Presenter

Val Jones (she/they) began using 3D scanning to virtually reunite the Parthenon and its sculptures. Val helped build the Academy Award-winning Light Stage for facial and full-body capture, used by Digital Domain, MPC, Weta, Activision, and EA for over 15 feature films and games including Avatar, Logan and BladeRunner 2049. As part of their PhD, Val designed new glasses-free 3D displays. They combined these technologies to record over 16 interactive 3D Holocaust testimonies for museums around the country. Val is now CTO at StoryFile, a tech startup designing interactive video conversations to change how we communicate with each other and the past. They are named as an author on 22 academic publications and 5 patents covering 3D rendering, displays, and interactive video.