![]() And then I ran into Brian Biddy, who was doing VR for Honda. So, I started writing and researching and trying to learn, and I wrote about everything I knew and was passionate about. ![]() I didn't really know what to do. Ageism is a real thing, but also in fairness, I wasn't that relevant anymore. So I had to start making up jobs for myself. I mean here I was, a 50 something-year-old, former CEO who hasn't been relevant in years. So I wanted to get back into tech, but it was kind of too late. So that brought me into contact with AOL and they ended up hiring me and putting me in charge of content.Īfter that I got involved in doing more fun stuff in show business, producing Broadway shows, but I quickly found out that producing is a sucky business, particularly for Broadway shows. We opened 33 locations on four continents, which in retail is super fast because retail develops like at the speed of the department of motor vehicles. So they were looking at a monitor and seeing the other vehicles inside of the simulation, and we did that for four years. When I left AOL and I joined a location-based entertainment company that was purchased by Disney, the Simon property group was involved and we were doing something called cab-based simulation, where we were networking people together, but they were in vehicles, right. Probably the best place to begin is in the nineties. ![]() So, Charlie, I wonder if you wouldn't mind starting by maybe introducing yourself, what you do, and how you got into the space.Ĭharlie Fink: Sure. So I'm excited to see how we're going to sort of condense just a lifetime of learnings into such a short period. He knows more about the space than many people on the planet. I've been really looking forward to this session because, frankly, if you've been in and around XR, It's almost impossible for you not to have come across Charlie. Caspar Thykier: I'm delighted to be joined here by Charlie Fink.
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