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I am a developer focusing on Mixed Reality Solutions and the Spatial Internet/MetaVerse working at Ethar, the premier XR Expereince Platform providers.

I have published several Unity titles, including Mastering Unity 2D Game Development and Unity UI Essentials, more to come in 2023!!

New automation title for 2023 Accelerating Unity Through Automation

I am currently focused on building the Reality Toolkit which is a cross-platform Mixed Reality framework for building XR apps in Unity for a majority of platforms, including: Quest, Pico, HoloLens, Magic Leap, Mobile and more.

The Framework is built from the foundation I developed for Microsoft's Mixed Reality Toolkit V2 which evolved into the XRTK and has now advanced even further with the Reality Collective.

I also maintain and publish the Service Framework (in the Reality Collective) which is the best and most performant way to build projects in Unity.

I have been a Microsoft Mixed Reality MVP since 2014 (Since 2004 with the change in programs)

I am honored to be one of the first Microsoft Game Development Ambassadors since the program launched in 2021, helping devs with the MS Game Dev stack.

For several years I have been an Xbox MVP helping the dev community get up and running with publishing to Xbox/Windows. Which has now been merged with the Microsoft Xbox Ambassadors program where I continue to engage with the Xbox team.

I publish and maintain the Unity UI Extensions project, packaging up the best the community has to offer for Unity UI components, utilities and "stuff".

I blog "fairly" regularly on my Personal blog about all things game development related or just cool tech.

Amongst the various public projects I have worked on (sooo many) the one I was most proud of is the Fizzyo project, making games and a game framework to gamify the treatment of Cystic Fibrosis for kids, so much fun.