Emerging technology, immersive experiences, and life along the way

Jun 3, 2016

Panoramas at Scotland JS

I used a few of these shots taken with the Cardboard Camera application during my time in Edinburgh at ScotlandJS this week. I wanted to go ahead and share them, for those who either want to view or use them!

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Jan 21, 2017

Thank You, Microsoft! Hello, High Fidelity!

I’ve been taking this month to settle into the new year, because a lot has been going on — and I’m excited (although it is bitter sweet!) to announce that yesterday was my last day at Microsoft and I’ll be heading to High Fidelity on Monday!

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Feb 19, 2015

February News

Hi all!

It’s been a crazy busy month but I wanted to update on a few new things that I’m working on and get a status update out, partially for my own benefit so I can keep track of what’s going on myself.

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Nov 7, 2016

History in Holograms: USA Voter Turnout, 1980–2012

This election cycle has been exhausting — it feels like today, more than ever, every political party, media outlet, social media site, and advertisement is screaming the message loud and clear: Go Vote. With elections just one day away, the…

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Apr 29, 2017

What We are Building is not Simple

The problems and challenges that have led up to the state of virtual and augmented reality technologies as they exist today have been exactly that: problems and challenges. Teams have worked tirelessly to bring the hardware, sensors, firmware, tools, and applications…

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Jan 9, 2017

Someone is in my Computer — How Not to Properly Secure your VR Server

A few days ago, between sniffling, sneezing, and attempting to nap away a pretty nasty cold, I was spending some time working on my home-away-from-the-physical-world that I’m building using High Fidelity…

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Mar 22, 2017

Immortality and Upgrades

A week or so ago, I was filling out a form online and skipped over the “Are you a Robot” checkbox. Captchas have gotten pretty good, and Google now has an algorithm that allows you to bypass the box altogether, but I couldn’t help the bit of delight that it caused when I successfully…

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Jun 5, 2015

Creating NPC Text for VR in Unity

Y’all. I struggled with this for a LONG time.

It seemed simple enough — although text and user interface elements in virtual reality are new and best-practice-less for the time being (and there is a lot of discussion on the topic of how to do…

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Feb 22, 2016

Monday Musings: Agents, Avatars, and The Matrix

Welcome to Monday Musings! These are are shorter-form, note-like blog posts that I share that may or may not be related to VR/AR, but that I want to share some quick thoughts on, get some extra insight on, or share out quickly.