About me

• This is Botao Amber Hu.
• I'm a researcher and designer for mixed reality, running a spatial computing lab ᯅ Reality Design Lab.
• I'm also a cryptography researcher sponsored by ▲▼▲ Generative Ventures.
• I'm a digital nomad travelling around the world, sometimes co-living with Zuzalu community.

My research interests:

• Open-sourcing creative tools for Mixed Reality
  • HoloKit
• Embodied interaction design within Mixed Reality
  • Co-presence / Co-location / Tele-presence / Inter-presence
  • Cross-reality
  • Asymmetric mixed reality
  • Intercorporeality
  • Human-City Interaction
• Cryptography-substrated Speculative Design
  • Permissionless (Mixed) Reality
  • Onchain Artificial Life
  • Autonomous Worlds in Mixed Reality

Selected projects:

• I worked for Sky: Children of the Light
• I designed an award-winning colocated multiplayer MR game: MOFA
  • Won the best interactivity demo of CHI 2023. CHI 2023 Demo
  • Won the honorable mention in best demo of ISMAR 2023.
• I invented an open-source stereoscopic MR headset: HoloKit
  • It's like 'Adruino' for headworn mixed reality. It's built for educational and creative coding in MR and demoncratizing MR.
• I invented an immersive motion control system for aerial cinematography: Skywand
  • TED Talk: What you get is what you imagine.
• I created an immersive VR artworks: City Of Sparkles

My educations:

• Stanford University, Master in Computer Science
• Tsinghua University, Bachelor in Computer Science