Podcasts about Paracosm

The next mixtape comes from Alifiyah Imani, an interdisciplinary arts & media practitioner and writer. Imani combines multimedia arts and design, focusing on sound, curatorial research and practice. She enquires into our relationship with space, the workings of our cultures and auditory subcultures. Imani told us that an important aspect of Indian classical music training is practising with the tanpura, a full-bodied stringed instrument that creates a repetitive drone. While practising and tuning the tanpura, the daily ritual of attuning myself to the drone as a sonic companion and as a practice of embodied listening and improvising has been significant for me to understand the structure of sound itself. She said. Last June Imani premiered at Distant Gallery her online solo show Your Listening is a Paracosm, a show that shifts perceptual perspectives through sound and ritual, drawings and prompts. Your Listening is a Paracosm unfolds as an experiment for the web and permeates through radio transmissions. We read in the statement.  Taking this show as an inspiration Alifiyah Imani has prepared a mixtape for us that intends to explore the sound pieces from the exhibition as an extended listening or long-form mix. Imani spent much of this time in her home studio layering field recordings, experimenting with the drone sound of the Tanpura, and improvising with other instruments like the Strumok and overtone flute: It's about different kinds of attention processes, tuning, and studying forms derived from sound. While drone-based and contemplative, it moves between textures, harmony, polyphony of colours, and moments that emerge in nature and improvised music.

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This podcast is a presentation of The Meow Library. Episode 13: Bret Easton Ellis, The Shards, and the Gen-X Paracosm In today's episode, we read a preview of Bret Easton Ellis's upcoming The Shards (available for pre-order here), followed by a discussion by psychologist Sam Austen about the rise of the ‘Gen-X Paracosm' – the all-pervasive 1980s nostalgia that serves as a projective outlet for the frustrations and thwarted dreams of a creative class in the advanced stages of decline. Will the alluring spectre of champagne days and cocaine nights help lift us – as is Ellis's project – from an anomic, desexualized, and increasingly zero-sum social condition, or will the scrying-glass of Stranger Things, Dahmer, and Ellis's latest novel explode in our face, totalize the neoliberal eclipse with a shower of blinding shards? This episode is intended for feline consumption. Human-language translation available upon request. MEOW is the first and only literary podcast for your cat, conceived and presented in its native language. This podcast is sustained by sales of our book series for cats, The Meow Library.  Bret Easton Ellis's The Shards can be pre-ordered here. Praise for The Meow Library Presents - Meow: A Novel "Breathtaking... a revelation." - Stubbs, Unaltered Domestic Shorthair "Meow meow meow meow meow, meow meow meow. Meow? Meow." - Joan Didion Follow us on Instagram: @meowliterature and Facebook: facebook.com/themeowlibrary  

Like aphantasia, people are anxious to turn paracosm into a disease. But what if it's the greatest thing that could ever happen to you?

Paracosm Party (on Monocle - Musical Furniture) Interview by Amiria Pianta-Price and Kaitlyn Ratcliff on Radio One 91FM Dunedin

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You may not think meditation is for you, but we all need more self-love in our lives. The right kind of guided meditation makes it easy. Enjoy today’s 10 minute guided mindfulness meditation for strengthening self-love and taking care of yourself. It has been said that “How you love yourself is how you teach others to love you.” Rupi Kaur, Milk and Honey. To be the best person you can be, to help and support those loved ones surrounding you, you need to first love and care for yourself. The idea of self-care doesn’t always mean going out to the spa to get pampered. It can also mean trusting your heart and your intuition to guide you in the right direction in life. It means taking the time to listen to your heart and your intuition often. It is the kind and compassionate way you speak to yourself. Music by Paracosm from the album When Mountains Move

This week look at paracosms and the bardo and ask what an F.P.P. is and why having a fantasy prone personality will help you build convincing worlds for your readers. Also study the locus amaneus and learn why you should incorporate this literary device into your project

