Bart Massee, alias "Bartacuss" comes from a heritage of painters and architects active across the globe, and has a passion for visualization and design. He graduated from the Design Academy in Eindhoven, Netherlands in 1991, and worked freelance before becoming a product designer with Insight Product Development in Chicago. He moved back to the Netherlands to work with Philips Design in 2000, helping shape major disruptive innovation programs for Philips for more than a decade before joining HP in 2016 to work in Advanced Design.

More recently Bart made the transition into Digital Design, with the goal to spend the next decade on the making of World Class Virtual experiences across AR and VR.

Bart runs a small gaming startup called RedwaterOne, designing, coding and developing gaming experiments for XR, iPad and iPhone based on lifelike particle system studies. He has a passion for XR, exploring VR and AR experience experiments and is interested in drones, robotics, AI+Art, virtual immersion and all related technologies. Bart lives in the Pacific Northwest with his wife and three kids, Newfoundland Dog, and enjoys flying his RC glider and drones, hiking, skiing and touring on his motorcycle.