CCP Games and Virtual Reality

February 7, 2016

Hilmar Veigar Pétursson (CEO at CCP Games – How Virtual Reality Will Change Gaming at Slush 2014.

Hilmar has been leading CCP Games’ ongoing success and growth since his appointment as Chief Executive Officer in 2004. Under Hilmar’s management CCP’s critically acclaimed science-fiction game EVE Online is celebrating an unprecedented tenth consecutive year of subscriber growth. The Company released its second title, DUST 514, a free-to-play, massively multiplayer first-person shooter for the PlayStation®3 in 2013 and is also developing EVE: Valkyrie, a multiplayer spaceship dogfighting shooter set in the EVE Universe. In addition, Hilmar has overseen the expansion of CCP operations to Shanghai, China as well as the strategic merger with Atlanta-based White Wolf Publishing in 2006, Before his appointment to the CEO position, Hilmar held the title of CCP’s CTO, heading the engineering effort required to create CCP’s persistent world technology and 3D engine. Prior to joining CCP in 2000, he served as the CTO of SmartVR, an OZ.com spin-off based on that company’s multi-user virtual reality technology following his tenure as the VP of software development for the OZ Studios division of OZ.com.

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