Amir Rubin, Gainesville entrepreneur and founder of Paracosm has an incredible story. He is a visionary that is not afraid of setting things into motion in order to make dreams a reality. Mike and I were absolutely captivated by this awesome story. Hear how one startup led to the next and has sent him on a journey to 3D map the world! 4:50 - Amir's Story. 9:32 - Discussing Gainesville in the early 2000s 14:55 - How much of your own money did you invest in your idea? (Amir continues into a discussion about raising money for his business). 22:00 - Discussion about the shift from investors wanting to see profitability over just revenue. 24:15 - Was it that easy to get millions of dollars in investment? 25:56 - Were you familiar with the art of pitching at that time? 31:00 - Tell us about when the acquisition with Occipital happened. 40:13 - What does your product cost? 41:11 - Have the original investors received a return on this investment when this merger happened? 42:03 - How many people are on the team? 43:23 - When you have investors keying in on wanting you to be profitable and you are pioneering a new-to-market technology, how do you even set a price for what you are selling? 46:50 - What kind of team do you have to build up around you? 50:00 - So throwing it back to your first company... Was the problem that you didn't build out a sales team? 51:43 - Did you build a sales team around these pods or are YOU the sales team? 56:00 - Do you see this as being a tool for a walk through history (being able to see what it was before today) in addition to the 3D mapping? 59:30 - Pulling that $200,000 from your savings to start this... Did you think that you'd be right here today when you did that? 1:00:10 - You had COVID-19, we are going to dive into that on the Side Hustle (click) 1:00:30 - Where can our audience connect with you? GET NOTIFIED of new episode releases by texting WHOAGNV to 484848 PLEASE SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS: Gainesville Harley Davidson: https://gainesvilleharley.com/ Gainesville Turnover Specialists: https://yourgts.com/ - - - - - Subscribe to my channel: COLLINAUSTIN.TV You can purchase custom WHOA GNV gear by visiting us here! https://www.whoagnv.com/whoa-gnv-shop CHECK OUT OUR LAST EPISODE: E105: The Complexity of 2020: COVID-19, Racism, Rioting & More | Greenhouse Church | WHOA GNV https://youtu.be/PaiFSxkGXPc CONNECT WITH OUR GUEST: Amir Rubin and Paracosm (of Occipital) https://occipital.com/ https://paracosm.io https://facebook.com/paracosm3d/ https://twitter.com/Paracosm3D CONNECT WITH OUR PODCAST & NOMINATE A GUEST: https://www.whoagnv.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/whoagnv Facebook: http://facebook.com/whoagnvpodcast Twitter: http://twitter.com/whoagnv --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/whoa-gnv-podcast/support

