My partner Alexis Gerard and I are extremely pleased to announce Eric Cheng as our fireside chat presenter at our “
The metaverse – what’s in it for me; what’s in it from me?” Visual 1st Spotlight Series event on March 15. Following the 1-on-1 fireside chat, Eric will also participate in our panel discussion, along with Alexis Khouri, Sr. Director of Business Development and Strategy, 3D & Immersive at
Adobe, Justin Melillo, Co-founder & CEO at
Mona, and Kirby Winfield, Founding General Partner at
Ascend.vc.
Eric is Immersive Media Lead at Meta Reality Labs, and is an award-winning photographer, technologist, producer, and author. As a hands-on executive producer, Eric has supported and produced numerous immersive media projects for VR, including 4 Emmy-nominated films.
Throughout his career, Eric has straddled his passions for storytelling, entrepreneurship, technology and communication. Before returning to tech, Eric published Wetpixel, the leading underwater-photography community on the web. Eric is featured in 2 episodes of the Netflix series, Tales by Light, (Season 2), which showcase his underwater work with big animals. He has led numerous photography expeditions and workshops around the world, and has given seminars and lectures at events including TEDx, EG, TTI/Vanguard, the Churchill Club, DEFCON, NASA UTM, Photoshelter Luminance, Photographers@Google, CES, NAB, SXSW, AsiaD, Creative Mornings, Tested.com’s Live Show, Oculus Connect, ICCCP, DEMA, and others.
Previously, Eric was Director of Aerial Imaging at DJI and Director of Photography at Lytro. He served on the Board of Advisers of Wirecutter, and is a Field Associate at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco, California. Eric is also involved in ocean conservation, and has served on the Board of Directors of Shark Savers (now part of WildAid) and the Board of Advisors of Sea Shepherd Conservation Society.
Eric holds BS and MS degrees in computer science from
Stanford University, where he also studied classical cello performance. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife and children. His photography work can be found at
http://echengphoto.com.
We very much look forward to hearing Eric’s perspectives not only on what the metaverse is – or could become – but also on how photo & video product developers could tap into the rapidly expanding opportunities for creating solutions that leverage the metaverse.
See you March 15!
Best,
Hans Hartman
