About Me

A promotional AR cardboard cube that I developed to send to prospective employers in the post. The cube which is under-tension as it has an elastic band inside springs into its 3D form and its WebAR content is accessed via either Chrome on Android or Safari on iOS so avoiding the need for downloading an app. Each side of the cube provides an interactive AR vignette illustrating a particular quality that I can bring to their organisation (e.g. teamwork) as well as illustrating different types of interaction including speech synthesis & recognition with natural language processing (via Microsoft's Azure and Google's DialogFlow cloud platforms) and using the physical cube as the input device by removing the rotation of the phone's accelerometer using Generic Sensor API so you only get the physical rotation of the cube itself. More details are available here.

An experiential installation for Ericsson at MWC (Mobile World Congress) held in Barcelona and in their design studio in Kista.
The installation combined a 180° projected hemisphere display, surround sound audio, mid-air haptics, gesture control and custom 3D models with a live 360° camera to create an engaging physical experience.
The user controls the camera view around the model with their hand movement and interacts with the scene, feeling the relevant sensation on their hand with the live camera feed displayed on the projected hemisphere in front of the plinth, giving them a first-person, street level perspective of XR use-cases mapped onto the scenes.
The installation was built in Unity with a custom built plugin.

A digital experience developed in less than a week for the annual Hastings Storytelling Festival. A series of workshops had taken place in the Broomgrove Community Centre in Hastings in which children of different ages had been invited to learn more about moths and decorate their own virtual ones by colouring in templates of different types of moths.The final day of workshops culminated in the children being able to see their creations flying around a moon on a giant screen in the community centre car park. Utilising speech recognition, the children were able to call their own moths who would then fly closer to the screen so they could see them better. During this final performance, onlookers were able to add their own moths to the eclipse of moths via a 'photobooth' on a second smaller screen in which they could choose their moth and take a photo which would then appear on the moth that would be added to the group flying around the moon on the big screen. Additionally, a Web AR experience in which the children were able to see their moth creations in augmented reality on their own mobile device, utilising the 8th Wall API.

A prototype developed in conjunction with a white paper I wrote for a large English Language Training provider to illustrate the potential of developing an interactive website utilising the latest developments in web technologies such as WebAR (ar.js), WebVR and NLP Engines (Google's DialogFlow) to deliver personalised digital content tailored to the strengths and weakness of individual students closely tied to the physical textbook by scanning QR codes to access the relevant digital content throughout the book so mitigating the need for the user to download an app which is the current norm. The current prototype targets only the Chrome browser on Android mobile devices as it uses the free in-built speech recognition available through this browser but could be extended to other devices including those running iOS by using a third-party cloud-based solution for speech recognition such as the one provided by Nuance. The prototype website is available to try here.

A web kiosk content management system developed for Meridian Audio for their booth at the Integrated Systems Europe show that ran in Amsterdam between 7-10 February 2017. The application was built to allow the client to update the content of the pages as well as adding new topics or menus. The system was also capable of showing annotated 360� images (not shown in the video).

When the user stands in front of the screen the rotating ball on the splash screen is exploded and the user is presented with a footballer standing in front of a goal. The user's movements are mapped to this 3D rigged model of a footballer using the Microsoft Kinect. The 3D environment is also modelled within a physics engine so allowing the user to interact realistically within the 3D environment, in this case kicking the ball into the goal. The system can run in either landscape or portrait mode.

Whilst at Razorfish, we were approached by a client who wanted to establish themselves in a new industry, taking their learnings from their current industry and applying them to the new one through the development of a state-of�the-art control centre. I designed and developed an interactive presentation which utilised the accelerometer and gyroscope in the iPad to allow the user to move around a virtual control centre testing out different scenarios to see how the virtual operators would react to these changing scenarios and to see how the different screens would represent the changing information. This application was built in around four to five days.