Expertise in eXtended Reality (XR), gaming and interactive technologies for startups and companies that needs to develop products using these technologies (i.e retail, education, entertainment, industrial).I can support one or more areas of the software development process: analysis of the problem, the proposal of the software development plan and technologies to use, the team that is needed for the execution and the actual execution with an in-house or outsourced team.📩 Get in touch at → pedro@xr.consulting👇 Take a look at our latest projects:

Leading the technical team, contributing to the development and execution of the technical vision of the company. Providing expertise in Virtual and Augmented Reality, mobile app development, cloud and fullstack web.

I'm supporting the development of applications in the area of Digital Twins in the context of projects with companies and R+D projects. I'm contributing to the selection of the technology and the creation of prototypes and end user applications.

Guide students to develop a 2D platform game a custom game engines using C++ and SDL

Provided the latest tools and libraries to develop Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality applications and guide the students to develop and applications using Oculus Quest and Mobile devices.

Guide students to develop a project using a game engine to explore concepts of real-time narrative applications and games.

The CUPRA Gamified Car project, is a project with CUPRA and EDAG Spain and financed by CARNET ‒the Future Mobility Research Hub founded by Volkswagen Group Innovation, SEAT S.A. and the UPC‒, and coordinated by the Center for Innovation and Technology (CITM UPC). Within the framework of the project, students, university professors, and companies jointly investigate the field of interaction and entertainment, discovering pilot ideas around new ways of interacting with cars, digital entertainment, and video games.

Teaching technical skills to develop full body interactions in Unity at the Interactive Systems subject in the Engineering degree.

Guiding students of the Engineering and design degree to develop a project to explore full body interaction using Unity and Medipipe library for full body tracking and Virtual Reality using Meta Quest headsets.

Mentoring tech professionals to handle Tech Lead and Engineering Manager positions through the Ignite Mentoring Program powered by Lidr.co. I'm also running 1:1s mentoring sessions with aspiring leaders involved in the Lidr Ecosystem.

I manage and coordinate the technical activities of the company, focusing on the development of interactive software applications, using virtual and augmented reality, 3D graphics and visualisation, AI, Big data analytics and gamification, on the health and cultural heritage domains. As a startup I'm involved in strategic planning, funding, selecting and leading tech talent, technology transfer, finances and presentations in public events. One of the products we are developing is the Rehabilitation Gaming System (RGS), — a tool for the rehabilitation of motor deficits caused by brain damage. using VR, Interaction, gaming, AI and cloud technologies. 💥 Some milestones:- Installed over 100 Rehabilitation Gaming System (RGS) at healthcare centres in 10 countries that treated more than 2K patients and over 81K therapy sessions to date.- Recruited a team of eight staff members encompassing six software developers, one designer, and one quality analyst for the attainment of business milestones.- Certified one product as Medical Device Class I.- Delivered Augmented Reality and Immersive room application for historical exploration of memorial sites in Germany, Norway and Croatia.- Served as a core member of the team that planned and established the company from scratch.

Technical director at SPECS research group (http://specs-lab.com), a lab dedicated advancing theories of mind, brain and behaviour through the construction of synthetic systems using VR, AR, Robots, interactive systems and computational models. Current activities:- Technology transfer manager- Coordinator of software development in Virtual Brain Cloud EU funded project (https://cordis.europa.eu/project/rcn/219020/factsheet/en)- Coordination of the development of BrainX3 (www.brainx3.com) an immersive and interactive application for the exploration of data for neuroscientist. - Technical coordination for the transference of RGS (Rehabilitation Gamin System) to Eodyne (http://www.eodyne.com), a Spin-off company of SPECS research group. - Technical coordination of interactive AR applications development for exploring historical data through immersive installations and geo-localized applications in handheld devices. - Thesis supervisor in the Cognitive System and Interactive Media master (http://www.upf.edu/csim/) - Quality manager Within this projects I have experience in the following technologies: Unity3D, Kinect, Leap Motion, HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, Immersive installations / multiple projectors setups, Eye trackers, Heart rate measurement sensors, EDR (Electrodermal responses sensors), IOS development, Design and installation of immersive spaces, C#, C++, php, MySQL, apache, Pure Data. Publicationshttps://scholar.google.com/citations?user=XxqNWU8AAAAJ&hl=enPrevious projects: - Technical Director and work package leader of CEEDs project (http://ceeds-project.eu/) , a 48-month FP7 part-funded by the EC’s 7th Framework Programme. The project has 16 partners and started in September of 2010.- Development of Virtual Reality environment in the Brainable project - a 36 month FP7 EC funded project. with 7 partners.

Teaching Unity3D to develop AR / VR applications using Vuforia AR during courses 2018 and 2019

Management of FP7 projects in the Virtual Physiological Human area (VPH). Contributed to the coordination of teams of researchers and technologist to perform task in projects, writing of annual reports and deliveries. Projects: euHeart (www.euheart.eu), MSV , VPH-Share

Management and coordination of the software development section. Development of innovative biomedical applications to prove research concepts with a technology transfer objective. Coordination of the development team of the prototyping framework (GIMIAS - www.gimias.org) and open source project.Alignment of development roadmap with project deliveries, product life cycle management, team management, planning, budget allocation, writing of project proposals, coordination with research teams from the same centre and from other institutions across Europe, U.S.A and New Zealand.

Development for an application that delivers a 3D simulated soccer game with gambling data through Internet. Research and development of a live video streaming tool based on the Real Producer SDK from real networks. Implementation and design of the audio/video solution in the final architecture of the product (involving capture card configuration, video distributors and audio mixers). Work on the development of web components based on AJAX + Struts + JAVA + MySQL to synchronize data with servers in real time to show the data on a web site.

Responsible of the technological area of the company, developing and maintaining current and new web sites and e-learning tools, and coordinating the technical contacts with external companies and IT services. Maintains and develop custom and open source content manager systems for web sites and community tools.

Founder of Artimagen Digital, a multimedia production company. Developed projects for web, 3D design, 3D effects for TV commercials, and production of corporative videos.

Designed and developed novel 3D facial modelling and animation tools (in the area of speech animation) in the form of Maya plug-ins to be incorporated in a production pipeline.

Develop tools and interfaces in Maya to model facial models from 3D scans, programming on MEL (Maya scripting language).

Support to the 3D department to create a TV spot using 3D Studio Max.