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Amir Rubin co-founded Paracosm in 2013 with a mission to “3Dify the world.”Since then he’s led the company through a total conversion from fun, visionary consumer product to critical B2B enterprise solution. What started as an idea to 3D map the world for experiential AR turned into a technology and approach that saves enterprise customers weeks of work every day.Ledge sits down with Amir to see what it was like emotionally to transition from a visionary 3D world mapper to getting measurements inside buildings for industrial purposes and how to grow in the CEO function when you come from an engineering background. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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Amir Rubin is the co-founder of Paracosm, a company that developed a handheld device that creates 3D color maps of real-world environments. “We’ve turned reality,” says Amir, “into a video game.” Amir is a second-generation entrepreneur. Both his parents are PhD’s, but his father quit academia to start a hardware store, and later a bakery. Amir wonders if any entrepreneur would make it without some level of “blind enthusiasm.” TRANSCRIPT: Intro: 0:01 Inventors and their inventions. Welcome to Radio Cade, a podcast from the Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention in Gainesville, Florida. The museum is named after James Robert Cade who invented Gatorade in 1965. My name is Richard Miles. We’ll introduce you to inventors in the things that motivate them. We’ll learn about their personal stories, how their inventions work and how their ideas get from the laboratory to the marketplace. Richard Miles: 0:38 A three-dimensional world that used to be something only for science fiction and now it’s an everyday part of reality and we’re pleased to have here on our show this morning Amir Rubin, founder of a company called Paracosm, which deals very much in the 3D world and other inventions. Welcome to the show Amir. Amir Rubin: 0:56 Hey, thanks for having me, Richard. Richard Miles: 0:58 So, Amir, I always like to start out with the inventor themselves explaining what the invention is, the core technology at least behind it, what it does in very simple terms, and then we’ll come back and talk later on about sort of how you develop that. So what did you invent Amir ? And what does it do? Amir Rubin: 1:18 So, I co-founded a company in 2013, Paracosm, that has invented the world’s first handheld color lidar mapping system and a lot of fancy words there. But basically it’s a device that, the product is called the PX80. And it’s a device that you can hold, has a little handle, and you just go for a walk and in whatever environment you want indoor, outdoor, and when you’re done, we spit out a 3D replica, like a digital twin of the real world environment in full color. So it’s like we’ve, you know, one way I describe it is maybe you could think of it as we’ve turned a reality into a video game level. Richard Miles: 2:15 Okay. So, I’ve seen the product, the application before, and I’ve said it’s very impressive. I think one thing that struck me was the speed at which you can do it because the technology has existed I think for a w hile. A nd you can do 3D mapping, but your invention enables you and this i s as of several years ago a nd I know you’ve improved it to do it very quickly and pretty, very accurate to a degree that’s useful to a lot of t hings. Amir Rubin: 2:46 Yeah, exactly. So there’s been 3D scanning technologies that had been really good since, you know, the eighties and nineties, and they’ve been scanning for oil fields and oil rigs and other industrial applications and the way old or traditional scanners work is there like laser scanners that are mounted on the old, surveyors , tripods. You might have seen them when you drive by a construction site by the side of the road, you might see a crew with a survey, tripod doing surveys. So that’s a pretty similar to how 3D scanning is, has been done and is currently done. And our big Aha moment is what happens if we ditched the tripod and let people just go for a walk. And it lets you capture data really fast that’s never been possible before and lets people go into capturing new types of environments. Like we have customers, for example in Japan who mount our little 3D mapping pod onto a backpack and they go hiking through the mountainous forest of Japan and they’re able to 3D map in full color, the mountainous terrain and forest that covers 70% of Japan. Richard Miles: 4:16 So we’re going to come back a little bit later and talk about the company you founded Paracosm and what that was like but first I want to talk somewhat about your background. You have a very interesting background Amir just the little bit that I know about you is very interesting. You’ve been associated in town in Gainesville with a number of companies who are well known, Shadow Health, Prioria Robotics. You also have a patent for 3D cameras to weigh cows, which I wager is one of a kind. But let’s go back before even, and your a graduate from the University of Florida computer engineering. But let’s go back before that. Tell me where, where you’re from, what were your sort of early influences as a child, maybe what your parents did for a living and that sort of stuff? Amir Rubin: 5:09 Yeah, I would say that that all had an influence on me. Both my parents are PhDs. Um, and you know, it’s kinda funny. My Dad was a scientist, he was a PhD in Biology, but he quit before I was born and decided to start his own business. So, I’ve always kind of been used to seeing my dad own his own small businesses and he ran a hardware store when I was a kid and then started a bakery when I was in middle and high school. So kind of a funny combination of science. Richard Miles: 5:46 So here in Gainesville? Amir Rubin: 5:46 In a south Florida. And then my mother is a PhD in Education, PhD and as a teacher. So probably where some of the nerdiness came from I think. Richard Miles: 6:04 Were you a good student in school and starting out? Amir Rubin: 6:09 I was, I was like one of these annoying students, I never did my homework and I never studied for class, Richard Miles: 6:15 But you ended up doing well. Amir Rubin: 6:17 Yeah. Math and science. I never needed to study for the test. When I would take a test or do a report, the answer would just pop into my head. So I never really had to work too hard at it, which always drove people crazy. Richard Miles: 6:36 So, did your teachers find this endearing or frustrating and did your parents, were they thrilled by this ability for you to pull it out at the last minute? Amir Rubin: 6:45 I think it frustrates everybody. Yeah, I remember I even for math and science teachers, they’re cool with the English teachers hate it because I would, I got like the highest score on the the IB AP exam without ever actually reading any of the books. Richard Miles: 7:05 And your fellow students I’m sure were probably, Amir Rubin: 7:10 Well they were, they were super smart too. Richard Miles: 7:12 So in terms of science and math, I mean it sounds like you were always had an ability to do it. What were sort of the first, I guess, was it a class or you know, I know there are some people that their introduction to science or coding was, you know, a computer game for instance. Is there any sort of epiphany that you had in terms of that you think led you into the field you are now? Amir Rubin: 7:36 Yeah. There was two or three. The first was my parents bought a computer, went out when we were, um, when I was like 10 years old. So I’ve always had computers in the house and it was my, I spent every day on it. You know, um, learning how to code and, you know, initially basic and you know, other learning languages from back in the 90s, like Pascal and then, you know, this was the , this was, you know, dialing in to the local, you know, bbs and , and all this fun stuff. Um, but I’d never, you know, one thing that we kind of take for granted in the Cade, it’s like something that the Cade does a lot of work on is like the STEM and the STEAM, uh, you know, education and letting students know and you know, now we have first robotics and we have STEAM. So it’s, it’s a known thing now when if you’re in like a elementary/middle of school that, uh, engineering as a career. And I never know , no one ever told me that. Like, I didn’t know until I graduated. I was halfway through college that there was such a thing as engineering, let alone computer engineering. So people think it’s silly. But in high school, a big moment for me with taking, um , physics 1 and that was like the most mind opening class I’ve ever taken that to see that the world can be partially modeled by, you know, uh, physics equations and theories and our physics teacher was like, you know, you can become a physicist. And so that I came to University of Florida as a physics major, um, because that seemed like a career path. And one day, um, I went to a career fair and, uh, like my sophomore year, and there was not a single company hiring physicists, but there’s a few who are asking, who were like, hey, we’re, we’re, we’re looking for computer engineers. And I was like, wait, that’s, you can be a computer engineer? That’s a thing? Richard Miles: 9:37 What year are we talking about? Amir Rubin: 9:39 This is, um, uh, 2000-2001. And so yeah, it was , it was kind of unheard of back then to be a programmer or a computer engineer. And then I had the fun of graduating in 2003, which, um , was the collapse of the computer engineering industry and everyone had declared that, um, you know, computer programming, computer science and engineering is done . It’s done, it’s dead. They’ll never be an industry in this, in the U.S. it’s over. And, uh, there’s not a single job to be had