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Steven Schkolne

CEO
The Vain Company
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United States (California)
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Los Angeles
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English
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Bio

Steven Schkolne is one of the world’s foremost experts in 3d interface design. For his PhD at Caltech he built the world's first full body VR painting software, laying the foundation for many of today’s VR builders such as TiltBrush and Quill. Today he continues to forge new paths with his innovation agency The Vain Company, which has done everything from building AR apps for kids in partnership with Crayola, to making the world's first robots react movie trailer for Fox, to building a life saving VR training application for utility workers. He puts his tireless exploration of the past, present, and future of computation, into frequent Medium articles, including a recent series on machine consciousness.

Current position (1)

CEO

The Vain Company

Degrees (3)
B.S., Electrical and Computer Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University
1994 to 1997
M.S. Computer Science
Caltech
1997 to 1999
Ph.D, Computer Science
Caltech
1999 to 2003
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Books & Articles (1)

3D interfaces for spatial construction

Expertise (9)

Technology
Science
Education
augmented and virtual reality virtual reality Machine Learning Machine Intelligence Machine Vision Artificial Intelligence
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Why choose me? 

Steven Schkolne (Caltech, PhD) uses new technologies to develop ground breaking applications.

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