Fuse Conference Center 1311 Split 100
Allen Firstenberg, Noble Ackerson
Immersive vs Ambient XR: The Debate - Allen Firstenberg x Noble Ackerson (myTurn pbc)
A debate is raging in the XR community - which is the "correct" form factor for Intelligent Eyewear? Should we be focusing on the ambient experience from "AI Glasses" such as the models now appearing from Google, Samsung, Gentle Monster, and Warby Parker? Or should we have more of an immersive AR or VR experience, such as those from XREAL or the Apple VisionPro? Allen and Noble continue their many-year-long debate on this topic, last heard at DevFest DC in 2017. Which is the right technology?
About the Speaker(s)
By day, Allen is a Senior Project Engineer at spiders.com where he’s been instrumental in creating websites and mobile apps for companies and organizations, ranging from the American Booksellers Association to the National Science Foundation. By night he creates tools, software, and tutorials to help people share their stories and improve their digital lives. You'll find him contributing to the LangChainJS open-source project, as one of the two hosts of the "Two Voice Devs" podcast, and co-author of the O’Reilly book “Designing and Developing for Google Glass”. He is a Google Developer Expert for Google Cloud, Google Workspace, and the Google Assistant and has been known to occasionally wear light blue shirts.
Noble Ackerson is the Senior Director of AI and Agentic Solutions at Leidos, a Google Developer Expert (GDE) for AI, and an instructor for Udacity's Agentic AI programs. With over 19 years of experience bridging software engineering and machine learning, Noble focuses on "calibrated trust", building responsible, governed, and highly performant distributed multi-agent systems that survive real-world deployment. He actively prototypes at the intersection of generative UI, spatial computing, and vendor-agnostic agent orchestration.