Brian Chirls
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Brian Chirls is Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer at Datavized Technologies, Inc a WebVR software company building a data-driven publishing platform for the 3D web. He is a recognized WebVR pioneer and creator of the WebVR Starter Kit. Prior to Datavized, Brian completed a Knight Technology Fellowship at POV, where he worked on experimental interactive documentary technology. He has developed innovative models for interaction, data visualization and content-authoring in virtual reality. Brian has helped to create a new genre of interactive video pieces and software libraries that demonstrate ways to combine the interactivity and connectivity of the web with the aesthetic power of cinema and his work has been presented at CPH:DOX, IDFA DocLab, SXSW, Tribeca Film Institute and MIT.