On February 6, from noon to 1pm the Digital Scholarship Center in Paley Library and Computer Services will be hosting Adobe’s Director of Immersive Technology, Chris Bobotis. This event will take place in the Paley Lecture Hall in the lower level of the library.
Chris will provide attendees with a compelling and exciting perspective on the ways that Adobe is leading the industry on Immersive Technology – Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR) and Mixed Reality (MR).
This will be an exciting opportunity to get an inside view on a set of technologies and digital environments that will have an increasing impact on educational and scholarly practices over the coming decade. VR is already being used extensively in the Health Sciences Library. Our new library building will certainly feature these new technologies as key features of the Scholars Studio (an expanded and renamed version of the Digital Scholarship Center)
Background on Chris Bobotis: Director of Immersive, Adobe Systems Inc:
Chris is Director of Immersive at Adobe, overseeing the company’s Immersive Media efforts. Chris is the software architect for the SkyBox suite of 360˚ video and cinematic VR tools, which Adobe recently acquired from Chris’ previous company Mettle.
Chris co-founded Mettle in 1992 and was Partner & Creative Director. Mettle transformed the nascent 360˚ VR video industry with their SkyBox software plugins for Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects, providing a dedicated toolset for editing and manipulating 360˚ video and introducing core features and functionality that had previously been missing from the market. Today, Mettle customers include Facebook, Google, Apple, Samsung, CNN, HBO, New York Times, NASA, and virtually all other professional 360˚ content producers.
Chris is an advocate for immersive storytelling, and regular presenter at SIGGRAPH, NAB and IBC conferences. Chris grew up in Montréal, and previously worked as a creative director, art director, illustrator and production manager.