Ron Forbes
Product Manager at Meta
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRon Forbes is a product leader with 12 years of experience shaping interaction and input platforms for immersive and interactive experiences, currently driving system input strategy for Meta Quest. He blends platform-level vision and hands-on execution, having led product teams at Oculus/Meta, built esports event products at Riot Games, and managed biometric and skeletal-tracking systems for Kinect at Xbox. As a two-time founder and former QA engineer, he pairs entrepreneurial grit and user-focused data-driven iteration with deep technical empathy for engineering constraints. Based in New York, he’s known for coaching product teams to high impact and for translating complex computer-vision and interaction requirements into practical platform APIs that power compelling end-user experiences.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Virginia Tech
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (14)
javascript9
open-source9
openxr3
augmented-reality2
unity3d2
oculus-quest2
oculus2
virtual-reality2
threejs1
simplify1
virtual1
webxr1
phaser1
webvr1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
omegagamesgg/blockparty.gg_backup
Jun 2018 - Jun 2018
Contributions:41 commits, 19 pushes, 1 branch in 26 days
ronforbes/ronforbes.github.io
Aug 2015 - Dec 2020
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 5 months
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