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Last spring, a mutual friend invited some folks to his home for dinner, and we got to talking\u2014about how Alex created educational curricula for urban development and the rest of the team’s varied skillset\u2014and we realized we both had one common goal:<\/p>

To use our skills to make learning relevant and fun.<\/strong><\/h3>
From the discussions that followed over coffee, beer, and the occasional chocolate chip cookie, we decided to build a network of virtual maker spaces where kids can play games to learn, then make games to share.
And RealityNext was born.<\/p>
Our Founding Team<\/h2> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\t <\/div>\n\t \t<\/div>\n\t\t <\/div>\n\t \n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t\t\n\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAlex Stolyarik<\/em>
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Alex Stolyarik has spent nearly a decade implementing project-based experiential education internationally. In 2011, as a member of the Democracy and Art nonprofit, he originated a joint venture between the British \u201cLondon Metropolitan University\u201d MARCH and the Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration. A year later he launched a test program designed to engage graduate students with \u201creal-world\u201d land development projects. In three years of program refinement, he and his team organically grew neighborhood development collectives, jump-started public workshops, and graduated 80 students with dual degrees in Public Administration and Planning.<\/p>
Alex holds a joint Master\u2019s of Science from MIT and
Harvard Business School.<\/p>
What I believe is possible:<\/em><\/strong> With recent advancements in Virtual Reality technology, we have the advantage to experience our world from the new \u201cinside-out\/outside-in\u201d dimension. We can erase borders and practice our global intracultural future immersively, as in \u201cfor real.\u201d<\/em><\/p>
What I propose:<\/em><\/strong> Use immersive technologies, gaming and play to innovate in education ecosystems. Updated knowledge delivery can most effectively impact nonviolent human development and progress.<\/em><\/p>
Why now:<\/strong> As an educator, I saw that it\u2019s nearly impossible to facilitate and simultaneously explore different scenarios of project development in real-time experiential education; I know from my work with schools and colleges the enormous amount of financial and human resources we spend to facilitate the \u201clearn-by-making\u201d algorithm. Now, with the advancement of mixed realities, artificial intelligence, and virtual conferencing, we can collaborate internationally and conduct distributed education experiences in a new medium beyond the current the constraints of base reality.<\/em><\/p> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\t <\/div>\n\t \t<\/div>\n\t\t
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Kunitake Aoki<\/em>
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Alisa Belyakova<\/em>
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Kunitake Aoki is an experienced Art Director\/Game Developer who spent more than 28 years working for SEGA and Nintendo. He is a key contributor to their multi-million sales figure titles, including their Mario vs. Donkey Kong and Sonic the Hedgehog series. His passion gears toward making fun and educational software for all ages. He always stays positive, looks for new challenges, and enjoys solving problems to obtain the best results using new technologies.<\/p>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t
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Ada is a UX researcher pursuing her Ph.D. degree at the University of Washington. With her expertise in using mixed methods, she has contributed to several NSF projects as a researcher. She is deeply interested in how the embodied nature of virtual reality enhances the quality of learning, and is currently working on a project promoting teen collaboration in a virtual reality environment. She holds a master’s degree in psychology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.<\/p>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t
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Alisa is a full-stack software engineer with experience in startup ventures, public-private partnerships, and smart city solutions. Alisa’s skills range from product schematics to engineering with expertise in object-oriented languages, database architecture, web development, RESTful API, and single-page applications. “I believe that technologies can help us build humanistic societies and preserve our democracy,\u201d Alisa says. \u201cThrough my travels and cultural exchange programs, I began to appreciate and support diversity as a mission of my own: Live. Learn. Create.”<\/p>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n
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Art Feinglass has been a farmer, soldier, teacher, journalist, director and producer of documentaries and interactive theater. He is the founder and artistic director of the Seattle Jewish Theater Company. Feinglass holds a Masters in Writing from the University of Washington and has taught Literature at Hebrew Union College and PR and Marketing at New York University. He is the author of short stories, children\u2019s books and Public Relations for Nonprofits. He splits his time between New York and Seattle.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t <\/li>\n\t\t
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Kunitake Aoki is an experienced Art Director\/Game Developer who spent more than 28 years working for SEGA and Nintendo. He is a key contributor to their multi-million sales figure titles, including their Mario vs. Donkey Kong and Sonic the Hedgehog series. His passion gears toward making fun and educational software for all ages. He always stays positive, looks for new challenges, and enjoys solving problems to obtain the best results using new technologies.<\/p><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t <\/li>\n\t\t
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Ada is a UX researcher pursuing her Ph.D. degree at the University of Washington. With her expertise in using mixed methods, she has contributed to several NSF projects as a researcher. She is deeply interested in how the embodied nature of virtual reality enhances the quality of learning, and is currently working on a project promoting teen collaboration in a virtual reality environment. She holds a master’s degree in psychology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.<\/p><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t <\/li>\n\t\t
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Agnus is currently student specializing in visual media at Seattle Central College, but he originally comes from Vilnius, Lithuania. He started his art career making vintage photography, but he would prefer to express himself in non-traditional photography such as 360\u00ba video and imaging.
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Last spring, a mutual friend invited some folks to his home for dinner, and we got to talking\u2014about how Alex created educational curricula for urban development and the rest of the team's varied skillset\u2014and we realized we both had one common goal:<\/p>
To use our skills to make learning relevant and fun.<\/strong><\/h3>
From the discussions that followed over coffee, beer, and the occasional chocolate chip cookie, we decided to build a network of virtual maker spaces where kids can play games to learn, then make games to share.
And RealityNext was born.<\/p>
Our Founding Team<\/h2>\n $\"<em>Alex$
Alex Stolyarik<\/em>
Co-Founder <\/h3>\n
Alex Stolyarik has spent nearly a decade implementing project-based experiential education internationally. In 2011, as a member of the Democracy and Art nonprofit, he originated a joint venture between the British \u201cLondon Metropolitan University\u201d MARCH and the Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration. A year later he launched a test program designed to engage graduate students with \u201creal-world\u201d land development projects. In three years of program refinement, he and his team organically grew neighborhood development collectives, jump-started public workshops, and graduated 80 students with dual degrees in Public Administration and Planning.<\/p>
Alex holds a joint Master\u2019s of Science from MIT and
Harvard Business School.<\/p>
What I believe is possible:<\/em><\/strong> With recent advancements in Virtual Reality technology, we have the advantage to experience our world from the new \u201cinside-out\/outside-in\u201d dimension. We can erase borders and practice our global intracultural future immersively, as in \u201cfor real.\u201d<\/em><\/p>
What I propose:<\/em><\/strong> Use immersive technologies, gaming and play to innovate in education ecosystems. Updated knowledge delivery can most effectively impact nonviolent human development and progress.<\/em><\/p>
Why now:<\/strong> As an educator, I saw that it\u2019s nearly impossible to facilitate and simultaneously explore different scenarios of project development in real-time experiential education; I know from my work with schools and colleges the enormous amount of financial and human resources we spend to facilitate the \u201clearn-by-making\u201d algorithm. Now, with the advancement of mixed realities, artificial intelligence, and virtual conferencing, we can collaborate internationally and conduct distributed education experiences in a new medium beyond the current the constraints of base reality.<\/em><\/p>\n
Our Advisory Team<\/h2>\n
Kunitake Aoki<\/em>
Game Developer<\/h4>
Kunitake Aoki is an experienced Art Director\/Game Developer who spent more than 28 years working for SEGA and Nintendo. He is a key contributor to their multi-million sales figure titles, including their Mario vs. Donkey Kong and Sonic the Hedgehog series. His passion gears toward making fun and educational software for all ages. He always stays positive, looks for new challenges, and enjoys solving problems to obtain the best results using new technologies.<\/p><\/li>

