Director of Technology, ReloomVR
As Director of Technology at ReloomVR, Robert Ponte leverages a rich background in hardware and software support to drive technical innovation. He specializes in the design, assembly, and maintenance of virtual reality camera robots engineered for immersive event videography. Combining comprehensive hardware and software proficiency, he excels at optimizing technical operations, troubleshooting complex systems, and delivering seamless virtual reality experiences.
Robert leads technology at ReloomVR, which here means two things that are usually two departments. The first is physical: the design, assembly and maintenance of the virtual-reality camera robots the company films events with. Custom remote-controlled chassis built to purpose, modular robotics components that can be swapped rather than repaired mid-shoot, and the advanced 360° camera setups mounted on top of them.
The second is everything that happens after the shoot. He manages end-to-end post-production workflows in macOS, working through non-linear editing platforms including DaVinci Resolve and Final Cut Pro — the path a day takes from raw captured footage to something a family can put a headset on and step into.
A rig that shoots beautifully and produces footage the pipeline chokes on has not solved the problem, and neither has a flawless edit of a take the robot spoiled by being in the wrong place. Holding the hardware and the software together is what lets one person follow a fault all the way through instead of handing it across a boundary.
That is the practical shape of what he does: optimising technical operations, troubleshooting complex systems, and delivering virtual reality experiences that feel seamless — which is to say, experiences where nothing about the technology asks for the viewer’s attention.
Robert is also the founder of Office Yoga Classes. He has been practising yoga since 1998 and teaching since 2007, and his teaching blends traditional Ashtanga with modern mindfulness practice. He works with individuals and with corporate teams on cultivating mindfulness, reducing stress, and improving general well-being.
“Simplicity in living through less doing and just being present.”
Robert Ponte, on what he teaches
It is a less unrelated second discipline than it first appears. Presence is the thing ReloomVR is trying to hand back to someone in a headset, and being genuinely present is what he spends the rest of his week teaching people to do.
Robert writes about the equipment side of immersive capture — what a 360° rig actually has to withstand at a live event, what breaks and why, and how footage gets from a camera robot to a finished VR film without losing what made the moment worth filming.
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