Eugene Capon
Eugene Capon is a Futurist, Author, Speaker of the Metaverse, 360 Creative Director and podcaster of ‘Eugene Capon’ and VR Talk Show Glitched, among others. Eugene is a XR creator, making VR and 360 experiences with millions of views . He is also the author of ‘All The Things You Can Do In The Metaverse’ and ‘Get Serious About Social Media’.
Eugene is the President and Creative Director of Studio Capon, a level XR content creation and marketing company that uses various web, graphical, AR, and VR techniques. The company has a web presence of over 50 million impressions across multiple social channels.
His academic background is a Bachelor in Liberal Arts from Evergreen State College with an emphasis on "YouTube Studies". Upon graduation he went to work at the YouTube Consulting Agency Press Play, where he was focused on next level visual content in the motion graphics and animation genre.
After that, he has been in the creative industry for more than 15 years, working in different Directorial Roles like at Historic Everett Theatre, Wazzu films, Creosity, Media Solutions Corporation, BizTech RX. As a Creative Director at Lineage Media Solutions, Eugene built a creative pipeline for art, storytelling, and AR integration of children's storybooks.
As an author, he has written ‘All The Things You Can Do In The Metaverse’ book and ‘Get Serious About Social Media’ ebook.
‘All The Things You Can Do In The Metaverse’ is a tale for kids where siblings Jaden and Selena cure their boredom when they find a box with two VR headsets that suddenly appear in their living room. After the brother and sister put on the headsets a floating robot takes them into the Metaverse for adventures through a reality bending door.
‘Get Serious About Social Media’ is an ebook with tips and strategies for businesses to create brand awareness and marketing on social media.
As a public speaker and showman, Eugene hosted the flagship show, The Comic Shop, raising online presence from 0 to 70,000 monthly active viewers to the channel. He also wrote a 6-episode informational series around Skype IP involving large social media personalities.
He was also the creator of GLITCHED, the first in VR talk show to be ordered as if it were a TV show. The show revolved around interviewing large name tech and social media influencers like Barnacules Nerdgasm, iJustine, Jake Roper of Vsauce3 and Gearlive. The show ran for a total of 3 seasons.
Eugene has featured in more than 15 podcasts, including WSU Insider, WTIA, Twitch, Emerald City Comicon, GoMedia, Ready Hacker One, and The Bacon Bits 'n' Bytes Podcast.
He is also the Global XR Education Advisor at XR Safety Initiative and a Co Facilitator at After Effects Seattle, where he co-leads education sessions to help industry professionals improve their skills in the motion design field.
