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This list showcases the top London based Founder operating in the Virtual Reality space. If you think a Founder is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.co.uk.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Companies House UK, Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Anthony Matchett
Founder of MelodyVR
Anthony Matchett is CEO of MelodyVR, a virtual reality technology company specialising in the music sector. He has extensive music industry experience and began his career as an audio engineer before moving on to the world of post-production for advertising. Then in 2011, Anthony was tasked with founding and building up Wave Recording Studios’ first interactive division, focused on servicing the audio requirements of game developers and publishers. During his time at Wave, he worked with the likes of King.com, Microsoft Studios, Sony Computer Entertainment and Ubisoft. In 2015, Anthony’s background and passion for music and technology inspired him to create Melody VR, with Steven Hancock.
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About EVR Holdings, MelodyVR: MelodyVR is a destination for music in virtual reality.
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Steven Hancock
Founder of MelodyVR
MelodyVR’s Co-founder and Chief Operations Officer, Steven Hancock, has an unwavering commitment to realizing great ideas and a belief in the power of personal relationships; an asset that helped him build events management company, Zest Hospitality Group, from scratch. The experience saw Steven work with FTSE 100 companies, while generating new revenue streams for stately homes. After selling the business in 2011, Steven joined Ibiza Rocks as Commercial Manager, overseeing sales and marketing to help build the business into one of Europe’s fastest growing youth lifestyle brands. Exposure to the A-list artists helped Steven deepen his relationships with the music industry; something that proved invaluable when securing MelodyVR’s partnerships with major labels. A true advocate for MelodyVR’s ability to benefits fans, artists and labels alike, Steven further raises the company’s profile through regular appearances on industry speaker panels.
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About EVR Holdings, MelodyVR: MelodyVR is a destination for music in virtual reality.
Dimitri Mikhalchuk
Co-Founder and Chief Revenue Officer of Teslasuit
Dimitri Mikhalchuk is the founder and co-founder of several tech companies and start-ups. He is also in charge of the London based digital marketing agency. Previously he worked with some of the world’s leading chip and electronics manufacturers. Dimitri is an expert in electronics, haptics, wearables, robotics and software development. He’s at the top of the most influential people in the field of VR \ AR (according to Evening Standard, UK), keynote speaker, business consultant and an investor.
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About MKSTAR, Teslasuit, TravoLab: Teslasuit is a team of talented developers and designers, creating innovative products for XR and MedTech.
Andrey Chuprin
Co-Founder, Investor of Teslasuit
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About ITI Capital, Mainprimus, Teslasuit: Teslasuit is a team of talented developers and designers, creating innovative products for XR and MedTech.
Samuel Huber
Founder & CEO of Admix
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About Admix, VR Focus: Admix is the first programmatic monetisation platform for in-game advertising
Joe Bachle-Morris
Co-Founder and COO of Admix
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About Admix: Admix is the first programmatic monetisation platform for in-game advertising
Sam Cole
Co-Founder and CEO of FitXR
Sam draws on his experience from consulting and private equity to drive FitXR forward into the uncharted lands of fit tech. Coming from a family of entrepreneurs, Sam was always enchanted by the prospect of building a company. Meeting Sameer at business school kick-started that dream. A lover of all things fitness, Sam is excited to develop a product that will help people access professional workouts, and build healthier communities around the world.
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About FitXR: FitXR, the leading developer of VR/AR fitness apps, is passionately dedicated to making fitness more fun and accessible for everyone.
Ian Hetherington
Co-Founder of WRLD
Ian has been involved in the video game industry since 1982. He founded and was Managing Director of Psygnosis Limited, which became one of the most successful UK based publishers. Psygnosis was sold to Sony in 1993 and Ian was retained as the Managing Director of Sony Computer Entertainment Europe from 1994-1997 where he was instrumental in the design and implementation of the hardware and software for Sony’s new Playstation console, and oversaw the development of the European launch catalogue (80% market share at launch).
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About Midoki, Realtime Worlds, WRLD: A 3D cloud-based platform of real-world environments to create digital twins.
