His past experience also features founding and selling several companies including eAgents, which sold to AG Interactive, where he then served as President for three years, and Charlie Company, an SEO/SEM affiliate marketer and consultancy that most notably created “The Other 98%” for client in 2009, which now has over 6 M followers on Facebook. In addition to his work as head of story development for Disney Feature Animation during the second golden age of Disney animation (‘85-’92), Fink was SVP & CCO of AOL Studios (‘95-’99). Over the past 30 years working as an award-winning writer, executive, and producer, Charlie Fink has created and launched new media brands for Disney, AOL, and American Greetings. He is the author of “Charlie Fink’s Metaverse, An AR Enhanced guide to AR &VR”. In addition to his column in Forbes, Fink is the contributing editor of VR Voice, and a regular contributor to HuffPost, Virtual Realty Pop, and VR Focus. He is now a consultant and frequent speaker on these topics at conferences like CES, SXSW, AWE, ARiA NYU, ARiA MIT, Digital Hollywood, VR Toronto (keynote), VR Voice Entertainment Summit (keynote), and “On The Lot” by VRS (keynote). In the 90s, Fink was EVP & COO of VR pioneer Virtual World Entertainment. While at Disney, Fink famously came up with the idea for “The Lion King”. Virtual World Entertainment was purchased by Microsoft in 1999.Ĭharlie Fink is a former Disney, AOL and AG Interactive executive who writes about VR, AR and new media for Forbes. Fink oversaw the opening of over 12 gaming venues, many of which are still in operation 20 years later. In the 1990s, he was one of VR’s early pioneers, serving as the Chief Operating Officer of Virtual World Entertainment which developed Battletech Universe, and the first VR cockpit simulator. His startup venture which provided news feed to 5 million Internet users, was acquired by AGI, leading Fink to join the company and eventually serve as President and later Chairman. He was responsible for the original conception of The Lion King, which he initially pitched to his supervisors as “Bambi in Africa.” His recent book, Charlie Fink’s Metaverse, An AR Enhanced Guide to VR & AR, has been dubbed “the Bible of AR and VR” and explains everything you need to know about the past, present, and future of HoloLens, Oculus Rift, and similar technologies.Īs an executive, Fink developed new media forms for Disney, AOL, and AG Interactive. Additionally, he is a contributing writer to Huffpost, Virtual Reality Pop, and VR Scout. He is a staple at AR and VR conferences, and has also presented multiple times at CES and SXSW.įink covers the latest on VR and AR in his regular column for Forbes. A former executive for Disney, AOL, AG Interactive, and the VR pioneering company, Virtual World Entertainment, Fink has over 35 years of hands-on experience at the vanguard of entertainment and technology.įormer entertainment and tech executive, Charlie Fink is one of the world’s foremost authorities on Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, and new media.Fink’s groundbreaking book, Charlie Fink's Metaverse, An AR Enhanced Guide to VR & AR, has been dubbed “the Bible of AR and VR.”.Forbes columnist and top AR/VR consultant, Charlie Fink makes the latest developments in this growing field accessible to technical and non-technical audiences alike.We can be found on Spotify, iTunes, and YouTube.īehind the Scenes: How “Body of Mine” VR Experience Won a Jury Prize at SXSW (Charles Anderson/Vanishing Point/Substack)ġ1 Fortnite Creative 2.
This week our guest is Sebastien Bourget, founder and CEO of Sandbox, a Metaverse with its own virtual currency and and celebrity backers.
This Week in XR is also a podcast hosted by the author of this column, Ted Schilowitz, Futurist, Paramount Global, and Rony Abovitz, founder of Magic Leap. Produced by QReal using Niantic's 8th Wall technology (no app is required), the AR menu will be in all of Denny's 1,600+ restaurants. Denny's has created a mobile AR enabled menu, It's Diner Time, where animation, ads and entertainment literally jumps off the page.
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