Bruce Vaughn is the Chief Creative Officer of Dreamscape VR, which uses the most advanced VR technologies to create an entirely new form of mainstream location-based entertainment. Vaughn was previously Chief Creative Executive, Walt Disney Imagineering for The Walt Disney Company, for eight years. In this role, he led the integrated creative teams of Walt Disney Imagineering (WDI), Disney’s Creative Entertainment (DCE) and WDI Research and Development to drive excellence in product development and innovation. The scope of Vaughn’s responsibilities included theme park attractions and special effects, innovative theater experiences, and new business opportunities that leverage invented and emerging technologies. Disney’s Avatar land, Star Wars lands and Shanghai Disneyland are among the many projects he creatively oversaw. Prior to joining Walt Disney Imagineering in 1993, Vaughn worked on the technical staff of Bran Ferren’s company, Associates & Ferren, in East Hampton, New York for five years where he contributed to the development and execution of special effects for various media projects and received several screen credits for feature films, including Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989) and Imposter (2001).