Tony Pearce
Co-Founder of Reality Gaming Group Limited
Coming from a 25 year background in senior management in the entertainment and gaming industry Tony has an excellent track record as a successful entrepreneur and CEO. Over the past 10 years Tony has raised over £15m in VC funding, started 5 companies and had 2 successful exits. Most recently Tony founded GamesGRABR an innovative platform (web, mobile and tablet) that marries the power and usability of a contemporary ‘pinboard-style’ interface allowing the user to curate their own collections, discover, engage, play and share them with other users with similar interests Previously Tony founded a games company called TeePee Games and developed a technology that allowed users to get recommendations on games across social networks such as Facebook. Tony was the CEO and Co-Founder of Player X and spearheaded the company from a two person start-up in 2004 and developed it into Europe’s largest mobile games distributor. The company was named by Library House as the fourth fastest growing VC backed company in the UK before it was acquired by Spanish mobile content company ZED in April 2009. Tony is also the co-founder of an executive networking event called the Centurions which is aimed at the digital entertainment industry and takes place every two months in London along with events in New York, Istanbul and Munich.
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About Centurions Networking Event, gamesGRABR, Reality Gaming Group Limited, TeePee Games: Reality Gaming Group develop games that connect to the blockchain utilizing digital collectables known as NFT’s (Non Fungible Tokens)
Richard Vincent
CEO & Co-Founder of FundamentalVR
Richard has 20+ years’ experience of building international businesses and has throughout his career sought opportunities for positive market disruption through technological application. It was this desire that led him to co-found FundamentalVR to help address an age-old problem for the medical market; how to create safe, realistic, measurable spaces to learn and develop skills. In his role as CEO Richard is responsible for building a world class team of medical, learning and technologist who together can realise the company’s ambition of creating the world’s first global, haptically enabled, low cost ‘flight simulator for surgeons’.
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About Fundamental Surgery, FundamentalVR: FundamentalVR delivers VR haptic ‘flight simulators’ for surgery creating a safe, measurable & repeatable space to refine to refine skills.
Chris Scattergood
CRO & Founder of FundamentalVR
A key part of his role at Fundamental, Chris visits leading surgeons, educators, hospital groups, bodies and device manufacturers across the US to understand their educational needs and requirements for successful integration into our learning platform, and continue to develop our product to support those needs. As one of the co-founders of Fundamental, in 2014 Chris and his co founder saw the opportunity to invest in Virtual Reality as the next tech platform after mobile to revolutionise the way we communicate, share and learn together. From his experience in the Healthcare sector, it was clear that VR presented a clear opportunity to make a real difference in way education could be delivered for Health care professionals.
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About Fundamental Surgery, FundamentalVR: FundamentalVR delivers VR haptic ‘flight simulators’ for surgery creating a safe, measurable & repeatable space to refine to refine skills.
Tobin Ireland
Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of MetaGravity
Tobin Ireland is the Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of MetaGravity.
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About MetaGravity, Mobile Value Partners: MetaGravity is a deep-tech startup that is pushing the boundaries of blockchain and the Metaverse.
Ming Kong
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of TG0
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About TG0: TG0 is an R&D start-up creating novel 3D controls.
Oluwaseyi Sosanya
Co Founder and CEO of Gravity Sketch
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About Gravity Sketch: Gravity Sketch is a VR-based design and collaboration platform that allows distributed teams to create, share, and build in 3D.
Daniel Thomas
Co-Founder & CTO of Gravity Sketch
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About Gravity Sketch: Gravity Sketch is a VR-based design and collaboration platform that allows distributed teams to create, share, and build in 3D.
Daniela Paredes
Co-Founder and Director of Gravity Sketch
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About Gravity Sketch: Gravity Sketch is a VR-based design and collaboration platform that allows distributed teams to create, share, and build in 3D.
Aleksandra Pedraszewska
Co-Founder and COO of VividQ
Aleksandra M. Pedraszewska is a Co-Founder and COO at VividQ. She received a bachelor of arts in Land Economy (Law, Economics, Environment) at the University of Cambridge and earned a master of philosophy in Technology Policy at Cambridge Judge Business School.
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About VividQ: VividQ powers the revolution in digital display with Computer-Generated Holography.
