Sebastian

The goal was to create an indoor, mobile AR, treasure-hunt-type experience for Area15 venue in Las Vegas. The most important requirement in the project was to ensure the AR part of the experience worked reliably. That was challenging due to on-site conditions including low light, UV-paint-covered metal AR target markers lit with black lights, and the large open space with relatively few unique visual feature points, which are not suitable for AR. I was the team leader and XR developer for a team of 9 people. We worked directly with the client and for most of the project, we didn't have access to the facility as it was under construction, which was another challenging aspect. Eventually, we delivered the project and after a few years it's already paid for its development and continues to generate revenue.

The AR try-on experience was a research mobile AR project combining the native iOS AR capabilities with machine learning. The goal was to determine the feasibility of the current AR and AI systems in trying virtual goods on top of physical objects. The client wanted to check quickly and with a limited budget, whether, the technology is mature enough to handle the specified use case. I was a team leader and XR developer in a team of five. My job was to plan, organise, and coordinate the work for the team. We prepared a list of potential solutions and evaluated them in terms of expected cost and estimated success chance, prepared a research plan proposal. During the POC phase, we created multiple prototypes. We got to a point, that clearly showed that the particular use case would be too costly to develop at the current level of technology. Based on the results, the client could relatively quickly and with limited spending decide to focus on other, more promising use cases.

The project under the working title "Landing Party" is a new and revolutionary mobile AR walking game from Johnny Monsarrat and his team. I worked on the project as a consultant and XR developer for the mobile and AR portion of the game. My tasks were a mix of assisting the team with making the implementation performant and mobile-friendly, as well as, research endeavors including using plane detection to determine ground level, which was important for blending the rich and vast virtual environment with the real one. The game is currently undergoing another round of funding and is continuously developed to reach production-ready status.