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My name is Andy. I'm an extended reality developer and history nerd. I graduated from the University of Michigan combining those interests by building systems that will shake the world.

I've recreated a lost film in VR, developed smart glasses that remember everything, and built a neurotech superhero simulator. Today, I'm defining the future with the Palantir Mixed Reality team.

This website has two kinds of entries, projects, which are short descriptions with blue links to external sites, and thoughts, traditional blog posts with green links. You'll also see posts which are both, longer-form talks about my past work in cyan.

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ΔE and you and me

Thought

Ask a physicist what energy is, and they’ll have a pretty fast answer for you. Ask most ordinary people (with all due respect to physicists) what energy is, and they too, will have quick responses. For a physicist, energy is a relative state. It is the capacity to do work, or store change. It is, in a sense, the lack of entropy. Objects all have various levels of energy, and so the interesting question becomes not what level of energy an object might have (for every material under the sun operates at a different baseline), but instead how that energy flows and changes– delta E, ΔE, the change in energy.

Mira

Project

I’m not particularly sure what it is that draws me to smart glasses

The Big City: Lost and Found in VR

Featured Project

Nobody alive has seen The Big City, a lost film from 1928. All known copies have faded, burned, or vanished. 100 years later, I was on the team to recreate it in a new medium, and remade an old dream with virtual cinematography and the latest in motion-capture.

The Orbit Suite

Featured Project

All tools are built to be helpful. Good tools improve a fraction of the world, by a fraction. Orbit aims to build a tool to improve the experience of every living human, in perpetuity. Over the course of a summer, I took moonshot after moonshot and built a set of out-of-body experiences.