This immersive installation invited visitors into a kelp forest under stress. Using gaze tracking and real-time animation,
the piece revealed the role of sea otters as a keystone species - visitors’ attention directed otters toward sea urchins,
triggering their removal and restoring ecological balance.
In under two months, I handled all 3D modeling, animation, and visual design, while Jeff Kranski and Josh Faust developed a custom computer
vision pipeline using PyTorch, OpenCV, and Unity. The system interpreted eye direction in real time, transforming collective
gaze into an act of environmental restoration.
This was a fully reactive experience - built to respond, adapt, and grow, just like the ecosystem it modeled.
With Hungry Mantis, I led the development of immersive product stories for Apple Vision Pro. These included interactive AR product displays and immersive videos that captured the innovation behind next-generation electric marine systems.
This project blended augmented reality with 360º filmmaking to tell the story of the Knight Campus in Eugene, Oregon. Filmed on location, it combined live 360º video, hundreds of still frames, and an interactive AR campus map to guide viewers through the space.
I put together a sharp crew: filmmaker and audio designer Grant Lemons, developer Anastasia Devana, art director Liem Nguyen, AR producer Estella Tse, and sound designer Anna Bertmark. Together, we built a layered, location-aware experience that merged story and space.
Along with several people I still bring in for projects, I worked inside the early Magic Leap ecosystem as the Technical Art Director for Games and Applications, prototyping augmented reality systems, developing volumetric video pipelines, and experimenting with through-device photography capture. This was frontier work, exploring how spatial stories could be told through light, depth, and motion.
Over several years, together with Paul Reynolds, I designed and built a series of seven unique responsive installations that react to visitor movement and behavior. These exhibits merged sensors, real-time graphics, and narrative design to bring marine science to life.
Working with filmmaker Grant Lemons, I shot and created a cinematic VR experience filmed from a helicopter above Mexico City. The project combined practical cinematography with immersive audio and narrative pacing.
This project brought together a full creative crew - Myself, Paul Wolff, Liem Nguyen, Anna Bertmark, and Chris Miller - to produce real-time 3D environments for remote breakout sessions. Animated, stylized, and deeply human, Telly Club reimagined what virtual meetings could feel like.
