CEO, Author, Futurist, Mobile Augmented Reality
Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area
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- Executive Director at National Institute for Virtual and Augmented Reality and Simulations, NIVARS
- CEO at Neogence Enterprises
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Robert Rice’s Summary
Robert is an author, technology entrepreneur, futurist, and a recognized world leader and pioneer in mobile augmented reality. With more than 17 years of experience he is a passionate innovator and is continually seeking to advance the state-of-the-art of dynamic and interactive technologies. Robert is the author of MMO Evolution and a contributing author in Working through Synthetic Worlds. Robert is the CEO of Neogence Enterprises and the Executive Director of the National Institute of Virtual and Augmented Reality and Simulations (NIVARS). The release of his next book, Mirascape, is expected in 2010.
Robert collaborated on the first conversion of a single player PC game to a virtual reality game in 1992 at the first virtual reality entertainment company in the US. Over the last two decades he has gained broad and in-depth experience in design, development, production, project direction and executive management with a number of start-ups including Alternate Worlds Technologies, Arckosian Entertainment, ZReality, Orchid Media International, Neogence Enterprises, and others.
In addition to consulting for a number of startups and interactive media companies, he is the creative driving force behind the Immortal Destiny Project and is the former publisher of Storm Riders Online.
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 while he was designing immersive interfaces and next-generation concepts for a 3D internet. He is an authority on mobile augmented reality, persistent immersive environments, virtual reality and worlds, massively multiuser online games, and simulations.
Robert can be found on Skype (rrice919) and Twitter (robertrice).
He is available as a speaker for events and conferences. All inquiries via email welcome.
Robert Rice’s Specialties:
Augmented reality, virtual reality, virtual worlds, social media/networks, Massively Multiuser Online Games (MMORPGs, MMO), Alternate Reality Games (ARG), persistent environments, adaptive simulations, interactive and immersive technologies, artificial intelligence, artificial life, intelligent agents, collaborative environments, casual games, STEM learning, technology convergence, pattern trending, ideavisioning, cybersociology, game design, geolocative and contextual media
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Robert Rice’s Interests:
Photography, tenor saxophone, haiku, Kyudo (Japanese archery), fencing (foil and epee), world travel, reading, world history, archaeology, paleontology, philosophy, theology, cryptography, architecture, sociology, psychology, robotics, anime, and a dozen or so other topics. I love creating things, learning, and exploring. KEEN interest in voxels, volumetric rendering, augmented reality, simulated reality, military simulation, academic research regarding all aspects and elements of immersive 3D environments.
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