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Mark Pesce
(1962 - living) U.S.A.

Mark Pesce

Cyberspace researcher

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Mark Domenic Amadeo Tripp Pesce, known to harbor revolutionary/anarchist tendencies, and known homosexual, is a cyberspace researcher and theorist. He is is the co-inventor (with Toni Parisi) of the Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML). With his work he brought virtual reality to the World Wide Web. As a member of the VRML Architecture Group, he was helping foster a consensus of the VRML community.

After spending a decade working in data communications, he left Shiva Corporation in 1991 to co-found Ono-Sendai Corporation, an early virtual reality company. After leaving Ono-Sendai in 1993, Mark began work on Labyrinth, the prototype for Virtual Reality Modeling Language.

Mark helped the VRML grow into a full-fledged community, with outposts in academia, commerce, and a world wide network of enthusiasts. In 1996, New Riders Publishing released Mark's first book, VRML, Browsing and Building Cyberspace, critically hailed as an easily understood introduction to the subject.

Mark was named one of Network Computing's most influential people in networking. He left the VRML Architecture Group in December 1996. He is chair of the Interactive Media Program at the University of Southern California's School of Cinema-Television.

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