About Visual Experience – التجربة البصرية

The first in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Established at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in 2013, Visual Experience has been providing end-to-end virtual reality services across the Gulf Cooperation Council region with the goal of bridging the gap between virtual reality and mainstream audiences.

The working flow

At Visual Experience, all virtual reality projects are developed by talented and creative team members with a strong background in the field of virtual reality, supported by fellow researchers at Visual Computing Center, KAUST, and high-end equipment.

One of the most promising startups in the Kingdom

Listed as The 50 Most Promising Startups in Saudi Arabia by Forbes, Visual Experience has been successfully partnering with top-notch companies in Gulf Cooperation Council states, such as Saudi Aramco, Sabic, Ministry of Hajj and Umrah, Abu Dhabi Tourism and Cultural Authority, and many more.

Team

Abdulwahid Alzaydi

Chief Executive Officer

Abdulwahid holds a Master’s degree in IT and a Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering. During his professional life, he has managed several large technological projects with budgets over 2.5 million USD. He is an inventor with two patents pending in the field of virtual reality. His strong leadership skills, IT skills, and industrial experience enable him to become responsible for the overall management of both the technological and organizational processes involved at Visual Experience.

Mohammad Alzaydi

Chief Operating Officer

Having a nine years of experience establishing and managing several businesses in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Mohammad Alzaydi is responsible for the daily operation of Visual Experience. He graduated from Umm al-Qura University, Mecca, in 2018, holding a bachelor's degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering, with a strong passion in entrepreneurship and discovering new things in technology.

Peter Rautek

Chief Technology Officer

Peter Rautek received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Vienna University of Technology, Austria in 2009. In 2011, he joined the Visual Computing Center at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia, as a research scientist. His core expertise is computer graphics, visualization, and virtual reality. His passion is to make things from design to implementation phase. As a result, he has published several academic papers in international journals and contributed to publicly available internet-of-things projects.

Alvi Syahrin

Content Developer

Alvi Syahrin is responsible for anything related to writing, whether it’s for the web content, social media, business proposals, marketing posts. But he’s not just there for writing, he’s inventing new ideas in the field of virtual reality, through writing, for Visual Experience. And, everything you see here on the website is all generated by him. In his spare time, he is becoming an Instagram writer with big numbers of following.