Adetunji Adegbesan
Founder/CEO of Gidi Mobile
Dr Adetunji Adegbesan is the Founder & CEO of Gidi Mobile, creators of gidimo, Africa’s leading curriculum mastery & learning-as-a-service platform. Tunji has a First Class Honours degree in Electronic Engineering, and a PhD in Strategic Management from the IESE Business School. He is globally respected as one of Africa’s top scholars of competitive strategy, as well as one of her leading experts on the mobile telecommunications industry. A recipient of multiple awards, he has been invited to speak at knowledge events in more than 20 countries across four continents. Immediately prior to founding Gidi Mobile, he was Director of the Centre for Competitiveness & Strategy at the Lagos Business School (LBS), where he led sessions on Competitive Strategy, as well as on issues arising out of the intersection of Strategy, Technology, and Innovation. During his 14 years at LBS, his consulting experience spanned the software, telecommunications, banking, oil and gas, publishing, logistics, identity management and electronic payments sectors; while prior to LBS, his work experience spanned software development, consulting, information systems management, and electrical engineering, in both manufacturing and service sectors. Tunji is a member of the Editorial Review Board of the Academy of Management Review, the world’s leading conceptual journal in the field of strategic management. He is also a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Businessday Newspapers (West Africa’s premier business periodical), and a peer reviewer for several of the world’s top strategy research journals. He is a past member of the Executive Committee of the Strategy Division of the global Academy of Management, as well as a past Global Representative for Africa of the Division. He has also been a Representative-at-Large for the Competitive Strategy Interest Group of the Strategic Management Society, and a member of the Research and Strategic Planning Committee of the Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria. He is a past Visiting Scholar & Associate Researcher at the Center for Globalisation and Strategy at the IESE Business School in Barcelona. An amateur historian, philosopher, and student of culture and geo-political affairs, Tunji has native fluency in English and Spanish, and basic literacy in French, Yoruba and Catalan.
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About Gidi Mobile: Gidi Mobile is the creator of gidimo, the developing world’s leading personal mastery & learning-for-opportunity platform
Nicholas Begley
Co-Founder of PSYT
Nick read physics at University College London, then qualified as an actuary and worked in the City of London for 8 years before retraining in psychology. He specialised in the neuroscience of mindfulness at UCL and the Institute of Psychiatry, and helped start up mindfulness company Headspace as Head of Research before founding PSYT.
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About PSYT: PSYT exists to help individuals live happy, fulfilling and productive lives.
Shashank Sripada
Founder and CEO of Bubblo (BubbleScene Ltd.)
Shashank Sripada is the Founder and CEO of Bubblo and is currently associated with Marcena Capital Ltd as the company’s Vice President. He is also a former Associate at Oak Investment Management Group. He earned hos Bachelor’s Degree in Science (BSc), Economic History at London School of Economics and Political Science and had his Master’s Degree in Science, Management at the same school.
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About Bubblo (BubbleScene Ltd.), Marcena Capital Ltd: Bubblo is an artificial Intelligence based virtual reality discovery app and marketing platform.
Damian Collier
Founder & CEO of Blend Media
Damian Collier is a British producer, entrepreneur and business consultant for music, film, TV and stage. Collier has produced both independently (through Damian Collier Entertainment) and has collaborated with major record labels including Sony BMG, EMI, Universal Music, Universal Music Publishing Group, Warner Music Group, and Sony/ATV Music Publishing and major film and TV studios such as Paramount Pictures, Fox, Universal Pictures, Sony Pictures Animation. He has experience in film, television, music recording, music publishing, licensing, merchandising, theatre, novels and comics. He also holds the position of managing director of the Jeff Wayne Music Group.
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About Blend Media: Blend is the world’s leading 360˚ VR video solution for Brands, Agencies and Publishers.
Arvid Niklasson
Co-Founder of Analog
Arvid Niklasson Born in Sweden. Lives and works in London. Co-owner and director of Analog and leads the Realtime development at the studio.
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About Analog: Analog Visual Effects makers and problem solvers of cosmic impossibilities.
