Organizers

	Misha Sra is a PhD candidate at the MIT Media Lab. Her research interests include social virtual and augmented reality, automated virtual environment generation, and haptics. Her inspiration comes from the paragons of virtual reality like the Holodeck from Star Trek or William Gibson’s cyberspace. She is looking forward to a VR future with Sword Art Online’s NerveGear or Ernest Cline’s robotic arms and doing her part to help build it.
	Ken Perlin is a professor in the Department of Computer Science at New York University, where he directs the Future Reality Lab. His research interests include socially shared virtual and augmented reality, computer graphics and animation, user interfaces and education. He is hoping to help build a better world where our computer-augmented interactions will be more like Harry Potter meets Harold and the Purple Crayon.
	Luiz Velho is a Full Researcher at IMPA and the leading scientist of VISGRAF Laboratory. His work spans a wide range of topics, including modeling, visualization, imaging, animation and interactive techniques. In particular, he has developed over the last 20 years, VR platforms for 360 degrees gigapixel panoramas, as well as, interactive horizontal stereoscopic display systems. More recently, he has been actively investigating authoring aspects of multi-player in-situ VR experiences.
	Mark Bolas is a Director at Microsoft where he guides incubation and user experience of their Mixed Reality products. His work broadly considers perceptual media that augment perception, intelligence, and, ultimately, personal agency, which are the basis for his specialization in body-based human-computer interfaces and mixed reality. His goal is to positively shape the increasingly virtual world and ecosystem as one that is joyful and humane, where aesthetics and narrative intertwine with body and emotion to create engaging interfaces that deliver a sense of satisfaction and meaning.