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Shota Imai is the CEO of UPHASH Inc., a Japan-based startup advancing 3D Gaussian Splatting, XR, and Digital Twin technologies. With a background as a technical artist specializing in 3DCG animation pipelines, rendering, and VFX compositing, he spent nearly a decade as an evangelist for Epic Games’ Unreal Engine in Japan, fostering one of the most active real-time 3D communities in Asia. He holds a BFA in Computer Art from the School of Visual Arts, New York, and currently focuses on integrating spatial capture with industrial applications to preserve physical environments for the emerging AI×XR era.