in it. So that was fun times too. Richard Miles: 10:09 So you’re one of those rare students, uh, that before you even finish school, you’d already founded a company. So what you describe how your dad ran his own businesses. Running a business is really different than, you know, sitting in a classroom, right? And, and studying and doing assignments. What was it about, was there something about the business world that attracted you in addition to, you know, the , the content. I mean, you could’ve gone on and just gotten a graduate degree and a PhD, but you decided to found a company and then you, before you’re even at a school and you joined another startup company, Shadow Health, and then you found it in another one. So what, what was it about that side that attracted you? The business side? Amir Rubin: 10:52 It was, um, combination of all that. And I had stayed with my sister who lives in the bay area in California, um, the summer before I graduated and she worked at, before the dot com collapse in 99′-2000. She had worked at a, um , one of these San Francisco dot com companies. So I visited her and I was like, Hey, this is pretty, this is pretty cool. They have these cool office chairs and free snacks. And so, Richard Miles: 11:21 It’s always the snacks. Amir Rubin: 11:23 It’s always the free snacks. And, um , so when I graduated finally in 2003, by this time, you know, uh, by the time I had stayed with my sister, you know, and, and, and seeing all that, I was convinced you know by that time I had switched from physics to computer engineering major. And then when I graduate and graduated in 2003, there was just simply not, not an economy for, for programmers or , or , software engineers. And this was before the startup craze, you know, it was like Facebook probably was just started, you know, um, and no one outside of the few schools knew about them. There was no y Combinator or anything. So I thought to myself, well, I, there’s no, there’s no jobs here, but I’ve, I’ve seen it, seen it done before. I should probably, um, you know, start my own company with some friends. And, um, my then girlfriend now wife was, um, just, uh , accepted into UF Veterinary School. So it’s like, and I need an excuse to stay in Gainesville a few more years . So I’ll start, uh , computer engineering company right here in Gainesville. Richard Miles: 12:33 So that’s a, that’s a fascinating story. So, um , so I was just going to add an addition to the snacks, there’s always a girl involved, right? Amir Rubin: 12:39 Oh yeah, always, yeah. Richard Miles: 12:41 Um, okay. So, uh, so let’s talk about your current company Paracosm. Um , you founded that in 2013, so now going on, uh , gosh, six years close , right? What was that like? I mean you had, you already at that point had the core idea for the 3D sort of handheld or did you? Or did you found the company first and then the idea comes , or was it the other way around? Amir Rubin: 13:02 It was all the above. So it’s always a chaotic jumble. Richard Miles: 13:07 And , and so you obviously had to hire, I mean how many employees did you have at the beginning? Was it just you or did you? Amir Rubin: 13:13 It was myself and four other co-founders. We started with the team of five. Richard Miles: 13:18 And were you guys , did you have any money? I mean where? Amir Rubin: 13:20 I just, I’d put in, um, everything I got from, uh, my first startup. Okay . You know, from, from all the money I’d saved up from my previous start up and the first company I founded out of school. So, you know, I emptied out my 401k and my savings and I maxed out my credit card and you know, just put it, put it all in. Richard Miles: 13:40 And then your then girlfriend decided to become your then wife right? Amir Rubin: 13:44 Basically yeah, yeah. So that makes, that’s best financial decisions here. Richard Miles: 13:47 Pretty gutsy thing, cause at that point did Paracosm have any clients or sales or nothing? Nothing. Just an idea. It’s an idea. Um, all right. So you started out with, you said three co- founders or four co-founders and how many employees does Paracosm have now? Amir Rubin: 14:04 We , we were acquired last year by a larger startup, uh , Occipital. And the Paracosm division is currently 22 employees. Richard Miles: 14:13 And how much, are you in a manager role now or do you or are you like the chief technical officer? Amir Rubin: 14:20 I’m , I’m the equivalent of like CTO / general manager, president of the division. Richard Miles: 14:27 So do you, um, how much of your time do you get to spend on developing the technology or new technologies and how much time is sort of meant, uh , spent actually managing the division? Amir Rubin: 14:38 We have a pretty good workflow, so I spend, I spend a lot of time sitting with the engineering team, but don’t do the actual engineering work myself anymore and, Richard Miles: 14:50 Do you miss that or? Amir Rubin: 14:52 Um yeah, you know, a little, but you know, it’s kind of, um, it’s really hard to do both. I think. Um, you know, the, in order to do engineering work, you have to be able to have just singularly focus on the design problem or the engineering challenge you’re working on. You have to be able to have, you know, four to eight hour blocks of time set aside just to work on, on your, um projects. Richard Miles: 15:19 So not going to meetings, not messing with emails. Amir Rubin: 15:20 Yeah, exactly. Yeah. And so once you start having to, um, be in a role where you’re communicating and pitching and selling and yeah , like I said, responding to to people, then it’s really hard to do both. Richard Miles: 15:36 So I imagine the fact that you were acquired means that, uh , you were profitable and you had clients at that point. Amir Rubin: 15:43 We were on the verge of it, we, we, um, we are now. Richard Miles: 15:48 I remember when we took a tour of Paracosm offices, uh , had to been at least a three or four years ago or longer. Uh , I remember at the, at that point, the type of applications you had, I remember very distinctly one was for like a military type of application, special forces. Oh , another one that’s sort of like for designers, interior designers, and you listed a few other ones. What, what has developed as kind of like your number one application or number one industry, so to speak, that loves your product? Amir Rubin: 16:19 The short answer is, uh , surveyors really have been taken taking to our product. So, you know, it’s sort of like the, the, you know, the early adopters are people who are already doing lots of survey, uh , for their businesses and they see this as like a , a really like shiny new tool that they can do their jobs much, much faster now. And so that’s been our early adopters as people doing land survey building survey. And you know, we’re starting to expand into other use cases because early adopters just are seeing the PX80 the lidar mapping system we developed as a tool to make their jobs much easier. And that’s great for getting us a good flow of early sales. But you know, we fundamentally see this technology as enabling an entirely new class of applications. So we see what we’ve done as a way to, to always have an up- to-date digital copy of reality so that it enables entirely new ways of thinking. So we’re starting to get adoption, for example, on construction sites to be able to scan a construction site every week to precisely monitor progress and do quality control. And we’re starting to get people use the PX80 to monitor like industrial facilities, factories, warehouses, you know, data centers, things like that are constantly changing and the facility manager needs to know what, what’s happening in their facility . So, uh, we’re, we’re starting to see, you know, new classes of, um , use case that, that are pretty exciting. Richard Miles: 18:01 So these are still mostly commercial applications right? There’s, there’s not a retail in game at this point? Amir Rubin: 18:08 No, no. We started out thinking there would be some, some interesting consumer and retail or end user use cases. And for a lot of reasons it turns out that’s , that’s a , that’s a very hard sell, right? One of the companies, I think doing a really successful job at that is actually like a , the Niantic, the makers of Pokemon Go. They have a incredibly popular App. It’s a Pokemon game where you hunt Pokemon in the wild. But you know, future versions of that app will start to use the players, you know, the Pokemon trainers, a camera phone to map, uh , parts of the real world environment. And so, you know, what we kind of realized is to make a consumer play, there needs to be a primary driver, uh , to the consumer beyond 3D mapping. Uh, for example, Pokemon Go or, or fun engaging games like that. Whereas, um , in the, uh, you know, enterprise industrial world people, people need their data. So you can, you can make a business just to selling tools to get people data. Richard Miles: 19:21 I had a guest, I think, you know, Randy Scott, local entrepreneur now in adventure capital and, uh , he said one issue he found with sort of adventures and co-founders is that one of the pieces of advice he gives them is the first thing they have to do is learn how to fall out of love with the science behind the invention. Um, and , and coldly look at what are the sort of commercial applications, commercial potential. Yeah . And he said once he could do that, then you know , adventures can really understand. Okay. Just as you said, there’s ultimately there’s gotta be a market or somebody wanting to use that. Amir Rubin: 19:56 Yeah, yeah. We, we, we initially thought this, that this tech we developed would be, um , really popular with game designers and, you know, like augmented reality games and, and experiences and fun things like that. And so when we realized kind of like