About Kim Baumann Larsen (kimusan)

A licensed architect, 3D artist, educator and VR designer with 25 years of industry experience, Kim has focused on designing, producing and publishing interactive augmented reality apps, serious games and VR experiences for the past eight years. His first work in virtual reality was with the Houston VR startup CyberSim in 1995. An entrepreneur at heart, Kim has started up two design visualization companies, runs his own VR and AR design and consulting company Dimension Design and is a co-director of Digital Storytelling, a multi-disciplinary arena of seminars and workshops in Norway on innovative and creative use of storytelling in film, games and interactive experiences. He holds a part-time position as Future Pilot at Kulturtanken producing prototypes of XR art experiences for kids and youth, teaches VR design at Kristiania University College and is a frequent speaker at international events like SIGGRAPH, SplitX, fmx, VIEW, Mundos Digitales, and EUE. Kim is a member of the Unified Jury for the SIGGRAPH 2020 Conference, and is a co-founder of XR Norway and Norwegian Interactive Storytellers.