Technology
Tom Buchanan is the Co-Founder & Chief of Product at Contact Ci. Started in Syracuse University students in 2014, the founding team began Contact CI’s work on extending the reach of human hands. Mutual passions for biomimetics, wearables, immersive technology, gaming, and robotics has continually help shape the team’s vision for natural and realistics human computer interfaces. Since leaving campus, the team has expanded, secured crucial partnership, raised initial funding, and is preparing to ship the first Maestro gloves to external partners this quarter. The goal today remains the same with the team headquartered in Cincinnati, passionately developing Maestro to enable intuitive hand controls.-Trained in the integration of native SteamVR tracking into VR input devices. Led to the development and implementation of native 6 degree of freedom tracked objects designed for a room scale environment -Formulated agile development cycles that halved the weight from our E3 2016 to our SVVR 2017 models and then halved the weight again for Leap Motion integration-Prototyped motion capture glove capable of 19 of 27 degrees of freedom of the hand-Co-founded and have worn many hats during the early stages of development for the company-Managed the integration of soft and hard goods in the product development process-PCB Design and R&D-Haptic systems R&D-Demoed our motion capture system with HTC Vive integration at E3 2016-Demoed first prototype of motion capture and force feedback haptics at SVVR 2017 Expo-2015 Kairos K50 Company member-One of the earliest developers with access to the HTC Vive Trackerhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/tfbuchanan4/contactci.coVU Dream - http://www.vudream.com/VU Dream's FB - https://www.facebook.com/VUDreamOfficial/VU Dream's Twitter - https://twitter.com/VUDreamOfficialVU Dream's Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/vudreamofficial