Roland is a product designer and UX expert based in NYC, curator of WebXRNews.com, XR Accessibility at Virtuleap, and creator of GRAVR — a globally recognized avatar for VR on the web. Previously, Roland co-founded the consulting agency ByteDept, designing human-centric digital products for some of the world’s most respected brands in a variety of verticals. He is the host of WebXR (A-Frame NYC) workshops/events and creates immersive experiments that make the current VR/AR industry accessible for everyone.
He started his design career in the Siemens/BenQ innovations lab. A graduate of the University of Applied Sciences Munich, Roland is an adjunct faculty teacher for immersive design at the School of Visual Arts, NYC. He is also a member of the W3C Immersive Web CG and XR Access.