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David Colleen

American businessman and architect From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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David Colleen is an American businessman and architect.[1][2][3] He has been the chief executive officer (CEO) of SapientX since co-founding it in 2016.[4][5] Previously, he founded Planet 9 Studios and was its CEO from 1994 to 2016.[6][7][8]

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Early life and education

Born in the United States, Colleen attended Cornell University and graduated with a bachelor's degree in architecture, business administration, and management in 1981.[8]

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After relocating to San Francisco, Colleen joined an architectural firm, where he specialized in designing commercial buildings.[2] During that period, he adapted 2D drafting software, developed in the 1980s to create 3D design simulations.[2] He later collaborated with Harley Wagner Integrated in West Michigan to expand his firm's outreach.[2]

In 1991, Colleen founded Planet 9 and served as its CEO until 2016.[1][9] Under his tenure, Planet 9 specialized in constructing 3D models of buildings, streets, and various structures, using textures from digitized photographs.[3] The company modeled over 15 cities, including Austin, San Francisco, Tokyo, New York (city), and San Diego.[1][3] The process involved capturing up to 2,000 photographs of a city, creating foundational models, and then integrating the images.[3] The models used the Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML) for online navigation, requiring a VRML plug-in.[3][10] In 1996, Planet 9 built a baseball park simulation based on the San Francisco Giants' plans.[11][12] The company later created a prototype 3D conference room for SPS Payment and a VRML environment for Schlumberger.[13][14] In the 1990s, Planet 9 was recognized as a leading company in the virtual reality sector.[15]

In 1995, Colleen built VRML-based Virtual SOMA, a 3-D model of the SOuth of MArket Street in San Francisco, and showcased it at the Microsoft booth at the SigGraph conference.[16][17] In 1997, he and his team developed Virtual Tokyo, a 3D representation of the Shinjuku district in Tokyo.[2][18]

In 1999, Colleen gave a lecture at the Oklahoma City University, titled "Technology Builds Community".[19]

In 2016, Colleen co-founded SapientX with Bruce Wilcox and Maclen Marvit.[20] Prior to this, the founders had developed AI-driven, 3D, conversational characters in 2003, which were later incorporated into a Multiverse platform, RayGun, in 2008.[20][4] In the same year, SapientX released public AI chatbots that mimicked the voices of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.[4][21][22]

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