consultant in Anaesthesia and Neurotrauma Intensive Care, Director of Postgraduate Medical Education at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Director of the Cambridge Simulation Centre and The Evelyn Cambridge Surgical Training Centre. Dr Jonathan Martin is a Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine and Anaesthesia and Clinical Lead for Simulation at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and a self-professed tech geek.

Professor Mark Cohen

david@gigxr.com (Mark Cohen, David King Lassman) — Fri, 10 Dec 2021 17:49:34 +0000

In this edition of Explore XR, David is joined by Dr. Mark Cohen from The Univeristy of Michigan Hospital. Dr. Cohen is currently Professor of Surgery and Pharmacology, Director of the Medical School Pathway of Excellence in Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Director of Endocrine Surgery Research, and Innovation Chief at the University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center. His team is working closely with GigXR to produce a suite of procedural applications that will launch on the GigXR platform in 2022. Dr. Cohen holds the view that in order to continue driving learning and patient outcomes, hospitals and medical teaching establishments need to embrace the opportunities that present from emerging technologies like Mixed Reality. In this episode, he talks in detail about how he sees Mixed Reality benefitting all the stakeholders of medicine, from students to experienced physicians.

Emma Collins

david@gigxr.com (David King Lassman, Emma Collins) — Fri, 19 Nov 2021 17:57:33 +0000

David is joined by Emma Collins, a Principal Lecturer and Researcher in the School of Nursing at Otago Polytechnic in New Zealand. Emma discusses the challenge of getting students to “think like a nurse” and to transfer clinical reasoning into clinical practice. As a veteran of Mixed Reality training, she describes how the medium is playing an integral role in the learning process.

Christina Heller

david@gigxr.com (Christina Heller, David King Lassman) — Fri, 29 Oct 2021 00:40:24 +0000

Topics incude:

Christina explains the experience of interacting with volumetric video (2:25)
Christina compares volumetric video to CGI and traditional video shoots with a focus on cost and value (6:15)
Christina speaks to all the use cases for volumetric video (10:45)
Christina speaks to the growth in volumetric video (16:55)
Christina explains how volumetric capture and special effects can work together (18:00)
Christina shares the advantages of running a volumetric video business in Los Angeles (20:15)
Christina predicts where volumetric video will go (22:45)

Captain Walé B. Lawal PhD

david@gigxr.com (David King Lassman, Wale B Lawal) — Wed, 27 Oct 2021 22:13:37 +0000

Topics include:

Background on the Air Force Academy and the opportunities it provides to cadets (3:10)
STEM within the Air Force Academy (5:40)
How the STEM curriculum prepares cadets for the military or any environment (8:30)
Why Captain Lawale and the Air Force Academy are excited about MR (11:15)
Extended Reality solutions helping students get a better return on their time (14:30)
How MR will transform the Academy and training in the future (18:44)

Eric Kamont

david@gigxr.com (Eric Kamont, David King Lassman) — Thu, 21 Oct 2021 15:24:19 +0000

Eric K. of Microsoft joins the podcast. He is everything an industry should want in an evangelist and shares his incredible insight as to the State of Mixed Reality.

Topics include:

Being part of starting Mixed Reality group at Microsoft (1:55)
Mixed Reality for the Enterprise (5:16)
Signs that Mixed Reality is Having Its Moment (8:28)
Consumer Adoption of Mixed Reality (12:10)
5G's Impact on Mixed Reality (15:00)
How Mixed Reality Fits in Microsoft's Technology Bets (17:30)
Where MR is going in the next 12-24 months (20:50)
Mixed Reality being a humanizing technology (25:00)

Karyn Madden

david@gigxr.com (Karyn Madden) — Mon, 11 Oct 2021 04:48:47 +0000

David is joined by Karyn Madden, a Nurse Educator at the Southern Institute of Technology in Invercargill, New Zealand. They discuss how Southern Institute of Technology has implemented extended reality into their curriculum as well as what the impact of the technology will be on education going forward.

Topics include:

How Southern Institute of Technology uses extended reality and GigXR (2:30)
Extended reality versus other analog technologies (5:50)
How students adapted to extended reality (7:20)
How often the technology is used in the curriculum (8:40)
Measuring return on investment in HoloLenses and XR technology (9:45)
Mixed reality as a training tool (12:00)
Projecting the future of XR and its efficacy in training (13:20)
Mixed reality versus virtual reality (14:33)