Our Members
Directory of Bristol VR Lab residents, staff, partners and membersMember
Lewis Gilliard, freelance artist & illustrator
Lewis has over 10 years of professional experience working in the film, TV, gaming and virtual reality industries providing high quality concept art designs and storyboards for a multitude of...
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Oliver Southgate, nymbl
nymbl's production coordinator and marketing assistant. Works with projects as well as research and develops the VR and AR world in-house.
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Steven Lake, Brass Mill Media
Steven Lake is a documentary producer based out of Bristol, UK. His work includes Cinema Eye-nominated ROLL RED ROLL. The film was the season opener for POV - PBS, was...
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Steve Flanagan, Immersive Environments
Steve has 20+ years experience as an adventure sports coach and guide in boats, on ropes and in/on rocks. Then spending over a decade creating technical media, Steve has worked...
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Ram Boukobza, IMD Technologies
Ram Boukobz is an embedded software developer specializing in video applications for IMD Technologies
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Amy Stone, ASDESIGN
I’m an experienced 3D Designer who specialises in Exhibition & Event Design, Retail & Experiential Design and Interior Design. I've worked for both design agencies and in-house teams and recently...
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Andy Council
Andy Council is a Bristol based artist who is best know for creating composite beasts made up of architectural landmarks and other recognisable elements. His work takes the form...
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James Bragg
I have worked as a medical general practitioner for 24 years but recently retired from this and I am in the second year of a Fine Art degree at UWE,...
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Theo Worsley, Withers and Rogers LLP
Theo is an Associate in the Electronics, Computing & Physics group. Theo has a background in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and has experience in drafting and prosecuting patent applications for...
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Tom Garrett, University of the West of England
Tom Garrett is an Immersive Media Researcher currently on the University of the West of England Masters in Virtual Reality
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Kieren Pitts, University of Bristol
I work in a team called Research IT, a specialist division within the University of Bristol's IT Services. Research IT is tasked with supporting technical aspects of academic research that...
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George Baldwin, Hool Ltd.
I am a creative technologist. Recently I've been working a lot with the web as a freelancer with a keen interest in AR experiences. Before that I worked in collaboration...
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Terence Reilly, Hool Ltd
Co-founder of Hool, a 3D interactive web XR design and animation company with a previous 20 year career as a freelance 3D character animator and 3D designer in the entertainment...
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Sam Downie, Dsoundz Media / ITV / BBC / ILM
Sam Downie’s expertise as a broadcaster extends from Network TV and Radio into Journalism, Webcasting, Netcasting & Podcasting.
As a tech pundit his knowledge and passion for entertainment, gadgets, current...
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Jake Gaule, Submerged Tapes
Award-winning sound designer, editor, musician and field recordist based in Bristol. I work at Doghouse Post Production as an assistant sound editor. I create sound libraries for other designers, sound...
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Chaitanya Naik, Parallax Labs
A computer engineer with a management background on mission to develop businesses and relations to improve lives using XR technology
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Dr Ollie Feroze, Condense Reality
Ollie is Condense Reality’s Chief Scientific Officer. He has expertise in applied machine learning, artificial intelligence, and a PhD in computer vision from Bristol University. Ollie has led research in...
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Dan Fairs, Condense Reality
Veteran of multiple startups, Dan was CTO and cofounder of SecondSync (acquired by Twitter, where he later led the backend team that delivered live streaming video globally). He is an...
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Nick Fellingham, Condense Reality
Nick has several years experience leading technical teams as an engineer and product owner. Nick’s background ranges from machine learning to UX design and sales. He has a passion for...
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Adam Da Rocha, Ten Hut Games
As Operations Manager, Adam led the self-publishing of Q.U.B.E. 2, sequel to the award-winning indie game, Q.U.B.E. He meticulously juggled the marketing, project, events and community management whilst securing new...
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Benjamin Walbrook, Freelance
Benjamin is an Australian Producer and Designer of immersive experiences, with special interests in creative technologies, and sound & music for cultural and industrial contexts. He has 15 years experience in...
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Kim Halliday, kimhalliday ltd
Kim is a composer and musician working in London, UK. He began playing the violin at age 7, took up the guitar and dropped the violin (although he kept the...
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Scott Fletcher
Interdisciplinary artist, executive producer and campaign consultant. Uniquely experienced in the delivery of cutting-edge, well-considered and highly-original public experiences.
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Jonathan Landon, Heads Up Digital
With nearly 10 years experience in industry as an interactive coder/developer Jonathan Landon has worked for a mobile games studio creating iOS and Android games, with over 50 million downloads...
