Calm Technologist | Co-founder, VR Research Centre, Lund University | Pioneer, Healthcare VR | Creator, Reality2 Protocol | Co-founder, Imersia & Mariko EarthGrids | Researcher, University of Auckland
Roy Davies spent 12 years in Sweden co-running a VR research centre at Lund University, where his team built some of the world's earliest healthcare VR applications. One of the most significant: a system helping traumatic brain injury patients relearn daily tasks through virtual environments, developed years before VR became a consumer technology.
Back in Aotearoa, he co-founded Imersia and created the Reality2 decentralised mesh protocol, a peer-to-peer spatial computing infrastructure designed to work independently of centralised platforms. He is now pioneering what he calls "calm technology": systems designed to serve people rather than compete for their attention, an increasingly rare design philosophy in a world built around engagement metrics.
A researcher at the University of Auckland and co-founder of Mariko EarthGrids, Roy works at the frontier of mixed reality, adaptive intelligence, and assistive technology. He is a deep technologist who builds things that make life quieter and better, which in the current landscape makes him genuinely unusual.