Nick Cherukuri (ThirdEye Gen) on Building Smartglasses Enterprises Will Embrace
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The Guest
Nick Cherukuri is the CEO and founder of ThirdEye Gen, a maker of see-through, AR smartglasses for enterprise. Similar to the Hololens approach, ThirdEye Gen is making an all-in-one device that sits on your head with no tethered compute pack, but they’ve got a significantly smaller form factor.
While attending the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School, Nick started an AR/VR club that quickly grew to several hundred participants. Straight out of college, and using a combination of his passion, vision, and fresh thinking about the market, Nick was able to recruit a team of experienced engineers to join him as he founded ThirdEye Gen in 2016.
The Conversation
In this conversation, Nick describes his early experiences with AR & VR, and how he came to to found ThirdEye Gen straight out of college.
He describes the lessons they learned after releasing their first product in 2018, and the characteristics they discovered that matter most to enterprises. These learnings are baked into the new X2 product.
These X2 glasses certainly satisfy a lot of the standard enterprise use cases, but we also talk about a couple of novel use cases as well as Nick’s perspectives on the broader industry.
Links From The Episode
- Company: NuEyes - hands-free smartglasses and software for the visually impared, which leverages the ThirdEye Gen glasses
- Book: Eisenhower on Leadership: Ike's Enduring Lessons in Total Victory Management by Alan Axelrod and Peter Georgescu
- Book: Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
- Episode Transcript