what, what Randy is saying, they want to realize the application is industrial. Well, we made kind of a tough decision as a team to , um , just focus full time on very unsexy, very kind of nose to the grindstone industry . You know, land survey, construction, facility management, these are not, they don’t grab any headlines, but when you talk about important problems, I mean, we all live in buildings that need to be built. We all drive on roads and bridges that need to be inspected and you know, hopefully done on a budget, finished on budget and a complex facilities need to need to stay running. And so there’s real need and real budgets to um, to support that. And that was a , you know, shift for us. But as soon as we made that shift, things started going our way. So the one kind of conceit we have to our old idea of like whimsical consumer games. We’ve kept our branding and our logo as like a fun kind of whimsical characters and the branding we , we uh, and the, uh, we, we made, um, for the old vision of the company. We brought that into our new product and our new market and it actually helps it stand out. Like I company mascot is a parakeet, you know, the Paracosm parakeet and uh, you know, people, people know what the parakeet means now the industry. Richard Miles: 21:40 Yeah. So it sounds like you’ve learned a lot just in the last few years. It was something you said reminded me of uh, our , our architects that built the Cade Museum, um , did a great job and it’s a fabulous innovative building. We love it. And, um, and they were very excited to build it. And , and I remember asking one of them, I said, well, you know, don’t you guys get to build stuff like this all the time? And they said, well, no, the majority of what we build is schools, hospitals, administrative buildings. You know, we’re, we’re rarely asked hey, you know, build this museum of creativity and invention and kind of do whatever you want. Amir Rubin: 22:10 They’re very innovative. Richard Miles: 22:12 They’re very excited. But it was an insight for me to understand that that part of the business were substantial. You still need schools, you still need to outsource administrative buildings. You need Compton architects to do that. Yeah . Amir Rubin: 22:21 But we do use the Cade Museum in all of our marketing. Richard Miles: 22:24 Oh good, good. Amir Rubin: 22:24 That’s a beautiful building. So we have it scanned many times and that’s the scan we show off because it looks cool. Richard Miles: 22:30 So Amir, uh, you’re not by any means an old guy, but you do have a lot of experience, you’ve done a lot of things. Sort of looking back on your career, both sort of, in, in school and then also as an engineer and a business. I’m a guy. What, what sort of lesson learned would you give to uh , um , someone who, early twenties, maybe reminds you a little bit of yourself and they’re all charged up with a great idea and they’re , they’re off to the races, they’re going to do the next big thing. What would you sit down and tell them over a cup of coffee? Hey, here are the things you definitely should do and watch out for this. Amir Rubin: 23:09 Yeah, that’s, that’s always a tough one because I think about that question often. And sometimes I wonder, you know, if you’re not dumbly and blindly charging forward with the naive enthusiasm of just being out of school and the irrational overconfidence, you know, would you even get anywhere? And so I, Richard Miles: 23:33 So you have to be a little bit blind. Right? Amir Rubin: 23:34 Yeah. I don’t like to, um, I don’t like to give you know too much advice, you know, a lot of times I find like a lot of the advice I give might sound cynical or jaded. And when I spend with students who are starting new projects, um, Richard Miles: 23:49 Cause you probably get asked a lot, right? I mean, Amir, you’re a rockstar in Gainesville. So I’m sure people go ask Amir and he’ll tell you the Amir Rubin: 23:55 In the past week alone. Yeah. I find that at least, you know , usually between two and four hours a week meeting with people just to, you know , try to spread the love and give a little encouragement. And so I find it’s better to just sometimes give encouragement. And if someone’s about to face a very obvious pitfall, try to kind of steer them away from a pitfall. But there’s something to be said for like the high energy of when someone has a lot of enthusiasm. Like I learned from that a lot of times when I talk to people. Richard Miles: 24:27 What are some of those common questions you get from those people? I mean, is it all just tell me how you did it or do or there’s something specific that they , they, think they need to know and that you can tell them . Amir Rubin: 24:37 I prefer when there is something specific um, sometimes people just wanna kinda, you know, it’s sometimes people just want to hear like my experience and , and let themselves, they’ll draw their own conclusion. It’s just a nice little data point that they can, I could say something like, okay, well in your situation, here’s, here’s what happened to me and draw your own parallels to that. Sometimes people have a specific problem. Like there’s a company here in town that just received a very large order unexpectedly for their product. And they’re like, how are we going to build this? How are we, how are we going to get, you know, $50,000 to deliver this in a month? And I was like, well, you know, good luck with that. Um, but you know, I, I help however I can, the most difficult problems I encounter and that I usually am able to kind of see right away even if the founders don’t is, you know, like, well let’s, let’s dig into the relationship between both of you here and like, um, I think that’s probably one of the main lessons learned is the relationship aspect of starting a business, especially with your employees and your co-founders and your investors. These are all relationships that, you know, will be strained heavily from the stresses of starting a company and trying to make payroll and stay in business. And that’s, you know, my biggest advice is always for people to be mindful around that. And in fact, you know, when, when, when people get far enough along the process and if I’m like really able to be more involved in mentoring or coaching them, I always, you know, my biggest advice is to learn about mindfulness and, um, how to, you know, control your breathing and your thought processes to be a , a , you know, to be more effective communicator and in the very stressful situations that pop up when you’re starting a business. Richard Miles: 26:35 It’s interesting what you say about sort of maintain that balance, I’d say between trying to inspire somebody, right? And encourage them, but also sort of, uh , speaking realistically and honestly, Um Phoebe who, you know, my, my wife and co-founder Cade Museum was asked to speak on a panel and the subject’s panel was loosely sort of like, uh , uh, you know, starting a start a museum, you know, what do you think and Phoebe sells to be the shortest panel ever. I’ll say, don’t do it. Um, but, uh, it sounds like you have acquired, uh, you know, I almost see a budding venture capitalists here. I’m here. I gotta say, you know, you have all this, a very actual useful information and insights into how these companies are formed. Um, and, and sort of what tends to succeed in what doesn’t, what’s, what’s next on the horizon for you, do you, do you see yourself staying? Well, obviously you’re not going to tell me if you’re gonna leave, but I mean, what, what is on your bucket list, I guess, say 10 years from now? Where, where do you see yourself being? Amir Rubin: 27:34 Um, uh , you know, I always, when, when we started Paracosm, I said, I’m not going to make the same mistakes. Um , I made at, at my previous, uh , startups and my previous companies and, you know, we’ve , we’ve gotten further than, than, than I had before. And so, you know, uh , Paracosm and, uh, you know, we, we still have a lot of, uh, a lot of items on our to do lists that we’re focused on. But, um, you know, in , in 10 years, you know, life, uh, you know, the next next adventure will be, um, I, I work really hard to suppress the ideas in my head to be able to focus on Paracosm. But you know, there , there, there’s always a next idea and, and you know, in 10 years I would see myself hopefully being a right back on the hamster wheel with , with a new idea and making a new set of mistakes. Um, you know, just, uh , keep trying to, you know, refine. Um, the, the, the, I don’t like to call it a process is like keep trying to refine the experience of starting a company and, um, you know, make new mistakes, don’t re learn from the old mistakes and try to do it a little better each time. Richard Miles: 28:51 So, uh, Amir when you have that new great idea, come back on Radio Cade we’ll talk about it. We’ll charge five bucks to download the episode. Once we go platinum we’ll , we’ll give you a few percentage points. Amir Rubin: 29:03 There you go, I’ll take it. Richard Miles: 29:05 Um, Amir, thank you very much for being on Radio Cade this morning, I’ve learned a lot and uh , I hope to see you back on the show. Amir Rubin: 29:11 Yeah. Thanks for having me, Richard. This was a lot of fun. Richard Miles: 29:13 I’m your host Richard Miles. Outro: 29:17 Radio Cade would like to thank the following people for their help and support, Liz Gist of the Cade Museum for coordinating and inventor interviews, Bob McPeak of Heartwood Soundstage in downtown Gainesville, Florida for recording, editing, and production of the podcast and music theme . Tracy Collins for the composition and performance of the Radio Cade theme song featuring violinist Jacob lawson and special thanks to the Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention located in Gainesville, Florida.

