Product · AI · Spatial · Entrepreneur

Hi, I'm Rafa.

Product enthusiast — strategy, design, code, go-to-market, and every other bit. Co-founder & CEO of Volograms, where I've spent 8 years turning AI and 3D research into products people actually use.

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Products

Built from zero with a small team — strategy, design, tech, go-to-market, the lot.

Volu

iOS B2C

The first mobile app for volumetric video capture. Took this from concept to the App Store. Over 3M models processed. AWE Auggie Award for Best AI Product.

Vologram Messages

WebAR B2B

Holograms delivered as a link — no app required. Built to turn our core AI tech into a revenue-generating product. Used by global brands including HUGO BOSS and Mars Wrigley.

Vologram Studio

Multi-camera B2B

Multi-camera volumetric capture, in or out of the studio. High-end 3D assets for XR, virtual production, and sports. From a research paper to a full business.

Making

Always building something on the side. Some serious, some just because.

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Let's Crush It (WIP)

iOS productivity app built for doers, not dreamers — set priorities, track momentum, and actually follow through.

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AI School Lunch Tracker

Claude parses school lunch PDFs → custom web calendar → Home Assistant dashboard. Built it so I never accidentally cook the same thing they had for lunch.

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eyeQoala

3D startup, circa 2011. Didn't make it as a business — but won Best Startup at Yuzz and got us dreaming about spatial computing before it was a thing.

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Eirmersive

Founding member of Ireland's XR industry association. Ran the community newsletter and helped build the network from the ground up.

Research

I've been working in 3D reconstruction, volumetric capture, and computer vision for over 16 years — starting at the GTI lab at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and V-SENSE at Trinity College Dublin, and since 2018 at Volograms, where research and product development go hand in hand.

My work has been published in ECCV, ACM SIGGRAPH, Computer Graphics Forum, IEEE ISMAR and more; and I still engage deeply with the research community reviewing for WACV, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, and IEEE VIS, among others.

At Volograms I lead EU-funded initiatives including INVICTUS, Vol3Dedu, and open-call projects within Imagine-B5G and 6G-PATH.

500+ citations

13 h-index

25+ papers & patents

Google Scholar ↗

2010

PhD begins
UPM Madrid

2013

Research stay
RWTH Aachen

2015

Computer Graphics Forum
31 citations

2016

PhD completed
Joined TCD

2018

Best Paper Award
Founded Volograms

2021

500+ citations
WACV · MPEG

2023

AI & depth estimation
IEEE Access

View all 25+ publications →

Let's work together

Building a product and need a technical or strategic perspective?
Looking for a speaker on AI, computer vision, or entrepreneurship?
Working on an early-stage idea and want honest feedback?

hola@rafapages.com →