Primary Job Title Co-Founder & CEO Primary Organization Meta4 Interactive
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Vander Caballero is an established leader of Canadian video game innovation. When he was Creative Director at Electronic Arts (EA), Vander helped build and lead teams that created iconic titles of video game culture: Army of Two and FIFA among others.
In 2010, he foresaw the emergence of digital distributors (Playstation Network, XBLA, Steam) as
a shift in game publishing power dynamics. Following his sharp business instinct, he left EA and founded Minority Media, building a new team of veteran game creators. He confirmed his vision two years later when Papo & Yo – Minority’s debut – captured a loyal following through exclusive digital distribution at a fraction of the marketing budget spent by larger studios.
Vander is no newcomer to virtual reality (VR); he was working with this technology before he entered the games industry. After completing his studies in industrial design, he worked on a virtual reality ride for the Oceania Project in Montreal. Subsequently, he joined Daniel Langlois (founder of Softimage) in a startup to develop VR applied to architecture. As head of R&D, Vander developed multiple projects using head-mounted displays (HMDs), gyroscopes, and real-time motion capture. He also developed virtual environments for world-class architects.
When Minority’s CTO, Julien Barnoin, showed Vander the first Oculus Rift development kit, he immediately saw the unprecedented immersive power of this new generation of VR technology. In it, they both foresaw the future of entertainment. So, Vander set his talented team to work on Time Machine, the ultimate time travel game to be experienced on VR devices.