Amir Rubin is the co-founder of Paracosm, a company that developed a handheld device that creates 3D color maps of real-world environments. “We’ve turned reality,” says Amir, “into a video game.” Amir is a second-generation entrepreneur. Both his parents are PhD’s, but his father quit academia to start a hardware store, and later a bakery. Amir wonders if any entrepreneur would make it without some level of “blind enthusiasm.”

Dark Mistress Madeline takes us on a powerful journey of sexual exploration and gives us a glimpse into the magical and mystifying world that is the erotic occult. In this episode, she talks about her experience with the occult, the paracosm she is hoping to create for herself, and what Incubus and Succubus mean. You may find Dark Mistress Madeline's art and phone services on her website at femsugar.com 

Subscribe via: iTunes | Google Play | RSS James D'Amato is the host of the ONE SHOT Podcast, co-founder of the ONE SHOT Network, and half of Paracosm press. Links: One Shot Podcast One Shot's Youtube Twitch One Shot Network's Patreon The Dungeon Dome Kickstarter Show Notes: James views his creative work as using tabletop roleplaying as a storytelling medium. It's harder to build an audience than it was 5 years ago, but the podcasting buy-in is lower. Marketing is one of the primary challenges. James learned about and fell in love with RPGs in college. James practiced stand-up comedy in high-school. Other comedians just seemed like sad tired old men, and that didn't look like it led to a good place. He took an improv class and saw that the instructors didn't seem unhappy. He moved to Chicago to improve improv, and was introduced to Earwolf's "Improv for Humans." He and his friend Alex decided to create a show of their own Podcasting doesn't require passing through a rigid system to book gigs, and allowed them to set their own schedule. They created the Overshare, which was picked up by Peaches and Hot Sauce Patrick O'Rourke approached James and asked him to create an Actual Play RPG podcast. James saw that most Actual Play shows were DnD focused, when gaming is so much broader. They came up with a format that allowed them to tour different game systems with a rotating cast of guests. Their focus on a broader game base and high caliber performances helped them take off quickly. Starting now would be more difficult as podcast quality has generally risen over the years. Everyone has their own path into how they do what they do, and directly following someone else's path isn't effective, but if you look to the successes of a lot of people, you can figure out how to make "you" work. One of the big factors in One Shot's success was Pat O'Rourke's focus on quality equipment. If you're dong an Actual Play podcast, have a microphone for each player to have a competitive footing. James recommends the Yeti Blue Pro. It offers both USB and XLR line options, and is thus upgradeable. The free software Audacity is a perfectly adequate piece of software for every level of podcasting. James believes that Twitch is the future of entertainment along with Netflix and HBO. The successful production companies cater to narrow niches. Podcasting is radio on demand, Twitch is the equivalent of live television. Twitch is where the money is going to be. Time is their biggest limitation; One Shot Podcast is a full time job, but Twitch is also a full time gig. You will soon see RPGs designed to operate within what opportunities Twitch provides. James's new project is the Dungeon Dome, his first attempt to really take advantage of the medium. It's a PvP gladiator game, and he's running a kickstarter to fund it. The story arises from the procedural stories generated by the interactions between the characters. Spectators will be able to impact the matches. Backers will have greater influence. They can create items and events that are featured in matches. High level donors will be able to co-create characters that will exist within the context of the game space. The key is that they are offering engagement rather than exclusivity. After Dungeon Dome's first season of 15 episodes, James will focus on game design and new narrative projects. The bulk of One Shot's income comes through Patreon Patreon is not a place to build an audience, it is a place to monetize the audience you already have. You need to have the actionable audience. This audience is going to be 5-10% of your total fans for podcasts, less than 1% for less engaging art forms. Give yourself the time to grow before deciding if you're a success or failure. Podcasts are higher engagement than other media. You spend an hour or so a week with the hosts in your ear. This creates an intensely intimate investment. You are acting on this good will. You don't need to treat it like a product, or a kickstarter. You are giving the people who think of you as a friend the opportunity to contribute to your existence. Don't let Patreon pressure you to the point where your life suffers. Successful milestones focus on how your life will improve, rather than potential future projects. Have faith in yourself as an artist, and never break yourself on a project. If something requires you to destroy your life, it's probably not worth it.

