Anatole Lécuyer is Research Director and member of the Seamless team at Inria, Rennes, France. He has been leading research into “virtual reality” for 25 years. He has taken part in numerous international collaborations, such as the European GuestXR and NIW projects. He initiated and still runs the open-source software OpenViBE, and co-founded the startup Mensia. He is the author of over 200 scientific publications and 15 patents. He has served as Program Chair of the IEEE VR conference and Associate Editor of the IEEE TVCG journal. He was awarded the Inria-Académie française des sciences “Young Researcher” prize in 2013, and was inducted into the IEEE Virtual Reality Academy in 2022.