Interface Prototyping

Nov 2019 - Apr 2023

lots at Leap Motion: embodied locomotion, physics interactions, microgestures, bodily representations, ultrasonic haptic sensations, ambisonics, menuing, wearable UI, networked environments… DM me for details

VR Visual Programming UI

Spring 2019

Working on some VR visual programming UI with the #VisualEffectGraph

Interested in how particle-based wires can be "displays" of the data they carry, or reactive to the hand as input pic.twitter.com/v2ymuU86kJ
— Gray Crawford (@graycrawford) May 30, 2019

Exploring affordances implemented using particle systems for VR UI elements

Handles react to finger proximity, communicating grabbable size

Apple Watch Haptics in VR

Spring 2019

I’m working on using my Apple Watch for haptics in VR + @LeapMotion

There’s potent sensory flexibility here, seeing the collision at the fingertip but feeling it at the wrist — repetition likely fusing them more

I fully expect Apple to use wrist haptics in their headset AR push pic.twitter.com/MP72R3Iike
— Gray Crawford (@graycrawford) July 15, 2019

Investigating displaced haptics and sensory fusion

Unity collision → OSC → iPhone → Apple Watch haptic pulse

~150ms collision-to-haptics latency preempted with collision trigger projected along finger velocity vector

Particles’ physical dynamics influence/prime haptic perception