Scott Squires is a longtime fixture in the VFX industry — he’s the co-founder of Dream Quest Images and a three-time Oscar nominee for visual effects. He won the Academy’s Scientific and Engineering Award for his work developing one of the first film scanners, during his tenure as CTO at ILM. Those decades of creative and technical VFX experience, along with his knowledge of Showscan and other specialty formats, has made him eager to tackle immersive video, a challenge he’s embracing as CTO at Pixvana. With hands-on experience in both shooting and stitching VR scenes, Squires is helping research and build Pixvana’s creation and delivery platform for virtual, augmented and mixed reality — the next generation of media. pixvana.com