Cary, North Carolina, United States
I am a serial entrepreneur and an expert in real time systems architectures (for real). I have over 40 patents in realtime 3D, VR/AR, AI/ML and optics. I invented 3D portals, movable crates and enterable, drivable vehicles in games. In 1987, I created "The Colony", the very first realtime 3D adventure game/shooter and the precursor to today's first-person shooters. The game won the "Best Adventure Game of the Year" award from MacWorld Magazine. In 1988, I used these technologies to create a virtual set and virtual camera system used by James Cameron for the movie The Abyss. I founded Virtus Corporation in 1990 and developed Virtus Walkthrough, the first real-time 3D design application for personal computers. This won the first "Breakthrough Product of the Year" from MacUser and beat Adobe Photoshop for PC Computing Best Drawing Tool of the year. It became the standard set design tool in Hollywood for ten years including the shot-by-shot design of the first "Mission Impossible" movie directed by Brian DePalma. Tom Clancy (the author) loved the game so he and I founded Red Storm Entertainment together where we created the hit game "Rainbow Six". We sold Red Storm to Ubisoft. My interview about "The Colony" and "Rainbow Six" are featured in the FPS (First Person Shooter) documentary available here: https://fpsdoc.com/ I was the Chief Architect of the Open Croquet Project, where I worked with Alan Kay (Turing Award winner), Andreas Raab, and David P. Reed (designer of UDP and architect of TCP/IP). I was CTO and co-founder of Teleplace, Inc. providing a collaboration platform developed for enterprises. As a Senior Fellow at Lockheed Martin I focused on next generation human centric computing and collaboration. I developed many key technologies including extreme wide field of view lenses for AR (over 140° field of view) and immersive VR (180° field of view with a single lens). I was the designer of the DoD Virtual World Framework – a real time collaboration system based on the Croquet protocol. We spun out Wearality Corporation to take the wide field of view lenses to market. I founded Croquet Corporation with a number of members of Alan Kay's Viewpoints Research group where we brought the Croquet tech to market. I recently started a stealthy realtime blockchain project. More to come soon.
Croquet invented Instantaneous Shared Experiences™. It’s the world’s best platform for bringing multiplayer to apps and games on computers, mobile devices, augmented reality and virtual reality headsets.
Wearality Corporation develops and markets technologies that enable next generation human/computer user interfaces. We have an exclusive license to the head wearable technologies developed by me and my team at Lockheed Martin and our first product, the Wearality Sky will launch in April 2015 in a KickStarter campaign. The Sky has the widest field of view of any head wearable, it is in focus everywhere, has minimal color diffraction, and has the largest exit pupil (by far). Please support us in this effort!
I am currently Chief Innovation Officer and Lockheed Martin Senior Fellow at Lockheed MTLS, where I am focused on next generation human centric computing and collaboration platforms. HI have developed a number of key technologies including extreme wide field of view lenses for AR, and was the designer of the DoD Virtual World Framework a WebGL collaboration system that will act as a common platform for training across all of the services in the Department of Defense. I created the HoloWall, a wall-sized teleconference/collaboration platform. I won the Lockheed Martin GTL/TLS Inventor of the Year for the last three years (every year I have been there).
I am responsible for inventing new technologies, new business opportunities, and developing a culture of innovation throughout the organization - and I am very good at it.
At Teleplace we developed a collaboration platform specifically for enterprises based on Croquet.