Bio

I'm passionate about open, interoperable, and ethical real-world reality computing to connect the physical and digital world (phygital) for the benefit of all. As the director of the Open AR Cloud Association, I'm currently volunteering to lead the effort to build city-scale prototypes of a reference Open Spatial Computing Platform built on a core set of universal standards and protocols around real-world pose (GeoPose), a real-time updated locally shared machine-readable world and seamless spatial discovery. My hope is that such efforts would contribute to a future decentralized “Open Reality Web Platform” inspired by the principles of the world wide web. We want to repeat the success of the Open Web Platform but for reality computing to create an equally scalable and interoperable ''Reality Web” In my day job I am the CEO of OnSiteViewer AS, a startup developing an OnSiteRealism technology platform set to bring an amazing capability to the phygital realm. One use-case of this capability is to revolutionize urban planning using high-definition digital twins and AR-EdgeCloud technology for physically accurate real-time photorealistic on-site visualizations, another is allowing visitors to historical world heritage sites to experience buildings, statutes and monuments as they would have looked in their glory-days and even create photorealistic and massive re-creations of historical events at the sites they occurred. I hope in my small way that some of my work can contribute to a sustainable digital renaissance where all of humanity and all life on our “pale blue dot” can prosper and flourish in beautiful ways. We are after all the only known example of life and consciousness we know of in the universe. I believe we can overcome our petty differences and raise to the occasion of our biggest common challenges and solve them in ways that makes us proud to be human. Live Long and Prosper!