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Mike Alger

@MikeAlgerXR

Multidisciplinary designer with expertise in spatial computing and digital eyewear, currently working at Apple. I used to tweet but then I got followers.

 Mountain View, CA
mikealger.com
Joined February 2010
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XR Design Theory and Practice for Digital Eyewear: youtu.be/4o__z7aPlMw
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I have a DK2 signed by John Carmack in my room. I’m glad I asked him to sign it at Oculus Connect when I did.
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The Continuity of Splines is now on YouTube!! it has been a year in the making, goodness ;-;🎉 I hope you'll like it ❤ ❱ youtu.be/jvPPXbo87ds
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The demo of YouTube VR working with passthrough on Quest from Facebook Connect
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printer paper + pillowcase + dog toy + Snap Camera filter = WFH meeting Halloween costume
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I tried Photoshop’s Neural Filters on a Mel Milton (melmadedooks) drawing. This is wild.
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An analysis of the hype curve over 25 years by VR tech inventor, Imagineer, and general OG Mark Mine: vimeo.com/464835556
A Quarter Century of Hype - 25 Years of the Gartner Hype Cycle

A Quarter Century of Hype - 25 Years of the Gartner Hype Cycle

A presentation of several novel ways to visualize 25 years of the Gartner Hype Cycle. The goal is to demonstrate how one's understanding of complex information can benefit greatly from viewing the...

vimeo.com
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@tipatat This seems like your cup of tea
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Some people mentioned it’s distracting that I’m looking off to the side. I shot it in my kitchen and I’m reading the script off my computer.
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...and this is what's happening in this sequence near the end
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I was working in buildings right next to Sutherland’s original HMD for almost 4 years without realizing it
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Just saw that “see-through mode” is out. Last summer, I made this example of a volumetric video training app with the Mirage Solo and some of @4dviews samples. I was imagining a useful way to learn skills from experts (in the spirit of Bob Ross, Richard Simmons, Julia Child...)
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Congrats to Microsoft’s Maquette team for launching on Steam! Lots of nice attention to subtle details in the interface. A useful tool for immersive designers, and free! store.steampowered.com/app/9… – at San Francisco, CA
Microsoft Maquette on Steam

Microsoft Maquette on Steam

Microsoft Maquette makes it easy to sketch and iterate ideas quickly in 3D space. Maquette is a virtual reality tool which aims to make immersive spatial prototyping easy and fast, all from within a...

store.steampowered.com
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I’ll be at Oculus Connect, so if you see me say "hi" and invite me to any parties you’re going to! Related: One of the reasons I use an avatar of myself in VR is so people can maintain continuity for memories outside of headsets, too.
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Weekend project: By combining a 3D scan with an MRI (don’t worry I’m fine), I can now step out of my body and legitimately look into my head at my own brain.
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Under the skin: an MRI session can be easily exported to images. Rather than an admittedly more appropriate voxel approach that I’m afraid of, I lined up the images on quads and made a shader to adjust their opacity based on viewing angle and distance.
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Lastly, there’s an adjustable threshold for the greyscale’s mapping to transparency. Spent today learning a lot more about shaders to make it look like I wanted.
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A WebXR N64 emulator that actually renders the original games in stereo! medium.com/webmr/n64-vr-with…

N64 VR with Javascript

TLDR: I made an N64 emulator work in VR with Javascript and WebXR. Emukit is open source.

medium.com
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Florence is great storytelling using basic mobile UX. It’s a 1 hour story with headphones and costs $3. itunes.apple.com/us/app/flor…
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