Yolanda Correia

A mixed reality experience with room understanding capabilities where the player has the ability to open portals into Stranger Things' scenarios and locations and interact with virtual objects within their own room.

I focused on integrating and combining the Meta Presence platform's mixed reality APIs like scene, movement, and passthrough to implement key aspects of the gameplay, such as setting up the player's room and avatar, placing virtual objects, and creating specific atmospheres throughout the experience.

A series of open-source AR game demos to showcase Niantic Lightship's ARDK technology and capabilities, including real-time mapping, shared multiplayer experiences, semantics, and depth.

I focused on the implementation of networking capabilities and multiplayer gameplay.

A hot potato-style AR game to showcase Niantic Lightship's ARDK technology and capabilities, including real-time mapping and multiplayer.

I focused on the implementation of UI, networking capabilities, and multiplayer gameplay. I also actively participated and contributed during the game's ideation process.

A wearable for bringing people closer together, currently used by thousands of couples every day.

I led a small, cross-functional team of three software engineers (Android, iOS, and backend) that released Android and iOS MVP apps with full back-end support and hardware integration within the proposed deadline.

An enhanced lock screen with a shared whiteboard that allows connected users to share content.

I implemented an organic sketch tool algorithm for touch interfaces to simulate drawing with a marker. I also implemented core application features such as drawing tools and Facebook integration.

A networked multiplayer mobile game for collecting large-scale, eco-driving behavioral data.

I implemented procedural generation techniques for automated content creation in 3D virtual worlds, such as traffic and pedestrian simulation, 3D city generation, dialogue generation, and verbal and non-verbal behavior of embodied animated agents.

I also executed the port and UX/UI/gameplay improvements targeting mobile platforms. This increased the user base and user active time, achieving over 10,000 installs on Google Play Store.

An award-winning, Kickstarter-funded, and first-ever consumer aquatic drone with real-time streaming.

I developed the early software and firmware prototypes using Raspberry Pi with camera modules for recording and streaming the video to the Android client, and an Arduino board to receive interfaced commands to control the motor servos that provided movement to the drone.

A Microsoft Kinect-based application for browsing medical images within sterile environments such as operating rooms.

I led the front-end UX/UI efforts to build a seamless NUI and implemented an image processing solution based on the k-means clustering algorithm, using OpenCV and Microsoft Kinect SDK to recognize open/close hand gestures. The solution was operational for nearly 10 years in the division of Neurosurgery at Hospital de Santa Maria, one of the biggest public hospital facilities in Lisbon, Portugal.

This project was developed for the 3D Simulation and Game Programming master's course at my university, in which it earned top marks. The topic was: simulation.

I focused on volumetric clouds and light rendering, rain, and thunder. The project was completely developed in OGRE3D using C++.