Alexandra Hussenot
Founder & CEO of Immersionn
Alexandra is the founder of Immersionn, the world’s first VR Discovery Engine and she is also the UK lead for ‘Women in Immersive Technologies’, a community of 1000 members that aims to empower European women working in XR. She is also 1 in 10 members of the UK5G Creative Industries working group reporting the department in charge of Digital, Medias, Culture and Sport (DCMS). Prior to this, Alexandra pursued an international business career at insurance firm, Allianz, managing an £80M global business. She has also worked all over Europe during her 11 years at Sony Ericsson (now Sony Mobile) and has solid experience designing and launching software and service products, particularly covering user experience design and continuous improvements. She also lead large scale operations for mobile phone repairs and remanufacturing.
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About Immersionn: Immersionn is a content discovery company. We allow people to discover VR content they would never find
Gemma Timms
Founder & COO of VitaeVR
Gemma Timms is an executive at Hakluyt and the co-founder of Vitae VR.
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About VitaeVR: Medical devices for early diagnosis of cognitive disease
Andrew Hawken
Co-Founder and CEO of Mesmerise
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About Mesmerise: Virtual Reality content, gaming and technology
Simon Taylor
Co-Founder & Research Director of Zappar
Simon Taylor is a co-founder of Zappar, and the company’s Research Director. Simon graduated with a Masters in Engineering from the University of Cambridge in 2007. He went on to complete a PhD, also at the Engineering Department in Cambridge, entitled “Fast Object Localisation for Mobile Augmented Reality Applications”. Simon’s research focused on the development of fast algorithms for locating known objects in live camera frames from smartphone devices. This research resulted in a novel approach to the problem offering far superior performance to existing published work of the time. The approach was first published at the Workshop on Feature Detectors and Descriptors held as part of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2009. A demo of the approach on a smartphone was also shown at the conference, receiving a “Best Demo” award. Further updates to the approach were published at the British Machine Vision Conference, 2009. The conference organizers selected this paper as one of six to be extended for inclusion in a special edition of the International Journal of Computer Vision, published in 2011. Simon worked with Connell Gauld to integrate his algorithm into a full mobile app for AR content delivery. Together they founded Extra Reality Ltd in 2010 to pursue commercialization of their solution. After meeting Kirk Ewing and Caspar Thykier, they decided to form a new venture, Zappar, to offer a full AR content creation solution for big-brand clients. Simon has led the development of Zappar’s proprietary and patented Zapcode system.
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About Zappar: Zappar is a clever little app that can see and recognise images and objects in the world around us.
Connell Gauld
Co-Founder and CTO of Zappar
As Zappar’s CTO, Connell oversees the ZapWorks team (Zappar’s AR/VR/MR creation software) as well as being responsible for all the cloud infrastructure and the core functionality of the Zappar app (which can also be embedded into third-party apps). Connell met Zappar Co-Founder Dr Simon Taylor whilst they were both studying engineering at the University of Cambridge. They founded Zappar, along with Caspar Thykier, 8 years ago and have seen it grow into one of the leading AR platforms with $3.75M in funding, 50 staff, and four offices around the world.
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About Zappar: Zappar is a clever little app that can see and recognise images and objects in the world around us.
Caspar Thykier
Co-Founder, CEO of Zappar
Caspar Thykier is Co-Founder & CEO at Zappar.
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About Veemee, Zappar: Zappar is a clever little app that can see and recognise images and objects in the world around us.
Ieva Stelingyte
Co-Founder of EF EVE
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About EF EVE: EF EVE™ is the World’s most loved volumetric capture software, editing and distribution tools for volumetric video.
Agnis Stelingis
CEO and Founder of EF EVE
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About EF EVE: EF EVE™ is the World’s most loved volumetric capture software, editing and distribution tools for volumetric video.
Raphaëlle Mura
Co-Founder & Chief Creative Officer of Change of Paradigm
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About Change of Paradigm, MIXIMALISTE.COM: Change of Paradigm is a 3D virtualization, content and experiences creator for the fashion industry.
Philip Delamore
Co-Founder & CIO of Change of Paradigm
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About Change of Paradigm, MIXIMALISTE.COM: Change of Paradigm is a 3D virtualization, content and experiences creator for the fashion industry.
Rutger Bruining
Founder & CEO of StoryTerrace
Rutger Bruining is the founder and CEO of Story Terrace. Prior to founding Story Terrace in 2014, Rutger worked as an investment director at Arle Capital Partners for five years. Rutger starterd his career as a senior consultant at Booz Allen Hamilton in 2014. In 2003, Rutger graduated from University of Amsterdam where he completed master’s degree in Business & Economics (Finance). He also graduated with honors at Columbia University – Columbia Business School for his MBA in 2008.
