Jaque Davison—BAE Systems

Jaque Davison is a Principal Systems Engineer employed by BAE Systems Information Technology. He is currently servicing an Army contract in the Pentagon.  He is a veteran of the US Army with twenty years of service as an infantryman, TRADOC school platform instructor/training developer, aviator and data processing officer.

Mr. Davison began his association with 3D computer graphics in 1981 with an Apple II computer using “Appleworld” requiring to 3D objects to be created using cartesian coordinates. 

He became active in VR environments by as a beta tester and focus group member for Virtus Corporation in 1991. He was mention in Wired Magazine (issue 1.02  May/Jun 1993) for creating a nearly accurate web enabled 3-D fly-through environment of the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas by looking at a car (for scale) in a news photo.  He was instrumental in testing the Virtus 3D Homepage product, one of the first 3D web oriented products. 

Mr. Davison was a featured speaker at an architect convention in 1998 and participated as a VR presenter and panel member at three World Science Fiction Conventions.

He joined and explored numerous Virtual Reality web based products including, There, Cybertown (VRML based), Worlds, Adobe Atmospheres and Second Life.  However, he spent most of his time since 1999 in many ActiveWorlds based universes. He is also an ActiveWorlds focus group member and a beta tester and world content developer.  His primary focus in his exploration, other than the capability of technology, is the human experience of personal relationship formation, learning and social dynamics as manifested in a virtual world.

Mr. Davison developed, in ActiveWorlds, a training program for an online police force; he writes for the newsletter, developed a game, and builds commercial VR worlds.  Additionally, he won more than one extreme building contest.  In 2007 he received a lifetime achievement award from the online community.  He specializes in constructing Information Rooms and VR War Rooms where in the user may access huge volumes of information with little effort.  His most recent set of information rooms, developed as a proof of concept for the Army, is the Africa InfoSphere consisting of a set of eleven Africa related information rooms targeting government and non-government communities of interest with activities in Africa.