Eric Provencher
Codex DevX at OpenAI
Greater Montreal Metropolitan Area Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolEric Provencher is an XR-focused founder and engineer with 11 years of experience building interaction systems and immersive apps, currently developing Repo Prompt, a macOS-native tool for context engineering. Previously a Staff Research Engineer at Unity, he built core cross-platform XR interaction building blocks and led work on social tangible interfaces with Unity Slices: Table. Eric is the creator of MRTK-Quest, the most popular open-source extension that brought Microsoft Mixed Reality interaction support to Oculus, and has contributed notable improvements to the legacy MixedRealityToolkit-Unity repo. His background spans hands-on physics and networking for indie multiplayer games, R&D in healthcare simulations leveraging hand tracking, and low-level graphics and tooling—showing a rare blend of research, product shipping, and open-source impact. Based in Greater Montreal, he combines systems-level thinking with practical engineering that bridges prototypes to production.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at Concordia UniversityDEC, Natural Sciences, DEC, Natural Sciences at John Abbott College
English, French
Github Skills (7)
solver10
hand-tracking10
csharp10
hololens10
dotnet-core10
unity3d10
documentation7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/MixedRealityToolkit-Unity
Apr 2019 - Feb 2020
This repository is for the legacy Mixed Reality Toolkit (MRTK) v2. For the latest version of the MRTK please visit https://github.com/MixedRealityToolkit/MixedRealityToolkit-Unity
Role in this project:
Software Engineer
Software EngineerContributions:3 reviews, 16 commits, 15 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Eric made several contributions focused on improving the Mixed Reality Toolkit for Unity. They exposed manipulation handler parameters for easier configuration, preventing unwanted behavior during application shutdown. Further improvements include hand constraint features, specifically adding hybrid hand rotation and enhanced behavior for LookAtTrackedObject. They also refactored hand ray code and updated documentation.
mrtkholotoolkitholotoolkit-unitymixed-realityhololens
provencher/GraphicsAhoy
Jan 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:90 commits, 6 pushes in 1 year
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