Brian Beams is the manager for the Virtual Human Interaction Lab (VHIL) at Stanford University, California USA. He received his Master of Fine Arts in Visualization in 2015, where he studied computer graphics and immersive media. After spending time in the video games and animation industry as a freelance 3D artist, Brian worked on the development of creative anatomy virtual reality applications, interactive performance art pieces, and research in the application of new technologies for art and education at the Soft Interaction Lab at Texas A&M University, eventually becoming a lecturer in the Department of Visualization. In 2018 he became the VR lab director and lecturer at Santa Clara University, where he developed curriculum for teaching VR development with an emphasis on sustainability until joining Stanford in 2021.