Tony is an entrepreneur and career CTO/software architect who has developed international standards and protocols, developed noteworthy 3D software applications, and started and sold technology companies. Tony’s passion for innovating is exceeded only by his desire to build great products. His mission now is to bring virtual reality experiences to every person on the planet, running on every device, anywhere, any time. Tony is the author of two O’Reilly Media books on WebGL, WebGL Up and Running and Programming 3D Applications in HTML5 and WebGL. Read more about Tony at www.tonyparisi.com and follow him on twitter at @auradeluxe

I have been programming for 35 years, 30 of that paid. My first project was FPS maze game, which I paid $1/hour to make on a public library's Commodore Pet. I’ve always been interested in entertainment, technology, all forms of history and science. I have designed and built 7 different 3D systems consisting of a DB backend and 3D front-end for such as Vivaty, Arrival3d, Playing Mondo, and others. Pro Unity user (full stack, mainly programming) since 2009. In top 10 in Unity 'answers' forum (once as high as #4). As a consulting CTO my clients include Siemens, Euman, Tanzle, others. I am actively using Hydra, Kinect, Intel, Oculus Rift, zSpace, augmented reality, mobile devices, on a daily basis professionally.

I was VR before VR was cool.

TC Chang is an accomplished artist, working in the computer entertainment industry for over twenty years. A UCLA alumni, TC has art directed numerous titles such as: Aliens Interactive, Godfather 2 and Achron. He has worked for Time Warner Interactive group, Dark Horse Comics, Disney Interactive, Sony Computer Entertainment America and Electronic Arts. TC has been the Creative Director for several technology starts ups: Flatland Online, Ping Systems, Jump City Games and Splash Inc. tcchang.com

About the same time when games were adopting 3d technology, my family firm got a 3d studio license (before it became MAX). I started playing around in it, and after modeling skateboards and cars I soon started creating 3d models of buildings. After a few projects, our firm started advertising rendering services as well, and I ended up doing work for other architects. Since then I have been recreating built and proposed projects, such as the facade of the De Young museum and the parametric brick wall developed at the ETH. I’ve tried to incorporate these features into my own designs ever since, and I’ve started learning how to code properly. I am currently mostly focused on real-time graphics.

Simo, from Helsinki, Finland, is a demoscene hobbyist and open-source contributor and is always creating something (like his one-man award-stealing operation, the music visualiser APEXvj.) In the summer of 2012 he went freelance, set-up a company called Odd Circle.

This indie Creative Coder is one of those who has always bent the limits of what can be done with Flash, and has now moved to a new technology called UNO&Realtime Studio from Outracks Technologies. He was the first developer who had the chance to explore this new toy and has used it on a daily basis ever since to develop WebGL, iOS and Android for various clients and to create his own experimental projects.

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Eric is a creative coder who gets incredibly excited about all the rich interactive experiences just waiting to be brought into existence. While working as a front end engineer by day, Eric was surprised yet delighted to discover many of his evenings coding webgl turning into intense, all night, passionate hackathons. As he fell more deeply in love with his night work, the days became more and more drab, until he realized he had to devote himself towards his creative work 100%, and left his day job behind. Check out his website and follow him on twitter- @ericrius1

Marina is an artist and visual designer exploring the intersection of the real and virtual worlds. Marina has a fine arts background and extensive production experience in video, advertising and live events. She is Vizi’s creative conscience and design tsarina, always making sure we deliver our creative best for the client.