Mixed reality (MR) is an innovative technology that blends the digital and physical worlds, allowing users to interact with both environments seamlessly. By overlaying digital content onto the real world, MR enhances experiences in gaming, education, and training, creating immersive and interactive scenarios. Users can manipulate virtual objects as if they were part of their physical surroundings, fostering a unique and engaging way to experience information and entertainment. As MR continues to evolve, it holds the potential to transform how we connect with technology and each other. By blending these realities, MR transforms how we perceive and engage with information, offering endless possibilities for creativity and collaboration.

The latest virtual reality (VR) headsets are pushing the boundaries of immersion and interactivity, offering users stunning visual experiences and advanced features. With high-resolution displays, improved field of view, and precise motion tracking, these headsets provide a more lifelike experience than ever before. Many models now include enhanced audio systems and wireless capabilities, allowing for greater freedom of movement. With a growing library of games and applications, the latest VR headsets are revolutionizing entertainment, training, and social interaction, making virtual worlds more accessible and engaging for everyone.

Augmented reality (AR) overlays digital content onto the real world, enhancing our perception of reality with interactive elements. By using devices like smartphones or AR glasses, users can see virtual images, information, or animations integrated into their physical environment. This technology has applications across various fields, including gaming, education, retail, and healthcare, offering innovative ways to engage with information and experiences. AR enriches everyday activities, transforming how we learn, shop, and interact, making the digital world an integral part of our physical lives.

Please feel free to browse through various projects I’ve led and developed from concept to final delivery over past 10-15 years showcasing some cutting edge innovative AR/VR applications. More to come soon >>>

CGI Gallery of various architectural & interior design project renderings using state of the art RTX technology, Unreal Engine 5, Omniverse. These virtual spaces are easily adaptable to VR headsets and browser-based experiences.

Responsible for all creative design/direction, cgi lighting, shading+ look development and VR/XR experiences.

Platforms: Video, Meta Quest 2, Browsers (Chrome, Firefox, Edge).

VR Demo coming soon!

Dino Survival is an augmented reality dinosaur adventure that you can play in the middle of your living room, bringing you face-to-face with fierce and terrifying predators. I developed this game and AR technology at Pixeldust Studios. Be the hero and help dinosaurs escape unscathed from the claws and teeth of infamous predators like T-rex. This entertaining experience is brought to you by the use of mobile AR technology that allows unique, innovative, and incredibly addictive mannerisms and features. Explore a variety of dinosaur worlds like the Cretaceous, Jurassic, Triassic, Permian periods, and the underwater Devonian and Ordovician times.

It’s a survival game, run to overcome obstacles and dodge fierce predators. Take advantage of the AR feature and experience the game from different vantage points, find innovative ways and angles to plan your escape, and help your dino-friends outrun predators and survive. As you advance through the different levels, you will unlock a deadly collection of predators from the mighty and fierce T-rex, to the deadly Spinosaurus, to a smart hunting pack of Raptors. You will also unlock unexpected, deadly small forms of terror like a swarm of 2 feet tall Coelophysis that can wreak havoc! Boost prey’s energy by guiding them to water holes and food. Unlock more worlds, new gizmos, new predators, and Dino-friends as your creature’s survival rate increases. You can also purchase exclusive premium features or play to get more Dino-DNA points.

This game uses markerless tracking AR technology, supported on most available phones and tablets (iOS + Android). Furthermore, this game was built on top of AI navigation technology with pathfinding features.

Responsible for all Game & AR technology development.

Platforms: IOS phone+Ipad, Android phone+tablet.

This virtual experience was developed for architects, interior designers, real estate developers to assist in visualizing their newly designed space in virtual reality where they can get the true sense of scale, light and materials. This helps break down communication barriers and go beyond 2D drawings that leave room for misunderstanding and experience a true 1:1 scale immersion. Experience unbuilt spaces before breaking ground & reduce the time, money, and materials spent building physical mockups. This demo is built for the Meta Quest 2 and can be easily ported to a browser based walkthrough for non-VR users.

Responsible for Oculus/Meta quest sdk VR development using Unity-URP & C#.

