Ada Cannon
AR VR At Apple at W3C
Cupertino, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAda Cannon is an AR/VR principal developer with 12 years of experience building immersive web and consumer electronics experiences, currently working on AR/VR at Apple and co-chairing the W3C Immersive Web working group to bring WebXR standards to the mainstream. With an MSCi in Physics from UCL, she blends rigorous scientific training with hands-on engineering, shipping browser and device integrations at Samsung and contributing front-end enhancements to the widely used A-Frame VR framework. She has a track record of developer advocacy, open-source contributions, and practical R&D—moving prototypes from research into production across the Financial Times, Samsung, and Apple. Known for improving developer experience (tests, docs, AR hit-test and shader work) and speaking at conferences, she operates at the intersection of standardization, platform engineering, and creative tooling for spatial computing.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
MSCi, Physics, MSCi, Physics at University College London, U. of London
Github Skills (13)
html10
aframe10
javascript10
virtual-reality10
webxr10
webvr10
shader9
augmented-reality9
3d9
threejs9
jscript8
testing8
game-development8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
aframevr/aframe
Oct 2016 - Jul 2022
:a: Web framework for building virtual reality experiences.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:42 reviews, 21 commits, 20 PRs in 5 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Ada primarily contributed to the user interface and functionality of the A-Frame VR framework. Their work included adding wireframe parameters to shaders, which enabled the creation of wireframe representations of objects. They also implemented tests and documentation for the flat and standard shaders, improving the testing coverage and the developer experience. Moreover, they fixed issues related to mouse-based look controls and implemented enhancements for the AR hit-test component.
unitydaydreamcannonjsvirtualrealityaugmented-reality
immersive-web/immersiveweb.dev
Apr 2019 - Sep 2021
Repo for immersiveweb.dev
Contributions:3 reviews, 82 commits, 74 PRs in 2 years 5 months
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