David Alan Smith Smith is the CTO and Founder of Croquet Corporation, developing the Croquet Microverse platform.
Smith is a computer scientist and entrepreneur who has focused on interactive 3D and using 3D as a basis for new user environments and entertainment. He built his first HMD in 1986 to study telepresence control of a remote robot arm using a Dataglove.
Smith was a Senior Fellow at Lockheed Martin, where he focused on next generation human centric computing and collaboration platforms. Before that, Smith was the chief architect of the Croquet Project, an open-source virtual world collaboration platform where he worked with Alan Kay (Turing Award) and David P Reed (created UDP, co-created TCP/IP) and Andreas Raab (Squeak Smalltalk co-developer).
In 1987, Smith created The Colony, the first real time 3D adventure game/shooter. Smith developed Virtus Walkthrough in 1990, the first real-time 3D design application for personal computers. Smith also co-founded Red Storm Entertainment with author Tom Clancy and co-created the Rainbow Six game franchise. David gave the keynote address at IEEE VR 2017.