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b'6D.ai CEO Matt Miesnieks has been in the AR game since the beginning, and he says the best in the industry have always known the best, native use cases for the technology; the problem was for the technology to catch up to the use cases. Listen as Matt and Alan discuss how the tech and the vision are starting to line up today, with the help of groundbreaking cloud mapping technology.\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\nAlan: Today\\u2019s guest is Matt Miesnieks, the CEO at 6D.ai. Matt is renowned as one of the world\\u2019s AR industry leaders, and through his influential blog posts and persona around the world. He\\u2019s also the co-founder and CEO of 6D.ai, the leading AR cloud platform, which is his third AR startup. He also helped form Super Ventures, which is a platform and V.C. firm investing in AR solutions. He\\u2019s built AR system prototypes for Samsung, and had long executive and technical careers in mobile software infrastructure before jumping into AR back in 2009. In his career, he\\u2019s been the director of product development of Samsung for VR and AR research and development, co-founder and CEO of Dekko, that created the first mobile holographic and mixed reality platform for iOS, 3D computer vision, and slam tracking. And Layar, he was the worldwide head of customer development; Layar sold to Blippar back in the day. And I want to invite Matt to the show. Thank you so much for joining me on the show.\\n\\n\\n\\nMatt: Thanks for having me.\\n\\n\\n\\nAlan: Thanks Matt. This is really an honor to meet you, and you have so much experience in this industry that we can all learn from. You\\u2019ve been doing this, it seems like, since the beginning. So why don\\u2019t we start with what you\\u2019ve seen as the progression of augmented reality over the last decade that you\\u2019ve been involved?\\n\\n\\n\\nMatt: Using words like \\u201cdecade\\u201d brings it home. I mean, I got into AR from working for the company called Openwave that invented the mobile phone browser, and seeing that phones were being connected to the Internet, and started to think about what was next. And realized that interfaces were getting more natural, and we were going to end up connecting our senses to the Internet. You can connect a sense of sight \\u2014 our dominant sense \\u2014 that was going to be a really big deal. And I learned that was called augmented reality; that ability to sort of blend digital information and the real world into what you see. I kind of jumped in expecting it to be happening pretty soon. And at the time, there was nobody. At the first AWE conference back then, I think there was 300 people in total. And that was the entire professional AR industry. That included a bunch of researchers, a bunch of, like, science fiction authors, just a bunch of weirdos and a handful of people with some sort of commercial expertise. I think the interesting thing is that, even back then, the use cases and the kind of interactions and those sorts ideas around, these are the things that AR is going to be good for in the earliest days is still the same ones. It wasn\\u2019t like anything\\u2019s changed; they\\u2019ve stayed the same. What\\u2019s gotten better is the user experience around those use cases. The technology is improved. There\\u2019s like 100x or 50x more processing capacity in our hands. The algorithms have gotten better. And the same use cases that we knew were good ideas back then are now like, oh, these are starting to work now. Enterprises and consumers are starting to get some value out of it.\\n\\n\\n\\nAlan: So let me interject quickly, for the people listening who are not familiar with this industry: what are these use cases? What are the use cases that have stood the test of time? I know one of them that keeps coming up on almost every podcast that we do is remote assistance. The ability to have other people see what you\\u2019re se'