2:30 PM - 3:45 PM
Session B:
Enhancing the Internet Experience - 3D and other Immersive Technologies
Imagine your website to be a destination where you can walk into a world and see, hear and experience the same entertainment you experience in the outside world. Visualize extending your valuable properties to millions of viewers on the Internet. Marketers on the web today are faced with the challenge of creating lifelike experiences on their sites, tasked with using multimedia to enhance the user experience. In this session, we will explore the technologies that create unique multimedia infrastructure solutions to enable the immersive 3D experience. We will explore all the technology at hand from streaming audio & video, to Flash, 3D and other imaging techniques, all the tools used in creating unique immersive Internet worlds.
Ted Iannuzzi, Chief Executive Officer, Canada, Cycore
Scott Collins, Chief Technology Officer, Anark Corporation
Vincent John Vincent, President, The Vivid Group
Sheryl Moss, Senior Director Business Development, CYBERWORLD International
Jason Yates, Content Director, Tpresence
Seth Gerson, Co-Founder and Co-President, YAYA
Gregory Peter Panos, Co-Chair, SIGGRAPH-Los Angeles, Moderator
Jason Yates, Content Director, Tpresence: Jason Yates, an originator of immersive, three-dimensional web applications, brings to Tpresence a vision for the future of "shared information space;" the virtual, multimedia collaborative environments supported by the company’s peer-to-peer IntelliPresence‘ Network Architecture. As Content Director and Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML) Coordinator, Mr. Yates oversees the creative direction of diverse applications built upon Tpresence technology. He helps to develop and maintain the underlying multi-user architecture, works with Value Added Providers and outside content developers to create new three-dimensional virtual reality and traditional web media applications, and is responsible for managing and staffing the company’s content creation efforts. Most recently Mr. Yates served as a creative and technical consultant for the Expo 2000 World’s Fair (Hanover, Germany) visitor information system. He was responsible for the creation of highly flexible and scalable interface system specifications and subsequent prototypes based upon three-dimensional information space. For Expo 2000 Mr. Yates used his understanding of information design and Internet-based technology to implement numerous interface components for the representation of a wide range of information data types (i.e. event schedules, html documents, three-dimensional models, weather reports). The system was designed to take full advantage of available technologies and specifications and at the same time merge diverse information sources with a revolutionary thesaurus-based search engine. A graduate of Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, Mr. Yates holds a B.F.A. with a concentration in electronic and time-based media and was awarded both the Samuel Rosenburg and Douglas Pickering awards for outstanding promise.
Scott Collins, Chief Technology Officer, Anark Corporation: Scott Collins is one of the principal architects of Anark’s award-winning, real-time 3D products. He has extensive experience in advanced numerical methods, including the creation of Anark’s non-linear adaptive modeling technology used for machine learning, and parametric curve technology for compressing rich media for transmission over the Internet. Additionally, he is Anark’s technical interface to the press and the public, having been interviewed and cited extensively by the New York Times, LA Times, Computer Graphics World magazine, Next Generation magazine, and others. Prior to founding Anark, Scott served as an engineer for VIZ Manufacturing, the world’s leading manufacturer of radio-sondes, (meteorological instruments utilizing wireless communications for governments and researchers). He served as project leader and technical facilitator for multi-year, multi-million dollar manufacturing contracts. His contributions in signal processing and real-time operating system design were instrumental to the success of several international and national contracts. Scott earned his BS in Computer Science at the University of North Carolina Charlotte with significant research in discrete mathematics and language theory. Scott is noted as the inventor on two patents and worked at length with the US Government (NASA, NOAA, NCAR), as well as the governments of United Kingdom, Brazil, and Turkey.
Gregory Peter Panos is Founding Co-Director of the Performance Animation Society
where he leads this emerging field toward the future of virtual actors, digitized performance and human simulation in cyberspace. A leading futurist, writer, consultant and educator specializing in the fields of "Virtual Reality" (VR), Human Simulation, 3D Real-Time Computer Graphics, "Performance Animation", innovative WEB site development and emerging new media technology, Greg's keen vison of the future often tells us what is coming and why it's going to be hot way before is happens.Ted Iannuzzi, Chief Executive Officer, Canada, Cycore: Mr. Iannuzzi is responsible for the
strategic direction of Cycore's Canadian operations and has over ten years of experience in the information technology industry. Prior to joining Cycore, Mr. Iannuzzi was Creative Director and co-founder of software development house Digital Image FX Inc. of Nova Scotia, where he managed several successful multimedia projects including virtual reality demonstrations and online 3D animation for clients such as Microsoft and Warner Brothers. In addition, Mr. Iannuzzi has extensive expertise in the television and publishing industries and was trained at Ryerson Polytechnical University in Toronto. Seth Gerson, Co-Founder and Co-President, YAYA: With over five years of experience in the game development market, Seth Gerson brings a number of key relationships in the gaming industry that will be instrumental to the success of YAYA. Prior to founding YAYA, Seth was head of game development at Universal Studios and worked on numerous titles, including Crash Bandicoot IV and Bruce Lee. He was also responsible for building Universal's internal studio and developing their core franchises. During his tenure as Producer at Activision he was involved with releasing a number of hit titles including Asteroids, which sold more than a half million units. Before joining Activison, Seth worked in Sega's product development and marketing divisions. Seth earned a BA in Communications from the University of Pennsylvania.