Amir Rubin, the CEO & Co-Founder of a company called Paracosm, guests on the Everything VR & AR podcast from the VRAR Association. In this discussion we talk about Amir's background in the technology world along with why Paracosm made a change to focus more on business clients than the general consumer market. Of course there is much more to this discussion, so have a listen and let us know what you thought of our talk with Amir Rubin. Make sure to visit www.thevrara.com for more information about the VRAR Association and how you can get involved. Also, we invite you to follow @thevrara on Twitter and you can now connect with the VRAR Association on Facebook here.     Connect with Amir Rubin & Paracosm  To connect with Amir Rubin and have a look at what is being created at Paracosm.io, you can do so the following ways: Web - www.Paracosm.io Twitter - @AmirRubin Amir Rubin on LinkedIn     It pays to listen! Listeners of Everything VR & AR can save $100 off of the purchase of a VirZoom controller by using the following promo code at checkout: VRAR So make sure to head over to VirZoom.com and use the promo code VRAR to save $100 off the purchase of your VirZoom controller!     Subscribe, Follow and Share Feedback To keep up with Everything VR & AR, make sure to subscribe to the show the on your favorite podcast app! Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Google Play Subscribe on Pocket Casts Subscribe on Stitcher Radio   You can enter the following in your favorite podcast app should the show not show up in searches is: http://everythingvrar.libsyn.com/rss   As always, make sure to follow the VRAR Association on Twitter at @thevrara   Would you like to share feedback of the Everything VR & AR show? Email your thoughts to podcast@thevrara.com.     Hosts Nathan Pettyjohn is a technology entrepreneur with experience building teams in marketing, advertising, sales and mobile technology, and is currently the Founder and CEO of Aisle411, a global leading indoor location and mobile software company serving some of the world's largest retailers and brands. Aisle411 was an early augmented reality development partner of Google’s Project Tango solution in 2014, offering 3D AR navigation solutions for leading retailers. Nathan is also the Founder of the VRAR Association.   Kevin Harvell is a professional podcaster with over 300+ episodes of hosting, co-hosting and producing experience with a primary focus on consumer technology. Current shows Kevin is involved in either by hosting and/or producing include, the Tech Informist, MS Mobile Show and the Who's Who in St. Lou Show.  Kevin also loves spreading his passion for podcasting with others via speaking engagements at technology conferences and recently joined Mobile Nations as a freelance writer.

