Elizabeth Baron: VR, Game Engines & Leveraging Tech at Unity Tech

By Luke Lightning

February 8, 2021

Elizabeth Baron (@ImmersivStories) has decades (yes, decades!) of experience helping teams at Ford Motor Company (@ford) and now Unity Technologies (@Unity3D) visualize and collaborate through VR. On this episode of the Future Construct Podcast (20 min interview), she joins Amy Peck (@VirtualGirlNY) to discuss VR, game engines, and how companies can leverage technology for the future within an innovative space.

Hear Elizabeth and Amy expand on: "What are some of the ways that game engines are valuable within the enterprise construct?" as well as several other insightful topics.

Click to listen our interview with Elizabeth on Apple, Spotify, or Google, or watch on YouTube.

Elizabeth was at the forefront of innovation for 30+ years at the Ford Motor Company (@ford) where she held the title of an Immersive Realities Technical Specialist and brought together several disciplines throughout the company. During her time at Ford, she helped develop multiple immersive realities using AR/VR/MR to provide information in context to the Design Studio, Engineering Teams, UX developers, CAE analysts, and more. She now applies her awesome industry experience as an Enterprise Solutions Executive to the team at Unity Technologies (@Unity3D). 

Click to listen our interview with Elizabeth on Apple, Spotify, or Google, or watch on YouTube.

We sincerely hope you enjoy this special episode of the Future Construct podcast and we would love to hear your suggestions for future guests!

- All good things, Luke Lightning, PhD

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Click to listen our interview with Elizabeth on Apple, Spotify, or Google, or watch on YouTube.

Show Notes

0:44 Amy introduces Unity's Enterprise Solutions Executive,

Elizabeth Baron.

6:01 What are some of the ways that game engines are valuable within the enterprise construct? 

9:52 So given your experience, how can companies today really start to leverage technology and change the way that they're thinking about

doing things?

14:04 In looking where we are today, are there completely different ways of doing things, which aren't the normal ways companies like to innovate?

17:50 I'd like to hear your journey of working from home and also just getting some of our lives back, and how do you see that impact the workforce moving forward?

27:41 So if you could create your dream gadget of the future, 20 or 30 years from now, what would it be and what would it do? 

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