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Harry Silverlock, UWE / The Palace Collective
Berlinale Talent and Locarno Industry Academy alumni. Harry is currently studying his Virtual Reality MA at UWE in collaboration with Bristol VR Lab. His interests are in queer identity storytelling...
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Harrison Willmott, University of the West of England
Harrison is a freelance flat media producer, a New Talent Immersion Fellow with the SWCTN and they're currently studying a Masters in VR at the BVRL with UWE.
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Abhinesh Prabhakaran, University of the West of England
Abhinesh is a Doctoral Researcher at UWE Bristol, undertaking research in the area of integrating Building Information Modelling (BIM) and AI-assisted Immersive Technology to improve productivity.
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Harry Alcott
A software developer who is currently developing an augmented reality experience
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Anthony Karydis, Mativision
London/UK-based Mativision Limited is the market leader in producing and delivering interactive 360 video content and Virtual Reality (VR) experiences from live and recorded events, leveraging our proprietary Mativision® technology...
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Matt Golding, Rubber Republic Ltd
Matt is a film writer and director specialising in high impact online and entertainment films, from comedy to documentaries. Experienced in creating films for online channels that maximise viewers and...
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Xingyang Zhou, University of Bristol
Xingyang Zhou is a Computer Science student from the University of Bristol who is working on creating an AR Application.
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Sarah Sauchelli Toran, NIHR Bristol Biomedical Research Centre (Nutrition)
Sarah is a psychologist working at the NIHR Bristol Biomedical Research Centre (Nutrition Theme) - University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust to investigate innovative lifestyle interventions for people with or...
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Richard Godfrey, Rocketmakers
Richard has been delivering amazing software experiences for over 25 years with Deloitte, Microsoft and now as the founder and CEO of Rocketmakers. Rocketmakers are based in Bath and deliver...
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Isla Badenoch, Postcode Films
Previously sponsored by Limina Immersive: Isla Badenoch is a documentary filmmaker, creative producer and visual artist. Isla has a Masters from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and has...
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Rob Eagle, University of the West of England
Rob is a PhD student at UWE, where his practice-led research employs non-fiction VR to represent trans and genderqueer stories.
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Mark Date, VOYA VR
VOYA VR would like to welcome you to the Journey we are about to embark on. As fellow VR enthusiasts, I'm sure you will agree that Virtual Reality is Humankind's...
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Stefan Bolesnikov, Bristol VR Lab
Stefan is an experienced presenter and business consultant with a successful track record of delivering compelling solutions at local and international competitions.
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Rebecca Bangay, iBex Media
Before turning freelance in 2011 Rebecca spent 13 years with the BBC creating multimedia experiences across multiple platforms for high profile brands such as Planet Earth, Blue Planet and Springwatch....
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David Haynes, MBP Consulting
MBP Consulting is a VR software company building tools to enable people to work on engineering and creative applications collaboratively, independent of geographical location.
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Verity McIntosh, University of the West of England, Bristol
Verity is Programme Lead for a brand new masters course in Virtual and Extended Reality at UWE Bristol. Starting in January 2019, this industry-led, practice-based masters offers students hands-on training...
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Rachel Godfrey, GoVirtually
GoVirtually provides the highest quality interactive 3D property walkthroughs in Bristol, Bath and the South West for residential and commercial properties.
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Ben Flexo, PostRetroFuture
Ben has been programming computers since he got a Spectrum back in the 80s, and he started developing games on an Amiga when he was a teenager.
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David Green, University of the West of England
David is a documentary-maker, computer scientist and researcher at the University of the West of England, working on the EPSRC-funded Virtual Realities: Immersive Documentary Encounters project.
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Chris Hart, area47
Chris is a Creative Director with over 35 years experience of working in the Broadcast and Media Industry. Natural History, Science and Children’s Programming, Branding, Print and Web and 'stuff'...
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Andrew Calway, University of Bristol
Andrew Calway is a computer scientist and engineer working in computer vision and robotics. Much of his work focuses on 3-D tracking and reconstruction using vision (SLAM) and he collaborates...
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Suraj Malhotra, University of Bristol
Suraj is conducting a research project on ‘The Use of VR and AR to improve Student Learning Experience and Engagement Levels’ at University of Bristol
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Anthony De Unger, Biome Productions
At Biome our goal is to harness Virtual Reality and 360° film to transfer viewers from their living room and into the wild. We wholeheartedly believe that the most emotive...
