Virtual Display
Remote Desktop was rebranded to Virtual Display with the addition of HDMI link support. My prototypes for user testing and OS alignment informed each of our team's many shipped features the last three years: multiple monitor support, aspect ratios (including ultrawide), monitor layout logic, input forwarding, HDMI link, (and the "Connect" affordance for Windows 11 listed below). More info
Rocky Road
A web browser note-highway music app for guitar and piano with full support for WebXR-capable headsets. I ported open-source frameworks to a web context and created a unified design system for desktop and XR. More info
Windows 11 and Remote Desktop
A partnership between Meta and Microsoft that enables remoting into a Windows 11 PC just by looking at its keyboard in the Quest and selecting "Connect." My prototypes for user testing and OS alignment informed the setup flow and the tracked keyboard affordance specs. More info
Lift: The Last Days of the Westwind Hotel
Lift is a VR interactive narrative where you take on the role of the Westwind Hotel's final elevator operator. Make decisions that could change your patrons' and the fate of the hotel forever. More info
Volkswagen IECC - Unity Blog Highlight
A 17 page report on Volkswagen IECC. Included in it are details on how my team uses Unity to create our interactive visualizations of the vehicles of tomorrow! More info
everybody's sad (Oculus Version)
An optimized port of everybody's sad rebuilt to support Oculus Quest! This involved recoding VR Interactions, swapping render pipelines, and optimizations of the code and assets. More info
Mesh Guess
Record fun videos of you and your friends trying to guess scrambled models! Includes 1 and 2 Player modes! Inspired by the planned Train Jam 2020 theme: "Hindsight" More info
everybody's sad
everybody's sad is a therapeutic and kinetic VR experience in which the player uses intuitive motion to make sad, unhealthfully codependent, objects happy and learns how to establish boundaries in interpersonal relationships. More info
Loot Box Simulator
A satirical look at the 2017 trajectory of the game industry. Open loot boxes, collect loot, equip cosmetics, face off against the dark lord, watch ads, take surveys, and slowly succumb to addiction. More info
Stumpjumper
Made for Specialized's relaunch of their Stumpjumper bicycle. Stumpjumper is a browser-based Excite Bike inspired game playable with either keyboard or touch. More info
Andrew Gwinner graduated from UC Santa Cruz's Computer Science: Computer Game Design major in 2018 with three acclaimed senior projects. He led Volkswagen's IECC Mixed Reality Lab's efforts to create interactive XR visualizations of future vehicle concepts. At Meta he was a Product Design Prototyper working on Orion and the launch slate of Augments, Virtual Display, Horizon OS 2.0, and other future XR products.
