Bio

I'm focused on a rapidly evolving stack of technologies making reality the next platform for computing. My mission is to bring these new technologies into the mainstream to enhance people's lives. I have extensive product experience from technology strategy and planning, industry and university partnerships, to product management, rapid prototyping, shipping product, and developing ecosystems. As Director of AR/VR/AI, Strategy & Technology Planning, at Futurewei Technologies, Inc., I worked at the intersection of research, technology and design to shape the future of computing, communications and AI experiences with some of the most powerful computing tools of our time, photonics, computer vision, machine learning, and new cloud native and web paradigms, to create distributed simulations for games, AVs, robotics, and augmented ecosystems. I've pioneered open approaches to augmented ecologies to unite collaboration and augmentation in a modular approach to spatial computing and AI with a cloud native approach based on open source initiatives in Rust & Web Assembly. Previously, I worked with Will Wright (Sims, Sim City) at Stupid Fun Club developing next generation entertainment - AI agents in reality based simulations, smart toys, Augmented Reality TV & games, & as co-founder at Syntertainment (THRED), a new generation of mobile social experiences. I have taken a leading role in the emergence of AR/VR into the consumer market. I'm Co-Founder of Augmented World Expo (AWE) - now in its 12th year & the world’s largest event focused on AR, VR, & XR. I also co-founded Augmented Reality.ORG, a global not-for-profit organization dedicated to advancing AR & XR. I began my career in design & technology doing visual effects for film, television, theme parks & aerospace. My first start-up, NPlus1, pioneered robotics (hardware & software) for motion control photography to create augmented reality for film and television. Recent talks inclcude: AWE 2022, EclipseCon 2020, AWE, 2019, Photonics West 2019, Frontiers in Optics & LS, 2018, Photonics West 2018, AWE 2018, CAPE (Center for Advanced Photonics, Cambridge U), SMPTE, Imman Connect, Design Week SF, SXSW Interactive, TEDxSiliconAlley, Games for Health, The Neurogaming Conference.