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About StoryTerrace: StoryTerrace helps people to capture their life story using professional writers and software.
Dom Barnard
Founder of Virtualspeech
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About Virtualspeech: Virtualspeech provide a realistic training platform for soft skills training in VR.
Alfredo Belfiori
Founder & CEO of Flicktek Ltd
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About BetterSpace, Flicktek Ltd: Gesture control for smartwatches, IoT and VR
Nicholas Minter-Green
CEO & Founder of Parable Works
An expert in content creation, public relations and integrated marketing, Nicholas was president of Economist Films, steering the team responsible for creating content that reflected the newspaper’s heritage as a world leader in reporting, analysis and investigation. Before that he was managing director at TVC group, building the agency into a leading brand content-communications business and top-10 UK PR agency.
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About Parable Works: A Virtual Reality and Television Studio & Agency.
Christophe Mallet
CEO & Co-Founder of Bodyswaps
Innovation Strategist with 10 years experience across social media, digital and immersive technologies (VR/AR). Chris got his Masters from HEC and started his career as Employee #1 (Head of Strategy) of social consultancy Carve that later got sold to a large advertising group. After co-founding Immersive Tech agency Somewhere Else with Julien and running it for over 3 years, Christophe co-founded BODYSWAPS with one mission: unlock human potential in the workplace with the help of immersive technologies. Christophe is an industry thought leader, international speaker and regular podcaster on VR and learning. He has recently delivered talks for the International Labor Organisation, the European Training Foundation and the European Immersive Computing Summit.
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About Bodyswaps: Bodyswaps is a B2B immersive learning platform (VR SaaS) designed to deliver effective and scalable soft skills training.
Charles Duffy
Founder, Head of Design and Engineering of Digital Kinematics
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About Digital Kinematics: Digital Kinematics makes Plexus, high performance VR gloves for the masses
Sami Hamid
Co-Founder & VR Producer of Glitch Studios
Sami is an experienced international project manager who has over 10 years of project management under his belt. His adventures have seen him in critical roles in projects including the 2012 London Olympics and Paralympics and 2010 Shanghai World Exposition. Sami has been in the virtual reality industry since early 2015 producing both small and large scale projects using early hardware development kits while creating and managing a VR production team consisting of developers, designers and 3D artists. Apart from co-founding Glitch Studios, Sami is also the Virtual Reality Lab Director for VR1, a Crytek led incubation initiative mentoring grass root VR projects & teams to learn and experiment with this emerging technology. He is also a VR Evangelist organising and attending VR community events and conferences around Europe and Turkey. Sami is a gamer at heart, having spent much of his youth immersed in video games of all genres. He is a self-taught programmer and enjoys developing indie VR projects in his spare time. He believes video game mechanics and game architecture are fundamental building blocks in the creation of compelling and unique virtual reality experiences.
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About Glitch Studios: Glitch Studios is a virtual reality and augmented reality production studio based in Oslo, Istanbul and London.
Christian Rouffaert
Founder & CEO of Teragence
Christian is the founder of Teragence, a competitive network analytics vendor. Christian has 20 years of telco industry experience acorss Europe, Asia and the Middle East. He has worked across fixed and mobile operators such as Vodafone, Virgin Media and Etisalat, as well as equipment vendors such as Ericsson and Huawei. Christian founded Teragence with the objective of elevating carriers’ insight into their own and their competitors’ end-to-end network performance.
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About Teragence: Teragence delivers competitive network analytics as a service. We benchmark any mobile network, anywhere, any time – in real time
Rob Eastham
Founder and CEO of Reality Zero One
Rob Eastham serves as Chief Executive Officer and Founder at Reality Zero One.
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About Reality Zero One: Reality Zero One’s mission is to design and create a world class end-to-end reality capture and digital reality delivery platform.
