Writer of code and stories, dreaming of new realities. đź’ś

Hey! I’m Charmaine and I'm shaping AR development (Lens Studio) at Snapchat / Snap AR.

In a past life, I built social XR experiences at Unity Labs, and worked on creation and mixed reality at Microsoft, Slack and Pinterest.

đź“– My Story

● Before Snap AR, I was a Senior Technical Product Manager at Unity Technologies.Unity Technologies, working in Labs on social XR experiences.on Unity Slices. Our work was featured at Facebook Connect 2021 and Adam Savage’s Tested YouTube Channel.

â—Ź I moonlight as a daydreamer.daydreamer. I experiment with Oculus Quest 2, Blender, Unity, Mobile AR (XXM+ impressions on filters) and procedural generation for 3D digital art that I share on Instagram / TikTok.
● I’m a Director @ A.I. For Anyone, a New York based 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to democratizing AI literacy to the general public.general public. The newsletter I started, All About AI, now has 40k+ subscribers. Newsletter sponsorship was the first “revenue” stream we unlocked as a non-profit. Our work has been featured by Mark Cuban, CNBC and Fortune. More recently, Grimes donated part of the proceeds from her latest project, AI Lullaby, to us.
● I worked on visualizing cancer cells in the HoloLens @ Microsoft Mixed Reality, with BC Cancer.with BC Cancer. I developed something similar prior to this at BC Children’s Hospital’s Digital Lab, also on the HoloLens.
● I’ve also released a bundle of features for Minecraft.Minecraft, dedicated to making Minecraft more accessible to the Autism community.
● Snip Insights was an open-sourced AI snipping tool I shipped as a PM during my time on Microsoft’s Experimental Projects team.Experimental Projects team. This later on became Snip & Sketch, an app that comes with every Windows 10 device. This project, along with Mobile Chest X-Ray Analysis, another open source project I shipped, were announced at Microsoft’s Build Developer Conference.
● My story about starting computer science through coding on Neopets was physically published.physically published in Flawless Hack’s first zine issue, Our Tech Journey.
â—Ź I gave a TEDxUBC talk about Hacking the Glass Ceiling.Hacking the Glass Ceiling; it's a talk about computer science, diversity and inclusion in the industry, and why I founded UBC Hacks (or what is now know as nwPlus) in university.