Kevin Rio
Research Scientist, Applied Perception Science at Meta
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKevin Rio is an applied vision scientist and research scientist focusing on perception for AR/VR with a decade of experience translating human-vision psychophysics into product requirements. He has led experiments and cross-functional research that shaped displays, optics, rendering, and tracking for products including Meta Quest 2, Quest Pro, Project Nazare, and HoloLens 2. Skilled at quantifying detectability and user impact of artifacts like geometric distortion, IPD/IAD misalignment, and vertical disparity, he uses experimental rigor to set engineering tolerances and evaluate mitigations. His background spans academia and industry—from large ambulatory VR studies at Brown VENLab to perceptual work at Microsoft and Meta—bridging agent-based modeling, motion-capture integration, and practical hardware prototyping. Based in Redmond, he combines a PhD in Cognitive Science with dual BS degrees in Physics and Psychology to bring multidisciplinary insight into real-world mixed-reality system design.
8 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Cognitive Science, PhD, Cognitive Science at Brown UniversityBS, Physics, BS, Physics at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Github Skills (4)
azure10
playready10
microsoft-azure9
microsoft9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
kevrio/PlayReady
Feb 2018 - Oct 2024
Contributions:8 pushes in 6 years 8 months
playreadydataminingwelcome
kevrio/azure-docs
Mar 2020 - Mar 2020
Open source documentation of Microsoft Azure
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 8 days
azuremicrosoft-azuremicrosoft
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