Welcome to Bruce Damer

We're very pleased to announce that Bruce Damer, a well-known virtual world pioneer who has been a guest author here (twice) has accepted our invitation to join us as a regular author. Below is a short bio about Bruce's past work in virtual worlds, but there's much more to be found on his website.

Twelve years ago, Bruce founded two organizations, the Contact Consortium and DigitalSpace Corporation. The Contact Consortium was the first nonprofit organization supporting the virtual worlds/avatar industry in its early adopter phase. The Consortium held a dozen conferences on the medium and its special interest groups explored the use of these worlds in learning, biologically inspired spaces, architecture, cyber-conference events, and much more. DigitalSpace developed a successful for-profit business in building content and hosting events in virtual worlds platforms and has been funded by NASA for the past six years to develop an open source platform for 3D simulation for space mission design and training.

In the 1980s Bruce was one of the first people to bring a graphical user interface to the PC platform when he built the Elixir Desktop while working as the chief technologist at Elixir Technologies which went on to launch the product worldwide with Xerox Corporation. Bruce and his wife Galen Brandt (an early pioneer in live motion avatar performance and medical uses of virtual environments) married in 2003 and live at Ancient Oaks farm where you can see pigs, one of the world's greatest collections of vintage computers in the Digibarn, and "get on the bus" NoFurthur and design vintage cyber-tech clothes (for when you will wear your avatar).

Comments

[Bruce Damer]

Thanks Terra Novans! I look forward to contributing here more regularly in the future. Happy July 4th to all of you on the American side of the pond!

[FlipperPA Peregrine]

Welcome aboard, Bruce! It'll be good to see your continued insights into the evolution of VWs.

[Lisa Galarneau]

Welcome Bruce! So glad you're here!

[Charles Cameron (hipbone)]

Hi Bruce:

Nice to see your name and face (avatar too) hereabouts!