Anthony Steed is Head of the Virtual Environments and Computer Graphics group in the Department of Computer Science at University College London. He has 30 years of experience in developing effective immersive experiences. While his early work focussed on the engineering of displays and software, more recently it has focussed on user engagement in and content production for collaborative and telepresence scenarios. He received the IEEE VGTC’s 2016 Virtual Reality Technical Achievement Award. He has been involved in a variety of knowledge transfer activities, including five start-up companies.
Tobias Höllerer is Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He directs the “Four Eyes” Laboratory, conducting research in the four I's of Imaging, Interaction, and Innovative Interfaces. His research spans several areas of HCI, real-time computer vision, computer graphics, social and semantic computing, and visualization. He obtained a PhD in computer science from Columbia University in 2004. In 2008, he received the US National Science Foundation’s CAREER award for his work on “Anywhere Augmentation”. This work enabled seamless mobile augmented reality and demonstrated that even passive use of AR can improve the experience for subsequent users. He served as a principal investigator on the UCSB Allosphere project, designing and utilizing display and interaction technologies for a three-story surround-view immersive situation room. He co-authored a textbook on Augmented Reality and has (co-)authored over 300 peer-reviewed journal and conference publications in areas such as augmented and virtual reality, computer vision and machine learning, intelligent user interfaces, information visualization, 3D displays, mobile and wearable computing, and social and user-centered computing. Several of these publications received Best Paper or Honorable Mention awards at esteemed venues including IEEE ISMAR, IEEE VR, ACM VRST, ACM UIST, ACM MobileHCI, IEEE SocialCom, and IEEE CogSIMA. He was named an ACM Distinguished Scientist in 2013. He is a senior member of the IEEE and IEEE Computer Society and member of the IEEE VGTC Virtual Reality Academy.