For more than 35-years, Bob Cooney has accurately predicted the impact of bleeding edge tech on entertainment business trends. He’s the founder of an INC 500 company with a successful NASDAQ IPO to his credit. He has emerged as one of the leading voices in the virtual reality and metaverse space.

Cooney is the go-to-market strategist behind the launch of some of the world's most successful location-based VR companies He is the author of the book Real Money from Virtual Reality. and co-author of The Guardians of the Metaverse, a think-tank report from Laval Virtual.

Bob is widely considered the world's foremost expert on location-based virtual reality, having founded the VR Arcade Game Summit, the biggest dedicated location-based VR conference in the US.