Going 3D and pointed at VR
The proof of concept moved out of its flat 2D lanes and into a 3D room, and the project now has the VR groundwork in place. Still on mouse and keyboard for now.
Jonathan Chien
UX engineer at Google DeepMind. I work on how people control robots.
Teleoperation interfaces, the infrastructure behind them, and the data collection that turns operator sessions into training data. Before robotics: AR and VR at Google and in automotive research, and games before that.
Current side project: VJ Simulator, a VR rhythm game where you control the entire DJ set.
Recent writing
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Starting a dev diary for VJ Simulator
A new devlog thread for VJ Simulator, a VR rhythm game about being the VJ instead of the dancer. First entry is just the idea and where it's headed.
Selected projects
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Robot Teleoperation Interfaces
Google DeepMind
Control surfaces for driving real robot hardware, and the systems that record those sessions as training data — two audiences with genuinely different requirements.
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UX Research Simulation
Automotive research institute
VR simulation for vehicle design research, with runtime tooling to capture the metrics that make a study possible rather than just a good demo.
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Tango — Augmented Reality Platform
Google
Sample code and demos shipped with the Tango Unity SDK, covering mesh occlusion and ground detection.
Elsewhere
The fastest way to reach me is email.