joe van den heuvel

Senior developer on the HoloLens experience incubation team. We perform user research and make rapid prototypes to identify and validate scenarios where HoloLens provides real value to enterprises and consumers, then created fleshed-out proof of concepts and products of the best of those ideas.

* Developed the studio’s proprietary animation system and animation graph tools. * Developed cross-platform threading model allowing the same code to be used on PS3 SPUs and X360/PC threads without changes. * Developed the studio's cloth physics engine. * Worked closely with Lead Animator and Technical Animator to design game's animations * Titles: * Fracture (X360 PS3) * FEAR 3(X360, PS3)

Responsible for game's procedural animation including animal tails and muscles, the dynamic interactive foliage system, vehicle physics, and provided animation technology support Titles: - Turok (X360, PS3)

* Responsible studio's procedural animation work for multiple sports titles, adding physics-based motion and high-visibility effects to characters * Titles: * Fight Night 2004 * Fight Night Round 2 * Fight Night Round 3

* Titles: * NCAA March Madness 2003 (PS2) * NBA Street Vol 2 (Xbox, PS2, GC)

Application Research lab, focusing on ad-hoc wireless gaming using Bluetooth

Creating Valve's new animation technology, from Source2 AnimGraph to SteamVR Skeletal Input

* Developing high-performance cloth physics simulation middleware for games and real-time 3D applications. Integrated with Unity and Unreal. * Titles include * Hitman Absolution (X360, PS3, PC, OSX) * RIFT (PC) * Thief 4 (X360, PS3, PC, OSX, Xbox One, PS4) * Rain (PS3) * Shroud of the Avatar * and other PC and mobile games

Leading development of core tech powering several holographic apps.