John Gaeta

John Gaeta is an inventor, innovator and an Academy Award-winning designer. He is best known for his work on the original Matrix trilogy where he explored first of kind media formats such as Bullet Time, Virtual Cinematography and Volumetric Capture. In 2015 John co-founded Lucasfilm’s Immersive Entertainment division: ILMxLAB and established its mission to “Develop, Produce and Release premium, story based Immersive Entertainment Experiences for Star Wars and other imaginative universes”. During his tenure he served as its overall Executive Creative Director, focusing on original and experiential content across multi platforms. Gaeta also served as SVP Creative Strategy at Magic Leap. Today he provides strategic advisory for some of the most progressive XR platform companies in the world.