Platforms : Meta Quest 2 VR headset, Browsers (Chrome, Firefox, Edge).

Since covid times more and more shoppers have been forced to work, shop, engage from home in everyday simple activities. This has given birth to many new forms of digital content that alleviate from the latest technologies and we are able to create close to photoreal spaces & environments virtually explorable. A specific rising prominent arena of virtual retail space is fashion as well. Numerous hi-end brands all over the world are adapting and taking advantage of virtualization of their clothing/fashion inventory and its possible to interactively explore their collections online. It is also possible to digitize real fabrics using state of the art current tools accurately in its true original and real world material form.

This is one such example of an ideal possible retail space that can be traversed and interacted with from your browser or through a VR headset. This experience/walk through was put together using Unitys state of the art Universal render pipeline that brings to fruition close to photoreal looking architectural & interior environments. Its still a heavily optimized space to be able to run smoothly over internet speeds.

Responsible for Retail interior space texturing, lighting and programming interactive walk through using Unity-URP & C#.

Platforms: IOS phone+Ipad, Android phone+tablet, Browsers (Chrome, Firefox, Edge)

Battle of Reptopia is an immersive augmented reality experience using the Magic Leap One device developed at Pixeldust Studios in 2019. This project was put together for Mandai park development and the Singapore Zoo. This pilot ‘Battle For Reptopia’ experience was specifically designed to appeal to two key personas at the Zoo: The Indulgent Parent and The Educator. This Magic Leap experience deploys critical components of the magic leap experience and API like spatial 3d environments, spatial 3d audio, controller touch and trigger and head tracking. For purposes of a public experience, only basic dependable and efficient features were deployed, that would be user friendly and easy to adopt quickly for even a novice user of the headset.

The experience is comprised of 5 stations/image-based triggers that will bring to life 5 unique immersive and interactive photoreal 3d habitat worlds in the middle of your room or table, that will showcase its species in action. The experience is narrated by a host character “Icon” in 3d that will guide the user inside the AR exhibit, sometimes in person, at times as background voice. Each station will introduce one or two of the reptiles/amphibians by including a brief initial non-interactive storyline that the users can watch and listen and learn various crucial info on the critters including their special skills and hunting mechanisms. Next the users will be allowed to interact with some of these qualities for a couple minutes using the Magic Leap controller and in the end they will get to play a fun immersive game for some stations. Below is a brief breakdown of each of the stations AR activities. Each station roughly takes about 3-7 minutes to complete.

Responsibilities:

Worked as Head of AR + Unity Development and AR experience planning. Responsible for Augmented Reality development using Magic Leap One headset and SDK inside Unity/C#. Mobile based AR using Vuforia, ARCore + ARKit (Android+iOS).

Script writing, UI design, art direction provided by Pixeldust Studios.

This experience is also portable to mobile/tablet based (iOS+Android) or virtual reality devices like the Meta Quest 2.

AR EXPERIENCE PLANNING

• Creative development for script and story in parallel to visual AR flow.

• Script flow in tandem with sequence of stations.

• Purpose of thorough script/story writing was essential to create stronger affinity & deeper dive into the conservation and natural history of animals powered by visual AR.

• This process also helped create visual markers to engage/disengage story vs interactive/game mode.

AR STATION CONCEPTUALIZATION

• AR Station launch on podium 1.5 m high. For ages 15+.

• 180-360 deg viewable.

• Environments based of tropical regions of the critters.

• Timer based experience to finish in 3-5 mins each station.

• Simple interactivity using controller & trigger for point and select.

• Using controller as touch device to push buttons, play/pause.

TECHNOLOGY FEATURES

Headset used: Magic Leap One AR Headset.

Prominent features used:

• Controller trigger, D-Pad, Controller as touch, Image targets, AR Meshing, Spatial 3d Audio, Kiosk mode

EXPERIENCE STILLS FROM MAGIC LEAP ONE HEADSET

EXPERIENCE CAPTURE VIDEOS

VISUAL AUDIO AID

• Visual aid animations on controller provided for guidance in interactive mode.

