About Team

Permute.xyz is an AR+VR+ML+IoT+Cool Stuff Startup Studio whose founder and “hacker in residence” I. Yosun Chang has been building 3D software (and hacks) since 1998. She has built showcase applications for most mainstream depth sensor device; clients include Intel (Perceptual Computing/RealSense), Microsoft, Google (Project Tango + Glass), Mozilla + more. Having taken the uncommon step to “always build something new everyday” (for the last 10+ years), with way more than 10,000 hours of experience making apps, she hacks together remarkably polished MVP’s in hackathon settings to win Grand Prizes at TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon (2x), AT&T IoT Hackathon, Warner Brothers Shape, Microsoft Build, Intel Perceptual Computing Challenge (3x) + more. (In short: She turns emerging tech into award-winning applications.) She analogizes the products in her startup studio as the well-crafted wooden sculptures, hand-made furniture, and bespoke mansion a master woodworker would build for her own home and daily use.

Her team of collaborators for the proposed projects include industry veterans, she has worked with for many years:

Chris Taylor: 20+ years of experience in low-level/middleware C, who can help implement Yosun’s experimental new forms of tracking for Magic Leap One and even polish her code. Also, classically-trained, Chris was a founding engineer at Oculus, who writes code that people think is John Carmack’s.

James E. Bennell III’s art has helped launch airlines (ok, just a small Canadian one: Pronto) with 20+ years of 3D modeling (3ds Max/VRay), architectural/interior design (Stantec), and visual FX experience. Jim is also a 25+ year musician with studio experience in audio mixing and mastering, currently runs a custom shop that specializes in the use of cnc machines which he writes Gcode for.

John Gilbert: 20+ year Emmy Award-winning Dolby research prototyping veteran, invented various Dolby technologies you see in theatres.

Advisor: Richard Chuang - 2x Academy Award winner, technical founder PDI Dreamworks