PEOPLE

b.TWEEN is all about putting people right at the heart of everything we do.

• Questions and Answers: Influencer perspectives on 3D and immersive technologies, and your chance to pose questions to be addressed at b.TWEEN 3D
• Blog: Our comments on the event and the world of immersive tech
• Get involved: Details about how to be part of the b.TWEEN 3D community

We were  delighted to have some amazing names gives their views and time on the future of 3D. See what our influencers had to say.

Or click through below to see all the influencers’ interview posts:

• Sarah Baillie

  Senior Lecturer, Royal Veterinary College, University of London

  Vet turned computer scientist and inventor of the Haptic Cow.

  With haptic technology you can create a 3-D environment you can explore with your hands and feel objects.

• Ken Blakeslee

  Chairman of Web Mobility Ventures

  It's getting more difficult to find ways to make money out of technology but some companies seem to be doing it really well.

• Rebecca Allen

  Director, Nokia Research Center Hollywood 3-D has been very dear to my heart in many kinds of definitions throughout my career, but my primary interest now is mixing our real, physical three-dimensional world with layers of virtual content. In t...

• Callum Rex Reid

  CEO, DigiCave For me 3-D is the gateway to experiences in form & shape, and by capturing the world in this way we’re doing things, philosophically, that are very similar to the Cubist period. A lot of the technologies today that have hijac...

• Martyn Ware

  Founder, Illustrious Company Martyn Ware of Illustrious Company Ltd, and Heaven 17 fame, talks about 3D soundscapes for SONY'S bTWEEN 3D.

  Total replacement for reality is the ultimate aim.

• Gawain Morrison

  Producer, Filmtrip Making emotional response cinema.

  We wire up the audience to capture things like heart rate & galvanic skin response.

• Jean-Paul Edwards

  Head of Media Futures, OMD

  We did an interesting project for Virgin Media TV in Marble Arch, where we projected the London monument as if it was collapsing in on itself for a TV show called Supernatural.

• Johnny Vulkan

  Partner, Anomaly The greatest potential for 3-D is when it gets into the hands of consumers. The democratisation of 3-D printing and filming and the way those price points are coming down, mean that anyone can start producing content in 3-D. What ...

• Ghislaine Boddington

  Creative Director, body>data>space body>data>space is a design collective – an interdisciplinary group of 16 people who are from the fields of performing arts, design, architecture, video, software, virtual worlds, gaming, interac...

• Tom Barrett

  Senior Consultant, Notosh Ltd

  In my utopian future, all teachers no matter how techie they are, will be able to easily use 3D to enhance the learning experience.

• Chris Ezekiel

  CEO of Creative Virtual

  Robotics is very interesting to us and combining our technology with a physical avatar.

• Nathan Makino

  CEO, Immersive Tech Immersive Tech is a non-profit community think-tank based in L.A.

  The framework is already there.. it just takes someone with a little imagination to come up with the ways to use it that will push it into the mainstream.

• Amber Case

  Cyborg Anthropologist, Case Organic

  The cellphone cries and you have to pick it up. You have to plug it into the wall at night to charge it; it’s a fascinating relationship between man and machine.

• Bruce Sterling

  Sci-Fi Author & Visionary in Residence, Art Center College of Design

  I can assure you that there is something coming that is as different from the cellphone as the cellphone was from the mainframe computer.

• Dale Herigstad

  CCO, Schematic

  Maybe certain kinds of information will be accessed through registering and reading brainwave activity.

• Rachel Armstrong

  Senior Lecturer in Research & Enterprise, University of Greenwich & Co-director of architectural research group, AVATAR , A.V.A.T.A.R.

  What becomes more interesting is if we can find ways of translating digital data into other forms of information experience

• Mick Hocking

  VP Studio Group, Sony Computer Entertainment Worldwide Studios Europe

  When you do 3-D games well it can really enhance the experience and will encourage people to try 3-D in other areas – like TV. Done badly it can have the opposite effect and actually put consumers off the idea of 3-D as a concept.

• Evan Grant

  Founder, Seeper

  SEEPER is an interactive arts & technology collective focusing on real world interaction.

  Buildings become ‘living organisms’ that are aware of their environment and the needs & emotions of the people inside them and adapt accordingly.

• Shaun Farrell

  Project Technology Consultant, Zaha Hadid Architects

  Using 3D and immersive technologies in cutting edge architecture

  Eventually we'll be able to simulate everything at a concept design stage; from the way the building will look and feel at different times of day and in different weather conditions.

• Vicki Betihavas

  Co-founder, Nineteen Fifteen

  The late Victorian pioneers were into stereoscopy 150 years ago – and actually the first ever feature length public presentation of stereoscopic moving images was in 1915.

• Joris Peels

  Community Manager, i.materialise Helping people print 3D things with i.materialise

  I want to help people make anything they want, so that it perfectly fits their needs and expresses their personality, in units of one.

• Aleks Krotoski

  Technology journalist & researcher, Aleks Krotoski

  I like to describe this new type of audience as ‘the cult of me’, because they put themselves at the centre of the story and experience it in a truly immersive way.

• Marco Tempest

  Techno-illusionist, Newmagic Communications I try to blend the incredibly real and the incredibly unreal by using augmented reality and science in my magic. So it’s all about gadgets, computer vision, pattern recognition or markers and trackin...

• Suzy Deffeyes

  Software Geek, IBM

  I’d like to see a lot more people developing enterprise type applications and I'd like to see acceptance of 3-D in broader variety of use cases than we see today.

• Blaise Agüera y Arcas

  Distinguished Engineer of Bing Mobile & Places, Microsoft - Bing Maps. The architect of Bing Maps at Microsoft, building augmented reality into searchable maps.

  Content is growing and technical capabilities are growing and I think there is a third dimension which is the medium of experience.

• Tassos Stevens

  Co-director, Coney - a company that makes play.

  “I think the closer something is to being real the more aware of the differences you become.”

• Martin Bryant

  European Editor, TheNextWeb.com

  My fridge could tell me when I've run out of eggs or if the margarine has gone off.

• Wayne Hemingway

  Founder, Hemingway Design

  Also Founder of The Vintage Festival

  If you've got something missing and you can use technology to make it whole again, it would be a pretty amazing thing to see.

• Alice Taylor

  Founder, Makie World Ltd Alice Taylor from Makie World Ltd talks about 3D printing & network-aware dolls for SONY'S bTWEEN 3D.

  How do we make a Creative Commons license for 3-D objects?

• Ortis Deley

  Co-host, The Gadget Show

  Technology addict

  People are going to find a way to hack into your systems anyway – so you might as well make it legitimate and benefit from from all the amazing ideas they come up with.

• Maarten Lens-Fitzgerald

  Co-Founder, Layar Co-Founder of the world's leading mobile augmented reality platform, Layar.

  We decide early on that we wanted to open Layar up as a platform so that people can make the content that matters to them.

• Philip Delamore

  Director of the Fashion Digital Studio, London College of Fashion

  Baroness Greenfield would be an interesting choice as a devil's advocate.

• Tod Machover

  Composer, Inventor & Professor of Music & Media, MIT Media Lab

  Whatever the technology being used, the final result should always feel disarmingly physical and real, and not something that is highly technological or merely virtual.