Lars Simkins
Senior Designer at Microsoft
Greater Seattle Area United States
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Lars Simkins is a Senior Designer at Microsoft with 11 years building mixed reality experiences and a background in game development and VFX. He blends programming and design to ship immersive UI and interaction systems, contributing as a full‑stack developer to the widely used Mixed Reality Toolkit for Unity where he improved pressable controls, scene management, and text/icon rendering. Based in the Greater Seattle area, he leverages art training from Western Washington University to bridge visual craft and technical implementation. Known for pragmatic engineering, he often focuses on editor tooling and UI pipelines that speed iteration for XR creators.
11 years of coding experience
Bachelor's degree, Art/Art Studies, General, Bachelor's degree, Art/Art Studies, General at Western Washington University
English
Github Skills (11)
uid10
script10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
cprogramming-language10
editor10
scripting10
editorjs10
unity3d10
refactoring8
refactor8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/MixedRealityToolkit-Unity
Sep 2017 - Feb 2022
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:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:653 commits, 141 PRs, 24 pushes in 4 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Lars primarily focused on creating and updating UI components. They implemented a pressable button with a custom inspector and improved the layout for the UI components and used the new interface to change how scenes are loaded and managed in the editor. Furthermore, they upgraded and adapted the text and icon rendering to work with sprite atlas and font assets.
accelerateapp-developmentrealityopenvrmixed-reality-toolkit
microsoft/MRDL_Unity_Surfaces
Oct 2019 - Mar 2020
Touchable surfaces for Hololens and Immersive headset
Contributions:16 commits, 1 PR, 4 pushes in 5 months
virtual-realityheadsetaugmented-realityopenxraugmentedreality
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