John Gwinner

Published: Sept. 19, 2018, 9:15 p.m.

John Gwinner is a Chief Technology Officer with nearly 2 decades of experience in VR. He developed a VR interface for CompuServe during the last wave of VR. He helped develop VRML (Virtual Reality Markup Language) and Web3D with a focus toward PCs, and put early versions of XML on the web. He was a returning speaker at the Game Developer Convention on 3D toolkits, AI, and VR. He was an early Kickstarter of a new VR Headset in 2014. Now that VR is definitely taking off again, John is once again at the forefront, making it easy for people to build Virtual Worlds. He is a top writer on Quora, answering questions about VR and its future direction. Slightly shorter: John is a Top Quora writer for 2018; covering the fields of Virtual and Augmented reality. He helped develop VRML (Virtual Reality Markup Language) and Web3D, and put early versions of XML on the web. He’s now again making it easy (er) for people to build Virtual Worlds by writing the book “Getting started with React VR [React 360] for Packt publishing.