What happens when AI-powered digital assets can understand not only what is around them, but also where it is and how to guide a user there?
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The Era of the Audio Interface: AI Glasses, Spatial AI, and the Open Spatial Web
XR Masters CEO presented at the New Tech Forum in Athens, organized by p-NET Emerging Networks & Vertical Applications. Below is a summary of his argument, along with live updates on the standardization efforts he’s been driving.
XR Masters CEO Takes the Stage at Techritory 2025 in Riga
XR Masters CEO Ali C. Hantal joined an esteemed panel of industry leaders, academics, and global institutions at Techritory 2025 — one of Europe’s foremost technology conferences — to discuss the Future of AI Use Cases. The event, held in Riga, Latvia, brought together forward-thinking voices shaping the next generation of artificial intelligence.
XR Masters at UbiComp ISWC 2025: Bringing Open AR Cloud to the World Stage
On October 12, 2025, Our CEO Ali C. Hantal had the honor of presenting at UbiComp ISWC 2025 — one of the most prestigious international conferences in ubiquitous and wearable computing — held at Aalto University in Espoo, Finland. Alongside a world-class group of spatial computing researchers and practitioners, Mr. Hantal co-delivered a half-day tutorial […]
Historical Interoperability Demo at Google Campuses during W3C Immersive Web Meeting
We demonstrated the world’s first public spatial web implementation of OGC‘ s existing open geopose standard (OGC GeoPose 1.0 Data Exchange Standard) together with another open standard (OGC Points of Interest (POI) Conceptual Model Standard) in collaboration with Augmented City and spARcle AR team under Open AR Cloud Association.
An Interoperability Demo by XR Masters at OGC’s 128th Member Meeting in Delft
We belive the best future for spatial computing is one based on open standards and protocols like the open web platform rather than proprietary walled gardens and app stores.Watch this historical Open Spatial Web Interoperability Demo by Open AR Cloud (OARC) partners Augmented City and XR Masters at the 128th Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Member […]
Giacomini Unival exhibit at ISK-Sodex 2023
XR Masters teamed up with United Gode, Epics Fx Studios and Augmented City to bring the visitors an unforgettable augmented reality experience at the Giacomini Unival exhibit during ISK-Sodex 2023. This AR experience was The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) / Open AR Cloud‘s OSCP compliant, ensuring seamless compatibility and high-quality performance. Visitors explored Unival products, […]
MIT Reality Hack
XR Masters CEO, Ali Hantal, gave a speech on the 1st day of one of the world’s greatest hackathons, MIT Reality Hack, alongside with Suzan Oslin of UXXR Design. The speech was about Open AR Cloud’s (OARC) mission and explained ‘s plan to democratize the real world metaverse with the Open Spatial Computing Platform (OSCP) initiative. […]
XR Masters CEO Talks About the Metaverse on TRT World
What are the opportunities of the metaverse industry? What kind of challenges are ahead of metaverse? How Ankara has become the 4th test bed city for metaverse? What kind of advantages will come out of that for Ankara? Economical and technological background of metaverse… XR Masters CEO Ali C. Hantal spoke at TRT World’s Strait […]
XRMasterVerse Gift Hunt
Istanbul Taksim Square and Ankara Castle hosted a very special New Year’s event this year: XR Masters multi-user Gift Hunt in the Metaverse, the “XRMasterVerse Gift Hunt”. XR Masters mobile app users, who were at Istanbul Taksim and Ankara Castle between Dec 28th – Dec 31st joined the XRMasterVerse, where they collectively viewed and interacted […]