Yasmine Boudiaf
Founder / CEO of Serious DAtum
Yasmine Boudiaf makes virtual reality experiences that change people’s behaviour. She uses VR as a tool to address subtle forms of behaviour and biases which can effect the way another person feels. Her main topics of interest are implicit biases, cross- cultural understanding and innovation. With a background in biomedical science and documentary film, she enjoys inter-disciplinary collaboration as a way to solve problems. She produces experiences and consults via her company Serious Datum Ltd.
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About Serious DAtum: Serious DAtum makes behaviour changing virtual reality experiences.
Shafi Ahmed
Co-Founder & Chief Medical Officer of Medical Realities
Ahmed is a highly experienced general and colorectal surgeon, operating at The Royal London Hospital. In 2007, he was appointed as a Consultant General, Colorectal and Laparoscopic Surgeon at Barts and the London NHS trust. In 2014, he performed the world first live-stream of an operation using Google Glass, which was watched live by 13000 students around the world.
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About Hearthy, Medical Realities: A new business offering medical training products, specializing in virtual reality and augmented reality.
Benedikt Reinke
Co-Founder & Managing Director of Sympatient
Benedikt Reinke is the Co-Founder & Managing Director at Sympatient GmbH
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About Sympatient: Sympatient is building the first digital anxiety clinic.
Scott Marshall
Founder & CEO of Bamsound VR
Scott Marshall is CEO / Founder and Sound Lead at Bamsound, an immersive audio agency specialising in sound for virtual Reality, Augmented Reality and 360 productions. With over 12 years experience, their clients include Universal, Nikon, NME, BBC, Channel 4, Sky, UKTV, Saatchi & Saatchi and many others. Having worked for various facilities and freelanced in many post houses and production companies, Scott spent his career working across many genres including broadcast, factual, comedy, drama, and commercials, but has now found himself pushing audio boundaries in these new and exciting mediums. To quote Scott “With the rise in ‘new’ immersive formats, such as VR and AR, we are seeing (and hearing) how much more important it is to create a truly ‘3D’ audio landscape for productions and how critical this is in making these experiences feel real and believable.
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About Bamsound VR: Bamsound VR Immersive Audio Agency for Virtual Reality Audio 360 ExP.
Ralf Gehrig
Co-Founder and CXO of Brilliant Basics
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About Brilliant Basics: Brilliant Basics is a global digital product and customer experience studio.
Ed Mason
Founder, CEO of GameFace Labs
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About GameFace Labs: Worlds First ‘All In One’ standalone virtual reality headset and DARPA software platform for the next generation of VR gaming.
Giacomo Eskenazi
Co-Founder of GameFace Labs
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About GameFace Labs: Worlds First ‘All In One’ standalone virtual reality headset and DARPA software platform for the next generation of VR gaming.
David Szucs
Co-Founder of VR-Reel Media Kft
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About VR-Reel Media Kft: VR-Reel Media develops VR solutions.
Jack Churchill
Head of Digital Content Creation & Co-Founder of Rich Tea
Jack Churchill, co-founder of Rich Tea Films, a video production company priding itself on being problem solvers, creating big and bold narrative driven visual stories. Working directly with brands and agencies to create content for campaigns and projects, both internal and external. With previous experience in Ogilvy Labs, the agency’s in-house R&D team, and a continued exploration in 360 video creation across the whole workflow. Jack is keen to push forward within this ever changing world, using his background in post production and innovation to inform his decision making with 360 video for all his clients.
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About Rich Tea: Rich Tea Films Their purpose is to make the impossible, possible.
Jonathan Barrowman
Founder & CEO of Gorilla In The Room
Jonathan runs two companies which specialise in virtual, mixed and augmented reality. Gorilla In The Room applies cognitive science to transform consumer research and healthcare, whilst Bigman applies its heritage in CGI and 3D technology to brands in advertising and entertainment. 18 years ago, Jonathan was curious about the dark art of marketing and began his career as a media planner buyer in London. He was Campaign magazine’s Top 10 Media Buyer three years in a row and subsequently held roles on both the agency and tech side as Head of Mobile, Global Head of Digital Strategy, Head of Client Services and Commercial Director. Jonathan has worked at a UK and international level with Nestlé, P&G, Telefonica, PepsiCo, Department of Health, General Motors, Unilever and France Telecom as well as spoken at events including Ad:Tech, Wearable Technology Show and World Federation of Advertisers.
