THE FUTURE OF TESLA & ELECTRIC CARS; AR / VR & 3D TECH; AI & DATA

Riley Horvath is the Co-Founder & CSO of Soar, a spatial technology company that specializes in AR/VR and compression innovation. The company’s mission is to make volumetric technology (like holograms) a central part of our everyday lives (***TIMESTAMPS are down below in the description—as well as in the video comments)

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TIMESTAMPS

9:59 - The timeline of Soar’s progression from the beginning; Covid speeding up adoption across the world

23:59 - “Compression is the road––holograms are the cars”; Making the last 2 percent that changes the world; How to use your iPhone for volumetric experiences; Steve Jobs and the simplicity of use; The future of shopping in a 3D world

34:47 - Soar is ready to live stream a concert or boxing fight right now; How Soar has attracted world-class engineering talent from Day One as a startup; Rapidly scaling a tech company without losing the culture that put it in that position

45:58 - What got Riley into tech and startups; Riley’s Sunday Ritual that we should all try; Riley’s hobbies, including rebuilding cars and planes

55:55 - The electric car market and how soon it’s going to take out all gas cars; Solar panels, solar energy, and their current potential / hurdles; Converting gas cars to electric cars; the status of Charging Stations in America

1:11:53 - Why Riley’s not surprised at the tech jump society took during the Pandemic; Niantic’s Pokemon Go Concept integrating into the real world; Human interaction and tech; Why holograms can save the world

1:17:48 - How Soar can bring back the dead; Using the technology to pass on messages from beyond the grave; Riley explains haptics; the TikTok filters that “bring back” the dead

1:29:24 - Screen time and the Pandemic; Tesla’s data collection and Elon Musk’s 3D Map of the world (Starlink); The self-driving cars question

1:39:09 - The media and negative headlines; Neuralink and Fact-checkers

1:45:14 - The tech platforms and groupthink; The need for startup founders who believe in the vision over who offers the most money; How tech companies start as rebels and become the establishment; Big companies, startups, and culture / resources; Riley tells some startup stories.

2:01:36 - Kevin Systrom, Mike Krieger (the Instagram founders) and the upsides and downsides of their 2012 sale to Facebook

2:07:42 - Social Media and the 3D World; Lil Miquela and Gen Z’s opinion of what’s real and what’s not

2:13:22 - The NFT Market; The NFT deals Soar has been working on, including with Roast Master, Jeff Ross; The get-rich-quick schemers who hurt the NFT market and its credibility

2:33:27 - The Data Question and what Soar’s technology requires from its users; Superintelligence (Bostrom), Kurzweil, and the Artificial Intelligence Question (AI)

2:43:38 - The tech and startup communities’ move to Miami; The problem with San Francisco; “Suits are dead”

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