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A village of Native Americans doing daily tasks, Purple Martins make their nests in drying gourds on a scaffold.

The story behind the 'Magic of Nature'

‘Magic of nature’: Disney’s smart birdhouses reveal the secret lives of purple martins | TransformDigital transformations and the new face of businessTransformBill Briggs Background - from maintenance to martins I didn't start with a project pitch to understand a bird species. My incredible colleague Molly McCarthy and the

Beginnings of a platform - 3D Streaming Toolkit

Beginnings of a platform - 3D Streaming Toolkit

Opportunity - unmet needs In February 2016, we got in contact with AVEVA. They were an early HoloLens solution developer, and they'd hit a wall. In their Everything3D product, their customers develop extremely large, detailed BIM plans for power plants and large marine vessels. The fidelity of these

Desktop PC Experiments

Comparing the eyebox of XReal devices

Comparing the eyebox of XReal devices

Changes in eyebox size among xReal AR glasses models.

Designing an affordable, laser cut teleprompter

Designing an affordable, laser cut teleprompter

The long journey to create an inexpensive, large, diy teleprompter.

Designing and building an AR audio headset

Designing and building an AR audio headset

A few years ago I had the good fortune to work on an amazing project at work - Microsoft Soundscape. My team at Microsoft joined the effort and delivered a truly awesome experience over the 8 months of work we put in. You can see some of my work on

11 - Network graph of McDonald's menu schema

McDonald's AI Drive through

Brief 3 month exploratory investigation to determine the viability of a voice-based, fully automated drive-through experience for McDonalds. Jobs * Audio & Visual UI design * Information architecture * Conversational workflows * Data analysis & visualization * Operational deployment assessment Outcomes * Delivered a complete heuristic ordering model for English language * Mapped entire 5k+ SKU menu