Dr. Dirk Reiners is an Associate Professor in the Computer Science department at UCF. He has been at the heart of immersive visualization and Virtual Reality (VR) for more than 20 years. He has a MS and PhD in Computer Graphics from the Technical University Darmstadt, Germany, and worked at the Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics. He was instrumental in pioneering VR deployment for many of the German car manufacturers. His primary research interests are in interactive 3D graphics, immersive and high-resolution display systems and the software fundamentals enabling efficient use of them.