• Spatial 3d audio critical for user orientation and focus.

• Audio cues essential at every step and provided by host character and AI instructional voice.

• Funny quotes , natural reaction spurs and morale boost words provided by host character in games and interactives to comfort & motivate users.

MORE EXPERIENCE CAPTURE VIDEOS

MOBILE APP AR EXPERIENCE

In addition to the headset experience, our team was also responsible in programing a mobile based AR experience where users can interact with the creatures on their tabletop. This experience used technologies like Vuforia, AR kit and AR Core inside Unity for iOS and Android phones and tablets.

Mars Community Builder project was developed for Challenger Center at Pixeldust Studios. This builder allows users to explore the possibilities and challenges of establishing a permanent base on Mars. This interactive experience allows users to learn about Mars and take part in a step-by-step building process that could one day be used to help make an interplanetary community a reality.

Building a base on Mars will require a variety of building modules and equipment to provide services to the astronauts. Inhabitants of a Mars community will need food, fuel, water, energy, and oxygen. The first part of your mission is to learn about the different types of equipment at your disposal. Pay close attention to the characteristics and features of the building modules and equipment. You will have an opportunity to explore all space building modules individually using VR and/or AR technology.

In part two of your mission, you will use AR technology to put your equipment knowledge to the test. Here, you’ll assemble your own community. Carefully choose the equipment to lay out your own community. When you’re finished, your Mars community will be evaluated for sustainability.

Responsible for App development for Android+IOS, interaction, augmented reality development using Unity-Vuforia, game development.

Platforms: IOS phone+Ipad, Android phone+tablet.

GOOGLE PLAY STORE : LINK

Worked as Head of AR Development for this project. This experience which was part of the Explora app, was done with Pixeldust Studios for the Nuevo León government in Mexico. It comprised of a historical location-based experience, combining a physical design installation with AR technology to enrich the lives of people who visit Nuevo León.

The free mobile app includes more information about the various municipalities. By pointing your camera to the different labels in the roundabout, it triggers historical and economic data, comparisons, and photos of each Municipio. Entertainment content like trivia, mini-games,  and a magazine with articles about gastronomy, museums, and other attractions enriches the overall experience and provides a longer shelf life to the app. It also includes an AR virtual 3D distance and direction calculator to measure the distance to any given Municipio. The AR experience combined with the standalone application lets visitors discover the rich history of the Nuevo León state.

Information about each Municipio was delivered when the visitors of the Battle for Survival interacted with trigger cards strategically distributed along the periphery of the roundabout. Visitors navigated with their iOS or Android mobile devices and would experience the different stages of the experience as they found the various trigger markers.

Responsible for location based AR technology development using google services integrated in Unity. All app design and copyright Pixeldust Studios.

Platforms: IOS phone+Ipad, Android phone+tablet.

Google Play link HERE:

META QUEST 2 VR EXPERIENCE

This virtual experience was designed and engineered for users to experience a trade show conference in full VR immersion from the comfort of their living room using the latest Meta Quest 2. With additional customization and tweaks this experience can easily be ported to other headsets in future, but this one was specifically catered towards the quest 2. The Quest 2 is a light mobile and untethered device that is commercially affordable and most users can engage in longer experience times without fatigue or strain to the eyes.

Users are able to traverse the exhibition space and interact with objects and other users at the booths. More features include instant teleportation to anywhere in the virtual space and proximity based reaction and response.

Responsible for Oculus/Meta quest sdk VR development using Unity-URP & C#. This project was done for Pixeldust Studios.

Platforms : Meta Quest 2 VR headset, Browsers (Chrome, Firefox, Edge).

BROWSER BASED XR VIRTUAL EXPERIENCE

An extended browser-based experience (video below) lets users initially customize their avatars and then enter a multiplayer space where they can interact and engage with elements in the virtual space. This version of the experience can run on most popular browsers and takes advantage of the powerful Photon Multiplayer, Chat and Voice features that can accommodate up to 1000 concurrent users.

Architectural/interior walk through rendering.

Responsible for architectural 3d look development, lighting, rendering, compositing using Unreal Engine.