4:00 PM - 5:15 PM
Session D:
Immersive Technology on the Net - Expanding the Visual Horizon
For decades the film industry has experimented in wide-screen, surround sound or other visual concepts, but they have rarely found a sustained audience. Now the computer industry is following in the same direction, offering up a host of unique immersive visual experiences. From static 360 degree views to moving pictures that take the viewer into an immersive universe, a new experience is on the way. You will not want to miss hearing from the leading developers in the field and experiencing their fantastic technologies.
Bill Gubbins, SVP Entertainment, iPIX
Paul Cha, Executive Vice President, Enroute Imaging
Dan Patton, Vice President Product Management, Be Here Corporation
Hapet Berberian, SVP and General Manager, RemoteReality
Phil Harman, Chief Technology Officer, CEO, Dynamic Digital Depth
Sheryl Moss, Senior Director Business Development, CYBERWORLD International, Moderator
Bill Gubbins, SVP Entertainment, IPIX: Before joining iPIX, Mr. Gubbins operated his own new media consulting firm, working with clients including Turner Network Television (TNT), ESPN Magazine, Medcast.com, and On Target Media. An experienced new media executive, Gubbins served as Vice President, Editor-In-Chief, and Executive Vice President at Whittle and Primedia (then K-III Communications) properties. While at Whittle, he helped create and launch communications properties generating more than $150 million in revenue. An accomplished photographer and writer, Gubbins' photographs have appeared in Rolling Stone, Photo Metro, and been exhibited at the Detroit Public Library; his writing credits include publication in Graphis, ESPN Magazine, Print, and Photo Metro. Additionally, Gubbins received a Gold Award from the New York Festival for his writing work on the TV documentary, Skyscrapers: Vertical Masterpiece, chronicling the construction of the world's tallest building in Shanghai.
Hapet Berberian, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Integrated Systems, RemoteReality: Hapet A. Berberian has 30 years of experience in product and business
development with digital imaging products, internet publishing, and electronic photography. Mr. Berberian joined RemoteReality from IQ Data Systems, a division of GammaGraphx, Inc. where he was Vice President and General Manager. Prior to IQ Data, he was Senior Director of Business Development and Technology Licensing for Eastman Kodak's color digital imaging technologies. Mr. Berberian also held the position of Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Boston University and began his career as a staff engineer at MIT's Draper Laboratories. Mr. Berberian earned his MSEE from Brown University in 1969 and his BSEE from University of Rhode Island in 1967. Paul Cha, co-founder & Vice-President, Operations, Enroute Imaging: Enroute Imaging
co-founder Paul Cha brings to Enroute over 16 years of management experience in high-technology operations, including software/hardware development and biotechnology. As Vice President of Operations for Enroute, Paul is supervising the roll-out of their FirstPerson Immersive Video system and was instrumental in establishing Quickstitch panorama software as the highest market-share OEM product in the digital camera market. Before founding Enroute, Cha was a Partner with HowNow Productions where he developed games and educational titles. Previously, Cha held senior management positions at Galen Systems, Maxzen Medical Technologies, and Yamalchi Finance. Cha, a Southern California native, holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Business Administration from Whittier College.Chris Yewdall, President and CEO for Dynamic Digital Depth Inc.: As president and CEO for Dynamic Digital Depth Inc. (DDD), Chris is responsible for the operations of DDD. He has been the driving force behind the commercialization of DDD's DeepSee 3D technologies, and continues to grow their presence in the Internet, broadcast, advertising markets. Chris has a unique blend of marketing and technical skills, backed by a sound understanding of the fast-moving digital entertainment market, which is critical to the success of strategic and tactical plans necessary to commercialize the company's technologies. Based in Santa Monica, California, Chris oversees the growing management team to ensure a market-driven international presence. Chris' interesting and diverse background includes serving most recently as vice president of business development at the UK-based C-Dilla Ltd., an anti-piracy software provider to the world's leading desktop and entertainment software developers. He also held several senior management positions in Europe and North America with the UK-based Virtuality Group, the world leader in immersive virtual reality technologies. At Virtuality, Chris built the entertainment operations to a worldwide marketshare of more than 85 percent, which led to one of the most successful stock market IPOs in the UK in1993. He also worked as a technical consultant and sales executive for a systems development software provider for IBM mainframe computers. He added his technical expertise at Jaguar Cars in the UK, where he installed computer-aided design systems and was involved in the prototype development of the XJ220, one of the world's fastest road cars. In 1988, Chris graduated from North Staffordshire University, Stafford, England with an honors degree in Information Systems.