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podcast October 5, 2021

Podcast 381: Building image search, but for any object IRL

What if you could break a vase, and use any part to put it back together?
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Director of Content

We chat with Paul Powers, founder and CEO of Physna, about what it takes to build a 3D search engine that can identify objects found in the real world. He hopes the process of connecting the digital and physical worlds will provide a tremendous boost to the speed of hardware innovation.

Episode Notes

You can learn more about Paul here.

You can read more about Physna here.

Paul is excited about the Metaverse. So are we! 

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