LISI LINARES is the founder of LNRS PR+ XR TLNT MNGMNT, a boutique publicity and talent management agency that operates in stealth mode. All of the clients come word of mouth.
VR has been Lisi’s passion since she wrote her first VR script at NYU Film in 1994. Too early to start a career in VR, Lisi began making music. She recorded and released songs with influential label, Ze Records. Her music attracted the casting agent for SURVIVOR. She went on to appear as a castaway on season 14. Doing press junkets for CBS lead to a pointing point. “I really got into how a story is pitched and how the narrative of a character is shaped in the media”
In 2015, Lisi co-founded a public relations agency representing primarily Crypto and Blockchain projects. After premiering the first Anime on the blockchain, Vevara in Your Dream and working with some of the bigger projects in the space such as David Chaum’s Elixxir, Path Network and NGRAVE, it was time to move on.
During the summer of 2019 Lisi saw an opportunity to pivot into VR, the great love of her life! Starting with consulting AR start-ups, she quickly became immersed in the XR community. “I feel like I had found my tribe.”
March 2021, Lisi expanded her publicity services to include managing xr talent. She is actively bridging the gap between 20th and 21st century entertainment. Consulting talent agencies on how to prepare their talent roster was the inspiration behind XR TLNT MNGMNT.
Lisi is a proud Board Member of the Femme Futures Grant at Artizen and XR Women.
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I’m a lucky guy—I get paid to invent fun things. Currently, I work for Amazon as a global consultant on virtual reality and spatial computing. On the weekends I maintain Q, a browser-based quantum circuit simulation framework.
Oren (De-Panther) Weizman, is a VR/AR developer that loves to experiment with new tech.
He is a Co-Admin at the Israeli Unity Developers group.
Co-Founder at Total-Viz, where he develops XR games.
A Software Developer at Resonai, where he is part of the team that works on Vera, an AR platform that transforms physical spaces into intelligent digital environments.
In his spare time, he works on WebXR Export, a Unity XR package that allows developers to build WebXR experiences using Unity.
Will Eastcott is the creator of PlayCanvas, the online collaborative game engine built on WebGL and WebXR. Will has been building AAA games and engines since 1997, holding senior positions at EA, Sony and Activision.
He also holds an Individual Contributor membership with the Khronos Group and is extremely active in the WebGL and glTF ecosystems. He’s a quintessential Englishman who loves to drink tea and complain about the weather.
Liam Broza is the creator of LifeScope.io and Laguna Labs. LifeScope is an Open Source AI assisted personal database for private real time data collection.
Laguna Labs created XREngine; an immersive social experience that is delivered through just your internet browser. Anyone can create virtual spaces and events with approachable open source tools.
Keram founded both VRTO & FIVARS in 2015. He’s a business and creative development consultant to a wide variety of tech companies, and founder of Constant Change Media Group Inc., with strong ties to both the Toronto & Los Angeles markets. He is also the editor in-chief of IndieGameReviewer.com, an instructor in WebXR design at UCLA Extension and author of essays around spatial media for several books. He won Creator of the Year at the 2022 Poly Awards, was named one of the Top 100 Original Voices in XR in 2021, and contributed to the 2022 PEW Research report on the Metaverse in 2040.
Elgin-Skye McLaren is a Senior Product Manager for Mozilla Hubs – an open source platform for creating and sharing 3D social spaces on the web.
She holds an MSc in Interactive Arts and Technology from Simon Fraser University. When she isn’t working on Hubs or exploring VR she enjoys roller skating and building cool stuff with code.
Ada is a developer advocate for the Android web browser Samsung Internet. She also co-chairs the W3C Immersive Web groups which are developing the WebXR APIs.
Currently leading the WebGPU efforts on the Chromium side and chair of the WebGPU W3C group.