About us
AI & AR Meetup: last Wednesday of every month. Reach out to Chris Grayson if you would like to be a speaker or a sponsor.
Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Augmented Reality (AR) — Elon Musk chose Memphis to be the home of xAI's Colossus Supercomputer, currently the world's largest AI Supercluster. This has thrust the city to the forefront of the global Artificial Intelligence race, with NVIDIA and Supermicro both announcing a Memphis footprint.
Augmented Reality (via AR smart glasses) is the heads-up & hands-free user interface (UI) through which AI is already being applied in the enterprise, the military, healthcare, and industrial applications — and eventually coming to the consumer market.
AR is the UI for AI.
Meetup Organizer, Christopher Grayson believes Memphis must grab this opportunity, both in the medical vertical, and as applied AI-through-AR in the trades, in manufacturing, in other industrial workforce applications, to rapidly up-skill the Memphis workforce.
Let us leverage this moment!
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About the host: Christopher Grayson
Grayson has decades of experience in technology event planning, organizing, staging, and booking speaking talent.
As an event organizer, Grayson hosted Ray Kurzweil prior to his current role as Principal Artificial Intelligence Research Scientist at Google (together with Juan Enriquez, biotech venture capitalist and former Chair of Harvard's Life Sciences Department) as the TED license-holder of NYC based TEDx franchise, TEDxSiliconAlley. Among other notable speakers, also included Apple Creative Director Ken Segall.
As an early co-organizer of Augmented World Expo (AWE), Silicon Valley's largest AR trade show, Grayson has hosted luminaries such as Microsoft Fellow Jaron Lanier (who first coined the term "Virtual Reality" for his company VPL, back in the 80s); Cyborg Anthropologist Amber Case; and cyberpunk "hard-science" fiction writer & mathematician Vernor Vinge, credited with coining the futurist definition of "the Singularity" (for which the aforementioned Ray Kurzweil is today most affiliated).
On this platform, Grayson was co-organizer of the New York City Meetup group: ARNY (Augmented Reality New York, from 2009 to 2012).
Grayson's own speaking engagements have included: MIT Media Lab, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, SxSW, and a talk on wearable technology at New York Fashion Week, hosted by the Swiss Consulate.
Upcoming events
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Rex Gatling - Developing for Smart Glasses
FedEx Institute of Technology(FIT), 365 Innovation Dr, Memphis, TN, USThe AAIA Memphis Chapter Presents…
GIVEN THE SNOWSTORM IN MEMPHIS, we are moving this to an entirely virtual event.
Rex Gatling is a New York City based independent augmented and virtual reality app developer, entrepreneur and founder of Xzec XR. While he develops for multiple smart glasses platforms including XREAL, Meta (including Meta Quest and Ray-Ban smart glasses), Magic Leap, RayNeo, and other AR devices, Snap Spectacles are Rex’ daily-wears.
WHEN: January 28th
WHERE: FIT (FedEx Institute of Technology, Room 225)
…and via virtual event (link to stream, to come).
Rex is the creator of YesMan AI, a augmented reality interface to an avatar style AI chat bot, that is available for Ray Neo, XREAL glasses, Snap Spectacles, and as an Android app.
“The smartphone era, like beepers and brick phones before it, will eventually end.”
—Rex Gatling
He will be competing this week in MIT Reality Hack, and will share that experience with us, and discuss smart glasses development and the convergence of AR & AI:
WHEN: January 28th
WHERE: FIT (FedEx Institute of Technology, Room 225)
…and via virtual event (link to stream, to come).
DOORS: 5:45pm
TALK: 6pm CT
You can follow / connect with Rex on Linkedin.
As your host, Chris Grayson will also cover a few recent developments in AI and Smart Glasses convergence.7 attendees
Past events
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