Dave Blackburn Personal Information
	Dave Blackburn, Founder and President of  Virtual Ventures is one of the world's leading experts in the exploding marketplace for applications of live 3D computer generated animated productions. With nine years experience as a marketing applications consultant in the Virtual Reality field, Blackburn's work in the last 3 years has focused on the new paradigm of live online 3D character production in the context of the complete spectrum of digital entertainment.  As an in-demand speaker and moderator of panels at all of the major gatherings of digital entertainment producers nationwide, Dave Blackburn has been featured at : SIGGRAPH, National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) : Internet World; The Annual Avatars Conference; Digital Hollywood; The Annual Virtual Reality Conference; and The Show Biz Expo, among others.  As a published author, Dave Blackburn has written several in-depth articles on the evolving applications and technological development of Virtual Reality. Dave's articles have appeared in leading Industry publications such as Computer Graphics World; PC Graphics and Video; Internet World; and Web Sight Magazine. His 1995 article in PC Graphics and Video predicted the revolutionary emergence of Open GL based real-time 3D visualization on the Wintel desktop development platform.  When not pitching Virtual Character development projects to entertainment studios, Dave Blackburn can be found pitching softballs on a diamond somewhere in the world. Dave was named as a pitcher to the ASA All American Team at the 1999 National Championship Tournament. He has also been a pitcher on the Maccabi Fastpitch Softball Team that has represented the United States in International competition on 7 occasions. His 24 year pitching career has included over 1,400 games pitched on three continents. In January of 2000, Dave Blackburn took on the role of Men's Fastpitch Softball Commissioner for the State of California, within the International Softball Congress (ISC). At the same time Dave was also named Co-Chairman of the Maccabi-USA Men's Fastpitch softball team that will compete in the 16th World Maccabiah Games in Israel during the summer of 2001.  To find out more about Dave Blackburn's hall of fame induction page, go to the Web Site: Southern California Jewish Sports Hall of Fame