FORD FiVE Lab

Worked directly with the Global Lead for Immersive Realities from FORD Motor Company
Designed and implemented custom, ultra low latency optical tracking system in multiple VR FiVE labs around the world
Capture subjects were immersed in actual 3D CAD files with the ability to scale the avatars as well as manipulate dimensions/tolerance stacks to show all possible vehical build combinations and human scale/dimensions in realtime

Designed and manufactured custom tracking objects that could easily be worn by users to be immersed that delivered hyper accurate skeletal solves without the need of motion capture suits or range of motion captures…allowed for engineers, study subjects and executives to be immersed in seconds

Cal Tech CAST (Center for Autonomous Systems and Technologies)

Designed, built and installed ultra low latency, hyper accurate optical system to track drones of all sizes, most notably ultra light weight micro drones
Custom, multi level optical tracking system required one of a kind hardware and proprietary software be developed to provide seamless coverage over large volumetric space
Installed in the largest indoor drone tracking facility in the world (was at the time!)

Designed and built multiple versions of highly accurate optical capture system to provide ground truth data for robotic creations of all kinds
Tracking was ultra low latency and in some installations allowed for robots to interact with crowd members in realtime

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