{"id":257,"date":"2025-07-07T16:37:25","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T23:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/nwxr-dev\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=257"},"modified":"2025-08-05T10:12:37","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T17:12:37","slug":"david-wikstrom","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/nwxr\/profile\/david-wikstrom\/","content":{"rendered":"<section  class=\"bio-section-wrapper section section-white\">\n\t<div class=\"container-xl\">\n\t\t<div class=\"row\">\n\t\t\t\n<div class=\"bio-section-content col-md-8\">\n\t\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">About David<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>David is an ex-Air Force Electrical and Environmental Systems Specialist who earned his Bachelor\u2019s in Application Development at Bellevue College. He is now a Lead Developer with&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mxtreality.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">MXTReality<\/a>&nbsp;and continues to work part time with the Bellevue College XR Lab.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cI\u2019ve always been interested in Virtual Reality, but the thing that really sold me on pursuing a career in VR application development is VRET (Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy) and its effectiveness in treating PTSD. I believe XR technologies are important technologies that will change the landscape of education and healthcare in the future.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Education<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Community College of the Air Force<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Bellevue College &#8211; BASc, Application Development<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<hr class=\"section-divider\">\n<\/section>\n\n<div class=\"block-wrapper alignstandard\">\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"department":[10],"profile_type":[6],"class_list":["post-257","profile","type-profile","status-publish","hentry","department-xr-lab","profile_type-xr-lab-assist"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/nwxr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/nwxr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/nwxr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/nwxr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":559,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/nwxr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/257\/revisions\/559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/nwxr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"department","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/nwxr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/department?post=257"},{"taxonomy":"profile_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/nwxr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile_type?post=257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}