#1612: AWE Hall of Famer Gregory Panos’s Journey into VR: Identity, Body Capture, and Virtual Immortalization
Here's my biographical oral history interview with Gregory Panos, 2025 Inductee into the Augmented World Expo Hall of Fame, talking about his journey from the early days of computer graphics to becoming a virtual reality evangelist and consultant,
August 2, 20251h 22m
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Here's my biographical oral history interview with Gregory Panos, 2025 Inductee into the Augmented World Expo Hall of Fame, talking about his journey from the early days of computer graphics to becoming a virtual reality evangelist and consultant, community builder via SIGGRAPH, as well as his long-time fascination with identity, volumetric capture of people, memorialization, and his ideas around a celebratory process of virtual immortalization as elaborated in his 1994 paper "Using Virtual Reality to Document Human Existence." Thursday, June 12, 2025 at Augmented World Expo in Long Beach, CA. See more context in the rough transcript below.
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