About me

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

My research interests:

• Experiential Futures using Social Mixed Reality
  • Bodies in the City
  • Encounters using Mixed reality
  • Intercorporeality
  • Social Bodily Play
  • Mediated Realities
  • Cryptography-based Speculative Design
• Open-sourcing creative tools for Mixed Reality
  • HoloKit
  • HoloField
  • HoloWeb
• Systemic Reflections
  • Permissionless Reality
  • Onchain Artificial Life
  • Autonomous Worlds

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