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About Gorilla In The Room: Unlock Knowledge with Visual Technology.
Chris Lawrence
Co-Founder & COO of CGHero
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About CGHero: Outsource 3D Modelling, Concept Art, Textures, VFX & More
Corrina McCann
Co-Founder / Chief Executive Officer of Infinite Mixed Reality
Corrina McCann is the creative director of Infinite Mixed Reality.
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About Infinite Mixed Reality, Infinite Mixed Reality: Infinite Mixed Reality is a full-service virtual reality and augmented reality agency.
Julian Williams
Founder of Wizdish
Julian is an experienced control system developer, technical lead and architect for television broadcasting with 30 years’ experience with the BBC in the UK and USA. Computer games have interested Julian since the late 70’s and the Wizdish ROVR concept grew out of this interest. • Senior Control System Engineer & technical lead • 30 yrs at BBC in UK and USA • Avid gamer and Wizdish Inventor & Founder
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About Wizdish: Wizdish is the original virtual reality motion platform.
Tom Nield
Co-Founder of Landmrk
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About Landmrk: Landmrk is a flexible white-label platform that enables you to deliver digital content to your audience at specific physical locations.
Alex Deruette
Founder of Kickpush
Alex Deruette is a co-founder and creative director of Kickpush, I am a product designer with 8 years experience in web and mobile. I’ve designed products for BBC, Verizon, Tesco, Chelsea FC, O2 and Vodafone but my real passion is to collaborate with entrepreneurs and shape products from the ground up. Co-Founder of a Product design studio with specialist expertise in mobile and web UX/UI. We know that people and relationships define quality. Exploring new frontiers of design in VR and AR.
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About Baby Bundle, Kickpush: Kickpush is a London-based design studio that produces digital products.
Henry Stuart
Co-Founder & CEO of Visualise
Henry Stuart is the co-founder and CEO of Visualise, an award-winning virtual reality production studio founded in 2012. A pioneer in the VR industry since 2006, Henry is regularly invited to speak at international events and is a regular contributor for national newspapers, TV, advertising, marketing and trade journals. Over the past 4 years Visualise has produced over 60 VR experiences for clients including Thomas Cook, BBC, Financial Times, Audi, Oakley, Samsung, Wimbledon, Doctors without Borders, The Economist, O2 and many more.
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About Visualise: VISUALISE are a full service Virtual Reality production agency, creating world class VR experiences and films.
Ashley Cowan
Co Founder & CEO of VR City
VR City is a London based VR production company, creating emotionally transformative experiences in virtual reality. Their first film, the award winning ‘Witness 360: 7/7’ directed by Darren Emerson, tells of one woman’s experience of the 7/7 bombings in London. It moved straight to the vanguard of VR documentary, playing at international film festivals including IDFA, Docville and Cannes Marche du Film. Their most recent film ‘Invisible’, a powerful documentary about the uncertainty and despair of the UK’s indefinite detention system, won the UK Arts Council’s first ever VR commission and premiered at Sheffield International Documentary Festival. It is currently touring film festivals around the world and has been licensed by the New York Times to play on their VR app as ‘Indefinite’.
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About VR City: VR City is a London based VR production company, creating emotionally transformative experiences in virtual reality.
Ashley Cowan
Co Founder & CEO of VR City
VR City is a London based VR production company, creating emotionally transformative experiences in virtual reality. Their first film, the award winning ‘Witness 360: 7/7’ directed by Darren Emerson, tells of one woman’s experience of the 7/7 bombings in London. It moved straight to the vanguard of VR documentary, playing at international film festivals including IDFA, Docville and Cannes Marche du Film. Their most recent film ‘Invisible’, a powerful documentary about the uncertainty and despair of the UK’s indefinite detention system, won the UK Arts Council’s first ever VR commission and premiered at Sheffield International Documentary Festival. It is currently touring film festivals around the world and has been licensed by the New York Times to play on their VR app as ‘Indefinite’.
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About VR City: VR City is a London based VR production company, creating emotionally transformative experiences in virtual reality.
Richard Hoffmann
Founder of Area 1
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About Area 1: Area 1 is a innovative software company developing software and games for the VR & AR industry and projects.
