Mark Pesce

Mark Pesce co-invented the Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML), bringing 3D to the Web and laying the foundations for today's metaverse. He has written nine books, including Augmented Reality: Unboxing Tech's Next Big Thing, was for seven years a judge on the ABC's The New Inventors, founded postgraduate programs in emerging media at USC and the Australian Film Television and Radio School, and holds an honorary appointment in the Digital Cultures Program at Sydney University. He writes a...See more

Mark Pesce co-invented the Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML), bringing 3D to the Web and laying the foundations for today's metaverse. He has written nine books, including Augmented Reality: Unboxing Tech's Next Big Thing, was for seven years a judge on the ABC's The New Inventors, founded postgraduate programs in emerging media at USC and the Australian Film Television and Radio School, and holds an honorary appointment in the Digital Cultures Program at Sydney University. He writes a multiple-award-winning column for The Register, pens another for COSMOS Magazine, and is professional futurist and public speaker based in Sydney. Details at ... See less