Ian McDowall is the CEO of Fakespace Labs, a research and products company in Mountain View California. He is one of the founders of Fakespace, started in 1991, and developed hardware and software for high end scientific and government virtual reality applications. Working with Mark Bolas

Mark Bolas

Mark Bolas is a researcher exploring perception, agency, and intelligence. He is an Associate Professor of Interactive Media in the USC Interactive Media Division, USC School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California, Director of their Interactive Narrative and Immersive...

 and Eric Lorimer, the company created tools including the Boom, Push, Fs2, Pinch Gloves, Immersive Workbenches, the Rave, and a software library called VLIB. In 1998, Fakespace spun into two companies, Fakespace Systems and Fakespace Labs.

A recent contribution to the virtual reality field is a very wide field of view head mounted display (Wide5). Other projects include development of very fast frame rate projectors; light field displays; fast camera capture systems; and optical projects in the display and camera / image acquisition space. Exhibit at Siggraph 2007 Emerging Technologies Rendering for an Interactive 360º Light Field Display.