Biography:Blair MacIntyre

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Short description: American augmented reality researcher
Blair MacIntyre
EducationPhD, Columbia University, 1998[1]
OccupationResearcher, Director
EmployerGeorgia Institute of Technology
Known forAugmented reality research
Websiteblairmacintyre.com

Blair MacIntyre is a Professor and Director of the Augmented Environments Lab at Georgia Institute of Technology working in the field of augmented reality.

Career

After completing his doctorate at Columbia University in 1998, MacIntyre moved to the Georgia Institute of Technology where he founded and was appointed director of the newly-formed Augmented Environments Lab.[1] In 2010 MacIntyre was named as the director of the Qualcomm Augmented Reality Game Studio.[2] Currently, MacIntyre works as a Principal Research Scientist in Mozilla's Emerging Technologies team.[3][4]

As the director of the KHARMA project, MacIntyre developed the Argon augmented reality browser, which was released for the iPhone in 2011.[5]

Selected publications

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 "Blair MacIntyre". World Economic Forum. http://www.weforum.org/content/augmented-reality. Retrieved June 3, 2012. 
  2. "Qualcomm Establishes Augmented Reality Game Studio at Georgia Tech (Press Release)". SYS-CON Media. June 30, 2010. http://www.sys-con.com/node/1451256. Retrieved June 3, 2012. 
  3. "People of ACM - Blair MacIntyre", (March 21, 2017) Association for Computing Machinery. Retrieved February 28, 2018.
  4. Bozorgzadeh, Amir (February 1, 2018). "WebVR is becoming WebXR to make a simple, unified framework for all devices", VentureBeat. Retrieved February 28, 2018.
  5. Terraso, David (February 23, 2011). "Argon, the augmented reality web browser, available now on iPhone". PHYS.ORG. http://phys.org/news/2011-02-argon-augmented-reality-web-browser.html. Retrieved June 3, 2012. 

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