Blair MacIntyre
{{Short description|American augmented reality researcher}}
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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. In 2010 MacIntyre was named as the director of the Qualcomm Augmented Reality Game Studio.{{cite news | title = Qualcomm Establishes Augmented Reality Game Studio at Georgia Tech (Press Release) | work = SYS-CON Media | date = June 30, 2010 | url = http://www.sys-con.com/node/1451256 | accessdate = June 3, 2012 }} Currently, MacIntyre works as a Principal Research Scientist in Mozilla's Emerging Technologies team."[https://www.acm.org/articles/people-of-acm/2017/blair-macintyre People of ACM - Blair MacIntyre]", (March 21, 2017) Association for Computing Machinery. Retrieved February 28, 2018.Bozorgzadeh, Amir (February 1, 2018). "[https://venturebeat.com/2018/02/01/webvr-is-becoming-webxr-to-make-a-simple-unified-framework-for-all-devices/ WebVR is becoming WebXR to make a simple, unified framework for all devices]", VentureBeat. Retrieved February 28, 2018.
As the director of the KHARMA project, MacIntyre developed the Argon augmented reality browser, which was released for the iPhone in 2011.{{cite news | last = Terraso | first = David | date = February 23, 2011 | title = Argon, the augmented reality web browser, available now on iPhone | work = PHYS.ORG | url = http://phys.org/news/2011-02-argon-augmented-reality-web-browser.html | accessdate = June 3, 2012 }}
Selected publications
- Feiner, S., MacIntyre, B., and Seligmann, D. "[https://www.academia.edu/download/30728488/intro_to_AR_full.pdf Knowledge-based augmented reality]{{dead link|date=January 2025|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}". Communications of the ACM, 36(7), July 1993, 52-62.
References
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External links
- [https://www.cc.gatech.edu/people/blair-macintyre Blair MacIntyre], Georgia Institute of Technology
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