Thomas Dolby Robertson's career was, until the early 1990s, purely musical. His 1982 hit She Blinded Me with Science, from his album entitled The Golden Age of Wireless, was one of the tunes that helped formulate music videos for a new generation.

Dolby's long relationship with technology stems from his work with synthesizers in the late 70s. This work has since evolved into something much more profound. Recently Dolby created the first audio-based virtual reality installation at the Guggenheim Museum SoHo in New York entitled The Virtual String Quartet. The sold-out exhibit earned him a Computer World Smithsonian award nomination.

Through his company Headspace, Dolby is intent on creating tools that allow artists to create in a truly interactive environment, and on creating music which could change as a user's experience changed. "Today, entertainment is totally one-way and the individual has no effect on the experience whatsoever...It's really the first century that entertainment has been like that. Five hundred years ago, you sat around a campfire and told stories... What we're getting back to with the Internet is a more natural state of affairs, with the sense of immediacy I feel when I'm playing my songs for a live audience."