With
three decades' experience in communications design and two decades
of experience in interactive design, Brooks is the founder
and creative force behind HoloCosmos - a wisdom circle
of media magicians at the cutting-edge of human-computer interaction.
The notion of "HoloCosmos" is that the superset of
the macrocosm, microcosm, infocosm and mythocosm is a unified
knowledge universe which can be made navigable and explorable
with sufficiently advanced digital media technology.
Brooks is also the founder and CEO of the new Holographic Search and Discovery venture HOLO.
HOLO is creating a "digital guardian angel" that makes search and social networking work better for Humans rather than for the advertising machines that would eat them alive. Our products fundamentially transform the way people find and turn information and media into meaning. They also bring value to multiple industries including entertainment and downloadable media, self-help, health care, finance, green technology, and climate solutions.
The idea behind HOLO is that consciousness should be an innate part of our digital experience; that exploring the universe of information and media – using web browsers, smart phones, HDTVs and other connected devices, should include the whole self, the higher self if you will, and not simply the egoic lower self so vulnerble to personal data mining and advertising predation. Like a good search engine, HoloSearch™ helps you find what you seek. But instead of only providing results in pages and lists, it fills the screen with dynamically generated experiences connecting people, places, products, ideas, videos ... and lets the user continuously discover, learn and share within social networks, blogs, and in the sites of our partners. We're in stealth mode but we're engaging early partners and investors in exclusive conversations, so get in while the getting's good.
Brooks is an electrifying presenter, speaker and advocate of the potential of emerging forms of dynamic, immersive networked Knowledge Media to empower individuals and organizations and effect positive change in business, education, society and environment. His highly visual presentations combine groundbreaking media projects with prototypes which provide windows into the future of digital media technology.
With HoloCosmos, Brooks has continued to expand his expertise in information architecture, visual design, interface innovation and conceptual innovation for Fortune 500 giants like Time-Warner, GE and many of its divisions, as well as fast-growth companies, non-profit organizations and individuals. Recent examples include: Corporate, Event and Expert Branding for Jack Canfield, author of "Chicken Soup for the Soul," Event theming for the Time Warner Global Leadership Conference; NewsFlash: the Flash Communication System created originally for GE Capital, and now used by GE Commercial Finance, GE Consumer Finance, GE Real Estate Europe, and many others; Online Strategy, Web Design/Architecture, Digital Marketing, Branding & Identity for Gary Zukav's Seat of the Soul Institute; social network, branding, entertainment design and interface design for Personal Life Media, Carlos Santana's Architects of a New Dawn, QMSE's Enabler and Synergy Media's TouchStand; web and web application development for NewsFlashServer,Backweb Technologies, NetTV, OnNet, SenCE and others; TV-Centric Media-On-Demand interface development for Lumenati, OnNet Corporation, and Sonic Solutions; site and membership marketing design for The Institute of Noetic Sciences and ACLU.TV; media package design for Enlightenment.com/ Ken Wilber, intranet design for GE and Barclay's Global Investors; web design for author George Dalzell, Immunology Lecturer Sondra Barrett, PhD., and many other clients.
Brooks has acted as Creative Director for CivicActions, with whom he has developed information and visual design solutions for Jerry Brown, The Institute of Noetic Sciences, ACLU.TV, New Progressive Coalition, Leveraging Investments in Creativity, Open Network, Campaign for California's Future, WisdomSpace and TrueDemocracy.
Roots in Theory: While studying Marketing and Design at the University of Denver as a Boettcher Scholar, Brooks developed a new theory of human perception called "MindSphere" that presaged current developments in digital media, virtual reality and knowledge navigation, and has applied this theory to advances in interactive television, interface design, information architecture, learning systems, and a ground-breaking patent in the Visual Navigation of Information Objects.
In 1981, Brooks founded WBC Communication Design to serve clients in Financial, Healthcare, Hotels, Manufacturing and other industries. Brooks formed MindSphere, a leading Bay Area interactive media developer, in 1993 to implement his vision and apply his principles to the service of clients, providing them with new ways to communicate, conduct business, entertain and learn interactively. MindSphere assisted numerous businesses in the deployment of commerce, entertainment, and knowledge-sharing solutions, including Hewlett-Packard (17-site web system for three divisions), TV Guide OnScreen (ITV Electronic Program Guide), Microsoft (Broadband ITV Navigator for kids), Macromedia (Package and collateral design, interactive tradeshow demos), SGI/Time-Warner (ITV user testing applications), Oracle (ITV consulting, CD-ROM design and animation), VLSI Technology (web system redesign and standards), LSI Logic (web system redesign and standards), 3Com (web system redesign and standards, interface for 3Com Park Touchscreen Kiosks), MS2 (web application interface design, web system design, branding, collateral, promotions), Intuit (interactive product demos), and DIVA Systems (ITV network navigator, architecture, branding, promotions).
Brooks believes that the future Web 3.0 is about "HoloConvergence," the stitching together of all information objects (data, metadata, media, people, groups, organizations, places, events, transactions, devices and contexts) into a single multidimensional, navigable whole. And he's got the math, the know-how and the team to pull it off. In 1999 Brooks
was awarded a groundbreaking U.S. Patent on the "Visual Navigation of Information
Objects," is developing several related new ones, and has assembled a team of mathematicians, engineers and artists to develop frameworks
for the next generation of knowledge navigation applications, user interface paradigms, media handling tools, systems and
content applications to discern, track and model user intent
and make interactive media more meaningful and relevant.
His
areas of development include "HoloLearning" an electronic
curriculum standard combining realtime online interaction,
3D gamelike navigation and DVD/Streaming digital video; a
VR knowledge finder for dynamic navigation of spatial information
arrays; a 3D Music Universe Navigator for exploring dimensional
relationships and affinities for the ultimate navigable music universe; an augemented geospatial data navigator; a navigator for
historical and time-based information as an explorable landscape;
and an engine for the delivery of dynamically edited and composited
"MetaMedia" fashioned on-the-fly from multiple mediatypes
and sources.
Brooks
Cole
CEO/Creative Director
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