Summary
Cristian Díaz is a founder and hands-on spatial computing engineer with 11 years of experience shipping first-of-their-kind products that make new platforms genuinely useful and accessible. He co-founded Realitycheck to build inclusive spatial experiences, open-source tooling, and research—projects include The Green Spurt for Apple Vision Pro, the Preflight OpenUSD inspector, and a Reality Composer Pro reimplementation documented in a seven-part Deconstructed series. His career thread is building where no playbook exists: interactive media in Chile, Bluetooth health devices, an AI automotive assistant, and visionOS accessibility patterns before the hardware shipped. He combines product-grade engineering (TCA, RealityKit, OpenUSD) with accessibility-first design so features work for VoiceOver, Switch Control, and diverse interaction styles. A frequent speaker and community organizer in the visionOS ecosystem, he also publishes technical deep dives and maintains several practical open-source libraries that bridge RealityKit/ARKit/Metal and USD workflows. Based in Berlin, he’s as comfortable profiling tight macOS render loops as mapping cross-disciplinary requirements between hardware, firmware, and ML.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Licentiate degree, Liberal Arts and Sciences/Liberal Studies, Licentiate degree, Liberal Arts and Sciences/Liberal Studies at Universidad de Chile
Master, Computer Programming, Specific Applications, Master, Computer Programming, Specific Applications at El Centro de Formación CICE en Madrid (España)
Master, Computer Programming, Specific Applications, Maya 3D, Master, Computer Programming, Specific Applications, Maya 3D at Universidad del Pacífico (CL)
English, Spanish