Michael Stauffer Email & Phone Number

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Inventor and lead developer of Groove Catcher and Sculptor VR software. Vizmoo is exploring the intersection of music, dance, art and technology to develop engaging creative arts therapies. We're addressing the need for better therapeutic tools for people with Autism. We're exploring the use of dance, movement and music therapies in Virtual Reality to develop fun, engaging therapeutic tools.Our therapy tools are based on Groove Catcher, an award-winning VR rhythm game. Groove Catcher takes the 'rhythm game' genre to the next level by including melody and groove for immersive musical gameplay.Sculptor is a music visualization tool for creating dance-based dynamic music sculptures (as well as Groove Catcher levels).Gameplay and player testimonials: www.vizmoo.com

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Developing exploratory data visualization tools for biomedical research, using gaming technologies and XR.

Greater Philadelphia Area

Software engineer for NSF ITK medical imaging project for a medical imaging research lab, contributing to new features and software optimizations in a large, multi-site C/C++ software project. Primary focus was redesigning and coding the image registration pipeline, allowing for flexible, efficient and heterogenous memory and data-type management, and improving the parallel processing framework and implementations for the library.System Administrator for a mid-size Linux-based medical imaging compute cluster with ~150 active users. Responsible for design, maintenance, user training, purchasing and overseeing assistant admin.

Lead software developer. Circular Logic develops advanced auditory signal processing, based on nonlinear systems. We're applying it for music software, specializing in tempo and beat-tracking technologies. Other applications include hearing aids, cochlear implants, and speech technology.We are always interested in talking with talented developers, marketing and business specialists. We are interested in discussing sub-licensing our technologies to other firms.

Masters, Gaming Technologies / Comptuer Science

On-hold for development of Groove Catcher project

Ba, Neuroscience