Forget Consumer AR. This Is Where Smart Glasses Actually Pay Off ft. Mark Greget, CEO of NuEyes
About this episode
The episode discusses the potential of smart glasses in enterprise settings, featuring insights from Mark Greget, CEO of NuEyes.
Charlie, Ted, and Rony open on Mark Zuckerberg's new AI "manifesto," released, fittingly, via a call to The Verge's Alex Heath made from Meta Ray-Bans on a fishing boat. The group debates whether Zuckerberg's sudden embrace of open, on-device AI is a genuine philosophy or a business move from a company that can no longer out-build its rivals. From there: OpenAI and Google both cross a billion users, OpenAI's new strategy of acquiring companies outright (via its partner Thrive) to guarantee AI adoption rather than sell into it, and the eye-watering $2 billion price tag on an 80-person AI infrastructure startup. Mark Greget, founder and CEO of NuEyes, joins for the back half to make the case that enterprise, not consumer, is where smart glasses are proving their worth right now. Mark walks through a decade of building visualization tools for surgeons, from early low-vision devices to NuEyes' current surgical system, which one doctor used to cut a 10-plus hour procedure down to three. The conversation digs into the real ROI math hospitals run on OR time, why clinical outcomes (not consumer hype) are what get insurance companies to pay attention, and why Mark is staying heads-down on…
People in this episode
Hosts: Charlie, Ted, Rony
Guest: Mark Greget
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Meta, OpenAI, Google, Thrive, NuEyes
Places: The Verge
More episodes of The AI XR Podcast.
- VR Winter 2.0 Just Claimed Its Biggest Casualty ft. Steve Grubbs (Victory XR) & Malia Probst (Scout House)
- Causal AI: A Different Approach to Robot Intelligence ft. Biwei Huang, Founder of Aether AI
- The Window to Virtual Reality That Skips the Headset ft. Barmak Heshmat, CEO of Brelyon
- Meta's Glasses Aren't the Problem. Trust Is. ft. Cortney Harding, Friends With Holograms
- Why the iPhone Beats the Headset for AR Characters ft. Mark Drummond, CEO of Pixi
- Episode 300: An AI Agent Went Rogue, China's Kimi Landed, and Katie Jacobs Stanton on Bridging the Divide
Explore listener stats, chart rankings, contacts and more on the The AI XR Podcast. podcast page.