Summary Amir Rubin, CEO of Paracosm tells me about his company, the state of augmented reality, mixed reality and where his company fits in. Details Who he is, what he does, what Paracosm does; human level of understanding; what is augmented reality, virtual reality and mixed reality, devices, phones, tablets, headsets; virtual reality is finally here?; common uses of Paracosm's tool, engineering tasks, construction projects, how to scan, depth sensors, dealing with errors; what happens after the data is uploaded; example of game playing on 3D environment; availability of devices; future of augmented reality, where Paracosm is going.

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Paracosm performs a rare acoustic set on the 30A Songwriter Radio show!

Paracosm performs a rare acoustic set on the 30A Songwriter Radio show!

Main topic: exploration and representation. News: archaeology, Paracosm, and UCGIS.

Main topic: Paracosm, Valarm, and SmarterBetterCities. News: LocationTech, NSF, and GISCI.

Maybe it's the record high temperatures or the long weekend, but we're feeling a little distracted. Thoughts of being poolside or at the beach are taking up too much space in our heads for us to get any work done. So we've decided to feed these wandering thoughts with some great additions to your summer playlists. From Washed Out to jj, we're playing some new tracks that are sure to convince you that, "it's really hot out" is a totally legitimate excuse for skipping work. Track list: 1. "It All Feels Right" -- Washed Out, Paracosm 2. "Collard Greens" -- Schoolboy Q featuring Kendrick Lamar, Oxymoron 3. "Can't Understand" -- Metz, single4. "Come Save Me" -- Jagwar Ma, Howlin 5. "Royals" -- Lorde, The Love Club  6. "Unsatisfied" (The Replacement cover) -- Calexico, Maybe on Monday EP7. "fågelsången" -- jj, V8. "Bring the Noize" -- MIA, Bring the Noize  9. "No Below" -- Speedy Ortiz, Major Arcana10. "Beyond" -- Daftside, Random Access Memories Memories