Alex Kipman

Kipman was born in Curitiba in 1979 and grew up in Natal, Brazil. [2][1][4] When he was seven or 8, he learned how to program the Atari 2600.[5] Later on he would go to RIT University, graduating in 2001 with a degree in software engineering and joined Microsoft that same year,[6][7] starting development on Microsoft's integrated development environment (IDE) Visual Studio. Starting 2005, he helped in the development of Microsoft Windows, until joining the Xbox department in 2008,[8] where he came up with the idea of creating the Xbox Kinect in just two days. He proved to Microsoft he could develop a prototype for the Kinect in two months, and then the product was finished two years later.[5] In his career at Microsoft, his experience has led to him issuing over one-hundred patents, for technologies such as the Hololens and Xbox Kinect. He is known at Microsoft as a "Technical Fellow". In a 2011 interview with Fast Company, he said "Software is the only art form in existence that is not bound by the confines of physics."[9][8] In 2016, he gave a Ted Talk on mixed reality, titled "A futuristic vision of the age of Holograms".[4][10][11] In a 2017 interview with Alice Bonasio, he emphasized his passion for mixed reality, stating how it gives him a sense of "displacement superpowers".[12] During the Hololens 2 reveal at the Mobile World Congress in 2019, Alex Kipman talked about how the Hololens 2 would be the "next era" of mixed reality, making it more culturally relevant.[13]

Fastcompany interview
Ted speech