James Taylor
Founder, Technical Designer, Creative Lead
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Taylor is a founder and technical designer with 11 years crafting immersive experiences across AR/VR, game engines, and 3D/VFX pipelines, currently leading creative and technical work at Found Object Immersive. His background spans roles at Microsoft HoloLens, Dreamscape Immersive, and studio leadership on interactive tabletop and mobile projects, blending hands-on development with narrative-driven design. Trained in creative writing (Kenyon) and game design (USC MFA), he pairs storytelling instincts with deep technical fluency—recently sharpening 3D modeling and VFX skills at Gnomon. James is notable for treating platform constraints as design opportunities, and for an obsessive attention to technical detail that broadens his design vocabulary.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
MFA, Game Design/ Interactive Media, MFA, Game Design/ Interactive Media at University of Southern CaliforniaB.A., English, Creative Writing, B.A., English, Creative Writing at Kenyon CollegeNo Degree Sought, Games, Animation and Visual FX, No Degree Sought, Games, Animation and Visual FX at GnomonNo Degree Sought, Computer Science, No Degree Sought, Computer Science at University of Chicago
Github Skills (6)
mrtk10
openvr10
hololens10
windows-mixed-reality9
windows5
unity3d1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
taylorjames9/famer_river
Jul 2015 - Apr 2023
Contributions:38 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 9 months
taylorjames9/MixedRealityToolkit-Unity
Sep 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:1 PR, 43 pushes, 1 branch in 20 days
consumeunityunity3dmixedrealitytoolkit-unitymixedrealitytoolkit
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