Archive · 2003–2015
Creative coder in Leeds and founder of Reflex Arc. Earlier experiments, installations and games – from Makaton signing games and Kinect walls to EEG performances and early VR.
The work these days – robots, AI, painting tools and immersive experiences.
REK: VR-piloted humanoid robotsWe help build REK's multiplayer training simulator, where pilots learn to drive real humanoid fighting robots.
Hockney BrushesThe iPad painting app we built for David Hockney, and the tools that took his paintings to building scale.
David Hockney: Bigger & CloserNew tools for the iPad paintings that draw themselves across Lightroom's four-storey walls.
Interactive public consultationMulti-user VR, screens and physical rigs that get people to have their say on their high streets.
ExploreStationA touring multi-user VR look at Britain's stations of the future, for Network Rail and the Design Council.
Ant-Man and the Wasp: QuantumaniaVirtual art department work: pipeline tools and multi-user VR scouting in Unreal.
Jurassic World VR ExpeditionA four-seat motion-simulator VR ride for entertainment centres across the US.
The Virtual Plant CellScience you can step inside – still used in classrooms around the world.
Clients and collaborators over the years included the BBC, Channel 4, the Co-op, Mencap, Guide Dogs, the National Media Museum and many more.
Children learn Makaton by signing to play: motion tracking and machine learning recognised their signs in real time, back in 2014. A TIGA award winner, and runner-up at NHK's Japan Prize in 2015. (Originally released as The Boris Games.)
An installation and performance with the Frozen Music Collective, using EEG brain scanning and face tracking to turn the audience's own brain activity into sound and visuals. Featured by Vice.
An audio game that helps visually impaired children practise movement exercises, made with Hassell Inclusion and Gamelab for Guide Dogs. Shortlisted for Best Game Design at the TIGA Awards 2014.
An interactive projection-mapped installation for Leeds College of Art at Light Night 2014, playing with the hidden histories of the building.
An early virtual-reality prototype on the Oculus Rift: a real bike on a trainer, wired with sensors, to teach road safety.
Software for artists Jens and Morten at a festival in Denmark: an interactive oscilloscope projection that children performed in front of.
Gamelab's uKinect and Boris won Best Educational Initiative at the TIGA Games Industry Awards. The signing work was also shown at the Special Educational Needs show in London.
Nominated by the charity as Partner of the Year, with Hassell Inclusion and Gamelab, for a prototype game built around physical exercises for visually impaired children.
With Amorphous Orchestra: interactive projections mapped onto a festival tent, with multiplayer arcade games the audience could play.
A Kinect wall installation for the newly revamped Games Lounge in Bradford, plus a family workshop – “Boom, shake the room!” – where families made their own soundtrack and played inside it.
With Amorphous Orchestra: an interactive forest – waterfall, pond and seasonal surprises – in the children's library at Redbridge Library, Ilford.
A gesture- and sound-driven installation at the Kala Sangam arts centre in Bradford – a digital flow of ribbons you play with your body.
An interactive music visualiser and other depth-camera experiments – one featured in Microsoft's Kinect Fun Labs vote around E3.
Twice invited to Hong Kong to teach Unity 3D modules for Leeds Metropolitan University, alongside HTML5 courses in Leeds.
Collaborations with Dave Lynch and Paul Miller: audio-visual experiments, installations and festival work, including Frozen Music at Recon Festival.
Tools for young film-makers, built at Gamelab: a storyboard tool, a collaborative cutting room, and a media player with community-led accessibility – BSL sign captions, audio description and subtitles.
An immersive practice environment for blind and visually impaired cricketers, using 3D sound and Wii controllers.
BAFTA-nominated (2008): 3D games, videos and learning activities with signing 3D characters.
A video dictionary and signing game for the National Deaf Children's Society, for families of deaf children (2010).
Plannet: an online planning tool for young people with learning disabilities aged 16–25, built at Gamelab with Mencap and BBC Future Media. Its Us5 video stories, made for the BBC with actors with learning disabilities, were nominated for a Children's BAFTA (Best Children's Drama) and a BIMA in 2009.
Turn your own holiday snaps into real printed postcards, sent from a simple app.
A website for Salts Mill in Saltaire, with Jonathan Wilkinson, capturing the romance of the mill through an interactive experience.
Image and video archiving tools for David Hockney's studio in Bridlington, synchronised with a custom iPad and iPhone app.
Accessible keyboard-focus handling for Flash, an interactive 3D panoramic video, webcam motion interfaces, an MSc 3D collaboration prototype (2003/04, Distinction) – plus an article for Software Developer's Journal and technical review of the Flash iOS Cookbook.