Overview

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Tony Parisi is an entrepreneur and career CTO/architect. He has developed international standards and protocols, created noteworthy software products, and started and sold technology companies. Tony’s passion for innovating is exceeded only by his desire to bring coolness and fun to the broadest possible audience.

Tony’s first startup, Intervista Software, developed the first-ever real-time VRML plugin for Internet Explorer, which Microsoft bundled with millions of copies of their browser. His most recent company, Vivaty, created a novel end-to-end virtual-world system fully integrated with the Web that served up millions of virtual-goods transactions.

Tony is perhaps best known for his work as a pioneer of 3D standards for the Web. He is the cocreator of VRML and X3D, ISO standards for networked 3D graphics. Tony continues to build community around innovations in 3D as the cochair of the WebGL Meetup and a founder of the Rest3D working group. Tony is also the author of the upcoming O’Reilly book WebGL Up and Running.

Tony is currently a partner in a stealth online-gaming startup and has a consulting practice developing social games, virtual worlds, and location-based services for San Francisco Bay Area clients.