Ada Kim<\/em>
UX Researcher<\/h4>
Ada is a UX researcher pursuing her Ph.D. degree at the University of Washington. With her expertise in using mixed methods, she has contributed to several NSF projects as a researcher. She is deeply interested in how the embodied nature of virtual reality enhances the quality of learning, and is currently working on a project promoting teen collaboration in a virtual reality environment. She holds a master's degree in psychology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.<\/p><\/li>

Alisa Belyakova<\/em>
Full-Stack Developer<\/h4>
Alisa is a full-stack software engineer with experience in startup ventures, public-private partnerships, and smart city solutions. Alisa's skills range from product schematics to engineering with expertise in object-oriented languages, database architecture, web development, RESTful API, and single-page applications. \"I believe that technologies can help us build humanistic societies and preserve our democracy,\u201d Alisa says. \u201cThrough my travels and cultural exchange programs, I began to appreciate and support diversity as a mission of my own: Live. Learn. Create.\"<\/p><\/li><\/ul>\n

Art Feinglass<\/em>
Theater Director<\/h4>
Art Feinglass has been a farmer, soldier, teacher, journalist, director and producer of documentaries and interactive theater. He is the founder and artistic director of the Seattle Jewish Theater Company. Feinglass holds a Masters in Writing from the University of Washington and has taught Literature at Hebrew Union College and PR and Marketing at New York University. He is the author of short stories, children\u2019s books and Public Relations for Nonprofits. He splits his time between New York and Seattle.<\/p><\/li>

Kunitake Aoki<\/em>
Game Developer<\/h4>
Kunitake Aoki is an experienced Art Director\/Game Developer who spent more than 28 years working for SEGA and Nintendo. He is a key contributor to their multi-million sales figure titles, including their Mario vs. Donkey Kong and Sonic the Hedgehog series. His passion gears toward making fun and educational software for all ages. He always stays positive, looks for new challenges, and enjoys solving problems to obtain the best results using new technologies.<\/p><\/li>

Ada Kim<\/em>
UX Researcher<\/h4>
Ada is a UX researcher pursuing her Ph.D. degree at the University of Washington. With her expertise in using mixed methods, she has contributed to several NSF projects as a researcher. She is deeply interested in how the embodied nature of virtual reality enhances the quality of learning, and is currently working on a project promoting teen collaboration in a virtual reality environment. She holds a master's degree in psychology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.<\/p><\/li>

Alisa Belyakova<\/em>
Full-Stack Developer<\/h4>
Agnus is currently student specializing in visual media at Seattle Central College, but he originally comes from Vilnius, Lithuania. He started his art career making vintage photography, but he would prefer to express himself in non-traditional photography such as 360\u00ba video and imaging.
Agnus enjoys music, snowboarding, and the many virtual reality hackathons that take place in and around Seattle, and sees his future as a 360\u00ba video editor.<\/p><\/li><\/ul>\n