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Creating next-gen immersive venues and an XR Studio & Innovation Lab producing and researching awe-inspiring, positive social impact experiences.
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Vortex Immersion Media, Inc.
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Creating next-gen immersive venues and an XR Studio & Innovation Lab producing and researching awe-inspiring, positive social impact experiences.
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Los Angeles, California, United States
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Ed Lantz is listed as Creating next-gen immersive venues and an XR Studio & Innovation Lab producing and researching awe-inspiring, positive social impact experiences. at Vortex Immersion Media, Inc., a company with 11 employees, based in Los Angeles, California, United States. AeroLeads shows a work email signal at vorteximmersion.com, phone signal with area code 310, 484, 610, 213, and a matched LinkedIn profile for Ed Lantz.
Ed Lantz previously worked as Founder and CEO at Vortex Immersion Media, Inc. and Cofounder and Board Chair at Dome Fest West. Ed Lantz holds Msee, Digital, Electromagnetics, Quantum Physics from Tennessee Technological University.
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About Ed Lantz
Ed Lantz is an entertainment technology engineer, entrepreneur and immersive experience designer. He left aerospace engineering in 1990 to transform old-style planetariums into 360-degree immersive visualization environments, designing over a dozen dome theaters worldwide including the Library of Alexandria in Egypt and Papalote Museo del Nino in Mexico City. Ed founded Vortex Immersion in 2007 to bring VR, immersive and interactive experiences into mainstream arts and entertainment. Vortex produced numerous interactive 360 experiences for theme parks, VR Cinemas and Fortune 500 companies including AT&T, IBM, Live Nation, Microsoft, NBC Universal, Nestle, NFL, Nike, Nokia and Turner Broadcast. The company also produced 360 VR concert dome venues as large as 60 meters in diameter with capacity of 3,000+ people for the world's top artists. Vortex is partnered with Moodswings to produce James Hood’s Mesmerica and Beautifica, highly successful, award-winning dome shows that have sold over 1 million tickets playing in 55 dome theaters across North America. These 1-hour shows are focused on positive social impact, and use principles of positive psychology to evoke a sense of happiness.Ed has directed and produced numerous interactive and immersive / VR experiences, has published articles in journals and trade publications on immersive media and is a public speaker including talks at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, ACM/SIGGRAPH, Canadian Arts Summit, NAB and the Global Leader’s Forum. Ed is a member of WXO (World Experience Organization), a lifetime member of IEEE and co-founder/Board Chair of Dome Fest West. In addition to show production, Vortex is seeking partners to build network of standardized immersive arts and entertainment venues featuring sit-down, stand-up and walk-through immersive experiences. These venues are designed to benefit local communities with social impact programming, wellness experiences and evening entertainment.Ed's personal interests include the application of quantum information science and experimental techniques to consciousness research, next-generation multisensory “sentient” environments, the merging of virtual and real story worlds, brain-based transformative experiences, the science of awe and neural synchrony and next-gen immersive community/ education/ entertainment for positive social impact.
Listed skills include Video, Entertainment, New Media, Start Ups, and 45 others.
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Vortex Immersion Media, Inc.
13 roles · 22 years
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Founder And Ceo
CurrentVortex Immersion Media creates VR/AR/360 immersive media experiences for the masses. The company develops large-scale immersive 360 theaters, mobile projection domes and live, interactive programming including branded immersive media experiences for numerous Fortune 500 and major brands including AT&T, CAA Experiential, EMC2, IBM, Microsoft, Nickelodeon.
Nov 2007 - Present
Cofounder And Board Chair
CurrentDome Fest West showcases Immersive Dome content, popularizing the medium while championing content creators and technologies from around the Immersive Dome and Fulldome world. The festival has partnered with 3 other international dome film festivals to create #BestOfEarth awards, debuting October 8-10, 2021.
Feb 2021 - Present
Chair, Xr Venue Standards
CurrentChair of MPAI's effort to develop standards for AI powered XR Venues, allowing real-time events that span across real-world immersive venues (domes, spheres and immersive galleries) and virtual (metaverse, MMO) venues.
Dec 2023 - Present
Technical Coordinator, Xr Venue Standards
Leading the effort to create standards for AI powered immersive XR Venues enabling live performances to span both the real world (i.e. immersive domes) and the virtual world (i.e. the metaverse). Join us at https://mpai.community/.
Jan 2022 - Dec 2023
President
Current
Visual Bandwidth, Inc.
Visual Bandwidth, Inc. is an independent network of senior advisors, designers, producers, visionaries and developers of large-scale immersive and interactive venues and experiences with a focus on 360 digital dome theaters, both mobile and fixed. The company also produces content for the immersive media ecosystem including 360 domes and VR headsets.
2004 - Present
~22 yrs 4 mos
Board Delegate, New Media Council
I was honored to serve on the Board of the Producer's Guild of America representing the New Media Council. I was especially honored to receive the PGA's Marc A. Levy Distinguished Service Award in 2021. I continue to contribute to PGA including producing the XR Stage Deep Dive series and other events.
Jun 2016 - Aug 2022
Chair
I served as Chair of LA SIGGRAPH chapter for 4 years and continue to volunteer in various activities. I was also founder and Co-Chair of ACM/SIGGRAPH's VR Village in 2015, assisted with committee work on the 2016 VR Village and served on the SIGGRAPH Asia 2016 committee for VR Showcase.
Jul 2016 - Jul 2020
Board Chair
Non-profit 501(c)(3) that has been helping at-risk kids in So Cal with art education programs since 1994.
Dec 2013 - Feb 2017
Founder And Ceo
Harmony Intermedia, Inc.
Cable television and broadband network called Harmony Channel. The network offered mood-elevating visual/musical programming including environmental, ambient, visionary art, relaxing, energizing, fine art visual music and other genres. The network was one of the first VOD networks to launch on Comcast and grew from 9-14 million homes in one year of.
Jun 2004 - Nov 2008
Product Development Manager
Spitz, Inc.
Led team of hardware and software engineers to develop cutting-edge immersive projection systems, products and programming for large-format and immersive theaters in planetariums, science centers, and theme parks.
Jan 1996 - Apr 2004
Chief Engineer
Astronaut Memorial Planetarium
Led a small team of engineers and technicians developing advanced hardware and software for planetariums and immersive theaters.
Jun 1990 - Jan 1996
Lead Engineer
Led the development of advanced photonic information systems for DOD, the US government and other clients.
Sep 1984 - Jun 1990
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Ed Lantz education
Msee, Digital, Electromagnetics, Quantum Physics
Tennessee Technological University
Unreal For Filmmakers I, Unreal Engine Filmmaking
Becoming A Cgpro
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Ed Lantz works for Vortex Immersion Media, Inc..
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Ed Lantz is listed as Creating next-gen immersive venues and an XR Studio & Innovation Lab producing and researching awe-inspiring, positive social impact experiences. at Vortex Immersion Media, Inc..
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Ed Lantz is based in Los Angeles, California, United States while working with Vortex Immersion Media, Inc..
What companies has Ed Lantz worked for?
Ed Lantz has worked for Vortex Immersion Media, Inc., Dome Fest West, Mpaicommunity, Visual Bandwidth, Inc., and Producers Guild Of America.
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Ed Lantz holds Msee, Digital, Electromagnetics, Quantum Physics from Tennessee Technological University.
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Ed Lantz is listed with skills including Video, Entertainment, New Media, Start Ups, Product Development, Entrepreneurship, Film, and Video Production.
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