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Wevr

Wevr

We collaborate with creators, partners & brands to produce the most spectacular interactive and spatial experiences.

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wevr.com

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Founder of Echo Chunk

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9 years experience building avatar embodied social VR experiences for entertainment and media industry. 20 years experience building and publishing user focused interactive product across consumer entertainment, enterprise and government. Launched the first social media video start-up, StreetFire. Specialized in adapting early adopter technology into consumer product.

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Tony Parisi is a Metaverse pioneer, virtual reality expert, serial entrepreneur, investor, author, and musician focused on building the new Internet focused on the creator economy, aka the Metaverse. Now independent, Tony was most recently Head of XR Ads and E-Commerce at Unity Technologies, where he oversaw strategy and product for the company’s real-time 3D brand advertising and commerce solutions. Prior to Unity Tony was an individual consultant developing technology and products for WebGL, VR and AR, and invested in and mentored VR and AR startups. Tony is the co-creator of the VRML, X3D and glTF ISO standards for networked 3D graphics. Tony is the author of O’Reilly Media’s books on Virtual Reality and WebGL: Learning Virtual Reality (2015), Programming 3D Applications in HTML5 and WebGL (2014), and WebGL Up and Running (2012). Specialties: Metaverse, Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, Real-time 3D, WebGL, VRML, glTF. Product management and agile process. Public speaking and industry events. Technical: virtual world and social game development, client and server. Web architectures for scalability and performance. C, C++, Objective-C, C#, JavaScript, Node.js, PHP. Unity.

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Twitter: @richardgirges Blog: hellorealworld.com

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Creative executive with over two decades of business development experience exploring the front lines of interactive & immersive media, digital, experiential & emerging technologies. From 2020 > 2023: Tim was SVP Real-time & Virtual Worlds at Media Monks, a leading global brand agency focused on digital growth for clients including Meta, Google, NBCU, Oreo, Hasbro, Duolingo, Riot Games, Disney, Pokemon, Nike, Verizon, CocaCola and many more. Tim joined MediaMonks as SVP Growth for real-time in 2020 (Unreal Engine, Unity, Gaming), then shaped and nurtured a gaming & virtual worlds offering that grew to include double digit revenues, with teams working globally across all markets. Responsibilities included Growth (sales, scale), business affairs, production oversight and client relationships. From 2013 > 2019: Tim helmed the Immersive team at MPC (Moving Picture Company) as Head of Immersive Content, leading a group focused on experiences for Brands, Entertainment, Music, Fashion, Arts and Purpose projects. In his role Tim was responsible for a varied slate of client projects for entertainment and mainstream brands. Built and managed US based team from 2013 - 2019, which saw double digital revenue at comfortable margin, creating award winning work and brand value. MPC is one of the world’s largest VFX studios, with over 30 years’ best in class experience.