Robert Rice

CEO & Founder at Omniscape™

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Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR), Phygital, and XR pioneer and expert. Experienced startup founder and executive. Speaker, adviser, consultant, and industry evangelist. 25+ years of experience. Robert is a passionate innovator and evangelist for advancing the state-of-the-art of interactive and immersive media. Ask me about how AR/VR/XR will change your industry, and how to take advantage of it before your competitors. Practical solutions, not novelty gimmicks. He is currently focusing on the fundamental technologies for linking physical to digital ("Phygital") and virtual goods, the convergence of AR and VR, spatial computing, AI-driven avatars and intelligent agents, and geolocal contextual media. Robert coined the term XR in 2014 as an umbrella term for AR, MR, and VR as a whole, or the seamless combination of each together. Inventor of phygital virtual goods. US Patent 11049082-B2 Robert is the author of MMO Evolution, a contributing author in Working Through Synthetic Worlds (Augmented Reality Tools for Enhanced Forensics Simulations and Crime Scene Analysis), and the creator of Social Kinematics. Recognized as an Internet Gaming Pioneer by Advertising Age magazine in 1996, Robert was also called a Founding Father of the Digital Nation in 1998 by The Raleigh News & Observer. He is an authority on mobile augmented reality, persistent immersive environments, virtual reality and worlds, massively multi-user online games, and simulations. Robert worked on some of the first multiplayer virtual reality arcade games in the early 90s, starting with the conversion of Wolfenstein 3D into multi-player Wolfenstein VR (arcade) and was an early pioneer in designing real-time 3D MMORPGs. Skills: Product Design and Development, Product Marketing, Persuasion Marketing, Business Development and Strategy, Tech Startups, Innovation, Orthogonal Thinking and Creative Solutions for Complex Problems. Plus: Tesseract Wrangling. You should ask me about that one if you read this far.