Hermes Glasses: Your Own AI on Ray-Bans

— 2025

It Started in a Float Tank

I did not go looking for customers. A float club in Singapore watched us run a study in their tank and asked whether we could build them something.

So It Knows You Are Struggling. Now What?

Three papers in one year on the question this series kept running into: once a system knows you are struggling, what should it actually do about it?

— 2024

The Sensor Was Already in the Headset

Three years of strapping sensors to people, and the signal was in the hand tracking the whole time. How you reach says something about your cognitive load.

165 Hours of Feeling Sick

Every model for VR motion sickness was trained on under two hours of video. The fix was not a better model, it was patching 100 commercial games.

— 2023

A Camera That Watches You Back

A VR photo walk where the sky tints red when you get stressed and the companion beside you changes its voice. The world responds instead of reporting.

— 2022

Three Hypotheses, and Nobody Looked

In 2022 I argued that VR should share heart rate, cognitive load and attention. Two years later we tested it on 28 people, and nobody looked.

— 2021

Bringing 3D to Zoom

Four years of research assumed everyone owns a headset, then came a pandemic in which nobody did. XRTB puts the VR person on the Zoom grid.

— 2020

Which Cue Is Actually Doing the Work?

Eight depth cameras and a study built to separate eye gaze from hand gesture instead of shipping them as a bundle. The answer was not the expected one.

NeuralDrum

Leveraging cognitive synchronization to create a collaborative music production experience with immersive visualization in virtual reality.

— 2019

Hyperscanning

Comparisons between Real and Virtual Environments using Hyperscanning

Hybrid Office

What does a home office need to be if remote collaboration is designed into the architecture rather than bolted on afterwards?

Wearable RemoteFusion

Four depth cameras stitching a live 3D model of a room, so a remote expert can walk around your workspace instead of watching video of it.