Taylor Freeman

Taylor is deeply passionate about virtual and augmented reality for education and training. He started his journey with virtual reality in 2014 by hosting events in San Francisco where people were invited to try VR in a fun and social environment. Over the following years, he and his team built UploadVR.com, the industry's largest daily VR news site reaching millions of people per month, established two co-working spaces in LA and San Francisco with 150 VR, AR and AI startups, hosted over 500 VR and AR focused events, trained nearly 1,000 creators on VR and AR development, and worked with companies like Google, IDEO and NASA JPL on immersive education. As an advocate for supporting diverse voices in the XR industry, Taylor is a founding council member of XR Inclusion and sits on the board of Women of AI. Taylor taught the first remote in-VR class at MIT, and was awarded Forbes 30 Under 30 for his work building the VR industry.