This Week in XR Podcast
Hosted by Charlie and Ted and Rony · Charlie Fink Productions
5.0from 3,779 ratings
- 335
- Episodes
- 150
- Transcribed
- 3,779
- Ratings
- Weekly
- Cadence
- 2020
- First episode
- 29K
- YouTube views
About This Week in XR Podcast
Get the inside story on the biggest tech developments from founders, former executives, and industry veterans who built companies like OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Meta Reality Labs, Apple Vision Pro, Microsoft HoloLens, and Unity. Join Charlie Fink (Forbes), Ted Schilowitz, (Red Camera, Fox, Paramount Futurist) & Rony Abovitz, (founder Magic Leap).as they interview startup CEOs, ex-Google/Meta/Apple insiders, Hollywood directors, and AI researchers reshaping spatial computing. Every week we break down the latest tech news with our signature hot takes, then dive deep with a founder or industry leader. We cover artificial intelligence breakthroughs, virtual reality hardware, augmented reality applications, synthetic media tools, and how enterprises are adopting these technologies. We're industry insiders who have the connections to get the biggest names on the show, but we're not afraid to ask the tough questions about where big tech is heading. Our guests trust us because we've been in their shoes. Listen now to get ahead of the next wave of computing. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.
- Publisher
- Charlie Fink Productions
- Category
- news · technology
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 5 Aug 2020
- Latest episode
- 9 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
150 of 335 episodes have a transcript.
9 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Audience Is Dead. Meet the ‘Actience'. ft. Charles Melcher, Author of "The Future of Storytelling"
2 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
A Four-Day Coma Couldn't Stop This Game ft. Johnny Monsarrat, Founder of Turbine (MMO)
25 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
How Quilty Is Opening Hollywood's Gates ft. Simon Horsman & Daniel Wood, Quilty.app
Inside a recent episode
Audience Is Dead. Meet the ‘Actience'. ft. Charles Melcher, Author of "The Future of Storytelling"
Published 9 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] I like player, you know, from gaming and from Shakespeare. But but I also have some negative connotations from like Hollywood. He's a real player. Anyway, so I just I came up with this word actience to have based on the same root of action or an actor or because I do think today's, the people formerly known as the audience are now learning how to be the Actians. My thought was that, you know, you have this agent who's doing everything for you, and the agent will also be facilitating games and entertainment. And that entertainment will follow you across screens. So just because you happen to be on X or or Facebook, or watching YouTube, that experience is following you from platform to platform, all of this orchestrated by your personal agent. […]
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- Charles Melcher
- Johnny Monsarrat
- Simon Horsman
- Daniel Wood
- Jan Goetgeluk
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- YouTube views
- 28,656
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.6 / 5
- 32 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 3,747 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 83 / 100
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- Quality
- 96
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 76
- Engagement
- 98
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Who hosts This Week in XR Podcast?
Charlie and Ted and Rony host the show. Published by Charlie Fink Productions.
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The show publishes weekly, based on its RSS feed.
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