Simon N.B. Gunkel is a Senior Scientist with over 12 years of experience in multimedia R&D. His focus is on topics relating to Extended Reality (AR, VR, MR, XR), (photo-realistic) immersive communication systems, Web 4.0 and the Metaverse. His work involves the full innovation cycle from ideation, patenting, implementation, evaluation, scientific publications, and standardization (3GPP SA4).