Streaming Immersive Content:
Demonstration of ITMF over an Edge Network
Wednesday, October 6, 2021
10:00am – 11:00am PDT
Meet Our Speakers
Next week is almost here! No pre-recorded presentations here. Meet our speakers from OTOY, Mission Rock Digital, Charter Communications and CableLabs. You will have the opportunity to ask and get your questions answered live.
Attendance is free but requires pre-registration. Registration now open.
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Thomas Alder | Software Engineer , OTOY
Thomas Alder is a software engineer at OTOY and a recent BS Computer Science graduate from the School of Engineering at the University of Colorado – Boulder. He and has been involved in IDEA for over a year working on the ITMF specifications, demonstrating the first ITMF demonstration during the 2019 Light Field and Holographic Display Summit at CableLabs, and participating within the working groups.
Pete Ludé, IDEA Chairman | CTO, Mission Rock Digital
Pete Ludé is a prominent engineering leader in advanced imaging and sound. He currently serves at CTO of Mission Rock Digital, a San Francisco-based engineering firm specializing in next-generation media. Current work includes display technology for next-generation cinema, immersive sound, and interchange pipelines for VR, AR and plenoptic (light field) imaging systems.
Dhananjay (“DJ”) Lal, IDEA Board Member |Senior Director, Charter Communications
As Senior Director in the Emerging Technologies team, DJ Lal leads the Immersive Media Practice at Charter Communications. In this role, he provides strategic leadership and direction on service delivery innovation over the network for Gaming, Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality
Austin Pahl, CableLabs
Austin Pahl is an Associate Software Engineer in Tech Policy at CableLabs and a contributing engineer at the Immersive Digital Experiences Alliance, where he contributes to immersive content production and specification development. He has a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of South Carolina and is finishing his M.S. in Computer Science at the University of Colorado Boulder. He co-leads the development of libitmf with Thomas Alder.
Dell Wolfensparger | XR Architect, Charter Communications
Dell is an XR Architect for Charter Communications: Emerging Technologies. He has played a lead role in VR, AR, and mobile application development for major brands: Disney, Microsoft, Thomas The Train, Penn State University and many more. His first foray into Virtual Reality was a 3D based virtual museum of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror for Forest Ackerman at Marlin Software where he was the technical and creative director. Since then he has been deeply involved in XR based enterprise and consumer products using Microsoft Hololens, AR devices, VR HMD’s and Holographic displays from Looking Glass Factory.