Steve is currently CEO and Chief Product Officer at Arcturus, leading design and development of their volumetric product line covering capture, processing, editing, distribution, and viewing. He's also a Venture Partner at Spatial Capital, investing at the intersection of computer graphics, vision, and AI.He most recently led the Mixed Reality Capture Studios business at Microsoft. MRCS pioneered and commercialized high-quality volumetric video of real people and performances for Mixed Reality, mobile, web, and traditional 2D media. They built a global production ecosystem with stages/partners in San Francisco, London, Los Angeles, Berlin, Redmond, Seoul, Washington D.C., Tokyo, Zurich, and Vancouver.From 2002-2012, he was Director of R&D and then Senior Technology Officer at ILM/Lucasfilm, leading R&D and strategic technologies across the Lucas Divisions. He drove strategy and execution to advance the state of the art in computer graphics and production technologies for film, TV, and games. Steve contributed to over 70 films including the Star Wars prequels, Avatar, Pirates of the Caribbean, Transformers, Harry Potter, and Minority Report, among many others. He received three Academy Awards for Technology for matchmoving, image-based modeling, and on-set motion capture, and the R&D team earned ten more for work during his tenure. He is an inventor on over 20 patents, a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and served 13 years on Academy's Science and Technology awards committees and Sci Tech Council. He received a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with an emphasis on automatic object modeling, recognition, and surface representations. Specialties: volumetric video, computer vision, motion capture, virtual production, and digital content creation