Overview

Gender

male

In 2006, Christopher Jaynes co-founded Mersive and now serves as the company’s Chief Technology Officer. He received his doctoral degree at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst where he worked on camera calibration and aerial image interpretation technologies that were then used by the federal government. Jaynes received his Bachelor of Science degree with honors from the School of Computer Science at the University of Utah. Prior to his work at Mersive, Jaynes founded the Metaverse Lab dedicated to addressing problems in multimedia technologies and research related to video surveillance, human-computer interaction and display technologies. It was recognized as one of the leading laboratories for computer vision and interactive media and has contributed to self-calibrating displays, video tracking and surveillance, illumination models and projective geometry. In 2000, he helped found the University of Kentucky Center for Visualization and Virtual Environments where he studied problems related to virtual reality and novel display systems.

Chris founded Mersive, with a special focus on empowering educational environments and workplaces with software that enables all participants to share and collaborate seamlessly. With support, Chris and his team produced two market-changing products. Additionally, Chris’ technology innovations have been awarded 25 patents with more than 10 currently pending. He has also published over 90 research articles in peer-reviewed publications as well as a book “The Universal Media Book: Tracking and Augmenting Moving Surfaces with Projected Information.”