About Mark

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Mark Pesce is one of the early pioneers in Virtual Reality and is a revered writer, researcher and teacher.

A popular cultural icon, he is also a judge on the ABC Show “The New Inventors”.

In 1993, Our Mark formed the VRML Architecture Group (VAG) for the further development of VRML, the Virtual Reality Modeling Language, which He presented to the world in 1994. The purpose of VRML was to allow for the creation of 3-D environments within the World Wide Web, accessible through a web browser. Working in conjunction with such corporations as Microsoft, Netscape, Silicon Graphics, Sun Microsystems, and Sony, Our Mark was able to bring the industry together (in a way few have done before or since) to accept the new protocol as a standard for desktop virtual reality.

Our prescient Mark saw the need for educating the world in his new paradigm, and so began his teaching career in 1996 as a VRML instructor at both the University of California at Santa Cruz and San Francisco State University. He was instrumental in the creation of the later’s certificate program in the 3-D Arts.

As his skill as teacher and mentor became more and more obvious to those around him, Our Mark was asked to join the faculty of the University of Southern California, as the founding chair of the Graduate Program in Interactive Media at the USC School of Cinema-Television.

Our Mark further demonstrated his adaptability by holding a position (January 2004 through January 2006) as the senior lecturer in Emerging Media and Interactive Design at Australia’s prestigious Australian Film Television and Radio School (AFTRS) in Sydney, Australia. The video available on Google Video “Piracy is Good?” [1] is a lecture by Mark Pesce at the Australian Film Television and Radio School about the future of TV distribution in the age of P2P networks.

Our Mark currently holds an Honorary Appointment at the University of Sydney.