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Ted Savile, Biome Productions
At Biome our goal is to harness Virtual Reality and 360° film to transfer viewers from their living room and into the wild. We wholeheartedly believe that the most emotive...
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Sam Rowley, Biome Productions
At Biome our goal is to harness Virtual Reality and 360° film to transfer viewers from their living room and into the wild. We wholeheartedly believe that the most emotive...
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Rollo Wood, Biome Productions
At Biome our goal is to harness Virtual Reality and 360° film to transfer viewers from their living room and into the wild. We wholeheartedly believe that the most emotive...
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Lynn Barlow, University of the West of England
Journalist, broadcaster, voting BAFTA member, Royal television Society, Wildscreen and Encounters Trustee, Lynn’s career spans newspapers, radio and television. She was a BBC social affairs correspondent and went on to...
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Jen Stein, Experimental Design
Jen Stein is a design researcher who examines the implications of emerging technologies by designing for and speculating about near future interactions. Her research and design work explores ambient storytelling,...
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Nicholas Llewelyn-Jones, PolyBionics
PolyBionics's mission is to invent and launch breakthrough technologies that they hope could someday benefit the human body. PolyBionics has a long way to go before we can fulfill this...
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Ben Trewhella, Opposable Group
Ben's company Opposable Group is an award-winning independent games and VR research and development studio currently (amongst many other things) running the Bristol VR Lab and researching multiple person, large...
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El Knight, Bristol VR Lab
El initially studied BTEC “3D Computer Animation for Video Games and Film” at Weston College after learning many transferable skills they tried their hand at coding during multiple summer placements....
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Dan Page, Opposable Group
Dan is Creative Director at VR World Congress, organiser of the SouthWest VR meetup and has managed Opposable’s marketing and events for the past four years. Dan looks after marketing,...
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Stuart Gallop, Virtual View Productions
Virtual View Productions's goal is create high quality and long form VR and AR content that also connects users to immersive brand placement using its in-house developed brand placement platform...
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Shaz Abdullah, Opposable Games
Shaz has worked in the films and game industry for the last decade designing film sets, props and environments, both physically and digitally. In recent times he has utilised VR...
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Nick Inoue, Substrike Ltd.
SubStrike® technology has been in development since 2008, enabling the system and sensation to be refined to a point where it is the most immersive sonic experience to date.
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Chris Pope, Unity Technologies
Chris is the Team Lead for the Field Engineering team covering Europe, Middle East and Africa at Unity Technologies. Joined in 2009 and has held multiple roles from R&D to...
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Alexandra Voinescu, University of Bath
Alexandra is a prize research fellow at the University of Bath, her research looks in to using VR and other immersive technology with healthy and clinical participants
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Diane Douglas, Vigiles Group
Diane is a highly motivated Business Analyst and Project Manager experienced public/private Health, Education and Legal sectors. Motivated by collaboration and sustainability.
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Shariff Moossun, Aerialview
Shariff has worked within the digital media industry for 20+ years developing interactive content and delivering experiences across a wide range of technologies, devices & platforms which recently has included...
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Sam Vickery
Sam is an enthusiastic Bristol-based Unity Freelance developer that started developing games at the age of 13. Sam started using VR back in the Oculus DK1 days and has been...
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Max McClure, Max McClure Photography
Throughout his personal and commercial work Max draws on his innate creative ability to consistently produce unique photographs that carefully integrate powerful ideas with subtle messaging. Although typically commissioned by...
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Alessio Caruso, University of Bath
Alessio Caruso is a BSc (Hon) student in Applied Computing at the University of Bath. My previous experience includes systems analysis services and telecommunication, but currently I’m investing my creative...
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Chris McKeeman, Frameless Adventures Ltd
Chris is a highly experienced executive producer of high-end film, digital, animation and visual effects and has held senior positions with some of the world's leading creative companies.
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Matt Watkins, Imaginar
Matt is an Executive Producer at Imaginar, an Immersive and Creative Production Studio that specialises in AR, VR, Mixed Reality, CGI and Animation. We provide a variety of innovative immersive...
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Kailash Manohara Selvan, SpatialCortex Technology Ltd
Kailash is an Aeronautical Engineer by background and an Aerodynamicist by trade. He is passionate about new technology and has a keen interest in hardware, embedded electronics, game development, VR/AR...
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Alessandro Migliaccio, Airbus
Alessandro is an aerospace engineer, keen to face new challenges and eager to leave his mark on the aerospace industry.
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